3rd Centre for Behaviour Change (CBC) Digital Health Conference, University College London, February 22-23 As previously, the two day conference was a rich mixture of presentations and discussions on this stimulating topic. The whole programme is here. The whole book of abstracts is here. Here is a small selection of the full presentations of possible…
12 steps to tackle the burden of chronic diseases JA-CHRODIS Final Conference delivers 12 steps towards implementing practices to reduce the burden of chronic diseases Chronic diseases already account for 70% to 80% of healthcare budgets in Europe. They constitute a serious threat to health systems’ sustainability if not tackled. Today, clear steps towards addressing…
We are delighted to report that just before Christmas we dispatched the required information including finances to accompany our final version of the report on early involvement of end-users in eHealth design, the main part of which is based on our two day seminar in Berlin last February. RBS are happy for us…
ESQH and EHFF had a joint meeting in London to discuss trial period of affiliation and potential future of the European Society for Quality in Healthcare Following over a year of negotiation, a meeting was held with the kind patronage of GGI at their London Offices in order to discuss the practicalities of re-launching ESQH…
Amazing how time flies. It seems barely a few moments since the last summit. The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing held its last summit in Brussels on December.9-10, 2105 (see our report in the news feed 16 Dec. 2015). Strictly speaking the Summit event occurred in March of that year, but the…
EHFF will be four years old in March 2017, when we will be holding our AGM in Dublin. Since establishing ourselves we have successfully participated in a number of European Commission projects. This is a strand of work which gained us the momentum so that we could start doing projects independent of the Commission to…
Latest news on PROSTEP project (promoting self-management in chronic diseases) first meeting of platform of experts, Brussels December 1-2th Although the content of this European Commission tender is embargoed until after it is completed, we can share reports on the activities undertaken as they are defined in the tender specification of last year and therefore…
For the second year EHFF has supported this excellent event hosted by Victoria Betton and her colleagues from mHabitat with support from the Yorkshire and Humber academic health sciences network (AHSN). The event focuses on bottom-up co-production of digital interventions to improve health. The agenda for the event is here. A report on the meeting…
Better use of existing knowledge to fight chronic diseases JA-CHRODIS Workshop at the European Parliament to showcase the CHRODIS Platform and highlight JA-CHRODIS activities in the field of diabetes prevention and management The press release is here.
The Vlaams Centrum voor Kwaliteitszorg (VCK – the Flemish Centre for Quality) is an old friend of EHFF and both former CEO Annette Geirnaert and current CEO An Kint are EHFF Community members. EHFF was delighted to be invited to give a keynote presentation at their annual conference, which explored the issue of control and how…