Newsflash: EHFF to commence major project on Patient Empowerment, going live this month and scheduled to run for three years subject to ongoing scrutiny, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Having incorporated the ENOPE network under our umbrella last year, this is our opportunity to utilise the considerable resources of that network to make an…
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…
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…
PiSCE (Tender no. EAHC/2013/D2/027) Summary of the work so far: (as of Oct.1st 2015). The PiSCE tender kicked-off on Sept. 23rd 2014 with the Inception meeting with (then) DG SANTE and members of the Steering group, which are the WP leaders, CBO, FAD, DCHE, CPME and EHFF. The overall Consortium of 16 partners was led…
European Health Futures Forum participates in the European network of organisations providing expertise on patient empowerment to the action group on integrated care. The EIP website is at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active-healthy-ageing. [box type=”download”] Related: Minutes from 15 October Meeting Posted[/box] [box type=”download”] Related: Minutes and Action Items from 7 June Meeting Posted[/box]
EHFF activities are broadly aligned with the direction of the EU Innovation Union Europe 2020 initiative. Initially the focus will be on: Acquiring funds for and undertaking a major multinational project on self management of chronic conditions as an exemplar of disruptive innovation. This project will coordinate a series of multi-stakeholder round tables, including business…
This EHFF workstream is applying existing expertise available for environmental scanning, exclusively to the field of European health. The intended outputs are: Create a European Health Futures electronic newsletter; To aggregate and grow a community of practice using emerging social media as a tool for collecting and broadcasting insights and ideas and to provide continuously…
There is grave concern about the overall quality of health professional education across Europe. The grip of traditional teaching approaches wherein physicians, nurses etc. continue to be trained for health systems of the past, seems very hard to shift. On the other hand there are some very forward looking educators scattered across Europe who lack…
The methodology of large scale scenario planning has successfully been applied to the problem of AIDS in Africa, to international money markets and to intellectual property rights in Europe. Although there have been nationally based scenarios on health, there has never been a multi-stakeholder scenario project in health with a Europe wide focus. Having established…