On the 18 May at BMA House, London the Royal Society of Medicine Telemedicine Section chaired by Charles Lowe (also a member of the EHFF Community) held a joint meeting with the Institute for Engineering and Technology. There was a diverse selection of speakers: the programme is here. We had keynotes from Denis Gilhooly, Global…
DetailsThis is the third year running that EHFF has attended and contributed to this event, which attracts a wide range of stakeholders in the eHealth business, from users of service, entrepreneurs, large Corporations to providers of services, start-ups and policy-makers. The Agenda and event promo can be accessed here: https://events.bizzabo.com/H2conEurope2017 As an introduction to a…
DetailsDzintars Putnis, President of the Latvian Quality Society is an old friend of EHFF and an EHFF Community founder member. He invited David Somekh to this years conference ‘Changing world’ (programme) and David gave the keynote presentation (see here) The conference, although mainly for members of the Latvian society, drew speakers from UK, Finland, Lithuania…
DetailsThis year’s event, hosted by the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU coincided with the publication of the Digital Single Market mid-term review by the European Commission, with a chapter on ‘Digital transformation of health and care’. This lifts eHealth quite high on the EU political agenda for the next two years. The…
DetailsBy Bernard Merkel A couple of weeks ago the EU marked its 60th birthday – or more accurately it was the 60th anniversary of the signing of the original Treaties of Rome which set in motion the whole process which has led to the EU as we know it today. In an editorial to mark…
DetailsAfter previous AGMs in London and Brussels, this year we enjoyed the hospitality of the Irish capital. The Board papers will also be accessible in the appropriate section of the website, according to agreed transparency principles but what follows is a brief summary of the proceedings and links to some key papers considered by the…
DetailsThis session was master-minded by Prof Jean Bousquet, with the support of two MEPs who coordinate the parliament special interest group on airways disease (David Borrelli and Sirpa Pietikainen), in conjunction with EUFOREA-ARIA, the European Forum for Research and Education in Allergy and Airway Diseases section on Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma. The…
DetailsAfter kicking off in 2014 this tender, entitled ‘Pilot project on the promotion of self-care systems in the European Union’ came to an unscheduled halt in July 2015 when the team leading the Consortium, from CBO, were caught up in their parent organization becoming insolvent. The tender concept was of an eighteen month track, whereby…
DetailsThe Centre for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics (CEME) is one of EHFF’s partner organisations. This interesting seminar on sustainable business attracted a small but high quality audience. The programme and overview is here. For EHFF, the most striking presentations were those on the rise of green energy. From Michael Liebreich of Bloomberg New Energy Finance…
DetailsChronic Disease Joint Action (ChrodisJA) final conference, Thon Hotel, Brussels, February 27-28 EHFF has operated as a Collaborating Partner in this large, three year multi-stakeholder project. Our attendance at and the content of the final meeting of Work Package 7 (WP7, diabetes as a case study) in Rome last October was finally reported in our…
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