Faces of Digital Health
Nordics Series 4/4: Europe Can Learn About Collaboration (Anna Adelöf Kragh)
This is the last episode in a short series about healthcare digitalization in the Nordics. The discussion resolves around healthcare in the Nordics more broadly, data standards and interoperability across Europe, a successful pilot project from the 2000’s called epSOS, in which 12 EU Member states worked on cross-border healthcare interoperability, and what that project tells us about ambitions in Europe to achieve the European Health Data Space by 2025. The speaker in the episode is Anna Adelöf Kragh, Partner at VENZO_Public and Healthcare – an innovative consultancy firm specializing in human-centric digital transformation. Anna has more than 10 years experience working with governance, strategy and project management within the public and healthcare sector. For example she worked on various projects related to healthcare interoperability and digitalization for the European Commission, Nordic Ministerial Coucil in the project for Nordic e-health cooperation group.
Nordics series: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digital-health-in-the-nordics
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Nordics Series 3/4: Finland and Secondary use of Data
Finland has well-established regulations and processes for the use of data for secondary purposes. This is overseen by the Social and Health Data Permit Authority Findata, which facilitates data permit processing and improves data protection for individuals.
The secondary use of health data refers to using health data, such as patient records, for purposes other than the primary reason for which they were originally collected. This can include research, decision-making, and innovation.
European Commission has made the creation of a European Health Data Space (open in new window) as a priority for 2019-2025. The proposal stems from the GDPR. There are currently no common practices for the secondary use of health data in Europe.
This episode is a recording of a panel discussion that took place during the eHealth Days, organized as part of the Slovenian presidency to the Council of EU, end of August.
Speakers:
- – Minna Hendolin, Leading Specialist – HealthData at the Finish innovation fund SITRA, Finland
- Jukka Lähesmaa, Senior Specialist, The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
- Angel Martin (Brussels), chair of MedTech Europe’s Digital Health Committee and AI and Data WG
- Dipak Kalra (UK), President of The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
See the full series:
https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digital-health-in-the-nordics
Nordics Series 2/4: Norway, long and healthy life and data (Nard Schreurs)
This is the second episode about digital health in the Nordics. In the previous episode, you could listen about Denmark, how elderly care is managed there and how EHRs have been in place for years so clinicians and patients can access data digitally.
In this episode, Nard Schreurs, a journalist by background who’s been working with e-health since 2007, and has both started and built up Healthworld and the EHiN conference, talks about why do Norwegians have not only high life expectancy but more importantly a high number of healthy years, what are people satisfied and dissatisfied about the healthcare system, and more.
The Nordics series: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digital-health-in-the-nordics
eHin conference: https://ehin.no/en/
Nordics Series 1/4: Denmark, Elderly Care and 34 Years of Access to Doctor Notes (Erik Jylling)
This is the first out of four episodes about digital health and healthcare in the Nordics. In the next few weeks, you will hear about Denmark, Norway, Finland, and a broader regional overview. Not all countries but there have already been speakers on the show who also talked about Sweden, so I will link those in the show notes as well. The first speaker you will hear from is Erik Jylling, the executive vice president of Danish Regions. In his professional career, Erik has been deeply involved in planning, organizing, and leading the Danish healthcare system with the view from different professional perspectives and positions, practical and political. He earned an M.D. with 25 years of practical experience in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. He has worked as a consultant, head of the department, and in superior leading positions on hospital and organization levels. In this episode, we discussed the specifics of management in healthcare, how does one achieve organizational chance in a hospital setting, but also healthcare in Denmark: the admirably organized elderly care, the fact that patients have access to doctor’s notes since 1987, yes, 1987, so 34 years.
The Nordics Series will be available at: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digital-health-in-the-nordics
Sweden: F068 The power of patients 3/4: How can patients influence policy? (Bettina Ryll)
https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/f065-f068-the-power-of-patients-4-episodes-series?rq=Bettina
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Between Malta and UK: A Radiologists’s View (Ryan Grech)
A few years ago Stefan Buttigieg, a digital health evangelist from Malta said that Malta is a great testbed for digital health startups interested in entering Europe (https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/2019/01/03/f027-can-malta-be-a-gateway-to-the-european-market?rq=Malta).
In this episode, we’ll re-visit the island in a discussion with Ryan Grench – Radiology Registrar from Malta who works in the UK. Ryan talked about the benefits of running a digital health startup in Malta, made a few comparisons between healthcare in the UK and Malta, and also shared his views on telemedicine and digital health. Ryan is among other things an advisor to the MedTech World Conference, which we’ll take place between 17-20 November. To visit the conference, listen to the end of the discussion where Ryan shared how you can get a nice discount on your ticket.
Website: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com
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MedTech World Conference: https://med-tech.world/
Israel: How are the Government, Hospitals and HMOs working together?
End of August Days of eHealth were organised as part of the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of EU. In four days a lot of insight was offered about healthcare digitalization in Catalonia, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Israel and Finland. In the previous episodes, I published the panel discussions about Germany and Catalonia. This is the panel about Israel.
Israel has had electronic healthcare records for two decades, in 2018. A country of 9 million people, attributes 7,5% of its GDP to healthcare and is home to roughly 1,500 companies operating in the healthcare and life sciences. In the panel discussion you will learn about the national digital health strategy in Israel, how to Health Maintainance Organisations, Government, and Hospitals collaborating to advance healthcare. You will also learn a little bit more about Slovenia with two representatives of the Slovenian healthcare ecosystem.
The speakers:
- Esti Shelly, Director, Digital Health at Ministry of Health Israel
- Michael Halberthal, General Director of Rambam Health Care Campus
- Noa Kedem, Deputy Director, Digital health unit (Medical Informatics) at Maccabi Health Services
- Jurij Šorli, CEO of the Hospital Topolšica (Slovenia)
- Bogdan Tušar, Acting Director General, Directorate for the Development of the Health System, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
Recap of roundtables at Days of eHealth: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/days-of-ehealth-healthcare-digitalization-in-catalonia-germany-finland-and-israel
Website: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com.
The European Patient Forum’s Congress happening during 26-29 October: https://epfcongress.eu/
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