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New look at Digitalisation in healthcare

The recent Seminar announcement from EHTEL is worth visiting – we look at the specifics… what they say is this:

Digitisation in health opens up tremendous perspectives for new data-driven services. Our webinar to debate how individual health data combined with data collected in health and social care will provide the fuel for innovation in the future.

The implicit question is: What is Europe’s role in data economy and could maintaining trust be the biggest opportunity for Europe?

Jointly with Sitra, EHTEL is pleased to invite you to a webinar around the IHAN approach for trustfully personalised health services. Sitra’s IHAN® project aims to build the foundation for personalised wellbeing and healthcare services. It is a collaboration effort for European organisations. Evidently such an effort can be of interest for eHealth Competence centres, and all projects and initiatives involved in managing digital health data, also with a view for Artifical Intelligence based services.

Having been inspired by an EHTEL network meeting, we will inform on what IHAN is all about. What are building blocks for the IHAN rulebook like architecture, interoperability and trustful use? What are the core technical components including identity wallet, consent management and logging. How can these components be built according to IHAN requirements?

As an example, My Travel Health – Tokyo 2020 will be presented: The pilot project aims to benefit all stakeholders – travellers get medical attention faster and more precisely; the provider’s health data is securely exchanged with traveller’s consent; and medical teams can quickly get trusted patient information in their own language.

EHTEL moreover understands the webinar as an important milestone to define an AI-friendly environment in health and social care. This idea will be highlighted in more detail at the EHTEL 20th Anniversary & Symposium early December in Barcelona.

The Seminar is Monday 16th sept, at 15.00 CET; or 14.00 UK time. Join via: Skype for Business (connecting details will be shared upon registration)The Seminar is Monday 16th sept, at 15.00 CET; or 14.00 UK time.

Full Agenda is here for download,

Some Healthcare Updates…

Two of the leading independent voices in European and USA healthcare have published today and in past few days, some important announcements that need sharing.

The first – from the COCIR trade association in Brussels, concerns standardisation of medical device standards; this is really key, because without this, countries cannot refer or regulate new innovations and vendors cannot offer this internationally; what they say today is:

Brussels, 25 July 2019 – In response to the European Commission’s publication of the draft standardization request for the MDR and IVDR, COCIR has developed detailed feedback and recommendations for improvement of the document. We have always underlined the importance of having harmonised standards available and cited in the Official Journal under the new Regulations. Unfortunately, the proposed draft standardisation request still includes several elements that prevent flexible harmonisation and timely reference of standards in the Official Journal. COCIR recommends to the European Standardisation Organisations to reject this request if it is adopted in the currently proposed form. COCIR is more than ready to engage in further discussions with the European Commission and member states on this topic. We specifically call upon the next Commissioner for the Internal Market to find pragmatic solutions to the current deadlockBack

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And in the USA, the AHIMA organisation based in Chicago, has two days ago announced the aim of country-wide use of a standard Patient ID; you wonder what they did before….

This is a different and expansive take on their usual technology coding and practical approach., as they move nearer to compete with HIMSS.

We will get a view shortly from our colleague Christina Roosen, who knows both organisations well – to see where this is heading.