High-level conference on e-health: health in the digital society and the digital society for health, Tallinn - Hoofdinhoud

'Health in the digital society. The digital society for health' is organised by the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs as part of the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in collaboration with ECHAlliance and HIMSS Europe.

The high-level conference will address how digital technologies and the wider use of health data are changing our lives and also methods of healthcare. Through a combination of educational sessions, interactive workshops, and valuable networking opportunities, the conference will not only showcase already existing digital health solutions, but also uses cases and technologies to demonstrate that citizen-centric health services and systems are genuinely valuable.

European healthcare IT leaders and professionals will gather in Tallinn from 16-18 October 2017. The conference will focus on three main topics:

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  building citizen-driven demand in e-health
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  e-health supporting value-driven and sustainable health and social services
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  e-health as a driver of innovation and economic development

Registration

In order to attend the conference, vendors and delegates must use the conference's official portal. Journalists must register using the Estonian Presidency media accreditation page.

There will be a live stream of the event. Videos related to the event are available on our videos page and photos of events can be accessed on our photos page or on our Flickr account.

There will be opportunities on all three days for pre-arranged interviews and comments. Interviews with the speakers must be agreed upon in advance. In case of interest, please contact eva.lehtla@sm.ee or + 372 5564369.

Agenda

Monday, 16 October 2017

12.00-12.30

Warmup session: National X-Road Workshop

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  Artur Novek, IT Architect, Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre, Estonia
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  Heiko Vainsalu, IT Architect, Information System Authority, Estonia

12.00

Guided tour of the exhibition area (VIPs & Media)

12.45-13.30

Official opening - introductory political address

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  Jevgeni Ossinovski, Minister for Health and Labour, Estonia
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  Brian O'Connor, Chair, ECHAlliance
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  Hal Wolf, President & CEO, HIMSS

Moderators: Marjo Näkki, Journalist

Neeme Raud, Freelance journalist

13.45-14.45

Session: Digital Health Around the Globe

The panel will present you with the current status and trends around the world, across the USA, Australia, and China. The session will also inform you about these markets and how to engage with them.

Speakers:

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  Harsh Bhardwaj, Research Associate, PPRC (India)
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  Laurie Hawkins, Human Health Services Directories Advocate (Australia)
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  Joseph C. Kvedar, Vice President, Connected Health, Partners HealthCare (USA)
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  Jordi Serrano, GP, Founder and CEO, UniversalDoctor (Spain)

Moderator: Brian O'Connor, Chair, ECHAlliance

14.45-15.15

Coffee break and media interviews

15.15-15.30

Keynote address (video): European Citizens Deserve the Best in Health and the Economy. What Does Digital Society Have to Offer?

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  Toomas H. Ilves, the Former President of Estonia, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford

15.30-16.30

Session: Where Is the Money?

One of the main barrier for digital health deployment mentioned by European stakeholders is the financial capacity of healthcare systems in Europe. This panel session will describe alternative ways (public and private ones) to fund initiatives and projects until their implementation and scale-up.

Speakers:

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  Evert Jan Van Lente, Director EU-Affairs, AOK-Bundesverband
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  Brian O'Connor, Chair, ECHAlliance,
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  Felicitas Riedl, Head of the Life Sciences and Health Division, Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank

Moderator: Paul Timmers, Independent Advisor - Digital Policy and Economy

16.45-17.45

Parallel sessions

mHealth: Toward Apps and Digital Therapy Prescriptions

This session will showcase policy makers and companies proposing a pathway toward the mHealth apps accreditation and integration in the system preserving safety, security and confidentiality for the citizen.

Speakers:

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  Carme Pratdepadua, mHealth manager, TicSalut Foundation
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  Liz Ashall-Payne, CEO at ORCHA
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  Taavi Einaste, Nortal Estonia

Moderator: Joan Cornet Prat, Director Barcelona HUB, ECHAlliance

Virtual Reality, a New Way to Train and Treat

Virtual Reality is the new technological platform. It is a new media through which content and experiences could be transfer to users. It revolutionizes the relation with the technology and offer new possibility to multiple sectors: gaming, education, journalism, etc.

Speakers:

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  Cynthia Gálvez López, R&D Director, Exovite
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  Isabel Font, Product Manager, Psious
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  Kumar Jacod, Chief Executive Officer, Mindwave

Moderator: Julien Venne, Strategic Advisor, ECHAlliance

Innovation Showcasing Session #1

Discover the latest innovations and technologies for health and well-being with a series of short pitches by start-ups, companies and scientists. This session will focus on Takeda, MSD + 5 updates from Start-Ups and SMEs.

Speakers:

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  Meni Styliadou, VP Gov't Affairs & Public Policy, Europe and Canada, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International AG
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  Jonas Eriksson, Swedish Patient Association for Crohn’s and Colitis patients
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  David Earnshaw, Associate Vice President Public Policy Europe/Canada, MSD
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  Kim Baden-Kristensen, CEO, Co-founder, Brain +
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  Hans Danneels, Byteflies
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  Frédéric Destrebecq, Executive Director, European Brain Council
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  Steve Beet, Principal, R&D Director, Aculab

Moderator: Stefan Buttigieg, MD, Social Media Ambassador; Digital Health Scientific Advisor, HIMSS; European Public Health Alliance

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

9.00-10.10

Session: Digital Health Society Declaration

During the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia and the ECHAlliance have launched an initiative inviting all stakeholders (policy makers, citizens, researchers, health care providers and professionals, payers, industry and startups) to be part of a same movement, called the 'Digital Health Society' (DHS). The DHS and its Task forces aims to deploy at EU scale and in a cross-border mode, structuring projects to facilitate the free flow of data and the deployment of Digital health.

Speakers:

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  Ain Aaviksoo, Deputy Secretary General for E-services and Innovation, Ministry of Social Affairs Estonia
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  Angela Brand, Director, European Centre for Public Health Genomics (ECPHG)
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  Richard Corbridge, CIO, Health Service Executive, Ireland
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  Erik Gerritsen, Secretary General, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands
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  Brian O'Connor, Chair, ECHAlliance
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  Bleddyn Rees, Digital Health Expert and Lawyer, Osbourne Clarke

Moderators: Marjo Näkki, Journalist

Neeme Raud, Freelance journalist

10.10-10.40

Coffee break

10.40-12.00

Keynote address: Reaping the Benefits of Digital Innovation in Health and Care

Digital technologies are already improving people’s health and are helping to address the challenges health systems face. What are we doing to maximise their potential? How do we work on the EU-level to make the best out of our cooperation in this field? What are the Commission and member states are doing to enable the cross-border exchange of patient summaries and ePrescriptions and to support European Reference Networks.

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  Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

10.40-12.00

Delivering Health in the Digital Society. EU Member States Accelerating the Deployment of Digital Health

In this high-level political session, policy makers from the European Commission and EU member states will present their views on the opportunities and challenges related to digital health, how they see digital health supporting the health policy goals and what their priorities are in advancing digital innovation in health sector. The speakers will highlight some concrete examples of how digital health is being implemented across Europe. These case studies will then drive a discussion around the key success factors for the successful deployment of digital health.

Speakers:

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  Jevgeni Ossinovski, Minister for Health and Labour, Estonia
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  Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
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  Agneta Karlsson, State Secretary to the Minister for Health Care, Public Health and Sport of Sweden, Ministry of Health, Sweden
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  Clemens Martin Auer, Director General, Federal Ministry of Health and Women's Affairs, Austria

Moderators: Marjo Näkki, Journalist

Neeme Raud, Freelance journalist

12.15-12.45

Parallel sessions

The Next Fountain of Youth? Rethinking Connected Health for Our Aging Population

Joseph C. Kvedar outlines the need to establish a different set of measures for older adults: sense of purpose, social connections and physical activity, and the need to design devices and apps specifically for this demographic and addresses what he calls 'The New Mobile Age'.

Speaker: Joseph C. Kvedar, Vice President, Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

Moderator: H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, President and CEO Emeritus, HIMSS

Innovation Showcasing Session #2

This session will focus on EU Project Updates: #1/i-PROGNOSIS: Intelligent Parkinson’s early detection guiding novel supportive interventions. #2/KRISTINA Project: An EU funded research project which aims at developing technologies for a human-like socially competent and communicative agent. It runs on mobile communication devices and serves for migrants with language and cultural barriers in the host country.

Speakers:

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  Charisis Vasilis, iPROGNOSIS
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  Leo Wanner, UPF
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  Pascal Lardier, Principal at [édito] and Editorial Director for Health 2.0 Europe/HIMSS Europe

Moderator: Stefan Buttigieg, Social Media Ambassador; Digital Health Scientific Advisor, HIMSS; European Public Health Alliance

12.45-14.00

Lunch for high-level representatives hosted by Minister Jevgeni Ossinovski

14.00-15:00

Session: Digital Innovation for Health and Economic Growth - a Strategic View from Europe and USA

Digital is deeply modifying the way people are behaving, consuming and living, creating opportunities for both improved health and economic growth. This session will be an opportunity to exchange views and compare approaches between Europe and the USA, on how to create an enabling environment for digital innovation in the health sector. We will hear about the recent developments in the implementation of the European digital single market strategy and the European approach to support digital health innovation. We will also hear about the strategy followed by Massachusetts (USA) to strengthen the local digital health ecosystem between healthcare providers, patients, administrations, companies and universities.

Speakers:

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  Michał Boni, Member, European Parliament
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  Xavier Prats Monné, Director-General, European Commission
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  Laurance Stuntz, Director, Massachussets eHealth Institute, USA
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  Khalil Rouhana, Deputy Director General, DG CONNECT or Maximilian Strotmann, Member of Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip (tbc)

Moderator: Marjo Näkki, Journalist

14.00-15.00

Parallel sessions

Legal Framework Enabling the Free Flow and Secondary Use of Data

This session will analyse the opportunities and challenges related to the implementation of the the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the field of health, and how it could be an opportunity for the citizens and the Free Flow of Data in Europe.

Speakers:

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  Antonio Dedeu, Director, Generalitat de Catalunya Agency for Health Quality and Assessment, Government of Catalonia
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  Konstantin Hyppönen, IT Architect, Social Insurance Institution (Kela), Finland
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  Petra Wilson, Managing Director, Health Connect Partners and Senior Advisor for Healthcare, FTI Consulting, Health Connect Partners and FTI Consulting
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  Siim Sikkut, Deputy Secretary General for IT and Telecom, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia

Moderator: Bleddyn Rees, Digital Health Expert and Lawyer, Osbourne Clarke

Smart Healthy Cities

Number of cities around the world have developed a 'smart city agenda', developing more and more digital services for their citizens. This session will showcase some outstanding examples of smart healthy cities.

Speakers:

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  Maritta Perala-Heape, Director, Centre for Health and Technology
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  Kumar Jacod, Chief Executive Officer, Mindwave

Moderator: Neeme Raud, Freelance journalist

15.15-17.45

Parallel sessions

Citizen-Controlled Data Governance and Data Donors

The Digital Health Society will be possible if people are confident to share their data, either as a Donation, either as an asset hosted in a secured environment where they are able to control and use them as they want.

Speakers:

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  Angela Brand, Professor at Maastricht University
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  Antti Poikola, MyData programme, researcher, University of Helsinki
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  Francesca Cattarin, Health Policy Officer at BEUC European Consumer Organisation

Moderator: Robert Madelin, Chairman, Fipra International

Moving Toward Outcomes-Based Healthcare Thanks to Digital

This session will explore tools available or in development, privacy rules to be settled and security measures to be taken to operate this major change.

Speakers:

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  Madis Tiik, Senior Adviser at Sitra
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  Knut Mager, Head, Global Data Privacy, Novartis International AG
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  Kamel Gadouche, Director, CASD

Moderator: Monica Dietl, Senior Advisor, Science|Business

Convergence Roadmap on Interoperability Standards and a Digital Ttele Healthcare Protocol

The question of standards and interoperability in healthcare is a major challenge. Enabling the Free flow of health data across Europe will require a consensus between all stakeholders, not only policy makers, but also providers or industry, in order to create the conditions of exchange of these data.

Speakers:

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  Erik Gerritsen, Secretary General, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands
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  Dipak Kalra, President, EuroRec
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  Jörn-Peter Halle, PhD, Head of External Innovation for Biopharma R&D, Merck KGaA
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  Tom Dawson, Founding Director, RESCON

Moderator: Agris Peedu, CEO, North Estonian Medical Center

15.30-16.00

Facebook Live with Minister Jevgeni Ossinovski and Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis

16.15-16.45

Coffee break

16.45-17.45

Parallel sessions

Empowering Citizens in the Digital Health Society

The WHO defines empowerment as “a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health”. Whether we are healthy citizens or chronic patients, the Digital Health Society offers many solutions to monitor, prevent, and more generally improve our health and wellness.

Speakers:

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  Pierre-Mikaël Legris, CEO, Pryv
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  David Somekh, Futurist, Network Director, European Health Futures Forum (EHFF)
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  Kostas Aligiannis, Jr Policy Officer, European Patients Forum
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  Dee O'Sullivan, Director, myhealthapps.net at PatientView

Moderator: Sophia Schlette, Director, Health Policy Department, Bundesverband der Deutschen Dermatologen

Building the European Health Data Eco-system - the Role of Public-Private Partnerships

The panel, representing different stakeholder perspectives, will discuss how projects such as the European Health Data Network (EHDN) can help building a collaborative health data eco-system in Europe, to the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and the private sector.

Speakers:

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  Kristina Lidèn Mascher, Strategist International projects, Office for National Quality Registries, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR)
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  Denis Lacombe, Director General at European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
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  Liesbet Peeters, Project Manager / research, Hassfelt University
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  Bart Vannieuwenhuyse, Senior Director, Health Information Sciences, Janssen Pharmaceuticals

Moderator: Cathy SMITH, Director, SpeakEasy Communications

Innovation Showcasing Session #3

This session will focus on Estonian startups.

Estonian innovation session presenters:

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  Jaan Murdia, Partner, Helmes
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  Andrus Altrov, CEO, Industry62
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  Margus Jäger, CEO, Quretec
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  Priit Kruus, CEO, Dermtest
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  Külle Tärnov, Manager, Estonian Connected Health Cluster, Estonia
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  Andres Mellik, CEO, Cognuse
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  Liis Kängsepp, Nortal

Moderator: Neeme Raud, Freelance journalist

17.45-18.30

Exhibition hall reception

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

9.00-9.30

Political address

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  Taavi Rõivas, Member, Estonian Parliament

9.45-10.45

Parallel sessions

My Medicine, My Way: The Role of Personalised Medicine and Genomics

In this session, we will explore how the field of personalised medicine is developing and the research findings that support the case for more individualised forms of treatment.

Speakers:

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  Ain Aaviksoo, Deputy Secretary General for E-services and Innovation at the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia
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  Tigran Arzumanov, Head of Sales, Clinerion
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  Andrus Paats, CEO, Estonian Medical Imaging Bank

Moderator: Helmut Brand, Professor, Maastricht University

Digital Transformation and Change Management in Health and Social Care Organisations

The digital transformation requires us to adapt our health and social care organisations. This session will showcase some solutions for what is, today, one of the main challenges for hospitals, national or regional health services, care centers, nursing homes, etc. in Europe and beyond.

Speakers:

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  Richard Corbridge, CIO at Health Service Executive and CEO of eHealth, Ireland
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  Ellen Schenk, Coordinator, EU Funding, Erasmus MC Research Development Office, The Netherlands

Moderator: Hille HINSBERG, Civil Society, Governance Expert, Praxis Center for Policy Studies

Cloud Computing for Patients' Privacy and Quality of Healthcare

This session will explore how the cloud could deliver the optimal combination of scale, flexibility and choice needed to truly maximise the benefit to patient care while minimising implementation effort and cost and promoting security and privacy

Speakers:

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  Anne Kallio, Head of Development, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
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  Mikk Lellsaar, Executive Officer, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication
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  Henrique Martins, Chairman of the Board, Digital Europe, Portugal

Moderator: Elena Bonfiglioli, Senior Director Health Industry, Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA), Microsoft

10.45-11.15

Coffee break

11.15-12.15

Parallel sessions

Integrated, Person-Centered Care Innovation for Ageing and Chronic Diseases

This session will provide the opportunity to discuss the strategies and tools that could be deployed in order to tackle the challenges of ageing and chronic diseases, from the industry point of view but also from the scope of the policy makers.

Speakers:

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  Miguel Gonzalez-Sancho, Head of Unit Health & Wellbeing, DG Connect, European Commission
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  Gilles Llitman, VP, Global Integrated Care
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  George Crooks, CEO of the Digital Health Institute of Scotland

Moderator: Veli Stroetmann, Head of eHealth Research and Policy, Empirica Communication & Technology Research

Continuity of Care Maturity Model (CCMM)

The HIMSS Analytics Continuity of Care Maturity Model (CCMM) is a roadmap that provides a strategic approach towards achieving true continuity of care for all healthcare delivery stakeholders. In this session speakers will present their view on continuity of care and discuss the role of clinical engagement, governance, change management and technology.

Speakers:

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  Uta Knöchel, CIO/CEO, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
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  Ramon Lerchundi Goni, CIO, Osakidetza-Basque Health Service

Moderator: Frank Fritzsche, Research & Advisory Services Manager, HIMSS Europe GmbH

Cybersecurity: Protecting Digital Health Consumers and Patients

This session will explore how we can ensure the security of our IT systems and of the data held within them and how we can keep our organisations safe from cyber-attack.

Speakers:

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  Julio Vivero, Head of Section, GMV Innovating Solutions
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  Jorge Barrera, CTO, Seguru
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  Dimitra Liveri, Network and Information Security Expert, ENISA
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  Christine Brukhty, Identos

Moderator: Liisa Past, Cyber CRO, Estonian IT System Authority

12.30-13.00

Closing keynote

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  Kersti Kaljulaid, President of the Republic of Estonia

Closing the conference: Ain Aaviksoo

Moderator: Neeme Raud