Sessions

The European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) project Health Data Sweden (HDS), initiated in January 2023, aims to support this development by creating a more effective access to services to regarding digitalisation of the health care system both regionally and nationally, through the use of health data. The HDS connects 17 partners from all over Sweden, who currently offer services in health data and related fields such as digital care and e-health, to various target groups and stakeholders. HDS will also connect with other EDIHs throughout Europe, to transfer knowledge and share best practices concerning the use of health data and related fields, in order to improve healthcare on the EU level.In this panel, we will present some of the main challenges and needs in the health data context identified by the partners behind EDIH-HDS, and discuss how the project will address these obstacles. The five main work packages (the focus of WP1 is primarily administrative) will provide the structure for the presentation. In order to engage the audience and stimulate feedback and discussion, the panel will contain interactive elements throughout.

Every year, several million triages are performed in Sweden to evaluate and prioritize patients' medical needs. In the past, these assessments were conducted solely over the phone or at primary care centers, without any means of systematic evaluation. However, a groundbreaking shift is underway as Sweden digitizes its triage process, revolutionizing one of the most crucial processes in healthcare.Now, for the first time ever, patients' questions, responses, and advice can be analyzed systematically. The implications for patient safety and equity are profound, and it is essential to consider how this transformation affects vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and frail, who may not have access to digital tools. Join Jonathan Ilicki on a journey beyond the ordinary and gain unique insights into the pivotal role of triage in coordinating healthcare. Discover how digitization is transforming healthcare delivery in Sweden and shaping the future of medical care.

G_NIUS, a one-stop shop to save time for digital health entrepreneur. A presentation of the services set up to help companies navigate the French digital health sector market. Since 2020, G_NIUS has been providing various tools to help project leaders find their way in the world of eHealth in France. Facilitator of innovation in eHealth, G-NUIS is the fruit of a collective effort by the ministerial eHealth delegation (DNS) and the Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS).

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is at an early stage and research has shown difficulties with actual implementation in practice. Welcome to participate in an exciting workshop where you are introduced to a methodological and newly developed framework for supporting implementation processes in clinical practice.

The potential of quality health and wellness apps in addressing European healthcare challenges such as an ageing population and chronic diseases putting pressure on healthcare budgets, unequal quality and access to healthcare services and shortage of health professionals, is widely recognized. Yet consensus on what makes a quality health app has been lacking. Patients, citizens and healthcare professionals do not have the means to recognize the quality health apps. Authorities struggle to efficiently assess health apps and manufacturers are faced with a multitude of frameworks and difficulties to increase uptake and reimbursement. All of the above inspired the European Commission to commission CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2:2021 "Health and wellness apps - Quality and reliability".

The need for new skills for doctors innovating for the future and why an entrepreneurial mindset could be part of the solution. 

The future success of moving to a smart hospital is understanding the risk. Risk should be an open transparent conversation between stakeholders of the future hospital. With an increase in interconnected devices that allow for more remote care the protection of the central brain of the hospital is critical. Change takes time and education. If we consider current cyber threats that healthcare as an industry faces one might ask what does it really mean to be secure? Security is not a permanent achievable state, it is temporal and fluid. Technology in healthcare is ever-changing and along with that there should be a clear understanding of the risks. Breaches happen almost daily around the world specifically within healthcare. As a highly targeted industry, how do we effectively deal with these breaches, what is the estimated downtime? This talk explores the current state of responses to breaches, and potential solutions with a focus on education and disaster planning for not if but when it happens.

Introduction to Nordic track - By clinicians, for clinicians

In this lecture, Marc Farr and Jake Arnold-Forster (guests from the UK) talk through the application of SOPs, discuss how they are created and made available in healthcare clinics and enhancing them with digital technology, how this helps to scale up innovative ways of working in line organisation and what effects this has created. 

The focus of this track are approaches to ensure safe and meaningful utility of digital health. It starts with the regulatory perspective, is it a medical device? If so, what does the legislation require?Some solutions will be used directly by individuals without any link to the healthcare system, others will play an integrated role in the healthcare system.For those used either in health or social care, there is a need for methods to ensure the affordability and usefulness in the system to ensure the societal value.

As a free service you are invited to participate in a matchmaking event open to all delegates, presenters and exhibition participants. The aim of the event is to create win-win- situations and perhaps future collaborations between researchers, practitioners, patients and industry.The matchmaking is only available for conference delegates, investors and exhibitors.

How can we improve care and make it more equal through a better and more efficient use of health data? This session, organized by Novartis and EU project EDAH will cover perspectives from patients, caregivers, and regions.Future opportunities and challenges with an increased use of health data will be addressed as well as what message to bring to the ongoing policy work within EHDS from the different user’s perspective.

Dana Lewis founded the open-source artificial pancreas movement (known as “OpenAPS”), working to make safe and effective automated insulin delivery (AID) technology available (sooner) for people with diabetes around the world for the past 8 years. She authored the book, "Automated Insulin Delivery: How artificial pancreas “closed loop” systems can aid you in living with diabetes", to help more people understand automated insulin delivery systems, in addition to a series of children's books on various health topics. She is now a researcher and her peer-reviewed publications have been cited more than 1,300 times. She has collected numerous types of individual data and conducted research with it, while also working to support communities of patients and medical and academic researchers to harness the power of real-world shared data for improving healthcare.

The MIE conference has always been a hub for innovation and cutting-edge technology. This year was no exception several demonstrators showcase their unique solutions to healthcare problems. Use the opportunity to take a closer look at some of the most striking demonstrators present at the conference, highlighting their diversity and the potential impact they could have on various healthcare-related challenges

Closing session on Northern Excellence in Online Records!We will tell you what the next steps in the NORDeHEALTH project are, related to studies, publications and public presentations.https://nordehealth.eu/ 

EHDS (European Health Data Space) proposes a common European legislation which among other things ensures access to health data for secondary use.In this presentation, we look at the informatics associated with secondary use of health data, established standards and techniques for making data available for secondary use (including OMOP), international real world examples and how healthcare organizations can benefit internally from tools for secondary use.

Lifestyle caused diseases are rapidly increasing and traditional ways of lifestyle guidance in healthcare are highly resource demanding and lacking effectiveness. Healthy Days is the solution which makes preventional care scalable with no resource limitations and lifts the patient on top of selfcare with proven effectiveness.

NORDeHEALTH: Patients' Input to Electronic Health Record – Opportunities and Challenges in EstoniaYou will get an overview of how the system of patients’ online health record works in Estonia today. We will take you through the opportunities, but also challenges for the future and give an insight of how we plan to overcome those. As more and more emphasize are put on person-centeredness in healthcare, but also in order to fully achieve the potential benefits of digitalization, it is necessary to further explore how could electronic health records shift from solely being a documentation tool for health professionals to rather a tool for secure collaboration and communication with patients and family caregivers. We will introduce you our co-designing journey on patient-generated health data on blood pressure and blood glycose levels.