EHTEL Symposium 2011 and RENEWING HeALTH Midterm Workshop

More than 150 eHealth stakeholders met on November 30th and December 1th to discuss how to change the traditional delivery models of European healthcare and welfare for making them better fit to the long-term needs of persons with chronic conditions. The dialogue on new strategies and their implementation was particularly inspired by a keynote from Kaiser Permanente, US. The EHTEL2011 Symposium - colocated with the RENEWING HeALTH Midterm Workshop - convened European-wide leaders, drivers and frontrunners, including health policy, competence centres and many stakeholder representatives. The event was kindly hosted by the EESC, the voice of organised civil society in the Union's decision-making process. [all presentations are available for download (PDF)].

New models go much beyond the scope of venerable traditions like organising health and welfare in independent silos and seamlessly integrate the healthcare and social service domains. Both eHealth and Telemedicine provide personal health services and can contribute significantly to the successful implementation of up-to-date health strategies. Demonstrations and service presentations provided some evidence how it should be possible to move from high level EU policy initiatives into operational sustainable services.

Download the full, final programme (v054, 30 Nov 2011) [PDF]

Programme and Presentations [PDF] for download

	30 November 2011, 14:00 - 18:00, RENEWING HeALTH Midterm Workshop
13:30	Registration and Welcome Coffee
14:00	Welcome and Opening Chair: Martin Denz, President, EHTEL – by the European Economic and Social Committee: Ulla Sirkeinen, TEN Section Vice President – by the European Commission: Gisele Roesems-Kerremans, DG INFSO, Deputy Head, Unit H1 – by the RENEWING HeALTH Project Coordination: Lorenzo Gubian, Veneto Region
14:15	Setting the Scene: New Care Models for Persons with Chronic Diseases Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, Kaiser Permanente, USA
15:00	Telemedicine enabling Seamless Services in the Personal Sphere - A Flashlight on RENEWING HeALTH Pilots Chair : Dr. Stephan Schug, EHTEL, Brussels, Belgium North Norway: Astrid Grottland, NST , Tromso Catalunya: Ignasi Garcia-Mila Vidal, TicSalut , Barcelona, Spain South Karelia: Tuula Karhula, EKSOTE , Lappeenranta, Finland Norrbotten: Lennart Isaksson, County Council Norrbotten, Luleå, Sweden
16:15	Coffee Break
16:30	Panel: Augmenting the Evidence on the Impact of Telemedicine Services Co-Chairs: Charles Lowe, CL Consulting Ltd. / Claus Duedal Pedersen, Region of South-Denmark Presentations: A Scientific Review of RENEWING HeALTH: Maximising the Scientific Value of the Project Richard Wootton, NST, Norway Lessons learned so far on the large pilot evaluation. Marco d’Angelantonio, HimSA, Brussels, Belgium The Model for Assessment of Telemedicine (MAST) in Practice. Anna Kotzeva, Catalan Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality, Spain. Other Panellists: Regional Health Administration: Kenneth Sjaunja, Norrbotten, Sweden European Healthcare Policies: Milan Cabrnoch, MEP and Physician, Czech Republic European Commission: Flora Giorgio-Gerlach, DG INFSO, Unit H1 (Project Officer)
17:50	Closing of Day 1 / RENEWING HeALTH MidTerm Workshop
	RENEWING HeALTH is co-funded by the EC in the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP-ICT-PSP)

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	1 December 2011, 09:00 - 17:00 (Symposium Day 2)
09:00	Political Agenda for eHealth and Seamless Integration of Health Services
11:00	Sustainable and Interoperable eHealth Infostructure in Support of the Seamless Integration of Services
13:30	From Infostructure to Services: Enabling Seamless and Integrated Care by eHealth Part 1: Managing Diseases - Seamless Service Integration by Provider Organisations
15:00	From Infostructure to Services: Enabling Seamless and Integrated Care by eHealth Part 2: Seamless Service Integration in the Community - Telecare and Telemedicines
16:00	Next steps on the Seamless Integration of Services: Messages and Conclusions by the eHealth Stakeholders
16:45	Closing