The digitalisation of health has the potential to transform the healthcare landscape and benefit people in various ways. Digital solutions for health and care can increase the well-being of millions of citizens, if designed purposefully and implemented in a cost-effective way. The digital transformation can support the continuity of care across borders, an important aspect for those who spend time abroad for business or leisure purposes.

The use of new technologies can also help promote health and prevent diseases, including in the workplace. It can support the reform of health systems and their transition to new care models, centred on people’s needs and enable a shift from hospital-centred systems to more community-based and integrated care structures. 

Digital tools can translate scientific knowledge into helping citizens remain in good health. They also have the potential to enable a better use of health data in research and innovation to support personalised healthcare, better health interventions and more effective health and social care systems.

Draft Agenda:  
  
Moderation: Lavinia BIANCHI/Eline CHIVOT

10:00 – 10:15 Introduction on the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP) & the results of the first Digital Decade report (part relevant to eHealth)

• Eric PETERS, Head of Unit (acting), Unit B.2., Digital Decade Coordination, DG CONNECT  

10:15 – 10:40 - Access to Health data: Opportunities & challenges     

Health data: Opportunities & challenges in the strategic context

• Saila RINNE, Head of Unit (acting), Unit H.3., eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing, DG CONNECT  eHealth indicators: the logic of the intervention and importance of key features for the users

eHealth indicators: the logic of the intervention and importance of key features for the users

• Renata PALEN, Policy Officer - EU policies, Unit H.3., eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing, DG CONNECT    

10:40 – 10:55 - Introducing the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation: use and re-use of health data    

Introduction and primary use

• Konstantin HYPPÖNEN, Programme Officer - EU policies, Unit H.3., eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing, DG CONNECT

Secondary use and implementation timeline

• Owe LANGFELDT, Policy Officer - on European Health Data Space, Unit C.1, Digital Health, DG SANTE

10:55 – 11:20 - The Electronic Identification (eID) and the digital wallet

The importance of the eID usage in the healthcare context

• Maya MADRID, Policy Officer, Unit H.4., eGovernment and Trust, DG CONNECT

11:20 – 11:45 - Health data infrastructures, future European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDICs)

Making cancer imaging and genomics data accessible for research, healthcare and public health

• Aleksandra WESOLOWSKA, Programme Officer - EU policies, Unit H.3., eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing, DG CONNECT
• Szymon BIELECKI, Team Leader - EU policies, Unit H.3., eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing, DG CONNECT

11:45 – 12:00: Questions and Answers

12:00 – 12:05: Conclusion