Innovation in eHealth

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Innovation in eHealth

• Peteris Zilgalvis, J.D.
• Head of Unit, Health and Well-Being, DG CONNECT
•  Electronic Health and Medicine Advances and
  Challenges 
• Warsaw, 27 September 2012

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Innovation in eHealth

• Key policies
• Digital Agenda for Europe
• European Innovation Partnership on Active and
  Healthy Ageing
• EU-US Memorandum of Understanding
• eHealth Task Force Report

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Digital Agenda for Europe
Sustainable economic and social benefits for all
from a flourishing digital economy
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Background

• Digital Agenda for Europe - key strand of the
  Commission's EU2020 strategy
• Aim to establish sustained digital growth in
  Europe via 101 actions
• Overall progress good
• 38 actions completed
• 49 on track
• 14 actions behind schedule, but delivery dates in
  2012

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Progress

• Key actions 14 completed 5 on track 2 behind
  schedule
• Rates of penetration of high-speed broadband
  networks in Europe are increasing
• High-speed Broadband coverage 29 2010 50 2011
• 68 citizens go online weekly

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Sustainable healthcare and ICT-based support for
dignified and independent livingActions on
track
eHealth in the DAE
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eHealth actions in DAE

• KA 13 Undertake pilot actions to equip Europeans
  with secure online access to their medical health
  data by 2015 and to achieve by 2020 widespread
  deployment of telemedicine services

EMPOWERMENT
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eHealth actions in DAE

• KA14 Propose a recommendation defining a minimum
  common set of patient data for interoperability
  of patient records by 2012
• CONTINUITY OF CARE INTEROPERABILITY
• Foster EU-wide standards, interoperability
  testing and certification of eHealth systems by
  2015 through stakeholder dialogue

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Research and Innovation

• Mid term research advanced eHealth solutions
  that improve quality of care, and increase
  patient autonomy, mobility and safety
• Long term research predictive, personalised
  medicine (Virtual Physiological Human). Current
  EC support over 200 Million.

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European Innovation Partnership on Active and
Healthy Ageing

• Objectives and headline target
• A triple win for Europe
• Enabling EU citizens to lead healthy, active and
  independent lives until old age
• Improving the sustainability and efficiency of
  social and health care systems
• Developing and deploying innovative solutions,
  thus fostering competitiveness and market growth
• Overarching goal by 2020
• Increasing the number of healthy life years
  (HLYs) by 2 in the EU on average
• http//ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing

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6 action areas
By 2015

• Health literacy, patient empowerment, ethics and
  adherence
• Early diagnosis and prevention of specific
  conditions
• Prevention diagnosis and management of functional
  decline in older people
• Integrated care for chronic diseases, including
  remote monitoring
• Active and independent living
• Age friendly buildings, cities and environments
• ACTION PLANS FOR THE 6 GROUPS TO BE PRESENTED 6TH
  NOVEMBER 2012 AT CONFERENCE OF PARTNERS

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EU-US Memorandum of Understanding on eHealth

• Signed 17/12/2010 by EC / US Dept Health and
  Human Services
• Cooperation surrounding health related
  information and communications technologies
• Focus
• key areas where scope for progress for the
  benefits of patients, healthcare systems and the
  economy
• interoperability standards and specifications for
  EHR systems as well as the development of a
  skilled health IT workforce
• important step to tackling market defragmentation
  by creating global conditions for common
  approaches to interoperability and
  standardisation

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EU-US Memorandum of Understanding on eHealth

• Brings together key stakeholders DHHS, DG
  CONNECT, health professionals, patients,
  healthcare private sector, tech suppliers
• eHealth Week, 7 May 2012 Discussed Roadmap of
  EHR Interoperability
• 23-24 October 2012 Follow-up conference in
  Boston examining interoperability, skills,
  evidence and conditions for eHealth ecosystems to
  flourish
• 2013 meetings, workshops, symposia under Irish
  Presidency

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eHealth Task Force

• Unique group of individuals with outstanding
  expertise in sectors relevant to eHealth
• Report (May 2012) Redesigning health in Europe
  for 2020
• Identifies critical preconditions for the
  effective implementation of eHealth

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eHealth Task Force

• FIVE RECOMMENDATIONS
• Create a legal framework to manage the explosion
  of health data
• Create a beacon group of Member States committed
  to open data and eHealth
• Support health literacy
• New rules to define how to integrate official and
  user data
• Re-orient EU funding and policies

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eHealth Action Plan

• Duration 2012 2020
• Operational Objectives include
• eHealth interoperability Framework
• Supporting Research, Development and Innovation
  in eHealth
• Encouraging wider deployment and facilitating
  eHealth uptake
• International cooperation
• Adoption foreseen October 2012

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Upcoming milestones in eHealth

• eHealth Action Plan October 2012
• Staff Working Paper on the Legal Aspects of
  Telemedicine October 2012
• Memorandum of Understanding on eHealth with the
  United States Transatlantic eHealth Assembly in
  Boston on 24 October 2012

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More information and contacts

• ec.europa.eu/ehealth

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