Best Practices

On 6 October 2022, we recognise European Carers Day, a campaign led by Eurocarers. It aims to coordinate and foster national efforts to raise awareness of carers’ issues under a pan-European structure. Informal care represents the most significant form of patient care across Europe — approximately 80% of care across the EU is provided by…

Even when COVID-19 becomes endemic, as is likely to be the case, healthcare delivery in the United States will continue to transform rapidly. Stakeholders must prepare as policy direction, reimbursement, and investor appetite move care delivery in distinct directions. McKinsey’s 14th annual healthcare conference, held in September 2021 in Chicago, explored the next wave of…

Round Table 4 report presents the findings of a multistakeholder Round Table consultation focused on the actions that are needed at a European level, facilitated by the European Health Data Space, and actions required by other stakeholders across Europe. The actions are neededto maximise the availability of high quality and interoperable health data on a…

Society needs to scale up a collective capability to learn at scale from health data, to improve health care and to accelerate research. Despite increasing volumes of health data being collected in digital form there are many barriers to widening the uses of it. Many of the barriers are well recognised, but they now need…

A SPECIAL FOREWORD BY ECHALLIANCE CHAIR BRIAN O’ CONNOR Dear all, This report marks more than 10 years of creating and fostering collaborations across borders and silos. We have learned a lot during that time. On occasions, we may have gone down the wrong road yet, despite that, we were able to accomplish so much.…

Abstract Cancer is an aggressive disease with a low median survival rate. Ironically, the treatment process is long and very costly due to its high recurrence and mortality rates. Accurate early diagnosis and prognosis prediction of cancer are essential to enhance the patient’s survival rate. Developments in statistics and computer engineering over the years have…

Abstract This ‘point-of-view’ paper outlines the sub-disciplines of artificial intelligence (AI) and discusses a series of opportunities for AI to enhance a typical pathway of a primary percutaneous coronary intervention service. The paper outlines AI applications in interventional cardiology from diagnosis (AI based cardiac diagnostics), to treatment (AI in the Cath-lab) and recovery (AI based…

When University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust decided to procure an electronic prescribing and medication management system, it was hard to imagine that it would take almost seven years before the system would be used in clinical practice. Without a doubt, making the decision to choose and implement any healthcare IT project is a complex undertaking.…

by Joan Cornet One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.   Treatments are available, but nearly two-thirds of people with…

    Sharecare Movement: Engaging and empowering people and communities to meet their healthier self By Julien Venne Partnerships & Development at Sharecare Europe julien.venne@sharecare.com   Being healthy is a challenge for everyone. Number of factors are playing in it, such as your genetics, how you live, where you live, what you eat, if you…

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HappyAir is an ecosystem for integrated care. It has been developed for patients affected by chronic or rare respiratory  disease and pulmonary conditions. We provide a multifunctional approach:  Including healthcare professionals, therapists and patients in their clinical-care and self-management, with shared benefits. HappyAir ecosystem enables people to share relevant information, to make shared decisions based…

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One of the biggest impacts of new technology – and perhaps the most life-changing – will be felt in healthcare. Diagnosis of illness will be fast and efficient, and medicine will be highly personalised. Wearable technology will be the norm, and we’ll know we are sick before we even get a single symptom. Meanwhile, new…

Telling stories makes us human, and digital health needs to tell us a good story, argues Joan Cornet Prat, ECHAlliance Board Member and Director of the Digital Health Observatory.  Stories – narratives – provide a way of understanding our place in the scheme of things by structuring our understanding of events. Stories form a place…

Humans have been able to survive mostly thanks to technology, so how will that change in the future?  Joan Cornet Prat, Board Member and Director of the Digital Health Observatory, ECHAlliance and Technical Engineer and Psychologist discusses how we’ll cope in the future.  At around 1300 BC the Greeks, Phoenicians and Hebrews changed the world…

What if you received text messages from your body with your health updates? Alerting you to swipe left or right to take action or seek help. Aaron Black is the Director of Informatics at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI), which is part of the Inova Health Care System in Northern Virginia. At ITMI, Aaron…

Learn how to facilitate motivation for positive health behaviors in a variety of context. Motivation – the psychological process that give behavior its energy and direction – plays a central role in the adoption and sustained execution of health-promoting behaviors critical to prolonging length and quality of life. In this session, you’ll learn from experts…

Moderator Indu Subaiya, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Health 2.0 Speakers Paul Chew, Chief Medical Officer, Omada Health; Trustee, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Karen DeSalvo, Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Health and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville; Board Member, 23andMe, Meetup, and…