Innovation & Research

Towards maximising the use of health data for innovation and recovery Many stakeholders, such as social care organisations that contribute to health provision and integrated care services across Europe, are still mostly unaware of how the European Health Data Space can work and how their contribution can be mutually beneficial. And how can they trust…

Over 300 identified startups, almost 3 months of work, over 60 patrons, and above all, countless unique information presented in the only Polish review of Polish medical startups. Thanks to the “Top Disruptors in Healthcare” Report, there will be no need for a clairvoyant to predict what the Life Sciences & Healthcare industry in Poland…

Recently,  members of the Gravitate-Health project published a promising new article in the Journal of Integrated Care. Entitled “Human-centered integrated care pathways for co-creating a digital, user-centric health information solution”, the paper gives you an inside look at how the European-led consortium is co-creating a digital solution that aims to promote increased levels of adherence…

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…

A paradigm, policy, platform and prescription for wellness and better health. All around the world healthcare systems are facing increasing pressures and demands. Well developed countries are facing challenges related to ageing population and epidemics such as Diabetes or Obesity while developing countries struggle to leverage diagnostics and access to affordable medicines. All health systems…

Due to population ageing and advances in medical science, people with chronic diseases are living longer, which has become a challenge and a problem for the society. The challenges include how healthcare systems can cope with the cost burden of chronic disease, sustain quality independent living for patients and ensure sustainable healthcare and social care…

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…

The global burden of cancer is increasing faster than ever and given the impact of COVID-19 on cancer services, it is now crucial that the full potential of laboratory diagnostics for cancer is realised. Laboratory diagnostics play a vital role in prevention (when 30-50% of cancers could be prevented (1) and in achieving better patient…

Data protection and privacy still entail further developments and high investment in order to positively impact trust and citizen reliability on digital services and tools. Today, almost all (if not all) societal activities, especially in the health field, involve the collection and processing of large amounts of data. Technological advancement, with an emphasis on the…

Federated health data networks (FHDNs) have emerged as an attractive solution to ‘freeing’ health data enabling this data to stay at the institutions they are collected at whilst allowing partnering institutions send queries and algorithms to run on the data. Although FHDNs may be a solution to the data silos and privacy concerns in healthcare…

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…

This viewpoint summarizes the discussion that occurred during the “Translating Policy to Practice in Telehealth–Lessons from Global Implementation Experiences” panel that was held virtually at Telemedicon2020, December 18-20, 2020. This panel brought together policy and implementation experts from some countries of South Asia, Kuwait, and the European Union to share their experiences in the development…

This report has been prepared by the Digital Health and Care Directorate of the Scottish Government July 2021. It provides an update on the scale-up and adoption of digital health and care solutions in Scotland, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The document builds upon a previous report that was prepared by the Scottish Government…

Refreshed strategy which sets out how we will work together to improve the care and wellbeing of people in Scotland by making best use of digital technologies in the design and delivery of services, in a way, place and time that works best for them. Joint Foreword In 2018, Scotland’s first Digital Health and Care…

Enormous potential for development of innovative health solutions and improved patient outcomes exist if access to real-world health data can be enabled.  However, wide-spread sharing or access to this and other health data, between healthcare stakeholders (e.g. healthcare organizations, researchers etc), is highly limited due to concerns about consent, ownership, data protection and interoperability. Federated…

Background: Multimorbidity measures are useful for resource planning, patient selection and prioritization, and factor adjustment in clinical practice, research, and benchmarking. We aimed to compare the explanatory performance of the adjusted morbidity group (GMA) index in predicting relevant healthcare outcomes with that of other quantitative measures of multimorbidity. Methods: The performance of multimorbidity measures was…

This report, produced by NAPC Digital – NAPC’s digital adoption programme, brings into focus insights from the programme’s support to NHS sites and suppliers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the rapid adoption of technology across healthcare during the pandemic and shows how this can go much further to improve population health and workforce wellbeing.…

During the last few years, there has already been a solid discussion and political will, transversal to most European countries, on the need to invest in prevention, promoting healthier living environments and person-centred digital solutions. In short, it seems that consensus on the need to move forward and invest in wellbeing and quality of life…

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.…

The renewed information systems model will become more collaborative and sustainable. The use of open standards defines the strategy of the new electronic medical record of Catalonia and presents an opportunity for the Catalan technology sector. Information systems for data collection and clinical information of patients, share the need to have an architecture and a…





Dynamic consent in clinical genetic testing facilitates two-way communication, supporting informed patient autonomy for setting and modifying of consent preferences by patients over time, and these form the basis for dynamic downstream clinical and data management actions. It provides value to patients undergoing clinical genetic testing, healthcare professionals, organisations and broader society, yet despite benefits,…

Purpose: This article intends to present and discuss two promising business models for deploying IPS (international patient summary) standards in mobile health (mHealth) apps, enhancing the value brought by standards, in particular by HL7 (Health Level Seven International) of the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) for IPS. More specifically, it will explain how these standards…

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The advent of the car brought with it many advantages, but also inconveniences. The main one was to regulate circulation to improve safety. So in the early 20th century, William Phelps Eno created the first traffic rules. Eno, born in New York in 1858, studied Engineering at Yale University, graduating in 1882. Focused on real…

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) aims to mimic human cognitive functions. It is bringing a paradigm shift to healthcare, powered by increasing availability of healthcare data and rapid progress of analytics techniques. We survey the current status of AI applications in healthcare and discuss its future. AI can be applied to various types of healthcare data…

This Rapid Evidence Scan examined the effectiveness of virtual hospital models of care. While no reviews evaluated a complete model, tele-healthcare only and tele-healthcare with remote telemonitoring interventions demonstrated similar or significantly better clinical or health system outcomes including reduced hospitalisations, readmissions, emergency department visits and length of stay, compared to usual care, including those…

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine learning (ML)-based technologies have the potential to transform healthcare by deriving new and important insights from the vast amount of data generated during the delivery of healthcare every day. Example high-value applications include earlier disease detection, more accurate diagnosis, identification of new observations or patterns on human physiology, and…

Highlights Middle management strategies are decisive when transforming healthcare services.• Learning-oriented leadership and adaptive management emphasizes involvement and facilitate workplace learning.• Employees and managers need help to make sense of the complexities in changing work practices.• Scenario planning and backcasting are tools for sensemaking in complex organizations. Abstract eHealth is considered a solution to current…

Abstract Virtual reality (VR) is a potentially powerful technology for enhancing assessment in mental health. At any time or place, individuals can be transported into immersive and interactive virtual worlds that are fully controlled by the researcher or clinician. This capability is central to recent interest in how VR might be harnessed in both treatment…

Abstract Nature exposure in virtual reality (VR) can provide emotional well-being benefits for people who cannot access the outdoors. Little is known about how these simulated experiences compare with real outdoor experiences. We conduct an experiment with healthy undergraduate students that tests the effects of 6 min of outdoor nature exposure with 6 min of…

Abstract Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of digital interventions that aim to either supplement or replace face-to-face mental health services. More recently, a number of automated conversational agents have also been made available, which respond to users in ways that mirror a real-life interaction. What are the social and ethical concerns…

Abstract Background and Purpose: The present age of digitalization brings with it progress and new possibilities for health care in general and clinical psychology/psychotherapy in particular. Internet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) have often been evaluated. A fully automated version of IMIs are chatbots. Chatbots are automated computer programs that are able to hold, e.g., a script-based…

Abstract In the literature, there are substantial machine learning attempts to classify schizophrenia based on alterations in resting-state (RS) brain patterns using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Most earlier studies modelled patients undergoing treatment, entailing confounding with drug effects on brain activity, and making them less applicable to real-world diagnosis at the point of first…

Barcelona Health Hub is a technology association that brings together a wide range of companies from this sector. This institution was created in 2018 to promote understanding, dissemination and innovation in digital health both within Spain and abroad. At Barcelona Health Hub we are fully aware of the role played by telemedicine in the months…

Abstract Mobile health (m-Health) resources are emerging as a significant tool to overcome mental health support access barriers due to their ability to rapidly reach and provide support to individuals in need of mental health support. m-Health provides an approach to adapt and initiate mental health support at precise moments, when they are most likely…

Abstract At the beginning of the artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) era, the expectations are high, and experts foresee that AI/ML shows potential for diagnosing, managing and treating a wide variety of medical conditions. However, the obstacles for implementation of AI/ML in daily clinical practice are numerous, especially regarding the regulation of these technologies. Therefore,…

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 Artificial intelligence (AI) has contributed substantially to the resolution of a variety of biomedical problems, including cancer, over the past decade. Deep learning, a subfield of AI that is highly flexible and supports automatic feature extraction, is increasingly being applied in various areas of both basic and clinical cancer research. In this review, we…

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…

One can hardly go a week without running into headlines like, AI Predicts Heart Attacks Better Than Doctors. It’s not difficult to imagine a future cardiology clinic visit to look like this: patients check in via facial recognition software; their health data, along with their dietary behavior, exercise activities and lifestyle habits are automatically downloaded…

Digital technologies bring many opportunities to improve people’s health and experiences of services, but realising their potential will require investment and thoughtful implementation. What we think There is significant potential for the transformation of health care through better and widespread use of digital technologies. This includes a growing role for technology in supporting people to…

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.…

Need for care homes delayed by 8+ months & millions in social care funding redeployed New research has revealed how potentially life-saving technology is helping older people stay independent at home for longer – delaying a move to a care home by nearly nine months and enabling hard-pressed local authorities to redeploy millions in social…

Aiming to ensure that the European data strategy works for all of us, this publication proposes realistic steps for policymakers and companies to take in the coming years. The new data strategy of the European Commission aims to make the EU a leader in a data-driven society. Creating a single market for data will allow…

A recent paper by Laura Sheerman, Hannah R., Marston, Charles Musselwhite, and Deborah Morgan elaborates on the potential of Virtual Assistants (VAs) at times of pandemic. Smart age-friendly ecosystem framework. This figure has been reproduced from Marston & van Hoof (2019) under a CC BY 4.0 license. The paper refers to age-friendly environments and gives examples of…

Article By: 1Health and Wellbeing Priority Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes. Hannah.Marston@open.ac.uk – @HannahRMarston 2Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Swansea. C.b.a.musselwhite@swansea.ac.uk – @charliemuss 3Independent Researcher, Manchester. www.robinhadley.co.uk/contact-me – @RobinHadley1 The scene As the bells struck the stroke of midnight, ringing in 2020, citizens were smiling, pouring another glass of rosé, red wine or supping from their pint of…

Mike Tyson once said: “Everybody has a plan until you get punched in the face”. Well, I got punched in the brain by my own immune system when I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2010. It was unexpected, unfair, savage and life changing. In my previous career, I had been a mobile telco software…

* Machine Learning Engineer Masters Program: https://www.edureka.co/masters-progra… * Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare is revolutionizing the medical industry by providing a helping hand. This Edureka session will help you understand the positive impact of Artificial Intelligence in the healthcare domain along with practical implementation in Python. The following topics are covered in this session: 1. What…

Zulaikha Lateef , Zulaikha is a tech enthusiast working as a Research Analyst at Edureka. Despite the fact that Artificial Intelligence invokes fear in most of us, it is benefiting us in numerous ways. Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare is revolutionizing the medical industry by providing a helping hand. This blog will help you understand the positive impact…

More scrutiny, regulation, open standards: 16 specialists tell us what they expect to see in 2020. Over the past year, we’ve seen a number of initiatives that aim to accelerate the use of digital tools and services for healthcare announced in Europe and the Middle East. Most recently, the Mayo Clinic revealed that it would be working with…

This  Playbook has been created to help you more easily implement digital health solutions in practice based on experiences and lessons learned from physicians, care team members, health care administrators and digital health thought leaders. The first use case we’ve built is around remote patient monitoring. Over the next three months, I’ll summarize each step…

Published by: US Food & Drug Administration Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have the potential to transform health care by deriving new and important insights from the vast amount of data generated during the delivery of health care every day. Medical device manufacturers are using these technologies to innovate their products to better assist…

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) based on deep learning (DL) has sparked tremendous global interest in recent years. DL has been widely adopted in image recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing, but is only beginning to impact on healthcare. In ophthalmology, DL has been applied to fundus photographs, optical coherence tomography and visual fields, achieving…

Published By: By PHARMA INTELLIGENCE AND EBD GROUP As the digital health sector continues to evolve and grow, so too have the levels of complexity in understanding and applying technologies that maximize the potential to transform every aspect of the pharmaceutical value chain. These new digital therapeutics, AI and machine learning tools, and other technological advances create…

Introduction Research in embodied artificial intelligence (AI) has increasing clinical relevance for therapeutic applications in mental health services, that is, in psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Innovations range from ‘virtual psychotherapists’ [1] to social robots in dementia care and autism disorder [2] and robots for sexual disorders [3]. Increasingly, artificially intelligent virtual and robotic agents are…

Abstract While health policy scholars wish to encourage the creation of technologies that bring more value to healthcare, they may not fully understand the mandate of venture capitalists and how they operate. This paper aims to clarify how venture capital operates and to illustrate its influence over the kinds of technologies that make their way…

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Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement. The 2019 report presents an annual update of 41 indicators across five key domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability;…

Foreword Who is this document for? Those who need to brief decision-makers about the issues to be considered when making small or large investments in digital health. These decision-makers may be senior government officials, but this document is also intended to be of use to those within the health system (e.g., health managers), or to…

Abstract Digital health solutions continue to grow in both number and capabilities. Despite these advances, the confidence of the various stakeholders — from patients and clinicians to payers, industry and regulators — in medicine remains quite low. As a result, there is a need for objective, transparent, and standards-based evaluation of digital health products that…

  Coincidentally I found a picture of my soccer team when I was about 12 years old. Apart from nostalgia, I wonder how I am the same, having changed both physically and personally over the years. My identity, my “self” is in the coordinates of time and space. The photo has its date and space…

According to a new study, eHealth adoption in primary healthcare in the EU has increased from 2013 to 2018, but there are large differences between the countries surveyed. Compared to 2013, the group of General Practitioners (GPs) who are enthusiastic about eHealth has doubled. Countries with the highest level of adoption (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Spain,…

Abstract Objective To document the range of web and smartphone apps used and recommended for stress, anxiety or depression by the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Design The study was conducted using Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and systematic website searches. Data sources Data were collected via FOI requests to NHS services between 13 February 2015 and…

POITIERS, FRANCE – France’s technology themed park Futuroscope was home to the first edition of “Pro Digital Health” Congress organised by Agir pour la Telemedicine and CREAI Nouvelle Aquitaine on 4-5th April, 2019. Dedicated to healthcare professionals, the event featured a 360-degree program of exchanges between practitioners, policy makers, industry and startups on how best to meet present and…

With digital disruption happening constantly it has never been more important for businesses to step up their innovation efforts and continuously push forward. We are currently in the middle of a new digital revolution with several technology trends fueling this transformation into this brave new digital world.

As a healthcare business, you probably know that keeping up with digital transformation in healthcare can feel overwhelming.   Deciding which emerging technologies are worth investing in and getting your team on board with change is often the hardest part. Plus, adapting to the digital era requires a shift towards a flexible and risk-taking mindset.…

The European Commission is working to provide its citizens access to safe and top quality digital services in health and care.   In line with the Commission’s Digital Single Market (DSM) strategyand after analysing the results of an Open Public Consultation, the European Commission published a Staff Working Document and a Communication on Digital Transformation of Health and Care in…

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his is a recording of the Cochrane Canada Webinar with Michelle Fiander, information specialist with the Cochrane Effective Practice & Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group, on locating and understanding quality health care information and scientific evidence to inform health care decisions. Where do consumers look for their health care questions? What sources provide reliable information? This session…

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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Each generation of human being is convinced that their time is one of the most difficult and complex. The difference in what is happening with our society today, says Joan Cornet Prat, Board Member and Director of the Digital Health Observatory, ECHAlliance and Technical Engineer and Psychologist,  is that we face a new paradigm in the form…

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Digital changes everything or it soon will. Rod Hochman joins us to discuss the digital transformation of healthcare.  A wide-ranging discussion on priorities, investments, and competition. Listen here

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DeepMind Technologies Limited is a British artificial intelligence company founded in September 2010. Acquired by Google in 2014, the company has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a fashion similar to that of humans, as well as a Neural Turing machine, or a neural network that may be able…

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At ECHAlliance we are delighted to share with our Community the recent European Commission’s publication “Large-scale sustainable deployment of digitally-enabled innovation for health and care delivery to the ageing population” prepared by our expert team. This study analyses the nature and barriers to investments by EU regions and local authorities to support the deployment and…

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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…

You have the power to change your life with actionable insights from your own data. As Alan Turing famously said – “Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of that do the things that no one can imagine”. In this session I want to share a personal story of how I have…

Featuring João Gabriel Silva (Coimbra Hospital and University Centre), Arnaud Bernaert (World Economic Forum), Steven Hildemann (Merck), Carla Kriwet (Royal Philips), Thomas P. Laur (SAP SE), Elmar Nimmesgern (European Commission)

Background and Summary Smartphone usage has penetrated to over 80% of US households and with it comes a growing collection of wearables and embedded sensors. For example, passive location GPS tracking can be cross-referenced with external data sources such as Geographic Information System (GIS) data that can provide detailed and dynamic views of an individual’s…