In 2019, EHTEL’s annual event went local, stepping outside the "Brussels bubble" to take place for the first time in beautiful Barcelona.
The event hosted some 120 participants who gathered together contributing to the latest explorations of what’s coming up digitally in European health and care.
It raised key questions such as how can people and patients benefit from a fair health and care data economy.
It produced amazing insights into health data gathering, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and put in the spotlight impressive innovations occurring in several European countries.
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👨‍🏫 Find all the presentations of the Symposium sessions as downloadable resources at the bottom of this page.
Page overview
đź‘Ś What happened during EHTEL 2019 Symposium?
🔎 About the Symposium
đź“š The Programme
🗣️ Speakers
⏮️ Before the Symposium: Satellite Session and Webinar
🎫 After the Symposium: resources
What happened during EHTEL 2019 Symposium?
- European and international thought leaders discussed the latest developments that will enhance and improve European’s health and care through good, fair, and sustainable uses of data.
- We learned about great achievements in the combined fields of health and care.
- We explore how Artificial Intelligence could represent the next frontier in the health and care.
- We had a look at the future from a multi-stakeholder perspective getting together with a mix of people working on digital in health and care.
- We met a large number of colleagues from health and care associations, health providers, patient groups, payers and insurers, technology firms, academic and research backgrounds, and civic society.
- We visited one of Europe’s most interesting locations for digital health and care in action, Barcelona
- We heard from many local Catalonian leading experts about their achievements, experiences, and challenges.
- We lived all these experiences in a national and European context.
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About the Symposium
🗺️The Symposium consisted of:
- An I2m Satellite Session (2 December)
- A Networking Buffet (2 December)
- Plenary session (3-4 December)
- An EHTEL 20th Anniversary & Symposium Gala Dinner (3 December)
đź“ŤWhere and when:
The Symposium took place in Barcelona, on 3-4 December 2019.
The Symposium took place in Barcelona, on 3-4 December 2019.
The venue of the main event was CaixaForum with the exception of the I2M Satellite Session that took place at the Barcelona Health Hub Headquarters on 2 December 2019 (14:00-17:30).
The EHTEL 20th Anniversary & Symposium Gala Dinner took place at the restaurant El Xalet de MontjuĂŻc in Barcelona, at 20:00 h.
The Networking Buffet took place at the Selene restaurant in Barcelona, in the Gothic area, at 20:00h
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đź“–Themes and topics
Explore together exciting and challenging digital health and care futures based around:
Explore together exciting and challenging digital health and care futures based around:
- Artificial intelligence (AI): the next frontier.
- AI-friendly environments.
- Big data, machine learning, natural language processing.
- Data donation/data sharing in health and care.
- Fair data economy.
- Meaningfulness and smartness in data-sharing and in electronic health records.
- Social robots and AI.
👉The 2019 EHTEL Symposium in a nutshell:
- Took place over two days.
- Focused on imagining ten years ahead in health and care - 2029.
- Had at its core the three priorities of digital transformation in health and care: Citizens’ secure access; Better data; Citizens’ empowerment.
- Celebrated 20 years of thought leadership on digital health in Europe.
- Had around 120 attendees, many with digital expertise, from everywhere in Europe and from every stakeholder group involved in digital transformation
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The programme – an overview
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Before the Symposium
1. I2M The Satellite Session
A Satellite Session took place on the day before the Symposium on 2 December 2019, 14:00 – 17:30 CET. It was a participatory half-day workshop organised by Innovation to Market (I2M) – with Ticbiomed, EHTEL, and the support of Tic Salut Social.
The I2M Satellite Session took place in the Barcelona Health Hub Headquarters.
2. The Webinar
Following the Webinar event “Make data work for people’s health!” which took place on 16 September 2019, Sitra and EHTEL wanted to engage once again in dialogue with their guests.
The follow-up webinar took place on the 28 October 2018, adding a new element to the discussion: A Data Ecosystem Rulebook.
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