9.20

Introduction & welcome

Julien Venne, Board Director of the ECHAlliance and the Digital Health Society, Researcher at United Nations University

9.40

Novartis BIOME: from the EGOsystem to the ECOsystem

Open Innovation and technologies to design healthcare solutions. Jose Marcilla and Dr. Izarzugaza will discuss about what the digital era represents for the pharma industry and the healthcare system. They will exemplify how we can co-create, design and launch innovative solutions for patients and healthcare professionals with enablers like BIOME, the Digital Innovation Hub by Novartis.

Jose Marcilla, Chief Executive Officer of Novartis Oncology
Dr. Yann Izarzuzaga Perón, Oncologist at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation University HospitaL

10.00

 Covid-19 impact on Dispersion of Healthcare to the Home

Amit Shafrir, Vice President and General Manager, Cardiology at Itamar Medical 

10.25

Pandemic: a year of digital health innovations

Talk #1: Deep Learning models for COVID-19 diagnosis in a post-pandemic era

Joan Gibert Fernandez, Bioinformatics Scientist at Hospital del Mar- Parc de Salut MAR

Talk #2: Will Covid-19 certificates survive beyond the pandemic?

Ain Aaviksoo, VP Healthcare at Guardtime

Talk #3: Citizen-led data cooperative for COVID19: the CO3 project

Andrea Barbiero, Co‑op secretary & Co-founder at SalusCoop

10.55

Panel discussion

With previous speakers around the perspective for digital health and the consequences of the progresses due to the pandemic

11.15

Break – Networking

11.45

The French Health Data Hub & the European Health Data Space

Our societies are becoming more and more digital. Data is now the basic assets required to provide more personalised, predictive, preventive and participatory healthcare and medicine. We also have seen recently the critical role of data in the management of a pandemic. But we observe a lack of fluidity for data sharing and data exploitation due to multiple challenges such as cooperation between stakeholders and data silos, interoperability and locked-in phenomenon, clear governance models. etc.. Between the needs for data availability to develop innovations and better services and the needs for new regulations to ensure ethics and citizens’ privacy protection and control over their personal data, this session will explore the way chosen by Europe to enable cross-border exchanges to unleash the power of data for care, policy-making and research.

12.05

Moving towards an open platform paradigm: the digital health strategy for Catalonia

Currently, in Catalonia there are a multiplicity of health information systems that share the function of monitoring patients through electronic medical records. This scenario has highlighted the existence of different models of clinical information, difficulties in achieving an agile and systemic deployment of innovations and an old-fashioned and unergonomic technology park.
However, in terms of digital health, locating the people in the care center demands that information systems having an architecture and a repository based on a careful and standardized clinical language. This element is key to contributing to a satisfactory experience of health professionals and citizens in all their interactions with the digital services of the health system, facilitating updates and innovations in the electronic health records.

This session will present the new digital health strategy of Catalonia, which is about to launch an investment of 40 million euros to develop a new model of information systems and Electronic Health Record based on the international and open standard openEHR.

Jordi Piera Jiménez, Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office at Catalan Health Service
Pol Perez Sust, Director of Information systems at Catalan Health Services (CatSalut)
Josep Vidal Alaball, Head of the Central Catalonia Primary Care Innovation and Research Unit at Institut Català de la Salut
Màrius Albert Gómez, Head of Public Sector at T-Systems Iberia
Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, CEO at Open Evidence

Emilio J. Cortegoso Lobato, Patient

13:05 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14.00

Digital & Brain

The digital transformation of healthcare is having major impact on all domains. The fields of neurosciences and neurology are by no means a stranger to the digital revolution. Whether we are talking about neurodegenerative diseases or mental health conditions, one of the most complex organ we have, our brain, can benefit from digital technologies to improve our health and our quality of life. On the mental health side, multiple recent publications showed a clear increase in psychologic and psychiatric care consumption, and experts predict the “mental health wave” after the pandemic. Would digital play a role in this new challenge? This session will be the opportunity to present innovations and use-cases as well as discussing the upcoming development.

Ana Maiques, CEO at Neuroelectrics
Francesc Xavier Arrufat, Psychiatrist and Director, Hospital Universitari Institut Pere Mata

14.45

AI in health: use-cases & trustworthiness

AI is another example of technology bringing clear disruptions in all sectors. In the healthcare domain, AI is already offering promising gains through various use-cases such as in personalised medicine, medical imaging, optimisation of care processes within hospitals and care centres, public health studies and interventions, etc. Nevertheless, the deployment of AI in routine care requires its compliance with regulatory frameworks and ethical principles, as well as garantees of robustness and performance. Following the European initiative around the “Trustworthy AI” framework and self-assessment, number of companies are nowadays adopting ethical approaches for their AI developments. This session will give an overview of the practical applications of AI in health, as well as of the models that can be used in order to build trustable and reliable AI systems.

Jorge Juan Fernández García, Director of Innovation at EIT Health (Munich)
Rachel Dunscombe, CEO, NHS Digital Academy & Principal, Tektology (UK)

15.30

Break – Networking

16.00

DKV Digital Health InnoLab

Elena Torrente, Digital health development Deputy Director at DKV Servicios (Spain)

16.20

Opportunities for Innovators

Ferrer4Future: Challenges in Neurological Disorders
Gemma Estrada Bertran, Director Digital Health and Technology at Ferrer

Barcelona Health Hub: Strengthening the health ecosystem through relationship and technology
Aline Noizet, Chief International Officer, Barcelona Health Hub

Panel discussion

16.45

Start-ups pitches & shark tank

Experts

Elena Torrente, Digital health development Deputy Director at DKV Servicios
Aline Noizet, Chief International Officer, Barcelona Health Hub
Irene Sanchez, EIT Health Business Creation Manager
Gemma Estrada Bertran, Director Digital Health and Technology at Ferrer
Clara Cuervo, Digital Transformation and BIOME Manager

17.20

Conclusions & closing

Julien Venne, Board Director of the ECHAlliance and the Digital Health Society, Researcher at United Nations University

17.30

Data-drive digital health ecosystem: the OpenEHR model

Nowadays, information systems for patient data collection and clinical information share the need for an architecture and repository based on accurate and standardized clinical language. This element is key for a satisfying experience of users – professionals and citizens – in all their interactions with the health system tools, facilitating updates and innovations of any health provider Electronic Health Record (EHR) related application and centralizing patient’s personal health data.
OpenEHR is the international open source standard for the specific design of clinical information models in electronic medical records. Using its own language (archetype definition language), this reference model makes it possible to develop archetypes enabling to collect and manage clinical data throughout the life cycle of the information system.
This workshop will be focused on the strategic decision of Catalonia to build a new EHR based on openEHR, which means that, Catalonia will become the most populated European region choosing open platforms as a solution for the future of its model of health information systems.

Rachel Dunscombe, CEO, NHS Digital Academy & Principal, Tektology (UK)

Invitation only workshop. Please contact beatriz@echalliance.com if you would like to attend