How to ensure digital health brings real-life benefits for patients?

Digitalisation in healthcare has the potential to transform patient-centred care. This session on digital health has two main objectives. On the one hand, we will explore the different ways in which “digital” can improve the care of patients - at a systemic as well as an individual level – as well as considering how this can be scaled up. At the same time, we will examine how patient involvement can be embedded in digital health as a driver for change, with the intention of harnessing digital technologies for the benefit of patients and society.

Our premise is that all developments should start from the needs of healthcare users and be co-created with users. This would ensure that technology actually facilitates participatory, person-centred healthcare and leads to better outcomes for patients and better value for society.

This very lively session will include interactive polls to get a better understanding of audience’s perspectives, short presentations to kick-start a discussion with all participants, and an exciting youthful surprise. The goal of the session will be to provide ideas and input for the participants to develop guidelines on how patient involvement can be advanced.

Session moderator: Diane Whitehouse, Principal eHealth Policy Analyst, European Health Telematics Association

Panellists:

• Ana Cariazo, Senior Advisor, Junta de Andalucía
• Brian West, Member, EATG
• Dipak Kalra, President, European Institute for Innovation through Health Data, i~HD
• Jo Van der Auwera, Co-Founder of FibriCheck, EIT health