Detailed programme
| MONDAY 5 MAY | |
| 9:00 - 19:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 20:00 | WELCOME DINNER |
| TUESDAY 6 MAY | |
| 8:00 - 19:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1. parallel - S1.1 eHealth without frontiers - Users view (Patients, Health professionals, hospitals etc.) Chair: Helène Richardsson, ICT-Strategist, Chair of eHealth User stakeholder group, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions "Concrete and tangible benefits of eHealth for users", Helène Richardsson, ICT-Strategist, Chair of eHealth User stakeholder group, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions "Citizens’ eHealth in Finland", Ilkka Winblad, Medical counsellor, FinnTelemedicum/University of Oulu, Finland "For patient safety, to ensure continuity of care", Kathryn Moelstad, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Nurses Organisation "Implementation of teleradiology and telemedicine in Slovenia", Branko Cvetičanin |
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2. parallel - S1.2 eHealth without frontiers - From Promises to Sustainability - industry's view
Chair: Mike Palmer, European Commission "Charting the evolving eHealth ecosystem", Martin D. Denz, President, European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) Panel discussion: Eric Maurincomme, COCIR, Chairman of the eHealth industry stakeholders group Charles Parisot, IHE IT Infrastructure Committee Chair, IHE Europe Petra Wilson, Continua Health Alliance |
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3. parallel - S1.3 eHealth without frontiers - The role of health authorities: national and international perspectives
Chair: Elettra Ronchi, Coordinator Health ICT Activities, OECD "Towards a Community framework for a safe, high-quality and efficient cross-border healthcare: the eHealth dimension", Willy Palm, Dissemination development Officer, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies "CALLIOPE: a structured open forum for eHealth without frontiers", Zoi Kolitsi, CALLIOPE Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Greece "eHealth and guidelines for purchase of treatment abroad - High-level working group on cross border healthcare", John Cachia, Director general (Health care services), Ministry for Social Policy, Malta "Achieving efficiency improvements in the health sector through the use of ICTs", Elettra Ronchi, Coordinator Health ICT Activities, OECD |
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4. parallel - S1.4 eHealth without frontiers - Legal barriers and ethical hurdles
Chair: Luba Hromkova, Legal Officer, European Commission "Medical surveillance and global security: why eHealth needs ethics and politics", Emilio Mordini, Director, Centre for science, society and citizenship, Rome "How to deal with legal aspects in the deployment of eHealth in Europe?", Jean Herveg, Maître de conferences, University of Namur, Law faculty, CRID "Registration of newborns in Slovenia", Duško Božič, Department consultant, Institute of public health of Republic of Slovenia |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
P1.1 OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE AND HIGH-LEVEL PANEL
Welcome: Slovenian Minister of Health Zofija Mazej Kukovič Opening: Commissioner Viviane Reding Panel with high-level representatives Chair: Milan Cabrnoch, Member of the European Parliament |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
P1.2 PLENARY SESSION - eHealth without frontiers
Chair: Gérard Comyn, Acting Director, European Commission Keynote: Commissioner Viviane Reding PANEL DISCUSSION Moderator: Gérard Comyn, Acting Director, European Commission "Cross-border eHealth services breaking new ground in European healthcare", Karin Johansson, State Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden "Improving the efficiency and quality of care through clinical data access", Eric Maurincomme, Chair, COCIR Healthcare IT Committee "eHealth without frontiers: family doctor's perspective", Igor Švab, President of Executive Committee, Wonca Europe "eHealth without frontiers – what does this mean for patients?", Nicola Bedlington, Director, European Patient's Forum |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | BREAK |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1. parallel - S1.5 Panel on eHealth interoperability Chair: Ragnar Bergström, Project officer, European Commission Introduction: "Recommendation of the Commission on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems", Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission "SOS - Large scale pilot project", Daniel Forslund, Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs "Interoperability in a complex hospital environment", Glenn Kenneth Bruun, Chief Innovation Officer, Forefront Innovation, Norway "Current interoperability approaches by the NHS Health IT programme", George MacGinnis, Assistive Technology Programme Manager, NHS Connecting for Health "European Commission mandate M/403 to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI on eHealth Interoperability", Pantelis Angelidis, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI expert |
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2. parallel - S1.6 Continuity of care
Chair: Christoph Steffen, Medical Officer, European Commission "Medicognos knowledge and software solutions for continuity of care", Paolo Ciccarese, Co-founder and Knowledge Architecture Consultant, Medicognos SA "Achievements and benefits of the Veneto Region health information network", Roberto Giampieretti, Arsenàl.IT, Veneto’s Research Centre for Innovation in eHealth, Italy "Integrated hospital information system for continuity of care: The HEGP case study", Thierry Dart, Manager of medical application team, European Hospital Georges Pompidou (HEGP), France |
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3. parallel - S1.7 Good practices in eHealth
Chair: Marjan Sušelj, Director, HIC System Sector, Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia "Use of ICT to support Pharmacist’s counseling of patients with cardiovascular conditions", Astrid Kågedal, International Coordinator, Apoteket AB, Sweden, Pharmaceutical group of EU (PGEU) "Improving prevention through ICT – diabetic retinopathy screening in Scotland", Kenneth Kyaw Swa, Lead Clinician – Medical Ophthalmologist Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme, NHS Lothian, Scotland "Code of conduct regarding information security in Norwegian healthcare sector", Tor Ottersen, Norwegian Directorate for Health "Telemedicine and virtual education network in South Eastern Europe: Lessons from the Balkans", Rifat Latifi, President, Mateja de Leonni Stanonik, Vice President, International Virtual e-Hospital |
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4. parallel - S1.8 Cross-border Health Services
Chair: Agneta Granström, County Council Commissionaire, County Council of Norrbotten, Sweden "Is eHealth ready to change the business model in healthcare?", Claus Duedal Pedersen, International Manager, MedCom, Denmark "Ethical issues in cross border health and medical information systems usage", Kai K. Kimppa, Lecturer, University of Turku, Finland "Resolving linguistic and cultural barriers to care", Hans Verrept, Head of the Intercultural Mediation Unit, DG1 Federal Public Service for Public Health, Belgium Joint presentation:"Experience and best practice in succesful cross-border cooperation between hospitals of 2 neighbouring countries, Slovenia and Italy", Jani Dernič, Izola General Hospital, Slovenia and "Health and ICT in European territorial cooperation programme (2007–2013) Slovenia/Italy", Roberto Panizzo, Regional Ministry for International Relations&European Union, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy "Ten4Health - Trans-European healthcare support network for Europe's mobile citizens", Karl Wulz, Business director, KABEG Landeskrankenhaus Villach, Austria |
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| 19:30 | RECEPTION AND DINNER |
| WEDNESDAY 7 MAY | |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
P2.1 PLENARY SESSION - Chronic disease management (CDM) Telemedicine
Chair: Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission "Personal health systems - the industry initiative and achievements", David Whitlinger, Continua Health Alliance "Developing a connected health economy in Northern Ireland", Andrew McCormick, Permanent secretary, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland "Home care and patient empowerment", Matjaž Fležar, University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik, Slovenia "From chronic disease contracting to patient records and public health data", Jacob Hofdijk, Special Adviser Chronic Disease Management, Ministry of Health, The Netherlands |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1. parallel - S2.1 Telemedicine: A new era of patient oriented services Chair: Stephan Schug, EHTEL "Empowerment by Telecare: from concept to reality?", Rolien de Jong, Innovation Manager, Meavita, The Netherlands "eHealth based chronic disease management: the eTrikala teleconsultation experience", Odisseas Raptis, CEO of eTrikala, Municipality of Trikala, Greece "Process support for integrated health care", Matic Meglič, Research fellow, University of Primorska, Slovenia "New challenges in telemedicine and teleradiology", Jarmo Reponen, Chief Radiologist / President of the Society, Raahe Hospital and Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth, Finland |
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2. parallel - S2.2 Investing in eHealth solutions: strategic decision making
Chair: Ragnar Bergström, Project officer, European Commission Case study: "Planning, investing and sustaining an eHealth/EHR infrastructure", Christian Lovis, Professor of clinical informatics, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland "eHealth as an object of investment, socio-economic impact and financial implications of HUG’s eHealth investment", Alexander Dobrev and Karl Stroetmann, empirica Communication & Technology Research, Germany |
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3. parallel - S2.3 Patient centredness and health professionals
Chair: Artur Furtado, Policy and project officer, European Commission "Patient centered chronic disease management", Orlaith O Reilly, Director of Public Health, Health Service Executive, Ireland "WHO/European eHealth consumer trends survey: empowering patients – challenging the health care system?", Tove Sorensen, Head, WHO collaborating centre for telemedicine and eHealth, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, Norway "General practitioner use of ICT and eHealth in Europe 2002-2007 - Results from a pan-European survey", Werner B. Korte, Director, empirica Communication & Technology Research, Germany "Empowerment by eHealth", Jacqueline Baardman, Team Manager, Federation of Patient and Consumer organisations in the Netherlands |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1. parallel - S2.4 Panel on Commission initiative on "Telemedicine and innovative ICT tools for Chronic Disease Management" Moderator: Tamsin Rose, Independent expert Introduction: Flora Giorgio, Scientific officer, European Commission Alain Coheur, Director European and International Affairs, Belgian National Union of Socialist Mutual Health Funds, Belgium Martin D. Denz, Director, European Health Telematics Association EHTEL, Brussels Peter M. Pattynama, Professor of radiology, Erasmus university Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Petra Wilson, Continua Health Alliance Rod Mitchell, Member of the Governing Board, International Alliance of Patients' Organizations (IAPO) |
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2. parallel - S2.5 Quality labelling and certification of eHealth applications
Chair: Leo Ciglenečki, Vice President, Eurorec "EuroRec: The Future of EHR certification in Europe", Georges De Moor, EuroRec President "Certification and conformance approaches for Canada’s EHR", Elaine Sawatsky, Senior Management Consultant, Privacy and Security, E. Sawatsky and Associates, Victoria, Canada "The EuroRec certification suite", Jos Devlies, EuroRec Director, Eurorec |
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3. parallel - S2.6 Patient safety good practice
Chair: Katja Neubauer, Principal Administrator, European Commission "eHealth and patient safety across frontiers", Susan Burnett, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality Imperial College, London, UK "Patients for patient safety: Patients as partners", Rachel Heath, Project Manager, Patients for Patient Safety, World Alliance for Patient Safety "Patient safety: A Priority for the European Commission",Lee McGill, Seconded national expert, European Commission "European emergency number association- EENA112", Enrico Davoli, WHO |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | BREAK |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
P2.2 PLENARY SESSION - Health Strategy - eHealth
Chair: Smiljana Vončina Slavec, Head of IT Department, Ministry of Health, Slovenia "Health strategy and eHealth", Isabel de la Mata, Principal Adviser for Public Health and Risk Assessment, European Commission "eHealth services in the context of the eCommerce Directive", Jean Bergevin, Head of unit, DG MARKT, European Commission Misha Kay, WHO "eHealth – the doctor’s view", Michael Wilks, President, Standing committee of European Doctors (CPME) "The Slovenian eHealth strategy - Creating foundations for efficiency", Tomaž Marčun, Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
P2.3 CLOSING PLENARY WITH CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS
Closing Keynote, Isabel de la Mata, Principal Adviser for Public Health and Risk Assessment, European Commission Conference conclusions, Zofija Mazej Kukovič, Minister of Health, Slovenia Czech Ministry of Health (announcement of eHealth 2009) (tbc) |
| 18:30 | RECEPTION |
