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St. Julian's, Malta Start date: May 10th, 2017

eHealth Week 2017: Data for Health

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Health data as key to personalised and sustainable care: that is the leading theme of the upcoming annual eHealth week (Malta, 10-12 May 2017), organised by the European Commission, the European WHO and HIMSS Europe.

During the event, renowned as the biggest eHealth conference in Europe, attention will be paid on the recent ICT-driven evolutions of personal health data creation, storage, exchange and use, on how advancements in bioinformatics are leading a momentous shift towards tailored prevention and treatment strategies, and ICT are supporting the pioneering creation of patient-centred health services and a growing involvement of patients in their own care, including access to personal health data, sharing of data, and mHealth applications.

In this context, the MHMD coordinator partner Lynkeus will attend the conference to present  the project within the Italian Community Session: Patient Data and the GDPR – How should I manage the Data? (11 May, 15:30 – 16:30), dealing with how the Italian community will address the incoming issues of defining clear guidelines and reference practices at national and regional level on managing health data in compliance with the new wide-ranging EU privacy regulation – the GDPR – coming into force next year.

The conference program will also include other sessions relevant to the project goals:

  • 10 May 10 (11:00 – 12:00), eHealth and Data Protection session will be dedicated to the expected impact of the adoption of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the healthcare domain;
  • 10 May 10 (16:00 – 17:00), Healthcare: “New Kids on the Blockchain” will deal with how and why blockchain tecnhology is becoming more and more prominent in the healthcare industry, offering a means to interoperate as well as by providing data security benefits by decentralising data;
  • 10 May (16:00 – 17:00), Knowing me, knowing you: Patients’ and Clinicians’ Access to and Sharing of Health Data will explore examples on the developments of national solutions (The Netherlands, Estonia) to provide citizens access to their health data, where patients can see and control the use of all their medical files exchanged by hospitals and primary care centres.

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