Health Tech Industry roundtable meeting discussed EU Digital Health Agenda

On 15 October, a high-level roundtable meeting took place in Brussels, bringing together public and private representatives of the European Health Tech Industry.

The invitees exchanged views on the vision for the future and the digital transformation of health and care, outlined in the Commission’s strategy "Enabling the Digital Transformation of Health and Care the Digital Single Market", to which they can contribute.

In particular, the participants coming from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology as well as other organisations related to the health sector, addressed the challenges and opportunities of interoperability. In this regard, they shared their views on the Commission's plans for its forthcoming Recommendation to set out a Format for an Electronic Health Record Exchange accessible to all Europeans.

Interestingly, participants also discussed key technologies like artificial intelligence and high performance computing and their potential to help designing new healthcare products, provide faster diagnosis and better treatments.

Key points

  • Need for digitalsolution – Participants agreed that market fragmentation, the lack of interoperability across health systems and the slow and unharmonized uptake of digital solutions across Member States and regions hampers the digital transformation of health in the EU.
  • Commitment for cooperation – Business and organisations committed themselves to work further together to make sure that Europe does not lag behind on connectivity, digital infrastructures, research and ultimately, digital health and care to the benefit of citizens.
  • Commission’s coordination role – In order to continue to work with all the stakeholders on diverse issues, including supercomputing and artificial Intelligence, to achieve the digital transformation of health and care systems.


Date: 05/11/2018 | Tag: | News: 854 of 1633
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