During the eHealth Forum 2014 we have scheduled a series of interviews with significant stakeholders in the IT/eHealth domain at the event on May 12th – 14th 2014. Our aim is to investigate what has been happening in the digital health domain; what are the trends and opportunities for the IT sector; policies and regulations that can affect development of technologies, apps and programs.

eHealth Forum 2014

Tina Miteko chats with Helen Figge, VP of Clinical Integration for Alere ACS about the role that health IT plays in improving patient care and efficiency; data security and privacy; and how big data can impact the healthcare sector.

TTC #43. Bridging the Data and Care Gaps in Healthcare

In this insightful interview Brian O’Connor, Chairman of the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) about the role of digital health as a contributor to reforming healthcare; examples of innovative healthcare solutions; and what the future of digital health holds. Interviewed by TTC’s Tina Miteko.


TTC #41. Can Connected Health Reform Healthcare?

Tina Miteko interviews Paul Timmers, Director of of the Sustainable and Secure Society Directorate in DG Connect, European Commission conversing about the role that the European Commission plays to facilitate information exchange among European countries; the European priorities in eHealth; policy issues on mHealth; steps that are being taken to ensure data security and privacy; the transatlantic collaboration and MoU between EU and US; and his take on how the healthcare industry is going to look like within the next decade.

TTC #39. EU Policy on eHealth & mHealth

Tina Miteko chats with Alexander Berler, Chair of HL7 Hellas and Director at Gnomon Informatics about the interoperability challenges that exist today in healthcare; innovative initiatives such as the Greek ePrescription system; and how European-wide pilot projects such as epSOS are helping to reach cross-border interoperability between health record systems in Europe.

TTC #40. Healthcare Standards & Interoperability Beyond Borders

Tina Miteko talks with John Crawford, IBM’s Healthcare Industry Leader Europe, about major problems and inefficiencies within healthcare, the types of problems big data can help solve, IBM’s Watson technology and its impact on healthcare.

TTC #42. Moving Toward Smarter Healthcare

Tina Miteko discusses with Benoit Abeloos, Research Program Officer, eHealth for the European Commission about the progress in eHealth that has been made so far in Europe; the obstacles that need to be surpassed; EU data protection policies; and initiatives which foster entrepreneurship and job growth.

TTC #46. Europe’s eHealth Action Plan

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