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📢 Today on #WorldHealthDay, Transform Health and partners are kicking-off the public consultation period on a draft Model Law on #HealthDataGovernance. Today also marks two years since the launch of the equity and rights-based #HealthDataGovernancePrinciples - which have informed the #ModelHDGLaw. To inform the model draft, we convened multi-stakeholder consultations, consulting more than 500 stakeholders from across 65 countries, and conducted regulatory landscape reviews across 26 countries. Following the consultation period, the draft model law will be updated to reflect the feedback received, and will then be presented during a hashtag #WHA77 side event! Read the Model Law and share your feedback: https://lnkd.in/grK4DE-k #HealthDataGovernance #ModelHDGLaw Central American Health Informatics Network ENDA Santé AeHIN The Pan African Health Informatics Association - HELINA Young Experts: Tech for Health UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health World Health Organization G20 Brasil 2024 Africa CDC OECD - OCDE UHC2030 - Taking action for universal health coverage Health Data Collaborative PATH Digital Square at PATH Fondation Botnar

Today Anca Toma, EPF Executive Director, attended the ‘High-Level Conference on the Future EU Health Union’, organised by the Belgian Presidency of the EU. During her intervention, she outlined the importance of strengthening the European health workforce by highlighting two key reasons: 📌 Having a motivated, well-trained, and adequately supported workforce is essential for ensuring patients' access to care, enhancing patient safety, and ultimately fostering improved health outcomes. 📌 Secondly, she remarked on the pivotal role that health professionals play on the front lines in addressing future health crises. What strategies should we adopt to support health professionals in Europe? According to Anca, two approaches could be crucial: 📌 At the professional level, advocating for investment in the acquisition of skills necessary to effectively leverage emerging technologies. 📌 At the general public level, advocating for investment in health literacy initiatives to empower patients to take an active role in their care and lead them towards better treatment adherence and health outcomes. #PatientPerspective

Following the launch of the Dutch and Swiss #PHSSR country reports, research leads Marco Varkevisser of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management and Matthias Maurer of the ZHAW School of Management and Law worked together on a comparison study between the two health systems. Last week, their findings were presented during a workshop at the Dutch Ministry of Health. Representatives from Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Netherlands, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management and PHSSR member organisations discussed the following recommendations: 💬 Transparency and trust of the public are essential to promote effective, appropriate care and give payers the power to make reimbursement decisions reflecting this.    ⚖️ Cost containment measures are important for the sustainability of health systems, but don’t always reflect the right balance between health care costs and its benefits (medical, economic or social).    🏛️ Health systems should move towards quality and outcome-based agreements, but can only do so if there is top-down supervision from a powerful agency and national data governance supports this transition.       Publication of the comparison study between both health systems is expected in the new year! Stay tuned. #Sustainability #Resilience #Health #Partnerships

Are you a researcher working with the Health Information Act? Alberta Innovates seeks feedback from its stakeholders about the Health Information Act through an online survey (see below). The deadline for feedback is 11:59 pm (MST) on July 14, 2024. The survey has 4 open-ended questions: 1. Describe the issue(s) and/or challenge(s) you have encountered in health research and innovation as it relates to the current Health Information Act. 2. Provide information on the impact of these issue(s)/challenge(s) on health research and innovation in Alberta. Please describe the importance of resolving these issue(s)/challenge(s) 3. If needed, please provide additional context or examples of situations where the current Health Information Act posed barriers or challenges for you in the health research and innovation space. 4. Provide recommendations, general or specific to clauses, on how the Health Information Act can be updated to enable effective health research and innovation while maintaining the protection of individual privacy. Feeback is optional and anonymous, but we would greatly appreciate your comments and concerns as we work to enable high quality health research in Alberta. If you would like to discuss further, there is an option to provide your name and email for follow-up.   The deadline for feedback is 11:59 pm (MST) on July 14, 2024. Please complete the survey via https://lnkd.in/g4N3yK37

🤝 This week, healthcare policymakers from the Netherlands gathered with #PHSSR member organisation representatives in The Hague to discuss ways to strengthen the local health system.     The meeting, held at Nieuwspoort, was an important opportunity to discuss the latest research findings from PHSSR and the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) on strengths and weaknesses of the Dutch health system, as well as the policy intentions of the new cabinet and recommendations to tackle the pressing issues it faces, with specific focus on:    🏦 The financial stability of the Dutch health system and mechanisms to sustainably finance care and cure 👩⚕️ Growing workforce shortages    These challenges – and the potential ramifications if they are not acted on – underline the critical need for a robust and adaptable health system. It was, therefore, encouraging to see so many decision-makers engaged in discussion and committing to take action together.      Thank you to PHSSR research lead for the Netherlands Marco Varkevisser, as well as all participants and all those involved in organising the meeting.     #Sustainability #Resilience #Health #Partnerships

European Health Data Space can help create Ireland's fit-for-purpose health system Experts gathered at the EIT Health Summit for the launch of a new report 'Implementing the European Health Data Space across Europe', which could boost Ireland's digital healthcare transition. Elaine Murray, Public Affairs Lead at EIT Health Ireland-UK told Euractiv: "This report is timely as health information policies are undergoing rapid change to develop a fit-for-purpose health system in Ireland. The Health Information Bill, put forward by Ireland's Department of Health in April 2023, provides for the creation of both summary care and shared care records." Implementing the EHDS. EIT Health, part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, a body of the European Union, launched the new Think Tank report to provide insights based on a series of 11 national roundtable discussions held throughout 2023, involving European leaders from public health, healthcare, and health data economics. https://lnkd.in/eQMN6th2 #PublicHealth #Europe #StayInformed #StayEmpowered

On #WorldHealthDay, Transform Health and partners will launch a public consultation period (7th April - 30th April) on a draft model law on #healthdatagovernance! During the consultation period, we will gather stakeholder and expert feedback to strengthen and validate the draft, while building consensus, alignment and broad support. #StayTuned for more information! #HealthDataGovernance #ModelHDGLaw Central American Health Informatics Network ZIMAM ENDA Santé AeHIN The Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA) Young Experts: Tech for Health UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health World Health Organization G20 Brasil 2024 Africa CDC OECD - OCDE UHC2030 - Taking action for universal health coverage Health Data Collaborative

In January 2024, amidst the evolving landscape of the country’s health information system (HIS) and dynamic changes in digital health technologies, the second phase of the project, DUP 2.0, began. Building on the first phase’s accomplishments, DUP 2.0 is organized into four independent yet interrelated workstreams that are intended to actualize localization strategies, ensuring equitable support across all levels of the health system and optimizing diverse perspectives from various organizations and sectors. https://lnkd.in/eF9RMuNU

Hot off the press! 🗞️   We are happy to announce that ASSESS DHT consortium members Rebecca Mathias, Peter McCulloch, Anastasia Chalkidou and Stephen Gilbert published a new article in npj Digital Health titled "Digital health technologies need regulation and reimbursement that enable flexible interactions and groupings". This article is part of a two-part series.   The article explores the growing trend of grouping Digital Health Technologies (#DHTs) into suites designed for specific clinical tasks in defined settings.   Do you want to learn more about ▶ The potential of these grouped devices to enhance the quality and efficiency of care, and the challenges in their implementation? ▶ The limitations in current frameworks for regulating, assessing health technology, and reimbursing these device suites? ...then check out the full article: https://lnkd.in/ech-f7Hp.   Stay informed and join the conversation on the future of digital health! 🩺💡 #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #Regulation ASSESS DHT receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme under Grant Agreement Number 101137347. UK participants in Horizon Europe Project ASSESS DHT are supported by UKRI grant numbers 10106825 (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and 10108522 (University of Oxford).

Excellent analysis of the current Health Funds market landscape