The Digital Health Society (DHS) is a multi-stakeholder organization created in 2017 to advance digital health in Europe. It includes over 200 organizations from 35 countries representing various digital health sectors. The DHS aims to digitally connect and make 100 million European citizens healthier by 2027 through research and innovation, an enabling environment, citizen engagement, and digital infrastructure. It operates through task forces, projects, and as a platform to develop strategies and share best practices.

1. The Digital Health Society
Join the movement!
www.thedigitalhealthsociety.com
Julien Venne – ICT 2018 - Vienna

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What is the DHS?
§ Created during the 2017 Estonian EU Presidency
§ Multi-stakeholders approach
§ 200+ organisations participated
§ Patients, citizens, consumers representatives
§ Policy-makers: member states national ministries, regions, cities
§ Healthcare providers and professionals
§ Universities and research centres
§ Insurers (public and private) and their EU platforms
§ Companies (large and SMEs/start-ups)
§ Standards organisations
§ EU networks related to health, wellbeing and technology
Julien Venne – ICT 2018 - Vienna

3. Communication tools
Visual identity
& Logo
Website
www.thedigitalhealthsociety.com
Dissemination activities
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Make DHS operational
Non-profit legal entity based in Dublin (IE)
Board of Directors
§ Angela BRAND, University of Maastricht
§ Priit TOHVER, Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia
§ Bleddyn REES, Osbourne Clarke
§ Brian O’CONNOR, ECHAlliance
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-digital-health-society/
https://twitter.com/TheDHSociety

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Linking with other initiatives
§ European eHealth Network
§ Representatives of the 28 Ministries of health and social affairs
working on eHealth policies and strategies
§ Joint Action “eHealth Action”
§ “Future of Health” action
§ Multi- pan- European organisations initiative
§ Leading the WG on “eHealth, Data and Digital”
§ EU Health Summit on 29th November 2018 in Brussels
§ Participation of MEPs, Commissioners

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How do we work?
Science &
Technology
§ Advanced sciences
§ Technology Readiness
Level (TRL1>9)
§ Relevance & use-cases
for health and wellbeing
§ Ethics
§ Legal framework
§ Norms & standards
§ Citizen
empowerment/engagement
§ Education & Training
§ Public policies
§ Infrastructure
§ Business cases & new
financing models
§ Monitoring & Evaluation
Health IT
ICT for
health &
wellbeing
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Health
Society
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Health IT
§ informatics applied to healthcare (EHR, PHR, medical
imaging, etc.)
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ICT for health & wellbeing
§ Progress in sciences & technologies (personalised
medicine, genomics, AI, mobile, blockchain, VR, etc.)
§ Definition of use-cases & new models of interventions
and treatments
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The Digital Health Society
§ Full integration of digital technologies in health systems
and the society (see
§ New societal & economic models for health and
wellbeing
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Integration

6. Ideate new
concepts,
ideas and
strategies
Prototype
Test & pilotImplement
Identify and
understand
the
challenges
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How do we work?
Innovation Factory
§ Research & innovation projects
portfolio
§ Pilots in the DHS network of
digital health ecosystems
§ Multi-levels (countries, regions,
cities)
Open
Multi-stakeholder
Movement & Platform
Digital Health thought leadership
§ Inputs from DHS community, sharing
knowledge, experiences, best practices,
success stories
§ Literature review
§ Defining strategies & roadmaps
§ Designing new models, innovative ideas
From ideas 2 concept 2 solutions
§ Define use-cases
§ User-centred Design
§ Funding strategy
A Coalition of the “Doers”
§ Real world full Integration
§ Business cases
§ Long-term financing models

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The DHS mission
100 million
Digitally Connected & Healthier citizens
by 2027

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The DHS mission
Enabling
Environment
Citizen
Engagement &
Empowerment
Research &
Innovation
Digital Health
Infrastructure
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The DHS mission
Personalised Health
§ Advanced technologies
(5G, AI, predictive analytics, HPC, Cloud computing, -omics,
cybersecurity, Blockchain, data science, IoT…)
§ Empowering citizens
(Self-management, actionable information from data…)
All Data-driven Innovation
(genome, clinical, behaviours, environment, etc.)
Research
&
Innovation
Chronic &
age-related
conditions
Risk Factors
Healthy
population
Acute care
Health literacy Prevention
Chronic diseases
management
AHA
solutions
Personalised medicine
Case management
Whole
spectrum
of health
conditions

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The DHS mission
Market access
and financing
models
Enabling
Environment
Legal
Framework
and Data
protection
Digital
Transformation
Interoperability &
standards
Health in all
policies
Data
Governance
Education &
training

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The DHS mission
Citizen
Engagement &
Empowerment
Monitor and
communicate
the progress
to the society
Civic
participation
& collective
intelligence
European
Data Donors
Campaigns
Digital
+
Health
literacy
Digital
Citizen &
Democracy

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The DHS mission
Digital Health
Infrastructure
Connecting
Europe
Facility
Create a Digital Health Fund
Enable and support the investments of Member states and regions in:
Citizen-led
infra-
structures
European
Patients
Registries
European
Dynamic
Patients
Consent
Platform
1. Internet backbone
2. Fixed Broadband
3. Mobile Communications
4. Network infrastructure ( wireless
and spectrum )
5. Data Centres
6. Cloud Computing
7. Platforms and EHR/PHR
8. Software Applications
9. User Devices
10. IOT
11. Education and training for
workforce and citizens
12. Population health platform

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The DHS Task Forces
§ Convergence roadmap on Interoperability standards
§ Led by Erik Gerritsen, Secretary General of the Ministry of Health of
Netherlands
§ Citizen-controlled Data Governance and Data Donors
§ Led by Angela Brand, Professor at the University of Maastricht
§ Legal Framework for the Free flow and the secondary
use of data
§ Led by Bleddyn Rees, Lawyer and digital health expert at Osbourne
Clarke
§ Digital Transformation and change management in
health and social care organisations
§ Led by Richard Corbridge, CDIO Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, and
Jane Carolan, National Director at Health Business Services (HSE) in
Ireland
See DHS Task Forces’ Action plans on www.thedigitalhealthsociety.com
4Task Forces
on key challenges

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Projects 140 partners
35 countries
www.digitwins.org
DIGITWINS

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Q&A
How to join?
Website: www.thedigitalhealthsociety.com
Email: dhs@echalliance.com
@TheDHSociety