Tech Talks Central interviewed and broadcasted live from the eHealth Forum 2014 at Megaron Conference Centre in Athens, GREECE, during the 12th – 14th of May, 2014. The eHealth Forum 2014 brought together a High-Level eHealth Experts’ Conference on European Priorities, the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA) – incorporating events and an exhibition, a meeting of the eHealth Network, the 4th EU-US eHealth Marketplace & Cooperation Assembly, and much more. The Forum demonstrated how eHealth can further develop existing partnerships to enhance and safeguard access to care and quality of life. It showcased how ICT and innovation on a large scale in health and care systems can contribute to sustainability, economic growth and job opportunities during challenging times.
We talk with Health Team leader for the Greek ICT company Singular Logic, Petros Papachristou, about the three big contemporary issues (digital – filmless – cloud) in the Health sector and the export of Greek know-how in neighbouring countries. We also take a look on the “burning” . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
An experienced Strategic Technology Manager in eHealth issues, Bridget Moorman, talks about protocols and standards; safety in home health monitoring; privacy and security; interface problems and the many challenges we face today or will soon face in these fields in our everyday lives. . . .
Angelina Kouroubali talks about FORTH’s Computer Science and Health research centre outcomes, ‘From Research to Αffective Ιmpact on Ηealth’ sharing 30 years of experience on eHealth, big data and creating actual products for the Greek market. Professor Karantanas takes us on a quick . . .
Yiannis Soldatos, Advisor in Business Development of the BIONIAN cluster and professor at Athens Information Technology, gave us an overview of the purpose, activities and vision of the new Health Sciences Cluster. Beyond the all-round support to businesses, universities, hospitals, research . . .
We talked with Karina Marcus, Director at Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme, about the ageing population of continents with developed economies like US & Europe and the market gap for services and products for the 60+ age group. We then discussed about AAL, an EC co-funded . . .
Professor Nora Kearney dives into a 10 year journey into the eSmart project mostly designed for cancer patient monitoring and relief. She analyzes the technical side; the risk algorithms and the triggers that alert health professionals, real time. A purely patient driven project, that . . .
Dr Robert A. Stegwee, a Principal Consultant for IT in Healthcare with Capgemini Consulting, explains what we mean by digital Personal Health Record (PHR) and how it extends far beyond hospitals and traditional healthcare services. We also talk about the current status of PHR implementations, . . .
Charles Parisot is in charge of standardization and IT architecture coordinating overall GE Healthcare products. In this interview Charles talks about interoperability in eHealth. Charles gives some insights on why system interoperability, both at commercial and country level, actual does . . .
Tina Miteko interviews Marc Lange, Secretary General of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) about the purpose that EHTEL serves; key activities and European projects that the association is supporting such as United4Health; and his thoughts on how to make the healthcare system . . .
Panos Stafylas, MD, Medical Coordinator of European Projects on combining his cardiology background with technology to drive change both in Greece and across Europe. He shares some of the results of a project in Municipality of Trikala in Greece which helped reduce hospitalization rates by . . .