There was a feeling of hope, combined with awareness about further challenges, as global health experts today at HIMSS22 European Conference in Helsinki (June 15) at the main session at the main session ‘ Was called to discuss the topic of ‘. ,
The speaker was: Adam Nidzilsky, Health Minister, Poland; Elad Benjamin, Business Leader, Clinical Data Services, Philips, Israel; Maria Hassel, Senior Advisor and International Coordinator, Swedish Ehland Agency; Laura Leturno, the co-head of the Digital Health Ministerial delegation, the Ministry of French solidarity and the Health; Aki Linden, Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services, Finland; Simon Bolton, Chief Executive, NHS Digital, UK; Isabel Kumar, former Euronuse Anchor, Disability Rights Preacher, President of Autism, ambition, Ave Anti, France; Dr. Ilona Lundstrom, Director General, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Finland; Hell Wolf, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Hims, US; Marco Forchia, Chief Information Officer (Cio) Aziennd USL Di Reggio Emilia, Italy
“Fundamentally now is the opportunity for Europe to accelerate digital changes,” said the Chairman and CEO of HimSS, Hal Wolf opening the session. “Innovation, creativity and what we do is an opportunity to re -imagine, originally born out of Kovid -19 crisis.”
Recover
Director General of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Dr. Ilona Lundstrom said it was “time for cooperation” as he welcomed the representatives at the conference on behalf of the Finnish government.
“The pace of change has been very fast in the last few years,” Lundstrom said. “A large number of disruptive innovations and technologies have accelerated change and inspired us to learn new skills.”
He said that the health system is undergoing major reforms with the funding of the next generation European Union and the national health system “is taking huge jump on digital health trip, which is very welcome and is very important.”
Importance of cooperation
However, Aki Linden, Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services, Finland admitted that “there is still a long way to go to healthcare to go to the global digital revolution”.
He pointed to war in Ukraine, food and energy crisis, climate change and aging population, as some of the health care systems in Europe are facing challenges.
Linden underlined some successful digital health initiatives in Finland, including Findata – ‘A stop shop for data’ and Fingenius The ecosystem for biomedical research and development, which was launched yesterday (14 June).
Digital inclusion
“Digitalization should support everyone’s health and goodness. This should address health inequalities- not their reason, ”Linden said.
This point was taken by Simon Bolton, Chief Executive, NHS Digital, who emphasized the importance of highlighting health inequalities.
“One thing that I am proud of my organization is that we have spent a lot of time to do data analytics, where we have found health inequalities,” Bolton said. “For example, if I turned black instead of being white in the UK, I was five times more likely to die from Kovid.”
Health data often contains underlying bias that can affect the accuracy of the algorithm, said Allad Benjamin, Business Leader, Clinical Data Services, Philips, Israel.
Benjamin said, “The quality of the result and the decision support provided by us is as good as the quality of the data comes.” “Onus has to be very transparent on what the data was used and what accuracy is and a very solid to collect different types of data from different groups to try and reduce as much as possible To try. “
According to Bolton, it is important to have diversity in technical teams to resolve the issue of bias.
Bolton argued, “One of the things we need to be right in our industry is the variety of employees.” “If we are going to correct the algorithm, then we have to represent the society that we serve and today we do not.”
Receive public trust
Another hot theme for panelists was the issue of obtaining public trust in data sharing.
Bolton said, “A large part of digital maturity is how we use data for the provision of care, but also that it can give it to improve health income and we use that data till then Can not take the public with us. “
He was involved in the inauguration of England’s controversial GP data for planning and research planWhich was postponed indefinitely after the election of millions of people due to the possibility of privacy.
Bolton said, “We did some research and 90% of the people said that if they knew that their data was going to save life, they would be ready to share it,” Bolton said. “We need to take the public with us and find ways to explain the real value, insights and differences, which can use our data to improve health distribution to people’s lives.”
Citizens involve
The current rotation of the European Council is for the presidency of the European Council and doubles its efforts in the context of health digitization. Speaking on a live link, Laura Leturno, co-head of Digital Health Ministerial delegation, French solidarity and Health Ministry underlined Four columns of digital health And to deal with top priorities at the European Union level.
“The most important priority is to include citizens in Digital Health Governance. This is an important objective in terms of reliability and validity European health data location,” He said.
Refugee crisis
The session was closed with a message from Polish Health Minister Adam Niadzilsky, how Digitalization has supported Poland in providing free healthcare to four million Ukrainian refugees who have crossed its boundaries.
He explained how simplified procedures have allowed Ukrainian citizens to receive individual ID numbers, which enables them to reach online services like e-purses, e-referral and The European Union Digital Covid Certificate,
This was a suitable example of how digitization is being used for health equality and inclusion in this challenging time in history.
