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By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 02:47 am | June 13, 2019
In an interactive workshop on day 2 of this year’s HIMSS & Health 2.0 Europe Conference in Helsinki, representatives of healthcare institutions, cybersecurity experts, and patient representatives discussed about possible ways to alleviate the threat.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 04:25 pm | June 12, 2019
Consent-and trust-based services is what Europe could contribute to the global platform economy.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 07:20 am | June 12, 2019
A quick look at the FinnGen project.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 05:31 am | June 12, 2019
Digitisation can alleviate the challenges healthcare is facing. But this won’t happen automatically. Citizens and patients have to take the lead – as data owners and co-creators.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 11:23 am | June 11, 2019
Digital tools are flourishing in healthcare, but only a minority succeed in really empowering the patient. Why? Because digital care and shared decision making only work as a team effort.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 05:39 am | May 24, 2019
EPRs of Central European healthcare systems are transforming towards IHE infrastructures and thus interoperability. Some are pretty advanced already. In others, progress is painstakingly slow.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 09:40 am | April 26, 2019
HIMSS Insights speaks to Mikel Hernaez, director of computational genomics at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.
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By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 04:08 am | March 01, 2019
Integrated care and interoperability is complex if it has to be managed by experts. It becomes pretty easy once you let the patient have a say, according to Philipp Grätzel von Grätz, editorial director of HIMSS Insights.
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 12:59 pm | February 12, 2019
After introducing the Accelerate-Redesign-Collaborate strategy two years ago, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel’s largest hospital, has become a serial producer of digital innovations.   “This strategy really fuels everything that is happening in Sheba today, and we are seeing that medical centers in other countries, especially in the US, are now trying to copy our model,” Sheba CMO and CIO Eyal Zimlichman recently told HIMSS Insights.   An open innovation campus sits at the heart of the ARC strategy, with five topics of focus, including digital innovations in surgery, VR/AR, personalised medicine, AI/ big data, and telehealth/ mHealth, and a chairman responsible for each of them.   Meanwhile, 30 new innovation projects are being launched every year, receiving $50,000 each over a rapid development cycle of ten months, a “virtual currency” used to obtain access to digital development capabilities, and staff can apply for these grants.   “We have been through three annual cycles of this now, and many of those who have applied for the nearly 100 grants are in fact physicians,” Zimlichman added. The third issue of the HIMSS Insights eBook, launched during the HIMSS19 conference taking place in Orlando this week, puts the spotlight on digital health leaders that have made innovation possible around the world.   It seeks to show that innovation is not as much about management or allocating funding, as it is about overcoming obstacles.   Find out more about Sheba’s approach to bringing innovation into healthcare here.   Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.  
By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz | 04:31 am | January 02, 2019
Wherever you go in Europe, AI is already there. In November 2018, the German government announced its national AI strategy, a draft of which had been published in the summer of 2018 already. Now the strategy has a price tag: €3bn is about to be invested by the German government over the course of six years, the first €500m of which will flow in 2019. Germany was comparably late. In March 2018, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that his government would invest €1.5bn into AI by 2022. March 2018 also saw the publication of the White Paper ‘Artificial Intelligence at the service of the citizen’ by the Italian government’s Digital Agency. In April 2018, the UK came out with its ‘AI sector deal, worth £1bn, including £300m of private sector investment. And in May last year, Sweden released what they called their National Approach for Artificial Intelligence. On a European level, the European Commission has published its ‘Communication on Artificial Intelligence for Europe’ in April 2018, to be debated in the European Parliament in due course. The European Commission will also increase its investments into AI under the research and development framework programme Horizon 2020 to around €1.5bn by the end of 2020. AI: Another word for digitisation? So what is going on in the old world? Interestingly, many European governments don’t really define what they consider to be ‘AI’. “Many topics that are called AI now were called digitisation before”, said a group leader in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy recently, adding that he did not want to be quoted with this sentence directly. Learn more about why AI is more than just a political buzzword in Europe in the recently repositioned HIMSS Insights eBook, a bi-monthly series featuring global examples of projects aiming to foster the development of a digital health ecosystem. You can read the article in the second eBook which is focused on AI in full here. Twitter: @DillanYogendra1 Contact the Editor: dyogendra@himss.org