HIMSS21 Europe

Digital health experts from the UK will join the debate on how healthcare can evolve beyond COVID.

Italian digital health stakeholders, including leading CIOs and industry experts, will contribute to a debate around cybersecurity and pandemic recovery as they look to a world beyond COVID-19 at the upcoming HIMSS21 European health conference.

Speakers from The Netherlands will be among healthcare leaders sharing their expertise at the upcoming HIMSS21 European health conference.

The network of surveillance hubs will identify and track new COVID variants and emerging diseases.

Participation in the conference - including at the Swiss eHealth Summit - is free for employees in the healthcare sector, as well as for scientific institutions.

The hub will lead data analytics innovations to predict, prevent, detect, prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.

Christine Czerniak, technical officer of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, says new variants highlight the need for genomic surveillance and sequencing across the globe and reinforce the importance of collaboration in the fight against COVID-19.

In recent years healthcare organisations have been constantly targeted by hackers and COVID-19 has made the situation worse.

Digital infrastructure and interoperability have helped Germany make significant progress in digitizing the patient journey, says Jörg Debatin, chairman of the Health Innovation Hub.

As countries across the globe start to propose digital vaccine passports, HIMSS responds to the need to define and adopt reporting specifications and standards.