Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe

DAY 2 | 29 November 2022 | 15:15 CET (GMT +01:00)

With the support of UNICOM.

📝 Session abstract

🗣️ Speakers

Delivering value through a global governance for the identification of medicinal products

Robert Vander Stichele, UGent, i~HD, UNICOM.

Prescribing is a most important part of medical activity. Hence, information about medicinal products represents a very significant part of all healthcare transactions. This information is also critical for patient safety. As soon as this information crosses borders (travellers become patients, and patients travellers) problems arise with interoperability. Creating interoperability at the source for medicinal products, and establishing a global governance process, is a difficult but necessary task. It will bring immediate functional results, such as cross-border prescribing, but also far-reaching changes in the global health ecosystem. It holds the promise to create bridges between all health care actors and make a major contribution to patient safety, efficient research, personalised medicine, decision support, and overall administrative simplification. In the end, it will be a cornerstone of the European Health Data Space.

Global Collaboration on the International Patient Summary

Robert Stegwee, CEN/TC 251, The Netherlands

Developing and implementing global standards requires a very local implementation focus to make it work, but also a global collaboration to make sure we don’t loose sight of the advantages of having a global standard. The International Patient Summary is taken here as an example of how this collaboration is developing at multiple venues and multiple layers. A Patient Summary typically is made up of fragments of a patient’s electronic health records that are scattered across multiple healthcare providers or systems. Making sense of these at a regional, national, or global level requires combination, deduplication and sometimes finding equivalent coding systems that suit the needs of the clinicians that want to look at the summary in order to provide safe and effective care. Having reliably coded source data is therefore a prerequisite for creating a meaningful and useful patient summary.

First row panellists 

Lantos Zoltán Tibor, PATHed, Hungary

Malin Flavad, WHO Uppsala, Sweden