Personal Health Systems 2007 :: Speakers
Speakers
| 12 February 2007 | ||
| Opening Session | ||
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Fabio Colasanti Director General, DG Information Society and Media |
Welcome and Opening speech |
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07/2002-now: Director General for “Information Society” 01/2000 to 06/2002: Director Genera for “Enterprise” 06/1999 to end 1999: Deputy Head of the Office of Commission President Romano Prodi and from 1996 to 06/1999: Director in the European Commission’s “Budget” Directorate General, with responsibility for the “Resources” Directorate. 1988-1995: Head of the “Economic Forecasts” and “Macro-economic policy analysis” units of the Commission’s Directorate General for “Economic and Financial Affairs”. Meanwhile, he studied local development issues in the USA during a three month trip across 18 states, thanks to an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1992. 1985-1987: Member of the Commission’s Spokesman’s Group with responsibility for economic and monetary affairs, regional policy, credit and investment, small and medium-sized enterprises (the portfolios of Commissioners Aloïs Pfeiffer and Abel Matutes). 10/1977-1984: Economist in the Commission’s Directorate General for “Economic and Financial Affairs” (budgetary policies, Italian economy, short-term forecasts, European Monetary System and the Ecu) 1971-1977: Italcable Spa - Rome Fabio Colasanti holds diplomas in economics from the University of Rome and the College of Europe in Bruges. He works regularly in English and French and is fluent in German and Spanish. |
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Member of the European Parliament | |
| Dr. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (1966), German and Greek, Member of the European Parliament for the German Liberal Party, Member of the Committee for Industry, Energy and Research, Substitute of the Committee for External Trade and the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament and Member of the Pharmaceutical Forum, a high level group designed to provide a political mandate for relevant public health issues. FDP (German Liberal group) Secretary General of the Sarre Region in Germany. Lecturer at Sarre-University. | ||
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David
Whitlinger, President and Chair of the Board of Directors,
Continua Health Alliance Director of Healthcare Device Standards and Interoperability, Intel Corporation |
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| David Whitlinger is responsible for Intel's healthcare device interoperability strategies and the standards development to support those strategies. He is currently leading a large, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an eco-system of interoperable, personal telehealth systems. Mr. Whitlinger has been with Intel since 1993 and prior to establishing the Healthcare Device Standards Group, he worked on a wide variety of wireless standards. As a result, Mr. Whitlinger and his team are leaders in many standards organizations throughout the world, including: Health Level Seven (HL7); Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE); IEEE 1073; Bluetooth SIG; WiMedia Alliance; Homeplug Alliance; UPnP Forum; Oasis; WSI; and, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). He also served on the Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors for several years. Mr.Whitlinger is the author of five research journal articles, four of which focused on breast cancer DNA analysis. | ||
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Maarten Barmentlo, CEO Connected Care, Consumer Healthcare Solutions, Philips |
Keynote speech - "The shifting patient paradigm: embedding healthcare in everyday lives" |
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Dr. Maarten Barmentlo, CEO of Philips’ Connected Care and CTO
of Philips Consumer Healthcare Solutions, was trained as a physicist in
Utrecht and Leiden University and started his career at Philips 17 years ago
in Philips Corporate Research Laboratories. After spending several years at
the heart of Philips technological basis, he joined Philips Domestic
Appliances and Personal Care division where he has held various Marketing
and General Management positions both in Europe and the United States of
America. Maarten is Chief Technology Officer of Philips’ Consumer Healthcare Solutions and CEO of one of its Business Units: Connected Care. This unit seeks to identify, explore and develop opportunities to support patients and their caregivers in new ways and new settings by making solutions easier to use and designed around the patient’s and care provider’s needs. |
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Yves Masson, CEO, AXA Insurance |
Keynote speech - "The role of technology in the development of health assistance services" |
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Since February 2002 : Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Assistance
S.A. 1997-2002 : Chief Executive Officer of AXA
Assistance France |
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Professor Roberto Ferrari, President-Elect, European Society of Cardiology | |
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Professor of Cardiology, University of Ferrara Director of Cardiology at S Anna University Hospital of Ferrara Director of the Centre of Cardiovascular Research "S Maugeri", Gussago, Brescia. Special area of interest and expertise: Characterisation of the molecular mechanisms of the ischaemic and failing myocardium. Clinical treatment of myocardial ischemia and heart failure. Particular emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative studies. |
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| Session 1a – PHS state of the art | ||
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Stephan Kiefer, Fraunhofer Geschelshaft, DE | |
| Stephan Kiefer received his degree in informatics from the University of Saarland, Germany in 1991. Since 1991 he works as a scientist at IBMT in several research fields and functions. His expertise is on vital sign monitoring and on information technologies for home healthcare and telemedicine applications. He is now heading the group Health Telematics / Home Care at IBMT. He has more than 10 years experience in co-ordinating national and international R&D projects in the field of health telematics such as the FP5 IST project TOPCARE and the European Latin-American telemedicine project T@lemed. Recent research works of his team covers the fields ambient intelligent biodiagnostic devices, wearable sensors, semantic interoperability and semantic biomedical data integration. | ||
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William Lalinde,
M.B.A., H.S.A. Business Manager, MOTOHEALTH, iDEN Sector, Global Mobile Devices Business, Motorola, Inc., USA |
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As a leader of Motorola Health Care solutions, Mr. Lalinde is
responsible for the creation of tools that support the transformation of
health care and wellness industry. Solutions geared toward improving
organizational efficiencies while minimizing the impact in people’s
lifestyle. Mr. Lalinde leads a global wellness promotion, disease prevention health care vertical business, with solutions that encompass public and private initiatives to improve efficiency and productivity in health care organizations while maintaining the highest levels of safety and security, in regulated and unregulated environments. Mr. Lalinde also serves as a technological partner on a global basis of Motorola’s Corporate health and benefits team. Mr. Lalinde also leads a technological team engaged in the promotion of synergies within the medical industry, and the standardization of communications in various working groups. Continua Alliance, Bluetooth, Zigbee, HIMS, and ITU working groups. Previously Mr. Lalinde was a Business Development Manager of next generation wireless solutions in the Americas, with extensive experience in Management of Operations, Marketing and Engineering teams. Mr. Lalinde holds studies in E.E., Masters in Project Management, George Washington University, Undergraduate and Masters Degree in Business with Specialization of Health Services Administration from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. |
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Joerg Habetha, Philips Research, DE |
"Wearable and ambient systems for personal healthcare applications" |
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Joerg Habetha received an engineering diploma degree of Ecole
Centrale Paris in 1996 and of Aachen University of Technology in 1997. He also holds a diploma for Business Administration of Aachen University. From 1997 to 2000 he has been researcher at the chair of Communication Networks at Aachen University, where he completed a PhD thesis on self-organizing wireless networks. Since 2000 Dr. Habetha is with Philips Research Laboratories, where he first worked in the department for Connectivity Systems and is currently a member of the department for Medical Signal Processing. He has led several internal as well as publicly funded research projects for Philips and participated in several EU projects. Since 2005 he is the coordinator of the European research project "MyHeart", which is developing personal healthcare solutions for the prevention and management of cardio-vascular diseases. With a budget of 35 M€ and 33 partners from 10 different countries the MyHeart project is one of the biggest research efforts in the field of eHealth. Dr. Habetha has received several awards, among them the Vodafone development prize for Mobile Communications 2003. |
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Alberto Sanna, Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, IT | |
| Alberto Sanna is R&D and Business Development Manager of the “e-Services for Life and Health” Unit at the H San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, a role that sees him responsible for the design and development of innovative and trusted healthcare services, and related business models, based on personalized medicine. His areas of expertise include healthcare process re-engineering and vertical integration in the domains of clinical laboratory analyses and pharmaceutical treatments, with a specific expertise in ICT design for maximizing patient safety and privacy, hospital risk management and supply chain efficiency. Among his other roles, Alberto Sanna has been a professor in “Information technologies for Proactive Patient Safety Management” at CINEAS in Milan since 2004, and has taught “Intelligent and mobile systems for Innovative Services” at the Information Science Department at the University of Insubria since the same year. Sanna originally joined the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in 1991 after graduating in Nuclear Engineering. | ||
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Emanuele Bosi, Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, IT | |
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Head, General Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, San
Raffaele Hospital Scientific Institute (November 2002); Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (since 2001); |
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| Session 1b – PHS best practices | ||
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Sture Pettersen, Deputy Manager of The Norwegian Centre of Telemedicine and Head of the Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory (TTL), NO | |
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Sture Pettersen M.Sc is deputy manager at the Norwegian
centre for telemedicine (NCT) and manager for Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory
- a centre for research based innovation hosted by NCT in close cooperation
with industrial partners. Sture Pettersen has more than 13 years of
telemedicine R&D experience including: - Project manager/coordinator for several large scale telemedicine systems - Founder and later member of the board for North norwegian Health network INC - SW-development and standardization of EDI-systems in health care - Advisory board for the National health government and international organizations |
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Erwin van Leussen, Manager Innovation, Achmea Health Insurance, NL |
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Erwin works since the start of his career for Achmea. Achmea is the number
1 insurance company in the Netherlands overall. Achmea is part of Eureko,
with operations in 10 countries. The Eureko Group has over 20,000 employees
and offers a full range of insurance products - Life and Non-life and
pension products, health insurance and services, asset management and
banking. Eureko also has shareholders from 8 different countries, including
France. Since May 2006: Business Manager of Achmea Health Care Innovation 2000-2006: Contact Center Manager of Achmea Health Care 1998-2000: Manager Facility Services Achmea 1995-1998: Teammanager Cost Accounting and specialist in business economics Achmea Health Care 1993-1995: Concern Control Achmea Holding |
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Rainer Herzog, Head of Healthcare, Ericsson Enterprise, DE |
"Mobile patient monitoring - |
| Rainer Herzog is working as Global Head of Healthcare for Ericsson since January 2001and has operational responsibility for the company’s pharmaceutical and healthcare activities. Graduated from a European Business Course in 1988 (European Partnership of Business Schools, Reutlingen and London), Rainer spent over 10 years of his professional career in the pharmaceutical industry. He started with Roche Diagnostics as an International Management Trainee and was later promoted to the position of Product Manager for Thyroid Testing at the company’s French subsidiary in Grenoble, France. In 1999, he became Head of International Marketing at Schwarz Pharma in Monheim, Germany, having full product and business responsibilities for the areas of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Urology. | ||
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Gilles Conchon, AXA Insurance, FR | |
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Current position - Director of health Development, AXA-Assistance International - Anaesthetist and Hospital Expert at Paris Hospital Raymond Poincaré - Lecturer at Paris Faculty of medicine Saint Antoine for air transport and sanitary repatriation - Lecturer at Paris-South Faculty of medicine for tropical diseases - Lecturer at Paris Faculty of medicine Bichat for Emergency Medicine - Lecturer at Versailles University in emergency situations by Medicine for labor Member of Société Française de Médecine Aérospatiale, International Society of Travel Medicine, Société de Médecine des Voyages, Société d’Anesthésie Réanimation d’Afrique Noire Francophone Studies and diplomas: MD, with speciality in Anaesthesia-Chirurgical Reanimation, Speciality in Emergency Medicine and Speciality in Spatial and Aeronautic Medicine |
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Simonetta Scalvini, Head of Telemedicine Service, IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IT |
"The benefits of remote telecare solutions for the management of cardiac diseases" |
| Medical Doctor: Cardiologist,
Pneumologist; Head of the Telemedicine Service; Scientific Director of IRCCS
Salvatore Maugeri Foundation- Gussago/Lumezzane Medical Center (BS) Italy.
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Fellow of the Italian
Society of Cardiology (ANMCO). web site: www.fsm.it |
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| Session 1c – The contribution of micro-nano systems towards personalised healthcare | ||
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Hugues Metras, CEA-Leti, FR |
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| Hughes Metras works with CEA-LETI where he is VP components and applications. He is in charge of future programs definition and market planning in design, telecommunications, photonics and healthcare. Until October 2006 he was program manager in the field of smart devices and smart cards. He benefits from a technical background in Physics engineering and holds an MBA from the University of Miami (Fl). After 4 years spent in CEA-LETI marketing office where he contributed to strategic analysis of new market opportunities in the field of microsensors, smart tags and smart devices and 4 years spent as manager of the same team, Hughes joined the program staff of CEA-LETI in 2003 where he has been setting up new initiatives in the field of smart cards, RFID and wireless sensor networks. He has been involved in large IP projects initiatives such as Mimosa, Minami, as well as the initiator of the Medea+ project SWANS. He also set up many cooperation agreements with industrial partners in his field. He is today very active in the EPOSS platform where he acts as a member of the executive committee and as the leader of the working group dealing with technologies. | ||
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Diana Hodgins, European Technology for Business Ltd, UK |
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| Diana obtained her first degree in Mechanical
Engineering and her PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of
Hertfordshire. Diana has spent her whole career in industry and was one of
the first people designing using microsystem technology. Diana has a number
of patents to her name and is now Managing Director of European Technology
for Business (ETB) Limited, a company she founded with her husband 9 years
ago. Her present job involves the development of state-of-the-art products
for a range of health and fitness applications using micro and nano
technology. Five years ago she was awarded an MBE for her services to SMEs
in the region and in 2002 she won the Women Inventor of the Year Award for
Industry and was chosen as one of the 45 Ambassadors for the DTI Small
Business Service. In 2005 Diana was awarded an Honary Doctor of Science for
her contribution to Innovation from the University of Hertfordshire. Diana
has also been an ISTAG member for four years.
Her company has led a number of nationally and EU funded projects over the last six years and is currently project co-ordinator for an FP6 IST project, Healthy Aims, which currently has 27 partners from 9 countries, including seven SMEs. The project is to develop a range of medical implants and diagnostic equipment and ETB is one of the design partners, developing physical sensing systems. |
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Danilo de Rossi University of Pisa, IT | |
| Danilo Emilio De Rossi was awarded the title of Doctor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Genoa in 1976. From 1976 to 1981 he was researcher of the Institute of Clinical Physiology of C.N.R. He had appointments for teaching and research in France, USA, Brazil, Japan and Australia. Since 1982 he has been working in the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa, where he is presently Full Professor of Bioengineering and President of the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Track. His scientific activities are related to the physics of organic and polymeric materials, and to the design of sensors and actuators for bioengineering and robotics. He received the Young Investigator Forum Award from Biomedical Engineering Society (UK) in 1980 and from the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs in 1985. He is author of over 270 peer reviewed papers on international science journals and peer reviewed proceedings, co-inventor of 14 patents and co-author of 8 books | ||
| M. Schurr, Novineon Healthcare Technology Partners GmbH, DE | ||
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Herc Neves, IMEC, BE |
"Microsystem technology in the brain: what can we offer and what can be expected?" |
| Herc Neves earned his Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He carried out his postdoctoral work at Cornell University, USA, where he worked on the micrometallurgy of copper films for advanced interconnects. From 1991 to 1997 he worked as Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he was a faculty member in the departments of Electronic Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry. In 1997 Dr. Neves returned to Cornell as Senior Research Associate and manager of the single-crystal silicon MEMS research group. In 1999 he transferred to the Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, where he shifted his research focus to the integration of nanostructures with biomolecules, microfluidics and nanofabrication. In 2001 he joined the Bioengineering Department at University of California in Los Angeles, USA, where he created and taught courses in Biomedical Transducers, Nanofabrication, and Integrated Electronics for Biomedical Devices. In 2003 he joined IMEC as Biomedical Microsystems Principal Scientist, where his work focuses on microsystem integration for medical devices. | ||
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| Round Table 1 – PHS application opportunities | ||
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Frans de Bruïne, Director, DG Information Society and Media, European
Commission Moderator |
"ICT addressing societal challenges" |
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2000-2007 Information Society and Media Directorate-General 2005-Present Director of "ICT for Citizens and Businesses" 2005 Director of "Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society" 2004-2005 Director of "eEurope and Information Society Technology Policies" 2003-2004 Director of "Communication Networks, Security and Software - Applications" 2000-2002 Director of "Integration and Implementation Networks and Future Technologies" 1990-2000 Director of "Multimedia Content, Tools and Markets" Information Society Directorate-General 1978-1990 Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Hague (The Netherlands) Successively Section Head New Energy Sources, Deputy Director for Research and Development, Director for Research and Development, Director for Technology Policy and Managing Director of the Dutch Technology Agency 1973-1975 Deputy Director Computer Division, C.N. Rood B.V., The Hague 1972-1973 Management Consultant, W.D. Scott, The Hague 1968-1972 Shell International Petroleum Company: various marketing assignments in Europe and Africa |
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Panel interventions followed by Discussion with audience |
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Dr. Simonetta Scalvini, Head of Telemedicine Service - IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation | |
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Alexandre Tsoukalis, Managing Director, Micrel Medical Devices S.A., GR |
"Increasing drug therapeutic index - |
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Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer Has developed a spectrophotometer, infusion pumps and telemedicine systems Has been involved in numerous Esprit, Fuse and IST programs, expert in system safety, both hardware and software, inventor of a number of European and US patents. Dipl. Electrical Engineer from University of Patras Greece, Co-founder of Micrel Medical Devices S.A. Athens in 1980 Speaks English and French |
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Roberto Ferrari, President-Elect, European Society of Cardiology |
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Kalevi Virta, TEKES FinnWell Programme Manager, Navicre Oy, FI | |
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Since May 2004 operating as responsible full time Programme
manager for the technology programme FinnWell, Tekes, Finnish Funding Agency
for Technology and Innovation
(http://www.tekes.fi/ohjelmat/finnwell). FinnWell is one of the most extensive
technology programmes funded by Tekes. The total value of the programme is €
150 million. The objective of the five-year programme is to improve the
quality and profitability of healthcare, and to promote business activities
and international cooperation in the industry cluster. From April 2000 to March 2004 operating as the full time Programme Manager for the iWELL Wellbeing and Health healthcare technology programme, Tekes. At Oulutech, starting on 1998, the responsible manager of the Telemedicine unit, including project management to both domestic and international projects. Participated projects like, Momeda (EU funded), TELLAPPI I and III, TELKAINUU and TELEREMCARE. Key qualifications: Research and Development Programme management, Funding schemes, Health care technology and Services, Telemedicine, Welfare technology, Marketing, Project management. |
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Maarten Barmentlo, Philips, NL |
"The need for business model innovation" |
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Petra
Wilson, Director, Public Sector Healthcare - Internet Business Solutions
Group - Cisco Systems |
"Creating confidence - addressing the legal gaps in connected health" |
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Petra Wilson is a director for the Public Sector Healthcare
team of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), focusing on
helping customers develop their strategies and implementation plans for
“Connected Health” information management and technology. Previously, she was deputy director of the European Health Management Association (EHMA), a membership organization committed to improving healthcare in Europe by standards of managerial performance in the health sector. Prior to EHMA, Petra worked for the European Commission where she worked specifically on the European eHealth Action Plan, which commits all member states of the European Union to adopt road maps for the implementation of Connected Health solutions. Originally trained in law, Petra and spent several years as a lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University, UK, specializing in healthcare law and European law. She has a Ph.D. in public health law from Oxford University. |
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David L. Whitlinger, Continua representative (Intel) USA |
"Interoperability between homecare and clinical settings" |
| Berthold Sterzl, Business Consultant, T-Systems Health, DE |
"Telemedicine as a factor of integrated customer related management for insurances" |
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Rainer Herzog, Head of Healthcare, Ericsson Enterprise, DE |
"Success factors for the market implementation of mobile health solutions" |
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| Information Session 1a – Challenges 3 and 5 of the ICT Workprogramme 2007-08 | ||
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Challenge 3 Francisco J. Ibáñez, Deputy Head of Unit "Microsystems", DG
Information Society and Media, European Commission |
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Challenge 5 Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit "ICT for Health", DG Information Society and Media, European Commission Ilias Iakovidis PhD, is a Deputy Head Unit, ICT for Health, in the European Commission Directorate for Information Society and Media. He is responsible for research activities in eHealth and biomedical informatics. He also works on the follow-up to the EU eHealth Action Plan of which he was the main co-author. Beyond his duties at the European Commission he continues to publish articles and books, teach graduate courses on medical informatics in Europe and US, and gives keynote lectures at major international conferences. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics for his contribution to the field. |
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| Information Session 1b – CIP and Challenge 7 of the ICT Workprogramme 2007-08 | ||
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Challenge 7 Paul Timmers, Head of Unit "ICT for Inclusion", DG Information Society and Media, European Commission |
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Competitiveness and Innovation Programme Gérard Comyn, Head of Unit "ICT for Health", DG Information Society and Media, European Commission |
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| Information Session 1c – the DG RTD Health Workprogramme 2007-08 | ||
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research Work Programme Manuel Hallen, Head of Unit "Medical and Public Health Research", DG Research, European Commission Dr. Hallen was born in
Heidelberg (Germany), studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and
Lausanne (Switzerland). Following an elective time with the Australian Royal
Flying Doctor Service (Western Australia), he had his clinical training at
the Department of Internal Medicine, Klinikum Mannheim of the University of
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| 13 February 2007 | ||
| Plenary Session – Policies for PHS | ||
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Gérard Comyn, Head of Unit - ICT for Health, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission |
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Gérard Comyn is Head of the Unit “ICT for Health” in Directorate-General
Information Society and Media, European Commission. Prior to this, he was
head of the unit “strategies for research in IST”. Before joining the
Commission he was managing director of ECRC (European Computer Industry
Research Centre) in Munich (1989-1994) and Professor in University of Lille
(1972-1989). Gérard Comyn holds a Master Degree in applied mathematics and a PhD in Computer Sciences. |
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Alain Franco, Grenoble University Hospital |
"Perspectives on chronic diseases – needs, technologies and priorities" |
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Professor of Internal Medicine since 1982. Teaching
geriatrics, gerontology and gerontechnology at the Université Joseph
Fourier, Grenoble 1. Director and foundator of the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Gérontologie de Grenoble (LI2G) (UJF-UPMF) 1994-2006; and Scientific coordinator of the Programme « Télégérontologie. Télémédecine en gérontologie : Faisabilite technique, clinique, socio-économique, juridique et éthique de l’évaluation a distance du malade âgé » Thématique Vieillissement Région Rhône Alpes - Recherche beetween 1995 and 1997. He participated to the telemedicine programs Visadom, 1997 – 2000, Karma2 (FP5), - MCC (FP6) European expertise European coordinator for Tempus Program JEP 2762 (France, Italy, Romania), 1992 - 1995 Participation to Tempus Program CME 01194 – 95 and ERBFMBICT 961325 (Telemedicine) “Observator” at the GMS-UEMS for the French Geriatricians and organizer of the meeting in Grenoble, 6th may 2006. Past President of the Société Française de Gériatrie et Gérontologie, 2000–02 President of the Collège Professionnel des Gériatres Français, since 2002. President and founder of the Société Française de Technologie pour l’Autonomie et Gérontechnologie, 2007. Member of the Grenoble University Joseph Fourier Council 1984-2006, the Grenoble Medical School Council and CNSA Council, Caisse Nationale de Solidarité pour l’Autonomie in 2005 |
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Christer Neleryd, National Health Authority, SE |
"The ageing society - organisational, financing and policy issues" |
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Christer Neleryd is Director at the Swedish National Board of
Health and Welfare, Stockholm. He is responsible for the analysis and
investigation of the care of elderly on national level. Another task for his
department is supporting the local and regional governments in developing
the care of elderly. His background is social work on local government level. He has created systems for home care of elderly in a town in southern Sweden. He has also worked with developing cooperation between science and the profession of the care of elderly in a regional area. Christer Neleryd holds a Master of Social science. |
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Josh Collett, AARP, USA | |
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Josh Collett serves as International Consultant at AARP, a 38
million member nongovernmental organization representing and addressing the
interests of persons age 50 and over. Josh covers health issues for AARP’s
Office of International Affairs and supports the AARP Global Aging Program,
which facilitates understanding and dialogue around the global aging agenda
by participating in international social and economic policy debates
worldwide. He has organized international conferences on health information
technology and pharmaceutical policy. Prior to joining AARP, Josh worked at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, the Council of the Americas, the United States Senate and CBS News. Originally from New York, Josh is a graduate of Haverford College in Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. |
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Hannu Hanhijärvi, SITRA, FI |
"Sustainable healthcare systems - impact of technologies such as Personal Health Systems" |
| Hannu Hanhijärvi has DDS and PhD (pharmacology) degrees from the University of Turku, Finland. After 15 years of university career he was invited to manage and reorganize the R&D function of the pharmaceutical company Leiras, Finland. During this 10 year period the company´s product portfolio was renewed with international business focus. In 1996 he joined Leaf Inc. Headquarters in Amstelveen the Netherlands as the Vice President of R&D and QA/QC. From 1998 on Dr. Hanhijärvi has been working for Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. Untill the end of 2004 he was responsible for the venture capital investments in Sitra´s life sciences portfolio. From the beginning of 2005 he has been the Executive Director of the Health Care Program in Sitra. | ||
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Rosanna Tarricone, Director of the Economic Affairs Department, EUCOMED, BE |
"Carriers and Barriers for Industry involvement in PHS developments" |
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Rosanna Tarricone graduated in Business Administration at the
Bocconi University and got the MSc in health services management and PhD in
health economics at the University of London. She is the Head of Department
of Economic Evaluation Analysis for healthcare programmes at CERGAS Bocconi
University and co-Director of the Master of International Health Care
Management, Economics and Policy (MIHMEP) at the Bocconi University School
of Management (SDA). Her main areas of research are: healthcare management,
health economics, economic analysis of healthcare services, and health
policy with a special focus on to different health care systems. She has
been involved in many different research projects at national and
international levels and has established scientific collaborations with
prominent international institutions such as the WHO and the World Bank. She
is author of many research papers in health economics, health policy and of
a textbook on Economic Evaluation Analysis and Management of healthcare
programmes. She is member of the international Association of Health
Economics (iHEA) and of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and
Outcome Research (ISPOR). She has been recently appointed as Director of the Economic Affairs Department at Eucomed. |
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Jean-Claude Burgelman Head of Unit, Technologies for Information and Communications, IPTS, DG Joint Research Centre) | |
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Degrees in social sciences (Phd 1986) and in science and
technology policy (MA 1991) from the Free University of Brussels (FUB),
where he teaches a course on the 'Global aspects of the information
society'. Till 2000 he was full professor of communication technology
policy at the FUB where he also chaired the department of communication
studies and created the research centre Studies on Media, Information and
Telecommunications (a Belgian research centre of excellence now part of IBBT).
He was also guest professor at the University of Antwerp and the University
of South Africa. He is board member of some important scientific journals in
IST policy (Communication and Strategies, Telematics and Informatics, Media,
Culture and Society, etc.) and member of the scientific board of CPR, the
Communication Policy Research Conference and of the ITS 2006 conference (the
International Telecommunications Society). He joined the DG JRC first as Visiting Scientist of IPTS where he became Head of the ICT unit in 2005. As research into the technological aspects of Information Society Technologies is well developed in Europe, the ICT unit of IPTS addresses the policy aspects of the European Information Society in general and the socio-economic impacts of IST's in Europe in particular. Research is focused on those areas where ICT are key or very important to the (renewed) Lisbon Objectives (competitiveness, R&D, health, public services, social cohesion, etc). In doing so the unit complements technology-push approaches with socio-economic impact analysis. Most research is carried out on demand of the DG's (DG INFSO, DG JLS and DG EAC) or the EP and contributes to core policy making of the EC. |
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| Session 2a – eHealth for elderly and disease management | ||
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Andreas Diesen, MS Ministry, NO |
"The demographic change - needs for a national policy approach" |
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Through many years as Director general in the ministry he has
been responsible for the ministry’s development of ICT-plans for the health
and care services. 1999- Director General Department of Primary Health and Care Services 1994-1998: Director General Department of Developement and Health Promotion, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 1991-1993: Director General, Planning and Research Department, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 1983-90: Assistant director general in the Health Department, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 1972-1983: Various positions in the Planning and Research Department, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 1970-72: Central Bank of Norway 1970: M.D Political economics, University of Oslo |
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Harald Korb, Personal HealthCare Telemedicine Services GmbH, DE |
"How Personal Health Systems have changed the way patients with cardiovascular diseases are handled" |
| As the medical director of the telemedical company PHTS Telemedizin (Personal HealthCare Telemedicine Services) in Düsseldorf, Prof. Korb has more than 5-years experience in the monitoring of patients with cardiovascular diseases. He is also considered as one of the leading experts in Telemedicine. After his state doctorate in the speciality physiology and pathophysiology he was employed in several universities as a heart surgeon and was appointed as a special Professor of the Cologne University in 1990. Prof. Korb is a member of numerous national and international professional associations as well as speaker and member of several scientific advisory boards and chairs. | ||
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Alain Coheur, La Mutualite Socialiste, BE | |
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Coheur Alain (1964), Belgian, Degree on Public Health
(specialization on hospital management) and economics. Director European and
International Affairs, Belgian National Union of Socialist Mutual Health
Funds. Former projects director at the International Association of Mutual Health Funds (AIM), Coordinator of the Euroregional project Meuse-Rhin for health care since 1997. Coordinator since 2002 and former Chairman of the “Franco-Belgian health Observatory” Collaborator at the Liege University, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty for Social and Economy sciences. Chairman of the International Cooperation Commission of AIM. Member of the bureau of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). Expert specialized for ILO on health and micro insurance. Chairman of the European affairs commission of the Belgian National Intermutualist College. |
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Adrian Flowerday, CEng, Managing Director, Docobo Ltd |
"Barriers to mainstreaming personal eHealth implementations in the UK" |
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Adrian Flowerday is Managing Director of Docobo Ltd, and a
Chartered Engineer with over 20 years of experience developing technology
based solutions for a range of areas including radar, sonar, imaging and
medical. Docobo was formed in 2001 to develop and market doc@HOME®, a
telehealth platform enabling healthcare staff to manage patients with long
term conditions in their own homes. Adrian has directed the development of
the system as a qualified medical device, and developed the business
offering to enable such a new concept to be successfully rolled out into
mainstream practice within the NHS and other international healthcare
systems. Docobo are contracted to the NHS PASA Telecare Framework Agreement. Adrian is also Chairman of the Intellect Telehealth Group. |
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Josep Roca, Hospital University Clinic Barcelona, ES |
"Integrated care concepts and reality for chronic health conditions" |
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Dr. Josep Roca is currently Medical Director of the Lung
Function Unit of the Clinic Hospital (Barcelona). Professor of Medicine at
the University of Barcelona. Doctor (PhD) in Medicine, University of
Barcelona (1982). Leader of the Cronic Advisory Group, a team of high
qualified experts to provide strategic view to the Catalan Ministry of
Health for the implementation of new models of care for chronic patients,
based on heavy use of technology. These activities include the full
deployment of validation plan to test the technological tools. Author of 160 original articles in peer-reviewed journals (> 80% first quartile); editor of three books and author of several book chapters and revisions. Frequent lecturer on eHealth applications. Participant in medical & scientific societies: executive responsibilities in the European Respiratory Society (chairman of the Board of Directors of the ERSJ Ltd company; Newsletter editor; president 2000). Member of board committees and projects among them COPD Gene Scan (QRLT-2000-01012), Committee on Health Care and Quality of Life within the Strategic Plan for the IST of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and leader of the transmural program on ICT at the CSC Hospital-Clinic. On top of these activities, Dr. Roca has been leading a multidisciplinary group of researchers and doctors working on RTD projects. The objective: to explore and validate the use of ICT for health, in order to make new services available, based on new models of care. Their work has been oriented mainly to Chronic patients (from cardio, to respiratory or diabetis) . Dr. Roca is the representative from the HCPB to promote the cooperation public-private, in order to generate sustainable technological platforms, and fill the gap between research and implementation. In this context, Dr. Roca has been leading the negotiations with several IT providers in order to promote join ventures for the exploitation of RTD results, from the medical side. |
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Nicos
Maglaveras, Aristotle University School of Medicine - Associate Professor in Medical Informatics |
"Methods for ensuring quality in health service provision for home care" |
| Nicos Maglaveras received the diploma in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), Greece, in 1982, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering with an emphasis in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Lab of Medical Informatics, A.U.Th. His current research interests include nonlinear biological systems simulation, cardiac electrophysiology, medical expert systems, ECG analysis, medical imaging, and neural networks. He has published more than 150 papers in referred international journals and conference proceedings. He has developed graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of medical informatics, biomedical signal processing, and biological systems simulation. He has served as a Reviewer in CEC AIM technical reviews and as reviewer, associate editor and editorial board member in a number of international journals, and participated as Coordinator or Core Partner in over 20 national and CEC-funded competitive research projects. Dr. Maglaveras is a member of the IEEE, AMIA, the Greek Technical Chamber, the New York Academy of Sciences, the CEN/TC251, and Eta Kappa Nu. | ||
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Christiano Paggetti, I+piu, IT |
"A future vision of eHealth services for Chronic Diseases Management" |
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Since 1998 Brussels EU Commission Expert Member of the team of experts in
e-Health and ICT domains 1999-2000 Roma Italian Minister of the European Union Politics Regional Coordinator Working group on European Union politics and regional funding 2001- 2003 UK Ulster University Visiting Professor Visiting Professor in the domain of Telecare and e-Health applications. Since 2002 Argentina Cordoba State government e-Health advisor Support to definition of local policy for development of Telecare services 1999-2003 Roma ICT and Security Regional Member of ICT board Definition of strategy and initiatives to empower adoption ICT and Security solutions Since 2006 Italy Italian Minister of Regional Development Teleradiology technical advisor Part of the technical board for analysis of technology option for integration of radiology network |
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Lutz Kubitscke Senior Research Consultant, Empirica, DE | |
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Lutz Kubitschke is senior researcher at empirica, an
independent research and consultancy organisation based in Bonn, Germany.
For almost 10 years now, the focus of his research has been on technology
applications directed towards older people and people with disabilities. More recently, he has coordinated several international studies on challenges and opportunities provided by latest ICT developments with regard to the accelerating trend towards population ageing. Presently, he is coordinator of the eInclusion@EU project, a coordination action funded under the European Union's Information Society Technology Programme. |
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Paul Panek, Assistive Technology Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, AT | |
| Paul Panek is working in the field of Assistive Technology at fortec (http://www.fortec.tuwien.ac.at) , Vienna University of Technology since 1993 and at CEIT Raltec (http://www.ceit.at) since 2006. His main areas of interest are man machine interfaces for old people and multiple impaired persons, alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) for profoundly and learning disabled children, environmental control systems (ECS), self adapting bath room systems for disabled and old persons and the application of telematics in the area of Assistive Technology. Currently he is involved in the setting up of a Living Laboratory (http://www.eschwechat.at) as a user centered framework for developing new ICT applications to support the independent living of old citizens. | ||
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Karl Stroetman, Senior Researcher Consultant, Empirica, DE | |
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Karl holds an M.B.A. degree from the Free University in
Berlin/Germany (1968) and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver/Canada (1974). For 15 years, his research has concentrated on the application of ICT in the health and long-term care sectors. He has been project manager or principal investigator in European projects on the evaluation of telemonitoring for home healthcare (including a world-wide unique, eTEN-funded long-term prospective randomised controlled trial involving more than 425 heart failure patients in three countries and 12 hospitals for up to 2 years), on eHealth conceptual and policy issues, and in health telematics market research studies. He led the MobilAlarm eTEN project team validating a mobile communications device including a GPS locator, was coordinator of a globally acclaimed study on economic impact assessment of a wide variety of eHealth solutions (eHealth IMPACT), and presently coordinates projects for the EC and Member States to support the implementation of the European eHealth Action Plan and to improve interoperability among Member State health systems. Related work concerns a foresight study on scenarios for ICT-enabled new models of healthcare. - In 2002, together with his wife Dr. Veli Stroetmann, he received an award for "Telemedicine - Human Applications of IT in Medicine" (Integrata Foundation). |
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Kalevi Virta, TEKES FinnWell Programme Manager, Navicre Oy, FI |
"Ambient Assisted Living Programme, a new joint R&D initiative in Europe" |
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José Antonio Valverde, Scientific Officer, Unit "Technologies for Information and Communication", Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission | |
| José A. Valverde is a Scientific Officer at the Information Society Unit of the IPTS (Sevilla) in Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission. He was previously Adviser at the Cabinet of the Andalusian Regional Health Minister (2004-2006), formerly Director of the Andalusian Health Technology Assessment Agency (2000-2004). Involved on eHealth since 1995 through European, National and Regional Research Projects, assessment of research proposals, organiser of eHealth 2006 European Conference. Expert of the European Parliament on Public Health. Valverde is a Medical Doctor with a Master degree on Emergency and Catastrophe Medicine. He worked for 10 years in public and private health institutions as Emergency physician. | ||
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Paul Timmers Head of Unit ICT for Inclusion, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission | |
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Dr Paul Timmers is Head of Unit for eInclusion in the
European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society & Media since
early 2006. Before taking up this position he was heading the eGovernment
unit, responsible for the EU policy, research and promotion activities in
this area. He also was a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for
Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen, responsible for the
information society (eEurope) and telecoms policy portfolio. Other
activities in the European Commission included policy and programme
development as deputy head for electronic commerce. Paul Timmers held management positions in product marketing and software development in a large IT company and has co-founded a software start-up. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and an MBA from Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. He has published on a range of topics, including a book on electronic commerce strategies and business models. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer at various universities and business schools. |
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Dr Martin J. van Rijn, Director General Healthcare, Ministry of Health, Well-being and Sport, NL Moderator |
"ICT and PHS is easy...organisational changes are difficult...what can be done" |
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Martin van Rijn was born on February 7, 1956 in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands. He acquired a Master’s degree in economics at the Erasmus
University Rotterdam. During the last year of his study, he worked as a
researcher for the Department of Economic Affairs. From 1980 to 2000 he has worked in several positions at the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, the last 5 years as Deputy Director-General of Housing. From 2000 to 2003 he held the position of Director-General Management and Personnel Policy at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Since March 2003 Martin van Rijn is Director-General Health Care at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. As Director-General Martin van Rijn is responsible for the national health care insurance system and especially the introduction of the health care insurance act on January 1, 2006, the policy and financing of hospitals, primary care and medicines policy. He is also responsible for consumer (patient) policy and the development of information and communication technology in health care. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands is responsible for formulating and executing national policies on public health, health care, long term care and sports. The Ministry has 3800 full time jobs of which 1200 are in policy and staff functions. The Ministry has an annual budget of 12,5 billion euro and is also responsible for a total of 47,5 billion euro health care expenditures in The Netherlands, financed by mandatory insurance premiums. More information at: http://www.minvws.nl/en/ |
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Hannu Hanhijärvi, Director, Healthcare Programme, SITRA, FI | |
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Josep Roca, Profesor, Hospital University Clinic Barcelona, ES |
"ICT and PHS is easy...organisational changes are difficult...what can be done" |
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Alain Franco, Professor, University Hospital Grenoble, FR |
"Ageing effect on chronic diseases, priorities and policy options" |
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Harald Korb, Professor, Medical Director, Personal HealthCare Telemedicine Services GmbH, DE |
"Impact from the new services, the patient's viewpoint" |
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Andreas Disen, Director General, Ministry of Health and Care Services, NO |
"eHealth/PHS for the need of the elderly will open up for new markets and new jobs" |
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Josh Collett, International Liaison, AARP, USA |
"International collaboration could speed up prioritised development in ICT addressing the need of the elderly" |
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Rosanna Tarricone, Director of the Economic Affairs Department, EUCOMED, BE |
"A must for market developments and industry commitments" |
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Jean-Claude Burgelman, Head of Unit "Technologies for Information and Communication", Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission |
"Challenges ahead to stay competitive and support the needed changes in healthcare" |
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Gérard Comyn, Head of Unit - ICT for Health,
DG Information Society and Media,
European Commission
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| A report of the conference will be available online in the second half of March. | ||
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| Last update by the Editor (infso-phs2007(AT)ec.europa.eu): 13/03/09 |