A strategic initiative aimed at facilitating a new way to regulate market access and reimbursement for digital health applications (apps). Digital health apps are considered one cornerstone of the wider digitalization of health and are likely going to play a significant role in healthcare. In practical terms, it aims to ease the path for innovative apps into regular care and thus statutory reimbursement in different European countries, ideally by the creation of a common regulatory framework for digital transformation.​

Speaker: 

Anne Sophie Geier, Managing Director of the German Digital Healthcare Association (pre-recorded presentation)

In this short but informative session for attendees, we will provide practical information regarding the Matchmaking event, including how the 1-2-1 meetings work and where breakout sessions will be taking place.

EIT Health's current Activities linked to the Flagship: DiGinnovation

Key initiative identified: DiGA-DiHa

The aim is to introduce partners to the EIT Health WorkInHealth Foundation, its activities. Get partners mobilised for the upcoming Skills Intelligence work and generate interest for corporate donors to discuss support.

Speakers: 

• Claire Nassiet, Deputy Managing Director & Education Lead, EIT Health France

The aim of the session is summarising the key elements of the open call on Entrepreneurship Training and Education and exposing the answers to the frequently asked questions received so far. The session is an opportunity to further clarify on relevant points related to the call (master degree, summer school and bootcamps).

DiGinnovation Programme selects top digital health start-ups and links them with an international consortium to accelerate the reimbursement of digital health apps in Europe. Pitch Day will feature the top 6 start-ups and will engage the audience in selecting the start-ups to go into the consortium building stage.

1. Portabiles, Companion App for Parkinson's Patients (Presenter tbc)
2. Medicine Men is the developer of Emma, an eHealth Supported Self Care and telemonitoring platform for patients with a chronic illness. Presentation by Oscar van Dijk, CEO
3. FRAIL. Smartwatch app that supports elderly individuals who are in a pre-frail or frail state

The COVID-19 pandemic has created very high expectations among European citizens for improved coordination of Member States in the health field. The crisis has further highlighted the specific market failures which characterize the health sector, leading to shortages of products that are essential to the health of Europeans, and hindering innovation and the deployment of major medical advances in certain therapeutic areas including the medical technologies and digitalisation.  

A strategic initiative aimed at addressing the dual imperative of (i) equipping Europe with a strong, innovative and export-friendly healthcare industry that is able to meet the challenges posed by the future of medical care. Secondly (ii) sharing the same strategic vision for developing lasting and innovative European manufacturing capabilities with regard to critical products, notably pharmaceuticals.  

Speaker:

Laura Fabre,  Project manager - European healthcare industry , Directorate-General for Enterprise (DGE), Ministry for the Economy, Finances and the Recovery

Key EU initiative and organization identified:  

• Health Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI)
• Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HERA)

In advance of the Call for Proposals that will be launched in 2022, this session aims to foster dialogue on possible concepts for defining the EIT Health Fellowship Programme in the new era of the EIT Fellowship Label.

During this one hour session, participants of all organizational backgrounds are invited to share their feedback and insights.

• What is the EIT Fellowship Label? How might EIT Health approach the Fellowship?
• EIT Health Fellowship Programme Concepts (Small group discussion and categorization or ranking of concepts that have been presented.
• Learner Focus (Small group discussion and matching/editing of learner personas presented to programme concepts that have been presented.

Facilitators:

• Lilisha Burris, Education Innovation, EIT Health Spain
• Montse Delgado, Head of Entrepreneurship Education, EIT Health
• Carmen Tomas, Associate Director of Educational Excellence at the University of Nottingham

The transition to HE has resulted in updated KPIs for EIT Health and all KICS (Knowledge and Innovation Communities).

Join this session for:

1. A whistlestop tour of the updated KPIs used by EITH to measure results and impact.
2. Tips on how to stay ahead of KPI reporting and to avoid KPI rejections.
3. Learn ing where to find KPI information and more.

DiGinnovation: Fast track digital applications selects top digital health start-ups and links them with an international consortium to accelerate the reimbursement of digital health apps in Europe. Pitch Day will feature the top 6 start-ups and will engage the audience in selecting the start-ups to go into the consortium building stage.

1. Cibiltech - Predictive Medicine, Preventing organ failure with Artificial Intelligence (Presenter tbc)
2. Prosoma. Living well app, a comprehensive programme supporting the mental health of female cancer patients (Presenter tbc)
3. ProCarement, The ProHerz app from ProCarement supports people with heart failure in their everyday lives. The CareCenter ensures reliable information flows (Presenter tbc)

To introduce partners to the EIT Health Academy Platform, design thinking concepts, and the opportunity to collaborate on innovative learning content.

1. Introduction to EIT Health Education and Design Thinking Concept  
2. Overview of the work done in the past year and the plans for 2022
3. Task 1 - Empathy Map-Develop a persona for one cohort of learners, professionals, citizens, or patients
4. Task 2 - Define 1 Problem - Define a problem that they currently face within a learning context 
5. Task 3 - Ideation - Brainstorming session the defined problem could be solved through innovative courses and content 
6. Presentations - Teams share their work.
7. Prototype and Test