When users become innovators is an event aiming to engage the European citizens and patients into a meaningful participation in initiatives that impact them.

Today it is clear that high value, safe and effective care needs to be designed and implemented with the patient’s clinical needs at the core. With this in mind two topics are key:

Quality of medical care 

To innovate in the health sector

 

 

Quality of medical care

To innovate in the health sector

It is necessary to:

  • Improve coordination of the actors, especially the citizens who must be more involved in the entire process

  • Structure participation through: Methodologies, techniques, instruments, and solutions that allow them to empower themselves

  •  Design and implement with the patient’s clinical needs at the core

 

 

Key themes for users to innovators

Improve the patient experience

A focus on promoting the engagement of patients in the innovation process of healthcare delivery.

Learnings of the COVID-19 pandemic

Considering what has been learnt by citizens and medical professionals in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Promoting meaningful participation

Engaging European citizens and patients into a meaningful participation in initiatives that impact them.

Speakers

 

Managing Director | EIT Health
Rheuma-epidemiologist & scientific director | InMusc
Patient Partner | CPROR, University of Birmingham, UK
Head of Dept. of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotic Disorders | Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Consultant, Doctor, and Public Speaker | Barcelona Spain
Vice-chair of Governing Board | International Alliance of Patients Organisations (IAPO), UK
Founder & CEO | Biel Glasses
Emeritus Professor | KU Leuven, Belgium
Bioengineering Scientist & CEO | Unhindr

Moderators