Health 2.0 Europe 2014

This session covers how new technologies are seamlessly dovetailing into traditional health care delivery models. Hear about telehealth, patient-provider communication tools, and new EHR solutions fueling innovation and providing opportunities for more integrated care.

Grab coffee, visit the exhibit hall, or network with fellow delegates.

Maintaining engagement between doctors visits is a top priority in today’s health care system of biannual visits. The rest of the time, patients and families are facing illnesses alone. Demos in this session address the gaps in our care by using technology to engage consumers in their day-to-day health.

Just as providers prescribe a medication, they are now ushering patients towards tracking that includes disease management apps. In a quickly growing consumer app marketplace, how does the individual filter out all the noise and download the best product? Tools in this session guide users and prescribers to find the right app for them. This session explores ways to guide users and prescribers into finding the right app for them.

Grab one of our signature healthy lunches while you meet and mingle with delegates.

Tim Kelsey opens with a Keynote before Health 2.0 Netherlands chapter leader Eugene Borukhovich kicks off our data panel. He’ll speak with experts and show demos that frame national, entrepreneurial, and patient-based efforts to create open data portals and increased access across the spectrum.

As the wrist becomes increasingly competitive retail estate in the wearable world, these devices are tackling new form factors up and down the body by capturing data about your heart rate, skin temperature, and even your feet! This session explores the convergence between consumer wearables that are getting closer and closer to medical grades, and medical devices that are becoming more wearable.

Grab coffee, visit the exhibit hall, or network with fellow delegates.

Hear how the medical industry is continuing to grow at an accelerated pace and is supported by new technology such as research collaboration tools, open data reporting, clinical trial recruitment, and management solutions.

As the definition of health care increases to include wellness and happiness, there has been a rapid rise in the development of technology to support healthier living. Fitness and food trackers are maturing, and the market is now seeing innovative solutions to track sleep, mental health, and more.

London, Berlin, Barcelona… Big cities are competing to become the health innovation capital of Europe. Panelists discuss where barriers in adoption really live - physicians, hospital systems, patients, cost, R&D - and the new regional strategies to break through barriers and accelerate the industry.

GET is an European project that supports eHealth SMEs and entrepreneurs with their business models, access to private funding, internationalization, and the identification of market gaps in eHealth. This brief presentation updates us on the project activities and opportunities.

Matthew and Pascal share their most resonant moments of the day and give the audience a preview of tomorrow’s agenda.

You will not want to miss the Cocktail Reception with more networking and deals-done than anywhere else in health technology.

Get the headlines - hear from Health 2.0 experts joining us from diverse corners of the globe to discuss local landscape and regional trends.

In this session, speakers will demo a diverse set of solutions aimed at improving quality of care in the clinical setting. From best practice sharing to population health to provider-to-provider communication tools, these solutions streamline processes and improve quality and patient safety.

As the digital health landscape grows into a billion Euro market, and with the NHS being notoriously choosy, some bright ideas have experienced great success while many others have been turned away at the hospital door. Learn how to get your platform in front of the right players and land a successful pilot program.

Grab coffee, visit the exhibit hall, or network with fellow delegates.

The baby boomer population is aging and Maneesh Juneja is back again to pose that the technological infrastructure needed to support their care is a ways off. This session is packed with innovative solutions that are closing the gaps in care, from emergency support services and care coordination, to virtual rehab tools and brain games.

In this track session you will hear examples of how citizens have made use of digital tools and developed mobile apps to solve problems that they were experiencing in managing their health and wellbeing. The session will focus on principles of co-production and co-design with the guiding principle that better solutions are found when citizens are at the heart of mHealth innovation.

Grab one of our signature healthy lunches while you meet and mingle with delegates or attend the workshop hosted by Applied Research for Connected Health.

Hosted by Applied Research for Connected Health (ARCH) this workshop will build networks for Horizon 2020 and other funding mechanisms in Connected Health. Challenges and possible solutions will be discussed on the day and will be open to academics, industry, policy makers and clinicians.
For more information on the workshop or to register please contact Sinead.omahony@ucd.ie

Tech for kids, a first for Health 2.0, is a dedicated session for technologies that are aimed at and made by (!) kids. These platforms track behavioral disorders, support families in monitoring care plan progress, and encourage fun and active learning in young minds.

Mad*Pow’s Dustin DiTommaso leads this engaging session on the design strategies underlying successful user interfaces. With no more appropriate platform than health care, Dustin frames behaviour change in terms of gamification, leads a discussion on best practices, and shows off demos you won't want to miss.

The Middle East is one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world. This is particularly true for the health care sector, as both governments and private companies are heavily investing in upgrading the existing health care infrastructure, resulting in solid double digit growth across the region.

Health 2.0-type platforms will be among the next wave of investment. Meet potential partners from health IT and telecoms who will be able to leverage your technology into one of the world's fastest growing regions and grant you access to a young, tech-savvy, market of 300 million people. Join this panel to learn more about opportunities in the Middle East.

Grab coffee, visit the exhibit hall, or network with fellow delegates.

While we openly examine how diet, exercise, and disease impact our health, rarely are life factors such as care giving, depression and addiction factored into the formal conversation. In this session, explore how digital health tools help individuals manage how death, depression, caregiving, addiction, and stress impact the whole picture of their health.

Matthew and Pascal close out our two-day event with closing remarks.

Part of the EU-funded GET Project, “Fill the Gap” is a service that identifies and connects needs with solutions for European health SMEs and entrepreneurs. This interactive session will focus specifically on patients’ unmet needs and related business opportunities.

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