Scientific input is crucial to ensure that health policy initiatives lead to better public health for patients. Awareness of this has been accelerated greatly by the need for a shared response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries collect public health information (i.e. shots, underlying conditions, allergies, etc.) via databases produced by hospitals, however there can be database distribution issues. Some actors consider blockchain technology a good solution for patient data management to become more secure, immutable and verifiable. With this event, STOA would like to bring together the best-placed actors to facilitate a fruitful exchange between scientists and policy-makers. The aim is to tackle an industry-wide and very urgent issue - how to safeguard patient health records and accelerate transparency and (cost) efficiency in health care.

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PROGRAMME

Welcome and introduction
Marina KALJURAND, MEP and STOA Panel member

Keynote speech
Ain AAVIKSOO, Chief Health Officer, Guardtime
Blockchain in medicine and the European Health Data Space

Henrique MARTINS, Associate Professor in Health Management and Leadership, University of Lisboa
Digital Healthcare Systems: AI and Digital Patients

Anett NUMA, Digital Transformation Adviser, e-Estonia Briefing Centre
A case study of Estonia: from online medical-data to personalised medicine system. Where next?

Ioana-Maria GLIGOR, DG for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
European Health Data Space

Discussion

Closing remarks
Marina KALJURAND, MEP and STOA Panel member


The event will be held in English only, without interpretation. The event will be webstreamed, the link will be published below.