News

March 2009
The result of the Financing eHealth study served as input to an article on “eHealth Investment: High Potential Opportunity and Managerial Challenge” in “Hospital”, the official journal of the Euro-pean Association of Hospital Managers.
The issue of the journal can be downloaded at
www.hospital.be.

January 2009
Financing eHealth workshop and final report
The Financing eHealth study is now completed. After months of hard work, collecting information and opinions from the literature, from group discussions and workshops, as well as face to face interviews with leading experts, the study team has completed the final study report, as well as a number of supporting reports focusing on specific aspects of the findings. The reports are available for download in the respective section of the Financing eHealth website.
See the study presentations.

The second Financing eHealth workshop, ”Procuring for health benefits: critical factors for beneficial deployment of innovative eHealth and telemedicine services”, took place at the World of Health IT 2008 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. With input from more than 40 selected experts, the workshop was a tremendous success and provided useful input to the study. Further, the European Commission was provided with valuable input regarding the planning of further research activity and funding.
The Commission’s dissemination of the report to the workshop has triggered extensive interest in the eHealth news media: see www.ehealtheurope.net/news/4439/report_on_telehealth_worshop_published and www.telehealthlawcenter.org/?c=134&a=1935. The report itself is available on the Commission’s web pages and at the download section of the Financing eHealth site.
See the workshop 2008.

 

September 2008
Empirica researchers present at this year's TeleMed & eHealth Conference in London
This year's TeleMed & eHealth 2008 Conference of the British Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) will take place on the 24th and the 25th of November in London. At this prominent scientific European meeting, empirica will be present with several contributions:
On the first day, empirica is organising a workshop on "Developing successful business cases for TeleHealth" - a repeat of a very successful, sold-out event on May 30 of this year, also in cooperation with the RSM.
News about that meeting.

Furthermore, empirica researchers will contribute 3 scientific papers:
Ingo Meyer will report on selected results form empirica's study on the "Use of ICT by primary care physicians in the EU and EEA countries" Final report | 29 country profiles "Optimising primary care: The role of eHealth among general practitioners in Europe".
Alexander Dobrev will present findings from the EHR Impact Study about "Integrating eHealth into hospital workflows – evidence on the effectiveness of the integrated patient record system at the University Hospitals of Geneva" , and Tom Jones (empirica/TanJent) about "Optimising emergency and out-of hours services - the impact of the nationally shared emergency care summary in Scotland".
You can download the conference programme and registration form here

 

May 2008:
The case study of the computerised clinical information system at the University Hospitals in Geneva (HUG), Switzerland, was presented at the European Union Ministerial Conference on eHealth 2008 in Portorož, Slovenia. Findings from the Financing eHealth and EHR IMPACT studies were illustrated on the basis of HUGs experience. The discussion focused on insights of strategic eHealth investment decisions, as well as the costs and benefits associated with complex, interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems. The presentation material is available on the studies’ websites:
www.financing-ehealth.eu and www.ehr-impact.eu.

 

April 2008
Interim findings of the Financing eHealth Study will be presented next month at the European Union Ministerial Conference on eHealth 2008 in Portorož, Slovenia. Insights on strategic eHealth investment decisions, as well as the benefits of interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems will be illustrated by the case study of the computerised patient record system at the University Hospitals in Geneva, Switzerland. The session will be shared with the EHR IMPACT study, which focuses on evaluating the economic potential of interoperable EHR and ePrescribing systems.

 

February 2008
First results from the Financing eHealth study have been published on the study website www.financing-ehealth.eu. One of the reports describes the conceptual framework in which eHealth investments are and should be made. The other paper contains preliminary insights on international sources of financing eHealth, as well as brief treatments of different financing arrangements to be considered by investors in eHealth.

 

October 2007
A workshop on “Innovative Approaches to Financing eHealth solutions” was held at the World of Health IT conference in Vienna on October 25th 2007.
The workshop featured contributions by decision-makers from European and North American health-services as well as international health provider and funding organisations. The results of the discussions are important input to the Financing eHealth study. To find out more about the workshop, click here.

Financing eHealth study had its kick-off meeting
The Financing eHealth study had its kick-off meeting in late September 2007. Currently, the study team finalises conceptual framework of the study and concentrates on gathering information on the wider context of healthcare investment in Europe. Simultaneously, the information gathering and analysis instruments for further desk research and field work are being developed.