European
Association of
Paritarian
Institutions
Alexandra
Kaydzhiyska,
AEIP Policy
Advisor
HEALTHCARE INNOVATION – THE EUROPEAN
PERSPECTIVE
11 MAY
TRANSALANTIC
CONFERENCE
WHO WE ARE
23 members from 16 EU Countries
75 million European citizens covered by AEIP members
1200 social protection providers represented
Over € 1 Billion assets under management
General Overview
AEIP|Mission
 Monitoring European activities
 Representing AEIP to a wider network of
partners
 Promoting cooperation between members
 Promoting the exchange information &
experience & best practices
www.aeip.net
AEIP | Healthcare innovation – the
European framework for eHealth
AEIP | The European framework for eHealth
-> Technology is transforming social protection
-> Exponential development and disruptive change require regulation
-> Major challenges
DEFINITIONS
eHealth involves a broad group of activities that use electronic means to deliver healthrelated information, resources and services - information and communication technologies
(ICT) for health.
The economic case for public investment in health innovation
-> Projections on healthcare expenditure at European Union level
-> In addition: increased pressure on public budgets, decline in the number of health
personnel, higher incidence of chronic diseases and growing demands and expectations
Source: Report on Public Finances, European Commission, 2016
The EU Framework
-> Research & Development activities (since 1989) – Framework programmes
Research Projects > 450 projects > €1 billion - Cooperation with health services,
industry, universities
-> Work with national health systems (since 2011)
Directive(s)
-> Policy instruments (since 2004)
Guidelines, Recommendations
Stakeholders‘ Group linking users, industry
Strategy, road maps, evidence-based research
Policy & Legal Instruments for eHealth in the EU
-> Strategy for the Digital Single Market: eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020
-> Directive on patients' rights in cross-border care & Data access and data
protection
-> Financing
Horizon 2020: Research and Innovation
Connecting Europe Facility: Implementation
eHealth Action Plan 2020 – Objectives & Barriers
• Interoperability of eHealth
services
• Research, development and
innovation
• Uptake and wider
deployment
• International cooperation
• Lack of interoperability
• Lack of legal clarity + lack of
transparency on data
collection & sharing
• High start-up costs
• Limited large-scale evidence
on cost-effectiveness
Horizon 2020: pooling resources for R&D 2014-2020
-> "Health, demographic change and wellbeing" Funding axis of Horizon 2020
• digital, personalized and predictive medicine • digital instruments integrating
healthcare and social care systems • development of models for cost-effective
delivery of healthcare
-> Accelerating market
introduction of ICT
solutions for Health,
Well-Being and Ageing support for SMEs
-> Funding is open to
Transatlantic Partners
-> Total budget €658
Million to invest in
R&D, 2014-2020
Source: European Commission, European Economic Forum 2014
EU Action on eHealth: Scope
-> Wider market uptake &
private investment & PPPs
-> Align EU standardization
activities
-> Data exchange: Access to
health records /Secondary
use of Big Data
Source: Infobarometer 2016 – EU business innovation trends
AEIP | Healthcare innovation –
Transatlantic Cooperation
Transatlantic Cooperation on Innovation and IT Skills for Healthcare
In 2013, the European Commission (DG CONNECT) and the US Dept. of Health and
Human Services signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to:
-> Support global cooperation in the area of health related ICT
-> Help facilitate more effective uses of eHealth/Health IT
-> Strengthen our international relationship
Roadmap to achieve the vision of the MoU
Defines a cooperative action plan to produce deliverables aligned with the goals
outlined in the MoU, with a specific emphasis on the following two areas:
1) International Interoperability of Electronic Health Records information, to
include semantic interoperability, syntactic interoperability, patient and
healthcare provider mediated data exchange (including identification, privacy
and security issues surrounding exchange of health data)
2) Cooperation around the shared challenges related to Healthcare Workforce IT
competencies
3) Third work stream 2016: New Innovation Ecosystems
Some useful links:
-> eHealth Digital Agenda for Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/digitalagenda/en/digital-life/health
-> EU-US eHealth MoU Roadmap: http://ec.europa.eu/digitalagenda/en/news/eu-and-us-step-cooperation-ehealth-it
-> eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 https://ec.europa.eu/digitalagenda/en/news/ehealth-action-plan-2012-2020-innovative-healthcare-21stcentury
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