Enabling Technologies for Better Patient Outcomes

Streamed from the European Health Forum Gastein on October 1st, 2014, 9.00 – 11.00 CET

The structure of this session follows the format of the popular television show ‘Dragon’s Den’.

This session brings together industry, policy-makers and international experts on emerging technologies that harness the use of real world data to improve patient outcomes and accelerate clinical development. We will highlight the opportunity provided by robust data analysis and outline the current patient data activities in the EU 28 Member States.

The workshop features several leading technologies operating today that can fundamentally improve the way we treat patients.

Topics include:

• Presentation of the TEMPEST Technology Model – for benchmarking health system preparedness in Europe
• Practical examples of enabling technologies in real world data capture
• Presentation of the European best practice report on enabling technologies
• Discussion of the policy implications of real world data

“The Dragons”

Peteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit, Health and Well-Being Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission	Nathalie Kayadjanian, Senior Scientific Officer, Science Europe	Martin Seychell, Deputy Director-General in the Health and Consumers’ Directorate-General (SANCO)
Mary Baker, Former President, European Brain Council Board member, EAPM	Richard Torbett, Chief Economist, EFPIA .

“The Presenters”

Wendy Currie, Professor of Information Systems, Audencia Nantes University, France	Brian Rothman, Medical Director Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ifty Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Pow Health	John Crawford, Healthcare Industry Leader, IBM Europe.

This session is organised in partnership with: