Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe

21 September 2021 is your date on the horizon!

Horizon Europe is one of the several funding programmes stimulated by the European Commission. The first Call of 2021 was just launched. 

Struggling to engage citizens in health research trials? InteropEHRate has a solution

EU Medical Devices Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Digital Health Sector

On 26 May 2021 the new EU Medical Devices Regulation was enforced. This follows a transition period since 2017, that was extended for one year due to the COVID19 pandemic. Some special transition provisions are included till 2025.

‘Tiny but mighty’ provides a view of ingestible sensors

Powered by the DigitalHealthEurope project.

2021 started with the World Economic Forum being held virtually rather than in Davos, Switzerland.

On 29 January 2021, Vas Narasimhan, chief executive officer of pharmaceutical company, Novartis, was inspired to explore why this is digital healthcare’s moment. Inspired by progress made in face of the global pandemic, he aired the view that:

“We can ensure the story of the COVID-19 pandemic ends with a bold global movement that embraces digital healthcare.”

New opportunities for European policy directions on ageing

For some years already, Europe has put demography high on its agenda.

In spring 2021, the European Commission published a Green Paper intended to stimulate a discussion on demographics and ageing in Europe. A 12-week consultation followed. Now closed, the consultation results should help the Commission to formulate possible policy directions in the future.

Living with COVID-19: Norway’s lively developments in implementation and research

With the support of EHTEL member, the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research.

Using digital health: As early as October 2020, Norway was well aware of how its districts – especially the larger ones – could start to use connected health during the COVID pandemic.