Making best use of Big Data and AI: There’s nothing artificial about people’s health needs

by Sascha Marschang | Dec 20, 2019 | Digital Health | Publications

DOWNLOAD THE PAPER A new EPHA Reflection Paper explores the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – and the Big Data on which it relies – in the context of the evolving digital transformation of health and care at the EU level. The paper proposes to look beyond...

Report | The future is now: digitalisation and public health

by Rosemary Hindle | Dec 19, 2019 | Digital Health | Publications

Digital health, including its latest data-driven manifestations, is already a feature of European healthcare systems even if this may not be obvious, and it is heralding major changes in other public health-related areas. A new paper from EPHA aims to provide a...

Digital health for all?

by Sascha Marschang | Dec 28, 2018 | Digital Health | Publications

EPHA’s response to the European Commission Communication on the Transformation of Health and Care in the Digital Single Market A new EPHA paper, “Enabling the Digital Transformation of Healthcare”, offers a critical analysis of the European Commission Communication on...

Health and Care in the Digital Single Market

by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 21, 2017 | Digital Health | Publications

This report follows up on previous EPHA policy documents and articles on the topic of health data and personal data protection, taking into account the developments at European (EU) and national levels in the area of digital health. The rapid development of digital...

The Power of Digital Solutions for Health and Disease Management

by Martyna Giedrojć | May 10, 2017 | Digital Health | Publications

Digital health plays a growing role across Europe despite the fact that there are still many uncertainties regarding its technical, legal, ethical and financial aspects. Mobile Health (mHealth) in particular, enabled through smartphones, tablets and computers,...

General Data Protection Regulation – EPHA progress report calls for health research exemption in trilogue negotiations

by EPHA | Oct 9, 2015 | Digital Health | Publications, Medicines, health technology and health information

The General Data Protection Reform (GDPR) entered into the trilogue phase in June with the aim of concluding discussions at the end of 2015 or soon thereafter. A new EPHA progress report describes the challenges of the GDPR experienced so far and confirms the crucial...