The conference will be held at Hotel Nordkalotten Luleå, Sweden 3 - 5 February
Opening hours
3 February Wednesday 09.00 - 17.45
4 February Thursday 09.00 - 17.00
5 February Friday 08.00 - 12.00 + social events
Conference language
The conference language is English. Interpretation is available.
Draft Programme
Wednesday 3 February
Arrival of participants
09.00-12.00
Study visit to Sunderby Regional Hospital and the World Heritage Gammelstad
10.00-13.00
Registration & lunch at Hotel Nordkalotten
10.00
Opening of exhibition
13.00
Opening of Conference
Block 1 - Together we make it work!
An introduction to the themes of the conference: why do we need e-health, how can we make it a reality from the policy drawing board to the implementation stage, who should we work with and why?
Opening and welcome by Agneta Granström, host of the conference and Chairperson of the AER e-he@lth network (Norrbotten-S).
> E-health – social, environmental and economical sustainability
Agneta Granström (Norrbotten-S)
> Strategies for developing e-health
Daniel Forslund, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
> A European perspective on e-health
Marc Lange, Secretary General, European Health Telematics
Association (EHTEL)
> Europe's e-health agenda
Ragnar Bergström, DG Information Society Unit ICT for Health,
European Commission
15.00-15.45 Coffee break
An opportunity to visit our exhibition area, meet other regions and identify common interests and possibilities for future cooperation!
Block 2 - Regional best prectices of implemented e-health
15.45
We often talk about the future for e-health; this is your chance to see what already works. Regions will present their e-health policies and tools, explain how these were developed and implemented and how they contribute to the organisation and delivery of their healthcare services.
You will be offered 3 sessions of 3 parallel workshops, meaning a variety of 9 different regional experiences to choose from!
17.45 Close of day's proceedings
19.00 Official Dinner at Nordkalotten Restaurant
Thursday 4 February
Block 3 – Cross border Challenges and Opportunities
09.00
When trying to make e-health work, we often stumble upon obstacles about transferability and interoperability. This session will showcase the kind of problems that regions face when trying to apply e-health tools across borders, i.e. across frontiers and also internally, among different organisations.
Introduction to the session by the moderator Mats Larsson
> Cross border Challenges and Opportunities from the
perspectives of the care providers
Jürg Lindenmann, University Hospital of Basel (CH) (tbc)
> Renewing Health
Luigi Bertinato, International Health & Social Affairs Office (Veneto-I)
Cross border Healthcare
> Cross border Healthcare in Torney Valley
Anna-Greta Brodin, (Norrbotten-S)
11.00-11.45 Coffee break
Another opportunity to visit our exhibition area, meet other regions and identify common interests and possibilities for future cooperation!
Block 4 – Preventive Healthcare
11.45
This session will showcase how e-health tools can help empower the patient. From the possibility to access your medical journal online and make your own appointments, to using e-health tools for preventive healthcare, the possibilities e-health offers are many.
> Empowering the patient
Sara Vamala, Swedish National Institute of Public Health
> Patients' access to online medical journal
Speaker to be confirmed
> User's Perspective on e-health
> ePrevention: Why and how e-health will Support Us to Stay in
Better Health
13.30-15.00 Lunch
Block 5 – Future Healthcare, Summary
15.00
You have seen what e-health can do today- time to talk about the possibilities it offers for the future of our healthcare systems. We need to develop e-health policies and tools that will respond to the changing demands of our citizens and our patients. We need to reconsider how we organize and deliver our services – and we need to start working on that now!
Introduction to the session by the moderator Ragnar Bergström
(European commission)
> Applying solidarity and social sustainability to e-health
Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) (tbc)
> Change Management
Mats Larsson, sepSOS
> What do our citizens expect of future healthcare systems?
Helene Richardsson, e-health User Stakeholder Group
> Conclusions
17.00 Close of conference
19.00 Dinner at Sami tent Lappkåtan, Hotel Nordkalotten
Friday 5 February
Study Visits
Our host Norrbotten County Council has organised 3 study visits for participants
to choose from.
Study visit 1
08.00-11.00
Sunderby Regional Hospital + World Heritage Gammelstad
Departure from Luleå Airport to Stockholm
(flight departs at 13.10 on Friday 5th)
Study visit 2
08.00-15.00
Bus to Jokkmokk Sami Market
Departure from Luleå Airport to Stockholm (flight departs at 15.55)
Study visit 3
10.00-17.00 Bus to Jokkmokk Sami Market for Friday and Saturday
18.00-21.00 Dinner at Hotel Jokkmokk and concert
21.00 Depart to accommodation
Saturday 6 February
– continuation of study visit 3
09.00-12.00 Jukkasjärvi Ice hotel
15.00
Departure from Kiruna Airport to Stockholm (flight departs at 15.55)
or bus back to Luleå/Hotell Nordkalotten Depart to accommodation
