Willum Þór: The question remains if our healthcare system is sustainable

On January 1st, Iceland took over the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers. This intergovernmental organisation plays an important role in promoting innovations, health data integration, and cooperation between all major stakeholders in the Nordic healthcare. The Icelandic Health Minister elaborates on his vision to future health in the Nordic region, the Nordic strengths, Iceland's plans for the Presidency with regards to health innovations, and the coming collaboration with Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

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Jan Larsson: We can bring the Nordic model to a global level

Senior Advisor to Cambio Healthcare systems believes that the momentum and the right model for Nordic Health 2030 were created in the project's first phase, now we will have to enable faster development of healthcare and technology

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Svein Berg: Health data from all Nordic countries can be used for innovations

The Managing Director of Nordic Innovation describes the major developments and the current state of healthcare innovations in the Nordic region, looks into possible futures for such innovations, evaluates results of Nordic Health 2030 in the first phase, and lays out his expectations for the second phase.

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COCIR: Medtech Faces Bright Future But Increasing Challenges

CIFS Health cooperates with COCIR, one of the eldest medical trade associations in Europe, to formulate an industrial strategy to increase resilience. Read the interview with the COCIR chairman on lessons learnt, new values, and future aims of European medtech

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ORAS: Our Goal for the Future Is to Achieve Health Sovereignty Through Developing Regional Competencies

ORAS-CONHU is the Andean Health Organization, a new partner to Copenhagen Institute For Futures Studies. ORAS is a 50+ years old (Intergovernmental Organization), engaged in transfer of best practices in public health in Latin and Central America. In the interview, Dr. Maria del Carmen, ORAS Executive Secretary, elaborates on developments in Latin American public health in the last three decades, on the present challenges in organizational and management capacities of national health agencies in the region, on Latin American health inequity, and on the expectations from the coming cooperation with CIFS

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Heinner Guio: Genomics to Plan Our Future and to Understand Our Past

Dr Heinner Guio, one of the leading experts in Latin American genomics, has recently taken part in the round table, that CIFS conducted in the framework of Movement Health 2030. We used this opportunity to talk to Dr Guio about the future of genomics in Latin America

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Nigel Hughes: A Non-Identifiable Data Layer On Top of Clinical Systems That Retain Memory May Be The Future of European Health Data

Agnostic to location and time for clinical decision-making, enshrined within federate data networks, and with equitable access by patients, care providers and researchers, aided by machine learning and transparent AI to interpret and ensure security

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Sahil Bansal: AI Is an Extremely Viable Contender to Become the OS of Healthcare

AI in detection and diagnostics, in health trends analysis, personal health assistants, care chatbots, potential adoption is immense. An experienced practitioner elaborates upon AI advancement in the near future, on the challenges that await. Will AI manage and rule the healthcare of tomorrow, to what extent and how?

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