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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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January 9, 2023

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Hackers threaten to leak health data of Australian celebrities

Sydney (AFP - link in Spanish) - Hackers have threatened to leak the health data of a thousand stolen Australian celebrities in a digital attack on an insurance…

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October 21, 2022

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German experts: EU wants to set health data standards

EU Commission to define data formats, writes Pharmazeutische Zeitung (link in German). It will be the task of the member states to process e-prescriptions, e-patient summaries, image data, laboratory…

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October 20, 2022

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British R&D Director presents lessons of COVID-19 in health data research

Healthcare needs to address workforce management and rising costs. To resolve such issues, health systems will need to adopt big data approaches, according to Dr Chris Bates,…

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October 12, 2022

Featured / Projects

Phase V: to ensure data collection by patients

CIFS embarks on PhaseV, to deploy a digital platform for continuous decentralised health data collection. Heavyweights of Danish healthcare join a consortium to develop patient-to-doctors communication tools to evaluate effects of obesity, diabetic foot ulcers and chronic urticaria treatments, based on indicators related to life quality

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October 3, 2022

Featured / Interviews

Jens Winther Jensen: Limited Access is Not a Technical Issue, Political Will Is Missing

Tensions between IT systems and the pace of clinical development. Inside out approach instead of structuralisation. Technical solutions are here already, political will is not. Read Part 2 of the interview with Jens Winther Jensen, the Danish Clinical Quality Programme CEO

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April 1, 2022

Featured / Interviews

Jens Winther Jensen: Health Data Is A Tool, Not A Product

Consolidation instead of centralization, Denmark as a data dream, interoperability as happiness. Read Part 1 of the interview with Jens Winther Jensen, the Danish Clinical Quality Programme CEO

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March 31, 2022

Backgrounds / Concepts / Concepts & Background

Tokenization in Healthcare: a Brief Review of Possibilities

A token is a piece of code that certifies information about you in an immutable and practically undestroyable decentralized database. It can be your health data, your genetic dataset, tokenization will allow you to trace how it's used. But tokens may be also used in remote provision of healthcare services, as well as to motivate us to a healthy lifestyle

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March 17, 2022

Backgrounds / Concepts / Concepts & Background

Digital Infrastructure in Global Healthcare: The Present and Possible Futures

Minimalism in the Internet of Medical Things, health data ownership back to patients, automation of regulatory compliance. What else will the future bring to digital health infrastructures?

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March 11, 2022

Read more about the article Emilie Balk-Møller: Interdisciplinarity of Systems Biology Will Play A Crucial Part in The Future Paradigm Shift in Healthcare

Featured / Interviews

Emilie Balk-Møller: Interdisciplinarity of Systems Biology Will Play A Crucial Part in The Future Paradigm Shift in Healthcare

CIFS Health scientific advisor shares her vision to research developments in healthcare that await us, comments on healthcare megatrends (data, omics, and genetic engineering) and resilience to future stresses

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March 10, 2022

Predictive Genomics: Harnessing Genetic Data

Predictive genomics allows using genetic data to help predict common disease risks and drug responses. However, dystopian visions of dividing between ‘good genes’ and ‘bad genes’ are expected to enter future public debates

Augmented Reality in Healthcare: From Operating Rooms to Smartphones

AR is already in dentist clinics, nursing, medical imaging and education, pediatrics, remote surgeries. In the future, AR is likely to be taken out of operating rooms onto smartphones. Patients will see how time and unhealthy lifestyles may affect their bodies

Augmented Reality in Healthcare: Doctors to Gain Superhuman Powers

The ability to look into your bones without invasive operations, the ability to peer back in time. Health data from flat screens onto and into a patient’s body

Digital Health Organisations Who Operate in Europe

Robust organisations comprise a special feature of the European digital health landscape, not known elsewhere. All strong global and pan-European organisations work here

Challenges of NFTs in Healthcare: What Will Future Healthcare NFTs Look Like

The infancy of non-fungible tokens reflects in security breaches and privacy concerns, in legal, blockchain related and environmental issues, in lack of awareness. Easy to operate and to understand, governed and regulated, NFTs shall be first adopted by EHR vendors and manufacturers of medical devices, then by the public

Future Focus Areas in European Digital Health

proactive policies, automated compliance, shift of health data ownership to patients, action-based healthcare services by European digital health platforms, pan-European framework for approval of digital therapeutics, NLP-enabled EU-interoperable electronic health records, awareness and motivation in telemedicine, massive adoption of FARE data principles, remedies to black box perception and rewards for digital health literacy, standard AI for clinical support systems

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