Statement from EFN:
Digitalisation of the Healthcare Sector - End-user Co-Creation5 February 2020, 16.00-18.00 - European Parliament, Brussels Room JAN 4Q1The Duchess of Cambridge launched in London on 27 February 2018 the Nursing Now Campaign of the Burdett Trust for Nursing. Nursing Now focuses on raising the status and profile of nursing globally and on maximising the contribution that the nursing profession makes to Universal Health Coverage, women's empowerment, economic development, and ensuring that everyone everywhere has access to health and healthcare.
2020 is a special year for the nurses and the nursing profession, since it is the "Year of the Nurse and Midwife", in honour of the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale's birth. On this occasion all over the world, this year will be dedicated to highlighting the tremendous work and contribution nurses and midwives can achieve at all levels if they have the support to do so. At European level, the EFN, as Nursing Now European regional leadership group, focuses on Research & Innovation, particularly on the digitalisation of the healthcare sector. The need of patients and citizens to be able to access their health data is therefore high on nurses' political agenda as part of designing people-centred care.
To deepen Europe's innovation capability, Horizon Europe needs to keep the EU at the forefront of global research and innovation and will support European Partnerships to deliver on global challenges and industrial modernisation through concerted Research & Innovation effort with the EU Member States, private sector, foundations and other stakeholders. For the K4I community and partnership, the further negotiations until the adoption and the implementation of Horizon Europe, are of major concern.
In this context, and under the scope of Knowledge4Innovation 11th European Innovation Summit, which programme is closely linked to the work of the European Partnerships and Missions under the headings of Digital Transformation', Greening' and Innovation', the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN) and Nursing Now Europe are organising this EP event on digitalisation, with a special focus on the European Electronic Health Records, providing a state of art on two H2020 projects, Smart4Health and InteropEHRate, developing formats for European Electronic Health Records in co-creation with the EFN, representing 3 million EU frontline nurses and end-users.
This will be an opportunity to exchange views with MEPs, the European Commission, civil society representatives and industry/SMEs, on the policies and steps to be undertaken to co-design the European Electronic Health Records, knowing that having a European Electronic Health Records' exchange format is a growing priority of the EU Institutions, as pointed out in the Council Conclusions on Health in the Digital Society - making progress in data-driven innovation in the field of health (2017/C440/05) and the European Commission Recommendation on a European Electronic Health Record exchange format (C(2019)800).
In preparation for Horizon Europe, keeping the EU at the forefront of global research and innovation, European Partnerships are key to deliver on fit-for-purpose solutions, co-created with the end-user. Making sure the end-user is central to the design of the Digital Transformation of the healthcare ecosystems' becomes part of strengthening innovation ecosystems and making Horizon Europe a success.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Paul De RaeveEFN Secretary GeneralVisiting Prof. Hopkins University