EHTEL Symposium 2013
Sustainable partnerships for well-being and eHealth
The yearly EHTEL Symposium 2013 brought together the European eHealth community – European health policy leaders, strategic European projects and initiatives, NGOs, industry representatives and other stakeholders – in the heart of Brussels, Belgium.
Speakers, panellists and delegates shared lessons on:
- Citizens and patients in the driving seat: online interaction with healthcare services, access to health records and putting meaningful eHealth services in patients' hands
- Partnerships in health care and social care as a sustainable support for ageing well
- Synergies of value-added services and shared infrastructures for sustainable health care
- "Open data" vs. "big data": implications for personal health and public health policies
- Personalised medicine in the era of big data, e.g. what is in for tailored prevention and what do we need to achieve to maintain privacy and security?
The EHTEL 2013 Symposium was hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), a consultative body that gives representatives of Europe's socio-occupational interest groups, and others, a formal platform to express their points of views on EU issues. Its opinions are forwarded to the larger institutions – the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament. It thus has a key role to play in the Union's decision-making process.
