EOSC4Cancer was proud to co-organise the European Health Data and Innovation Summit on January 30th in Warsaw, Poland. The event attracted ~350 in-person attendees and around 2250 online participants. It was organized in parallel sessions, in English or Polish, highlighting a variety of aspects concerning the digitalization of healthcare, Health Data Spaces, and the development of personalized medicine. Experts from the public sector, private sector, and European institutions and initiatives participated in the sessions. The symposium was organized in collaboration with the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (NIL), TEHDAS2, EOSC4Cancer, Polish Ministry of Health, and EIT Health.
EOSC4Cancer’s project coordinator, Dr. Salvador Capella Gutierrez, spoke in the high-level panel in the “Future outlook of EHDS and digital health in Europe” , contributing his expertise in:
Along with the other panelists – Artur Drobniak (NIL), Mélodie Bernaux (European Commission), Myriam Fernández (Amazon Web Services), Jean-Marc Bourez (EIT Health) – and moderated by Artur Olesch, various aspects of the topics mentioned above and the outlook for Digital Health in Europe were discussed. The recording can be accessed on youtube.
In collaboration with TEHDAS2, EOSC4Cancer hosted a workshop titled “European Health Data Space meets cancer data”, exploring how both parts can move closer. The workshop was moderated by Carola Schulz.
The workshop was organized in three separate sessions. The first was an overview of EOSC4Cancer and other Digital Health Initiatives of the EU Cancer Mission, led by speakers Salvador Capella Gutierrez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Angelo Solimini (European Commission). The following plenary was a panel discussion on bringing EHDS into Cancer Research. Mélodie Bernaux (European Commission), Nienke Schutte (Sciensano), Maciej Bobowicz (Medical University of Gdansk), Goretti Mallorquí Fernandez (VHIO), and Wei Gu (Luxembourg National Data Service) are all experts in the field of healthcare data and research. They all provided information on different facets of the EHDS, the benefits of its implementation into cancer research, and possible challenges this effort can face.
The workshop closed with a group discussion, led by Jan-Willem Boiten (Lygature) and Carola Schulz (empirica). The session centered around European and National level implementation of EHDS in research, with special focus on Health Data Access Bodies and national health cancer data nodes. Main takeaways highlighted the potential of cancer data nodes as health data intermediaries and the need for synergies in governance, technical infrastructures and personnel. Outcomes will feed into the EOSC4Cancer Roadmap for a Cancer Data Space.
