digital health & wellness summit @ mobile world congress 2016

Building European digital health environment: view from an open eSociety - Estonia

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 24 Feb 2016

Ain Aaviksoo, MD MPH

Chief Information and Innovation Officer

Mobile World Congress 2016 - Aaviksoo

2013 2020

The volume of (digital) data in healthcare

is growing inconceivably

• 153 exabytes

• 5,500 miles'

stack of laptops

• 2,314 exabytes

• 82,500 miles'

stack of laptops

Source: IDC/EMC Digital Universe Study 2014


„In the next 10 years,

data science will do more for medicine

than all biological sciences combined“

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures29 Sept, 2013, Stanford Medicine X Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVJoKqrOsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVJoKqrOsI


„Big data is not just a quantitative change,

it is a conceptual and methodological change.

It will transform the way we do science and

the way we deliver care. “

dr Martin Rossor

via „Data-Driven Innovation. Big Data for Growth and Well-Being“. OECD 2015


Estonian National Health Information System

is successful

• Nationwide medical data exchange platform launched in 2008

✓95% of data in hospitals and family doctors’ offices is digital

✓up to 30% process efficiency - more services for the same money

✓94% of prescriptions digital - citizen satisfaction l

✓100% insurance claims digital - precise state oversight and planning

✓97% of patients have countrywide digital record - exponential demand for new services

✓60% of limited workability assessments based on HIS documents only

(i.e. without any additional paperwork or medical investigations)

✓/…/


Trustworthy eSociety: robust technology implemented

with citizen-centric approach

1. Provision of truly value-adding public digital services

2. Full individual oversight over their health data usage

3. Legal & technical framework for transparent data processing

4. Robust and secure integration of health data


A chair, a computer and an individual


Efficient digital services

for effective & citizen-centric health system

in support of various health needs

1

High quality

health data &

IT infrastructure

2

Citizen-centric

and personalized

care

3

Holistic care

management

processes and

collaborative

providers

4

Outcome-

oriented service

development and

analysis

5

Teleservices for

service efficiency

BETTER INFORMATION – MORE HEALTH!

Estonian

National

eHealth

Strategy

2020

Genome Bank (Est 2001)

52 000 donors

(5% of the population)

Digital health data

from 9 sources

(+10y history)

International investments

for personalized medicine+ +

Estonian National

Personalized Medicine

Programme

1. Feasibility and value in clinical environment

2. ICT infrastructure build-up

3. Innovation ecosystem for collaborative

R&D, clinical and business development2016-2020

International

business collaboration

Rapid clinical application

of personalized medicine

approach & decision-

support tools

Personalized medicine

centre of excellence

Internationally open

research and business

development

collaboration platform

Example

of

a strategic

investment


Digital Single Market for Health - a categorical imperative

ACCESS for consumers & businesses

ENVIRONMENTfor innovation & development

ECONOMY & SOCIETYwith strong growth potential

Empowered

citizens/

Effective

health

system

New

products &

services

Well-

monitored

patients

Growing

health

economy

Citizen-

centered

services

Cross-

border

collaboration


Empowering all European individuals with

... technologial, organisational and legal framework to

actively manage their own health data

will yield in ...

1. opportunities to improve the health of European citizens

2. contribute to the advancement of European digital economy


We just do IT here… but IT is only the beginning

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