{"id":17468,"date":"2024-06-13T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:27:08","slug":"efn-selected-by-who-europe-as-expert-for-the-spi-ddh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=17468","title":{"rendered":"EFN Selected by WHO Europe as expert for the SPI-DDH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/news-room\/events\/item\/2024\/06\/13\/default-calendar\/launch-of-the-strategic-partners--initiative-for-data-and-digital-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strategic Partners\u2019 Initiative for Data and Digital Health (SPI-DDH)<\/a><\/strong> builds on the digital health action plan for the WHO European Region 2023-2030, developed in September 2022, to operationalise the WHO Global strategy on digital health 2020\u20132025. The resolution calls upon WHO Member States <em>\u201cto develop effective partnerships with (\u2026) all the relevant stakeholders across all sectors, to align their efforts (\u2026) in the digital health area\u201d<\/em>. <strong>The EFN is thus attending the launch conference of the SPI-DDH taking place today in Copenhagen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">As expert partner, the EFN will focus on one key working group topic \u201c<strong>Unlocking more capacity and access to healthcare with digitalisation and responsible AI<\/strong>\u201d, although the other 2 working groups \u201c<strong>Leveraging data and digital technologies to bring healthcare and prevention into the home<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c <strong>An ecosystem approach to standards and interoperability in healthcare<\/strong>\u201d are also important for frontline nurses. In addition, WHO included a fourth working group on public health focusing on <strong>the intersection of data and digital health with mental health and the health workforce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">COVID-19 put health systems and the healthcare workforce under incredible pressure, while they were already coping with long term structural constraints. Many nurses have left the profession for better work conditions, and those who are still practicing spend more time on administrative tasks than at the bedside. Technology solutions can help free up time for healthcare professionals, improve their work environment, reducing stress and errors, and letting them focus on patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The EFN will thus contribute to the SPI-DDH in order to empower nurses via digitalisation and responsible AI. The following key questions will guide the EFN\u2019s work in the SPI-DDH: <strong>1\/<\/strong> How can digitalisation and AI be integrated in health education systems to ensure a digitally literate and competent health workforce? What is needed to foster Life-Long Learning in digital health? &nbsp;<strong>2\/<\/strong> How are nurses being engaged in the co-creation of digital health technologies? &nbsp;<strong>3\/ <\/strong>How can we ensure that digital interventions reduce, rather than increase, the burden on the healthcare workforce? &nbsp;<strong>4\/<\/strong> What policy actions are required by governments and key stakeholders to improve the impact of, and prioritise investments in &nbsp;digital health to unlock more capacity and access? Are there best practices that can be implemented? &nbsp;<strong>5\/<\/strong> How can we accelerate the adoption of digital health solutions and develop data driven health ecosystems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the ecosystem approach to standards and interoperability in healthcare is a key topic for nurses, as it can positively impact their workload. To improve interoperability in healthcare, we must first comprehend the heterogeneity of health systems, how technology procurement decisions are made, and what barriers to implementation of standards exist. <strong>The SPI-DDH can contribute to this by facilitating the exchange of intelligence and best practices<\/strong>. This is important, because while in Europe this situation is slowly changing, there is still a limited understanding by policy makers as to their role in driving interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem, which requires first to reach a common understanding of interoperability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, also how to leverage data and digital technologies to bring front-line care and disease prevention into the home will be discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The increasing ability of digital health services to share patients\u2019 data is driving new modalities of care delivery and opening new possibilities for disease prevention and management. The combination of enhanced digital and diagnostic capabilities, changing care delivery models, and health-related information becoming freely available on the internet, is empowering individuals to manage their own health and well-being. Utilizing digital technologies to integrate care teams virtually, it is also becoming more relevant to think of primary care not only as having a \u201cgatekeeper role\u201d, but as providing a \u201cmultiplier effect\u201d within integrated care teams \u2013 linking and enabling the right person at the right time for the right intervention, also with the support of AI. This is however reliant upon resources being made available to care providers. <strong>The SPI-DDH will thus explore how to facilitate and better implement this.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strategic Partners\u2019 Initiative for Data and Digital Health (SPI-DDH)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16902,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=16902","url_meta":{"origin":17468,"position":0},"title":"\u201cSafe &#038; Health work in the Digital Age 2023-2025\u201d \u2013 EFN in partnership with OSHA!","author":"efn efn","date":"October 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The EFN is pleased to announce that it has been acknowledged as Official Campaign Partner of the\u00a0Safe and healthy work in the digital age 2023-2025 of\u00a0OSHA\u00a0\u2013 the European Information Agency for Occupational Safety and Health, with the main aim to ensure a human-centred approach to managing digital technologies in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/POST-2-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/POST-2-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/POST-2-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/POST-2-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/POST-2-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15612,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=15612","url_meta":{"origin":17468,"position":1},"title":"SMART4HEALTH PROJECT \u2013 KEY FINAL RESULTS!","author":"efn efn","date":"February 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Smart4Health is the European Project started in 2019 and coordinated by Uninova in which the EFN has been a key partner. 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