Today it’s been the last day of the eHealth week 2010, loads of conclusions have been made, a lot of ideas have been exposed and there’s this feeling that we are working as a team. Different projects around the world have been presented and speakers discovered similar applications in other countries, like twins that find each other after a long time, working for the same aims.
We would like to highlight several conclusions in this last post:
1. To make all this eHealth system an eHealth governance have to be created, to ensure that all the ideas thrown up in the air are collected and processed to drive forward the project.
2. The technology is bringing new opportunities to change our lifestyle for a healthier one.
3. Without any doubt, the eHealth has to be integrated to the health system in the best and most efficient way possible to ensure a larger number of patients to be treated successfully.
4. Most of the political and governmental came to the eHealth week 2010 with great expectations and left with challenges to be achieve, probably bigger than the ones they were confronting before the event.
5. The eHealth system should be the result of healthcare professionals, politicians, institutions, private enterprises and citizens.
6. The center of the system is the patient and he/she has to have the right information at the right time.
7. The social networking is already a big tool for the majority of the world population, some of the information that is shared there is bad. The institutions and platforms (already exiisting like yelp, sermo, etc.) should make sure that the information in these tools is correct.
8. There are researches that are being already developed that show how the eHealth is a reality (not only a dream) and the results are good in all the examples.
9. One of the biggest challenges is to achieve the interoperability. The sooner we achieve standardization, the sooner the system will be implemented.
10. eHealth is the sustainable version of the Health system around the world, without it in a few years the health systems across the planet won’t be sustainable anymore.
