Round Table ‘E-Health Initiatives in Russia and the Netherlands, towards Patient-centred Care’

On April 25 a round table on ‘E-Health Initiatives in Russia and the Netherlands, towards Patient-Centred Care’ was held at HSE. The event was organized under the auspices of the Russia-Netherlands Bilateral Health Working Group supported by the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, the Higher School of Economics and the Skolkovo Foundation.

The participants discussed the role of e-health technology to stimulate self-care and to ease the burden on traditional healthcare by reducing time in the hospital, enabling (remote) patient monitoring and disease prevention.

The following speakers presented their reports: Professor Petr Kuznetsov (HSE Department of Health Care Administration and Economy, Professor Nick Guldenmond (University Medical Centre Utrecht), Paul Epping (Philips), Irina Efimenko (Higher School of Economics & Semantic Hub), Mark Sluiter (Portavita and Task Force Health Care), Edward Krzhanovskiy (Telebiomet).