The response to the coming health challenges will depend on a closer network of public-private partnerships and international cooperation.
The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference was held in Helsinki, Finland with the aim of analyzing and targeting the public sector of the challenges and future projects involved in the development of digital health.
The key point reached was collaboration between the different countries of the world to unify ideas and strategies that can find their importance in unity and teamwork.
“By bringing together people from different countries and sectors, the academia, businesses and government, we have a better chance of finding new solutions. By working and discussing together about the challenges and ... to better health, we are moving towards new innovations”, said Päivi Sillanaukee, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland.
This country has been set out very early in its agenda to reap the highest points to work on the health of the population, which is why since the 60s it has been collecting data from the socio-economic situation of their people and thus creating a digital data bank to establish an effective action plan.
Kanta is a good creative example , a reserve of digitized data embedded in the cloud and where any patient at any time can consult their clinical records or request prescriptions in a practical electronic document system; the experience of navigating this app is more affable and the method becomes indispensable to ensure state of well-being.
Additionally, together with Kanta, it becomes viable to make use of all this information resources to make a path for research and projects that have as a standard go deeper into the field of digital health and innovate it with technological advances that allow to expand the way digital data is used to improve medicine and achieve applications aimed at solving emerging health problems.
Finland believes that by using Findata (digital data set) institutions and other agencies around the world will be able to have a freedom to share what is necessary to develop public health proposals.
Building good digital health services alone is impossible, such a task must be supported by mass teams from various countries around the world with the same goal: to improve people's health and prevent disease from home with the help of technology.
