Optimizing Health Data: Swedish-French-German Perspectives

The EU’s healthcare sector is in a profound transition phase and the accessibility of up-to-date and reliable health data is a crucial aspect to drive healthcare innovation across the EU. Health systems generate, process, and store a vast amount of data. However, it often remains difficult for researchers and the industry to access this health data digitally and use it to improve diagnosis and treatments.

The Trilateral Innovation Platform (TIP) is a joint initiative with Vinnova, the Swedish Innovation Agency, bringing together stakeholders from the healthcare industry to create innovative responses to common healthcare challenges. To foster long-term strategic partnerships between Sweden, France, and Germany, TIP creates a forum for companies, academia, and the public sector to develop state-of-the-art projects and form sustainable consortia.

Together with Vinnova, Swelife and Medtech4Health (MT4H), two strategic innovation programs in Sweden aimed at enhancing the life science and medical technology sectors in Europe, we invite you to a joint 60-minute webinar to showcase innovative initiatives from Germany, France and Sweden which drive efficiency in treatment and support physicians in their decision-making by effectively leveraging health data. Moreover, the webinar is an opportunity to learn more about the TIP and how the initiative can support you in finding partners within France, Germany, and Sweden to drive your innovation projects.

We are happy to announce our confirmed speakers presenting state-of-the-art projects in the digital health data field:

• Maro Bader, Excellence Lead Digital Transformation at Roche AG and Founder of project Sphin-X, an initiative by the Federation of German Industries, aimed to create an innovative, collaborative data space for the healthcare sector that preserves data sovereignty, builds trust, and increases efficiency.
• Emma Bäcke, Programme Manager International Cooperation at Vinnova, Sweden's innovation agency, tasked with promoting sustainable growth by funding research and development of effective innovation systems. 
• Luc Delporte, Purchasing and Access to Innovation Director at Unicancer, a French federation of 20 not-for-profit health establishments specialized in oncology and cancer research (including e.g. Gustave Roussy, Institut Curie, and Centre Leon Berárd).
• Sevim Barbasso Helmers, Project Manager DIGIfor1healthSE, SciLifeLab Data Centre. SciLifeLab leverages the unique strengths of individual researchers across Sweden into a focused resource for the life science community. It provides thousands of researchers access to cutting-edge instrumentation and deep scientific expertise necessary to be internationally competitive in bioscience research.
• Lars Lindsköld, President of the European Federation for Medical Informatics Association (EFMI), the leading organization in medical informatics in Europe, representing 32 countries. EFMI aims to advance international co-operation and dissemination of information and promote research and development in medical informatics.
• Claes Lundström, Research Director at Sectra and Director of Analytic Imaging Diagnostics Arena (AIDA), a Swedish arena for research and innovation in medical image analysis. Actors from academia, healthcare and industry meet to translate AI technology advances into patient benefit in the form of clinically useful tools.
• Ulrich Stein, Lead Coordinator & Head of the Fraunhofer Center for Digital Diagnostics (ZDD), which combines expertise from cell therapy, bioanalytics, and experimental software engineering to develop technologies and solutions along a digital diagnostic value chain.