CORDIScovery Podcast | Number 04 (May 2021)

#04 Transforming EU health systems

Abstract:

As COVID-19 finally seems to be receding on the back of a pumped-up vaccination drive being dished out across Europe at increasing speed, the latest episode of CORDIScovery is looking ahead to the post-pandemic future, specifically at new and exciting technological innovations that have the potential to transform European healthcare over the coming years.

In this episode of CORDIScovery four distinguished guests to find out about several exciting innovations that will help to transform European healthcare in the years to come in the post-pandemic world:-

• Lars Montelius, Director–General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, and a professor in Nanotechnology at Lund University, Sweden offers his valuable insights into how nanotech is going to boost healthcare.
• Corina Sas, professor in Human Computer Interaction and Digital Health at Lancaster University, discusses her interest in devices that have a role to play in helping us deal with mental health challenges.
• Dr Elena Phillips, based at the Hamburg Centre for Health Economics, provides some answers to questions posed by such technology; however sophisticated the digital solutions are, will people always prefer face-to-face contact with a psychiatrist?
• Aleksandra Torbica, the President of Italian Health Economics Association, tells us more about whether the decision to work our what cutting-edge tech to fund can be simplified?

Official

EU CORDIS: Horizon 2020 Projects: Improving quality of care in Europe. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/721402

EU CORDIS: Horizon 2020 Projects: Pushing the boundaries of cost and outcome analysis of medical technologies. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/779306

EU CORDIS: Horizon 2020 Projects: Personal technologies for affective health https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/722022

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