Workshop Update: MyData and Blockchain-based innovation in the Digital Health Sector

Oslo Cancer Cluster hosted a workshop co-organized by Alpha Venturi on “MyData and Blockchain-based innovation in the digital Health sector” on 14 November 2016 @ Jónas Einarsson Auditorium. 

Stakeholders and companies from Norway, Finland, United Kingdom and Estonia have been involved in the brainstorming sessions on several aspects of digital health revolution. The Norwegian Health Directorate, Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research and University in Oulu/Digital Health Revolution from Norway and Finland introduced their respective country perspectives on digital healthcare and progress made relative to MyData.

Multinational biopharmaceutical company Amgen presented their views on the potential gains from such an approach. Alpha Venturi iterated the importance of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies as a potential game changer for Healthcare among other industries. Two foreign companies, Digi.me from UK and Guardtime from Estonia, have also been invited as external speakers to come and present their respective approach to enable access and sharing of personal health data, one of which based on Blockchain, and the pilots they are implementing respectively in Iceland and Estonia among others.

During this workshop, Alpha Venturi and Oslo Cancer Cluster, moderated the discussions on further perspectives on technologies like Blockchain for Health Care and Personalised Medicine. The first half of the workshop included informative presentations from the delegates, and the later half was focused on brainstorming discussions on potential collaborations.

Alpha Venturi will soon release a report from this workshop that will include short-term and long-term visions, recommendations of the activities and innovation projects in digital health space that can be initiated in Norway in partnership with other Nordic countries. You contact the CEO of Alpha Venturi, Wilfried Pimenta de Miranda at: wilfried@alpha-venturi.com

Given below is the glimpse of the workshop agenda:

Start	Activity		Min.
8.45		Arrival of the first participants
9.10	Welcome, presentation of participants and background for the initiative Oslo Cancer Cluster – Gupta Udatha Alpha Venturi – Wilfried Pimenta de Miranda		20
9.30	Norway: Overview of the e-health situation and roadmap, examples Norwegian Health Directorate – Erik Hedlund		10
9.40	Norway: Perspectives on ongoing e-health research and innovation related to MyData Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research – Gustav Bellika		10
9.50	Finland: Overview of the e-health situation and roadmap, examples Digital Health Revolution – Maritta Perälä-Heape		20
10.10	The changing data landscape and its impact on biopharma Amgen- Jonathan Doogan		30
10.40	Pause		10
10.50	A person centric example, Health Iceland Living Lab Digi.me – Julian Ranger and Andrew Carmody		30
11.20	Q&A		20
11.40	Lunch – Open discussions and networking		60
12.40	Introduction to Blockchain + Use cases in the Health sector Alpha Venturi – Wilfried Pimenta de Miranda		30
13.10	Healthcare pilot for Estonia Guardtime – Martin Ruubel		30
13.40	Q&A		20
14.20	Pause		10
14.30	How could a person centric approach be applied to a Norway/Finland healthcare sector		30
15.00	How to make personal data available to individuals		30
15.30	Pause		15
15.45	Building a common vision for the partnership, design principles, initial pilot thoughts		45
16.30	Agreement of next steps; creation of working group to follow up from the day		45
17.15	End & Networking until 17.45		30

For further information and discussions on Oslo Cancer Cluster’s digital health projects, please contact our Project Manager D.B.R.K. Gupta Udatha

Oslo Cancer Cluster and NCE Smart Energy Markets together with four European clusters in medicine and IT managed to land a prestigious Horizon 2020 EU project. The EU project will use innovative IT solutions to develop personalized cancer treatment. Allocated funds are 45 million NOK, of which 34 million NOK are earmarked for small and medium enterprises in the clusters. The EU project with the sounding name “Personalised Medicine Innovation through Digital Enterprise Solutions: PERMIDES”, will utilize digital tools and novel solutions from the IT sector  to support the development of new cancer treatment. This will be achieved by matching small and medium enterprises from the IT and the biopharma sector for joint innovation projects.

View PERMIDES page