digitalLIFE4CE experienced an amazing year. We are now looking forward to finalise our project and to deliver more outputs in 2019.

Happy Healthy New 2019

On the 3rd of December, Technology Park Ljubljana hosted the 5th conference on digital healthcare – Healthday.si. The underlaying theme were the innovation financing mechanisms & opportunities, with an emphasis on those related to Healthcare sector.

by Urška Rauter

How to reach the people who are not yet interested in digital health prevention and promotion solutions? – a question, to which digitalLIFE4CE project partners looked for answers in a workshop on 27.11.2018 in Leipzig together with stakeholders from the Saxony region. The best practice solutions of two german start ups provided input for the development of answers.

by Beatrice Blankschein

The University of Applied Sciences Burgenland organized the international e-nova conference on 23. November 2018, which visited about 200 participants from six nations. The projects “digitalLIFE4CE” and “COOP4HEALTHCARE”  organized an individual session for the topic “Active Assisted Living solutions based on human factor”. 

by Alexandra Weghofer

DigitalLIFE4CE project partners have developed an english-speaking online knowledge platform for the field of integrated healthcare. The "Learning and knowledge Hub" gives access to state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of health care and digitalization in six online sessions. The platform is primarily aimed at health professionals, students, policy makers, regional and public authorities, entrepreneurs and other interested stakeholders.

In order to facilitate mutual learning and knowledge transfer,  project partners Rebecca Winter (VFG Leipzig e.V.), and STEP RI organized an onsite visit and mobility action to Leipzig. The main aim of the study visit was to learn about best practices in the field of integrated digital healthcare solutions in the region of Saxony, with the focus to see which of those practices could be transferable to Croatia and how.

by Ana Marković Čunko

On November 5 and 6th 2018, Bruno Kessler Foundation organized a “Business model evaluation” workshop as Mobility action of  the DigitalLIFE4CE project. The main goal was to deal with the Trentino Governance Model Trentino Salute 4.0 (TS4.0) and set up an evaluation and possible way to implement a sustainable model.

by Olivia Balagna

Looking at the various healthcare systems in our partner countries, we daily see the difference in our work. Those differences we aim to connected to enhance the quality of the citizens each digitalLIFE4CE region. The main question is, how to build the bridges and how to make it happen.

by Rebecca Winter

DigitalLIFE4CE catches a glimpse of the future at the visit of the AM-Lab of Pannon Business Network Association (PBN) in Szombathely, Hungary. During the on-site visit on 4th October 2018 the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland got a live presentation of several innovative health applications.

by Alexandra Weghofer  

The Saxon State Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer came together on 24. September 2018 for the Foreign Cabinet meeting in Brussels to discuss the continuation of the European policy priorities and introduced digitalLIFE4CE. 

How can the EU contribute to uptake of e-health technologies and help in facing challenges in digital healthcare? This question was the theme of the e-Health congress in Budapest. Our poject partners participated at interesting workshops and panel discussions.

by Alexandra Weghofer

Networking is a core element of digitalLIFE4CE project. In the last 15 months, the digitialLIFE4CE partnership has been building “Innovation Network Alliances” and “Healthcare Excellence Spots” to foster transnational networks in Central Europe. Two project partners now are going to intensify their work in a new project: "COOP4HEALTHCARE"

by Alexandra Weghofer

Saxony’s Minister of Health Barbara Klepsch and Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer welcomed over 400 participants from the fields of health, politics and science on 17. September 2018 at the "Saxon Day of Telemedicine" in Leipzig. Among 25 projects, digitalLIFE4CE was selected as one of the highlighted projects in the field of digitization in healthcare and telemedicine that were presented at the event.

































by Rebecca Winter

In this interview you get to know our polish project partner in Wroclaw. WPT is a company whose shareholders are the City of Wroclaw, the five largest universities in Wroclaw and the Lower Silesian Chamber of Commerce. The main task of WPT is to support companies developing modern technologies in various fields. WPT has 12 specialized laboratories that are available to companies for research and development of products and services.

"Gramma is a bit messy and she keeps losing her paper documents: as a matter of fact, she was overstressed because she could not find the folder containing all her medical records and her documents. She has turned her place upside down but could not find her latest blood tests and the ticket for the phlebologist appointment she desperately needed. This was a disaster! She was panicking; the appointment was the next week and she had been waiting for it for over six months. Seeing her like that made me feel useless” - explained Paola.

by Sara Testa & Olivia Balagna

Mattone Internazionale Salute Programe– ProMIS, has organised a workshop in Trento entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Chronic disease management", attended by a hundred participants in both days. The event gathered together not only local and national representatives of Italy but also representatives of the European Institutions, tackling the issues related to this important topic both at European and national level.

by Sara Testa

As part of the Digital Life project, a New Joint Strategy was prepared, defining the priorities and directions of activities in the field of digital healthcare management. The aim of preparing the strategy was to examine the current state of digitalization in healthcare, currently functioning national and regional strategies in various countries of Central Europe.

by Bartlomiej Ostrowski

Along with the first signs of summer, digitalLIFE4CE partner from Croatia, STEP RI, organized a partner meeting in Rijeka. This event was held on 4th and 5th of June 2018, and it consisted of a partner meeting, Steering Committee meeting, workshop, as well as presentation of Croatian healthcare system by Prof. Dr. Igor Prpić.

by  Ana Marković Čunko

The main challenges of the nowadays-healthcare system, in particular within the Central Europe area, are represented by its fragmentation and the lack of cooperation between its main stakeholders. Moreover, the research and innovation structure of this field does not allow fruitful interactions among actors: as a consequence, knowledge transfer along the digital healthcare-sector-value chain, is hampered. 

by Sara Testa

In order to test the learning hub, aka Moodle, The Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) has prepared and sent a questionnaire to the partners to collect feedback and prepare report about testing and made improvements. Therefore after received feedback from partners, PAT will prepare a short description of the necessary improvements of the learning hub.

by Olivia Balagna

Get to know our digitalLIFE4CE partner in Croatia in this partner interview.
STEP Ri Science and Technology Park of the University of Rijeka is the premier science and technology hub, facilitating the commercialization of Research and Development and to foster cooperation between the scientific community and industry in the region. They are one of the best business support institutions in Croatia and host our partner meeting in June 2018.

The public event “Long night of Research” was opened by the governor of Burgenland Hans Niessl and Managing Director of University of Applied Sciences Burgenland Georg Pehm. After the opening, a science talk took place. The aim of public event was to raise awareness for digital healthcare, showcase excellent research solutions and give some general project information. At Long night of Research 350 visitors took part and gained new insights into world of Research and digital Healthcare. Project highlighted excellent solutions at “digitalLIFE4CE booth”.

by Alexandra Weghofer

A new and unique healthcare expert platform took place in Leipzig for the very first time - XPOMET. 
Project partner VFG Leipzig e.V. introduced the project at the Vision Market presented by the City of Leipzig and invited participants to get involved in digitalLIFE4CE. See full presentation at our YouTube Channel.

Transnational working groups and learning hub with seven thematic learning modules are improving transnational knowledge exchange. Health care actors and stakeholders get the possibility to use state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of integrated health care and digitalization. The international context of the project helps to transfer experiences and generate new knowledge.

by Alexandra Weghofer

After introducing our new project partner GFL in Leipzig, we'd like to continue with the region Saxony and introduce our partner VFG Leipzig e.V. in this partner interview.
Learn about VFGs motivation for being partner in digitalLIFE4CE project.

Project Partners have established a visualization to showcase excellent solutions and best practice case studies. This solution is called “digital health excellence spots”. Toolbox shows visualization of healthcare innovation potentials, because mapped solutions and case studies are excellent, innovative and transferable to other regions. 

by Alexandra Weghofer

A great workshop was held in Rome at the beginning of the year 2018, whit the participation of some of the Italian Regional Reference Sites of ProMIS – as organisers – and the European partners of the “DigitalLife”Project.The main goal of the workshop was the creation of the preconditions for strong, long term cooperation in the field of digital health between public and private stakeholders, trying to identify concrete short term and mid-term actions, like joint cooperation in future national and international projects. 
by Àkos Eder

The consortium discussed achievements so far and tasks to achieve future goals. The revision of relevant documents led to the development of Digital Healthcare Excellence Spots Transnational & Regional Action plans. Group workshop was carried out to further elaborate activities (learning activities, building up of alliances, hub activities) and to set the base for development of action plan for identified Alliances. 
by Mojca Cvirn

Around last Christmas we found ourselves in a project partner subsititution. Now it's time to get to know the new partner in digitalLIFE4CE project. Gesundheitsforen Leipzig GmbH will enrich our project team and is now VFG Leipzig's new regional partner for fostering innovation in integrated healthcare system solutions. Welcome on board! Click headline for reading the partner interview.

Healthday.si, a yearly conference on digital health community has been organised in Ljubljana on  6^th December 2017. The aim of the conference was to tackle key challenges in innovation in healthcare with a different - lateral approach.  The main discussion was around significant challenges in innovation processes in healthcare industry; lengthy commercialisation processes, access to financial resources to develop innovations and weak collaboration between innovators and health experts.
by Mocja Cvirn