Tech Talks Central

Tina Miteko chats with George Dafoulas, eHealth Services Coordinator for Municipality of Trikala, proclaimed as the “First Digital City in Greece”, about e-Trikala S.A., a company which is focused on developing innovative technology solutions to improve citizens’ life; the growing need for telehealth services for European citizens; and the company’s participation on European projects such as SmartCare and United4Health.

Tina Miteko discusses with Benoit Abeloos, Research Program Officer, eHealth for the European Commission about the progress in eHealth that has been made so far in Europe; the obstacles that need to be surpassed; EU data protection policies; and initiatives which foster entrepreneurship and job growth.

Tina Miteko interviews John Quinn, HL7 CTO and a Managing Director at Accenture about the problems that digital technology can help solve within healthcare; the impact of big data and what needs to be done for the industry to capture its value.

Tina Miteko and Liz Mestheneos, past president of AGE Platform Europe talk about the problems and the opportunities that come with population ageing; the role that the 50+ Hellas organization plays; what AGE Platform Europe is; and current projects that are focusing on leveraging feedback from older persons and policymakers in order to provide accessible technologies.

Tina Miteko talks with John Crawford, IBM’s Healthcare Industry Leader Europe, about major problems and inefficiencies within healthcare, the types of problems big data can help solve, IBM’s Watson technology and its impact on healthcare.

Tina Miteko chats with John Hoyt, Executive Vice President, HiMSS Analytics about health IT and its role in improving patient care; interoperability initiatives which are aimed to address the fragmented healthcare market; and ways to measure adoption and successful implementation of health IT.

Tina Miteko chats with Alexander Berler, Chair of HL7 Hellas and Director at Gnomon Informatics about the interoperability challenges that exist today in healthcare; innovative initiatives such as the Greek ePrescription system; and how European-wide pilot projects such as epSOS are helping to reach cross-border interoperability between health record systems in Europe.

Tina Miteko interviews Paul Timmers, Director of of the Sustainable and Secure Society Directorate in DG Connect, European Commission conversing about the role that the European Commission plays to facilitate information exchange among European countries; the European priorities in eHealth; policy issues on mHealth; steps that are being taken to ensure data security and privacy; the transatlantic collaboration and MoU between EU and US; and his take on how the healthcare industry is going to look like within the next decade.

In this insightful interview Brian O’Connor, Chairman of the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) about the role of digital health as a contributor to reforming healthcare; examples of innovative healthcare solutions; and what the future of digital health holds. Interviewed by TTC’s Tina Miteko.

Tina Miteko chats with Helen Figge, VP of Clinical Integration for Alere ACS about the role that health IT plays in improving patient care and efficiency; data security and privacy; and how big data can impact the healthcare sector.

We chat with Zac Bowling from Apportable about the challenges that developers of mobile games are facing today; what Apportable is doing in the mobile gaming space; and his take on how mobile gaming is going to evolve. Interviewed by Tina Miteko of Tech Talks Central.