This European FP7 project ‘Personal Health Systems Foresight’ has the objective to provide a forum for long-term coordination and strategic guidance across different PHS areas of application such as chronic disease management, life-style management, independent living and emergency services. We bring these different streams closer together through sharing, commenting and assessing VISIONS ON PHS FUTURES. Visions can be totally new creations or they can build on others’ work and include respective references. Share your vision, get connected with the PHS community and influence on EU policy! http://www.phsforesight.eu The project is run by Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria), The University of Manchester (UK) and Impetu Solutions (Spain).

1. PHS Foresight: Scenarios Workshop
University of Manchester, June 13-14, 2013
Laura Pombo-Juárez & Totti Könnölä
Impetu Solutions
Introduction

2. Key Messages
• PHS Foresight
o Networking and Strategic Policy Guidance
• PHS & State-of-the-Art
o Opportunies accross many areas of work
• Insights from Interviews
o Towards New Systemic Approaches
• Envisioning PHS futures
o Online Community Building for International Coordination

3. Personal Health Systems Foresight
• State-of-the-Art Analyses
o R&D cooperation
o User perspectives
o Market conditions
• Online Community
o Sharing, commenting and
assessing PHS visions
o Networking
o International collaboration
• Scenarios and Roadmaps
o Future trajectories, threats
and opportunities
www.phsforesight.eu

4. Personal Health Systems
As defined in the PHS Foresight:
• Ambient, wearable and/or in-body devices, which acquire, monitor and
communicate physiological and other health-related data
• Intelligent processing of the acquired information (data analytics), and
coupling it with expert biomedical knowledge and in some cases, knowledge
of social circumstances and living conditions
• Action based on the processing of acquired information, either applied to the
individuals being monitored, or to health practice more generally, concerning
information provision and/or more active engagement in anything from disease
and disability prevention (for example through diet and lifestyle management)
to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

5. State-of-the-Art

6. Some Insights from
Interviews

7. Streamlining the System
“There is a need to streamline daily life, technological
expertise, home and community engagement and
reimbursement programmes.”
Peter Veltink, Chair Biomedical Signals and Systems, University of Twente
“Technologies are quite advanced; the main problem
is the embeddedness in the services systems. The
institutional environment needs to be changed for the
use of PHS. The health insurance companies,
regulations and so worth create major barriers.”
Daniel Bieber, Geschäftsführer und Wissenschaftlicher Leiter Institut für
Sozialforschung und Sozialwirtschaft (iso) e.V.

8. Barriers to PHS
“There are three relevant barriers:
1. Peer regulatory aspects; Politicians are facing the
problem which have two sides; benefits and risks
related to sharing of information. This is a
fundamental problem in all e-health.
2. Data ownership; where the data is stored and who
has access to it.
3. The verification of the safety of the device.
Software as a medical device; the new directive
on certification and testing?”
Marco Viceconti, Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Sheffield

9. Barriers and Opportunities in Hospitals
“Hospitals would need to change their business
models to engage seriously in PHS, this seems to be
often difficult to happen.”
Rainer Guenzler, HSG-IMIT Institut für Mikro- und Informationstechnik der Hahn
Schickard-Gesellschaft
“The management of operational entities such as
hospitals seem to have key role in promoting and the
implementation of PHS.”
Jack Smith, Tech Foresight Collaborative Insights

10. New Services with Scalability
“We are often replicating the existing system when we
should be thinking differently and come up with really
new systems.”
Anne Moen, Professor, Institute of health and society, University of Oslo
“… focus on how the technology and healthcare are
evolving. PHS technology enables new services. The
potential of PHS is in scalability and this calls for new
ways of arranging how remote patient monitoring /
chronic care management / etc. services are
organized and reimbursed.”
Niilo Saranummi, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

11. Further Coordination
“The integration of different data sources is
increasingly important – this should be addressed by
Horizon 2020.”
Marco Viceconti, Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Sheffield
“Technologies are widely available but they are not
accepted in most of the member states. There is a
need for further coordination and efforts to apply
PHS.”
Rainer Guenzler, HSG-IMIT Institut für Mikro- und Informationstechnik der Hahn
Schickard-Gesellschaft

12. Envisioning PHS Futures
Online Community Building for International Coordination

13. Share Your Vision on PHS
Can you imagine a sort of personal health
system that could be in operation in Europe
by the year 2030?
• Services, products and/or technologies
• User perspectives and implications to
healthcare professional
• Political, legal, and institutional framework
conditions
www.phsforesight.eu
“Sign in, share
your vision and
get connected
with the growing
PHS community!”

14. 2030 Visions on PHS Futures

17. Engage with the Growing PHS Community
www.phsforesight.eu

18. THANK YOU!
• PHS Foresight
o Networking and Strategic Policy Guidance
• PHS & State-of-the-Art
o Opportunies accross many areas of work
• Insights from Interviews
o Towards New Systemic Approaches
• Envisioning PHS futures
o Online Community Building for International Coordination
www.phsforesight.eu