HIP Open Innovation Talk

In the HIP Open Innovation Talk, we take a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities of using health data platforms and how they can improve our healthcare.

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These are our topics:

Host Dr Nils Hellrung, healthcare pioneer and vitagroup’s Director Strategy and Operations, discusses with his guests, among other things:

• How interoperable platforms can improve healthcare.
• How healthcare data can be made available effectively and securely – across system boundaries.
• What standards and regulations are really needed.
• How innovative technology solutions will change the relationship between patients, doctors and other healthcare providers.

Join us at the HIP Open Innovation Talk and take a look at the possibilities and developments of tomorrow’s healthcare.

Episode 1: Aloha McBride & Erik Vermeulen | EY

In the first episode of the HIP Open Innovation Talk, Dr Nils Hellrung talks to Aloha McBride and Erik Vermeulen from EY about global perspectives on open healthcare data platforms, the necessary coexistence of different standards and the question of whether vendor independence is a luxury that only large or national infrastructures can afford.

Episode 2: Rachel Dunscombe | openEHR International

In this episode we explore with our guest Rachel Dunscombe, CEO of openEHR International, why the 20-year-old openEHR standard is gaining momentum. We discuss how openEHR and its innovative data-first procurement approach can enable AI, and offer a glimpse into the future of healthcare data management.

Episode 3: Dr. Andreas Tecklenburg | consus.health GmbH (Episode in German)

In episode 3 of the HIP Open Innovation Talk, Dr Nils Hellrung talks to Dr Andreas Tecklenburg, Managing Director of consus.health, a physician and digitalisation expert with a unique wealth of experience. How can interoperability succeed, why is it important to develop and implement a data-centric strategy and what does Tarzan have to do with it?

Episode 4: Hendrik Riedel | Digital Avantgarde GmbH (Episode in German)

In the fourth episode of the HIP Open Innovation Talk, host Dr Nils Hellrung talks to Hendrik Riedel, Managing Director at Digital Avantgarde, about what a data-centric architecture is and how it can be implemented in a targeted manner. The two experts discuss what tasks a Clinical Data Repository (CDR) fulfills and what the future holds for the healthcare sector after the KHZG.

Episode 5: Dr Gottfried Ludewig | T-Systems (Episode in German)

In episode five of our HIP Open Innovation Talk, host Dr Nils Hellrung and Dr Gottfried Ludewig, Senior Vice President of the Health Industry Division at T-Systems, discuss Germany’s innovative strength in the healthcare sector and the highlights of DMEA 2024. They explain the background to the partnership between an HIS manufacturer and vitagroup and give an outlook on upcoming developments in the next one to two years.

Episode 6: Jordi Piera Jimenéz | Catalan Health Service

In episode 6 of our HIP Open Innovation Talk podcast, host Dr Nils Hellrung talks to Jordi Piera Jimenéz, Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office at Catalan Health Service, about the four generations of health platforms and the key characteristics of open health platforms. Together they discuss how to convince policy makers to invest in these sustainable health platforms.

Episode 6: Jens Dommel | AWS

In episode 7 of our HIP Open Innovation Talk podcast, host Dr. Nils Hellrung talks to Jens Dommel, Head of Healthcare for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at AWS (Amazon Web Services). They discuss whether health data in the cloud will become the norm, the value of central data lakes and a core open health data platform in the digitalization of healthcare, and how the partnership between vitagroup and AWS will enable customers to securely deploy EHRbase and the HIP worldwide within minutes.