This document represents one of the delivrables (D1) foreseen by the GÉANT Community Programme Task Force.
Content:
eHealth Baselining Event Gap Analysis
- Objectives and outcomes of the eHealth Baselining Event
- Community involvement and identified gaps
- Outcomes and agreed steps forward
eHealth BoF at TNC21 Gap Analysis
- Objectives and outcomes of the eHealth BoF at TNC21
- Community Involvement
- Outcomes and agreed steps forward
- Prioritised List of Work items
eHealth Baselining Event Gap Analysis
Objectives and outcomes of the eHealth Baselining Event
The event (Jan 27, 2021) has been attended by about 70 participants, NRENs representatives. The primary objective of the first GÉANT Community eHealth Baselining event has been to understand if the community was ready to start an activity on eHealth. It has been the very first community event ever organised around eHealth, and, besides proposing initial ideas for joint activities, it gathered the community response to the new idea of working together on eHealth. The main goal has been achieved since the event showed that there was enough critical mass to start coordinating NRENs' activities on eHealth to aim at generating synergies on specific topics.
Community involvement and identified gaps
The event has been structures around 5 main domains:
- Networking
- T&I
- Security
- Policy
- Clouds
The requests coming from the NRENs community showed considerable potential in working together on the following topics:
- Organisation of a training on Security and Privacy, specifically for eHealth. These should target both NRENs eHealth contacts and NRENs member institutions dealing with eHealth.
- Sharing information to the NRENs eHealth Community on funding opportunities from the EU Commission on eHealth, with the goal of empowering NRENs through new opportunities to let their eHealth staff and activities grow in the forthcoming years.
- Sharing Best practices and assess the implications of eHealth on AUPs
- Working on pushing for the adoption of our community federated AAI infrastructure to access medical data and eHealth research data. There has been a general acknowledgement of the role that our community platforms, based on open standards, can play to boost the adoption of eHealth in general.
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning/Deep Learning applied to eHealth
- Storage and data sharing services specifically targeting the needs and requirements of the eHealth community, including common work on PoCs.
- Refine NRENs AUPs to fine tune them for eHealth users and services
- Need acquire additional information on latest EU directives/communications and promoted new concepts on eHealth and the EU eHealth Dataspace
- Key areas where support at the policy level is required and developments are needed identified in
- Data Access policies
- Enforcement of standards
- FAIR data approach
- Trusted research environment
- Evangelization to Hospitals and their staff
- Join force while liaising with the EU about funding opportunities for the community - and possible liaison with WHO
- A detailed presentation on the outcomes of the baselining event is available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1asEZzKZLsAi3EugdLAma-9g3sr4z17MRV-MFhy6J7zo/edit?usp=sharing - The full outcome of the mentimeter session is available here: https://wiki.geant.org/download/attachments/219938904/EaPConnect-GE%CC%81ANT-eHealth-WS-27Jan2021-MentiFinal.pdf?api=v2
Outcomes and agreed steps forward
Coonsensus has been reached on the following points:
- The GÉANT community welcomes a second, more extended community event on eHealth
- The GÉANT NRENs community favours the idea of establishing a new Task Force within the GÉANT Community Programme to gather efforts on supporting the eHealth user community, through the implementation of a specific, community approved workplan.
eHealth BoF at TNC21
The GÉANT Community Programme has organized a second major community event following the succesfull outcomes of the first eHealth baselining event in term sof participation level and interest shown by the community. This second event has been a Bird of a Feather session at the TNC21 conference, on June 25, 2021. The request to organize such an event came directly from the NRENs, at the baseline event of January 27.
Objectives and outcomes of the eHealth BoF at TNC21
The main objective of the BoF have been:
- The direct verification of the amount of available manpower volunteerely contributed by the community to a possible newly-to-be-established eHealth Task Force
- The introduction of the proospect eHealth TF Steering Committe members to the community
- Feedback gathering on the proposed workplan for such a Task Force, by identifying the list of top items considered key for the development of the support of eHealth within the community of NRENs and matching them with the workplan.
- The will to identify possible collaborations between a potential GÉANT Community Task Force on eHealth and the main EOSC cluster working in the Life Sciences domain: EOSC-Life.
- The sharing of information within the NRENs community on funding opportunities for eHealth, liasing with the GÉANT EU-Liaison team
- The run of a Mentimeter session to produce a written document gathering the answers from the community
Community Involvement and identified gaps
The response of the NRENs community to the BoF has been significantly positive. Around 60 people registered to the event, and around 50 actually joined the online event.
Outcomes and agreed steps forward
Prioritized List of Work items