Partner Programmes
19 January – Monday
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HL7 Finland celebrates its 30th anniversary with an international symposium on 19 January 2026 in Helsinki.
Agenda:
9.30-10.00 Coffee
10.00-12.00 Finnish sessions
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-16.30 International sessions
Participating to the symposium requires a separate registration!
See the Symposium page for more details!
⏰ Time: 10:00–12:00
📍 Helsinki · Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre. Room 209.
Fee: Participation is free. In order to reserve your seat, please register here.
Organized by the Lovexair Foundation in collaboration with the Organisation for Respiratory Health in Finland.
This 2-hour session will bring together city leaders, health authorities, planetary health experts, patient organisations, and innovators to explore how environmental data —especially air quality— must be integrated into the European Health Data Space (EHDS) for the future of precision health.
Why Attend?
As an attendee, you’ll have the chance to:
• Gain insights into how environmental determinants shape health outcomes and future care models.
• Explore why air-quality–driven prevention is essential for AI-powered health systems.
• Hear Nordic leaders share how cities are advancing citizen-centred approaches to health and climate challenges.
• Connect with peers working at the intersection of health, data governance, climate resilience, and citizen engagement.
Join us on the afternoon of 19 January 2026 to build meaningful collaborations and take your strategic engagement in European digital health to the next level.
Why Should Attend?
- Planetary Health experts
- Healthcare professionals
- Civic organizations
- Organisations working on sustainability or innovation in healthcare
- Innovation managers
- Policy and strategy teams
- Industry representatives
- Air quality (indoor & outdoor) experts
- Data management experts
Reserve your seat now!
Europe’s competitive advantages through public-private partnerships in digital health
DHAGE Satellite Event in Helsinki
Timing: Lunch 12:00-13:00
Workshop 13:00-14:30
Location: Messukeskus, Meeting room 215
Lead: Tapani Piha
By invitation only!
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health organizes a closed workshop for public and private digital health leaders to explore how Europe’s competitive advantages can be enhanced through public-private partnerships.
The theme of this Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe DHAGE Satellite Event in Helsinki is to advance Europe’s competitiveness through public-private partnerships in digital health. The Event will discuss the value of and ways to arrange public-private partnership in digital health. With invited colleagues in the European digital health, you participate in finding solutions to the complex questions around public-private partnerships and how to promote them best across borders.
In keeping with the good experience of the DHAGE High-Level meetings, there will be a report back session the day after during the Radical Health Festival.
CleverHealth Network Showcases Health Innovation at Radical Health Festival
Invitation-only side event
Lead: Anja Kajanne and Virpi Rauta
The session will highlight how public-private collaboration and data-driven innovation are accelerating impactful healthcare solutions. Key topics include HUS-led EU projects such as UNIFIED, which brings patient voices into clinical decision-making, and PHEMS, which builds a European pediatric health data space.
The event will also showcase CleverHealth Network as a unique innovation ecosystem where clinicians, companies, and researchers co-develop scalable solutions using real-world data and emerging technologies. The program includes examples from the new Meilahti hospital and a forward-looking keynote on gene-based therapies and personalized medicine.
This invitation -only session is intended for selected healthcare professionals, innovators, and decision-makers to exchange ideas and explore new partnerships shaping the future of digital health.
The Role of Companies in Health and Care Ecosystems
🔎 About the Arena
The Transformative Ecosystem Arena showcases how health and care ecosystems unite companies, public institutions, authorities, researchers, and endusers to tackle unmet care challenges. The Transformative Ecosystem Arena explores how health and care ecosystems unite companies, public institutions, authorities, researchers, and end-users to tackle unmet care challenges. We showcase ecosystems that deliver solutions improving patient safety, caregiver support, and system efficiency.
These partnerships foster sustainable business models, generate measurable outcomes, and create scalable impact across local, national, and global levels. Join us to explore how cross-sector collaboration breaks down barriers, accelerates adoption, and provides transferable lessons for the future of healthcare.
🏢 Companies Showcased
- Minna Honkanen – CEO, Harju Health Ltd (joint venture between Mehiläinen and Päijät-Häme wellbeing services county), Finland
- Rainer Planinc – CEO, Cogvis software und consulting GmbH, Austria
- Jan-Marc Verlinden – CEO, MEDrecord, the Netherlands, and collaboration in Demicare+
🎤 Panel Discussion
Theme: Governance, partnerships, and policy enablers – barriers and solutions for ecosystem adoption
This interactive panel will examine:
- How governance structures, public-private partnerships, and supportive policy frameworks enable health innovation.
- Barriers such as regulatory complexity, fragmented collaboration, and resource constraints.
- Practical solutions and lessons learned from real-world partnerships.
Participants will be invited into the dialogue, making this a truly collaborative session.
👥 Panelists
- Vesa Jormanainen – Senior Ministerial Advisor, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
- Donna Henderson – Head of International Engagement for Digital Health and Care, NHS National Services Scotland / Scottish Government
- Nelli Karhu – Senior Advisor, Healthtech Finland (Terveysteknologia ry)
- Veiko Lember – Professor, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia
🎙️ Hosts
- Sanna Tuurnas – Director, Adjunct Professor, Tampere University
- Kaisu Sahamies – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tampere University
📧 Contact: Sanna Tuurnas – sanna.tuurnas@tuni.fi
Smart Service Planning for Health Crises: Resilience in Action
Empowering health and social care services to adapt faster, smarter, and together
Location: Radical Health Festival, Helsinki, Finland, room 207,
Date: Monday, 19 January 2026
Time: 14:00–16:00
Fee: Participation is free. Festival delegates are welcome to drop in. For remote participation, please register here.
Join the DYNAMO PCP workshop for a live demonstration and resilience discussion. Health and social care services across Europe face increasing disruption risks from heatwaves, pandemics, cyber-attacks, and other threats. When a crisis escalates, essential services must continue to operate.
This workshop highlights the growing importance of health and social care services as critical infrastructure in uncertain times. Participants will have the opportunity to see innovative, data-supported service re-planning tools in action, and to discuss how such tools can enhance the resilience of our health and care services.
What to Expect
Based on lessons learned from the DYNAMO PCP, an EU-funded pre-commercial procurement initiative, this workshop will:
- Explore why existing IT infrastructures tend to fall short in supporting swift and effective re-planning of established service processes under evolving crisis conditions.
- Explain how DYNAMO PCP has used pre-commercial procurement as an instrument to address these gaps.
- Showcase, through selected crisis simulation scenarios developed by DYNAMO procurer organisations, how intelligent data-supported planning tools can enable rapid, adaptive service responses to evolving crises.
- Combine a live demonstration of the DYNAMO solutions with an open discussion on the opportunities and challenges of mainstreaming intelligent, crisis-related service re-planning in practice.
Both DYNAMO procurers and suppliers look forward to sharing their experiences with the use of the innovative crisis planning tools they have co-developed. Discussion topics will include, but are not limited to:
- Organisational requirements for data-aided, dynamic service re-planning in crises
- Cross-organisational governance of the planning process
- Interaction of the DYNAMO planning tools with existing IT infrastructures
- Development of business cases that account for systemic benefits
Who Should Attend?
- Health and social care service planners and practitioners
- Innovation managers and procurement specialists
- Policy and strategy teams concerned with health and social care system resilience
- Health IT specialists
Why Attend?
- Discover the DYNAMO PCP tools for data-supported, dynamic service re-planning in times of crisis
- Participate in practical, hands-on experience
- Learn from the experiences of DYNAMO procurers and suppliers in the co-development of innovative service re-planning solutions through pre-commercial procurement
- Discuss with DYNAMO procurers and suppliers the potential of their innovative solutions for enhancing the resilience of health and social care services in practice
EHTEL Members’ Matchmaking Meeting
Connect. Collaborate. Co-create the future of digital health in Europe.
The EHTEL Members’ Matchmaking Meeting is your exclusive opportunity to shape new partnerships and strengthen your network ahead of the wider Radical Health Helsinki events. It takes place just before the start of the Radical Health Helsinki events. Held on 19 January 2026, this half-day gathering is dedicated entirely to EHTEL member engagement, collaboration, and EU project involvement.
Whether you are looking to join new initiatives or potential projects, find partners, or simply connect with like-minded digital health implementers – this meeting is built for you.
Participation to the matchmaking meeting is exclusive to EHTEL members and covered by the Radical Health Festival and Symposium ticket.
✅ Meet new members
Kick off the meeting by welcoming new EHTEL members and discover how their expertise can complement your own work.
✅ Project pitching sessions
Hear directly about ongoing EU-funded projects to which EHTEL contributes. Gain insight into where your organisation can jump in and add value.
✅ Sneak peek into Horizon Europe 2026
Get early knowledge on priorities and upcoming opportunities. Position yourself strategically for the next wave of funding.
✅ Speed-dating for collaboration
Experience fast-paced, small-group matchmaking across eight themed tables – a highly interactive format designed to spark real partnership opportunities.
✅ Quality networking time
Connect informally with colleagues, continue promising conversations, and expand your network before joining the broader Radical Health Festival Helsinki community at their first plenary session.
The EHTEL Networking Dinner provides you with the perfect chance to continue the conversations in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere while enjoying a delicious meal.
By attending the Members’ Matchmaking Meeting, you make sure you set the scene for the rest of your attendance at the EHTEL Symposium and Radical Health Helsinki event.
Why Attend?
⭐ Fast-track new partnerships and join EU projects
⭐ Enhance your visibility within the EHTEL network
⭐ Start collaborations that matter and that last
⭐ Stay ahead with insights on open calls and funding opportunities
Join us on the afternoon of 19 January 2026 to build meaningful collaborations and take your strategic engagement in European digital health to the next level.
Lead: Birgitta Tetri, Laurea
Location: 206
This interactive workshop is for health and social care professionals, educators, leaders and innovators who want to co-create and shape the future of AI competence in the sector.
Together, we will explore how everyday work is changing with AI, identify new skill needs, and wotk to refine the emerging AI competence framework.
Regulatory Approaches and Innovation for Interoperable Health Data Systems – Digital Transformation in German and Swiss Healthcare
Open Collaboration Session
Lead: Sanna Sipilä-Axnix and Veera Virta
At the Radical Health Festival, this session dives into how bold regulatory choices and practical implementation can accelerate truly interoperable health data ecosystems. Germany sets the stage with two sharp inputs: the Federal Ministry of Health on using the national conformity assessment procedure (CAP) to push interoperability from principle to practice, and Gematik on the operational realities of achieving interoperability in practice.
An interactive, multi-country panel with panelists from Germany, Switzerland, and Finland will explore shared challenges and breakthrough opportunities – from data quality and semantic standards to frictionless data movement. Join us to exchange concrete insights, question old assumptions, and push digital health collaboration beyond incremental steps.
Transforming Health and Social Care Systems Partnership (THCS) – The Role of Knowledge Hub
Co-design Workshop
The Co-Design Workshop for the THCS Knowledge Hub is an interactive, collaborative session that brings together the diversity of stakeholders and experts to jointly shape the new functionalities of the THCS Knowledge Hub https://knowledgehub.thcspartnership.eu/. The THCS Knowledge Hub has been designed as an online platform to maximise the value of the existing evidence and experience in transforming health and social care systems in order to improve the capacity of countries, regions and organisations to adopt and scale up the necessary change by providing improved access to evidence and knowledge, facilitating capacity-building and sharing and exchanging experience and good practices.
The workshop creates a shared space where diverse perspectives are valued and will be translated into concrete design actions for the improvement of the THCS Knowledge Hub, in particular its functionalities related to the Community.
Key Themes
- Knowledge Sharing and Community Activation
Creating an open, dynamic community where stakeholders actively exchange insights, co-creates solutions, and connect across borders on the topic of health and care transformation.
- Evidence into Action: Scaling What Works
Making high-value evidence, practices, and innovations accessible – and enabling countries and regions to adopt and scale them faster.
- Capacity Building for System Transformation
Equipping people and organisations with the skills, tools, and learning pathways needed to drive radical change in health and social care systems.
Structure
- Introduction & Context
- Overview of workshop’s objectives and setting the context for the session.
- Showcase of THCS Knowledge Hub
- Introduction to THCS Knowledge Hub, including its ambition, structure and current functionalities.
- Interactive Dialogue
- Audience engagement on discussing current and future functionalities of the Hub.
- Conclusions and next steps
- Brief outline of next steps.
Contact: Donna Henderson, Head of International Engagement, NHS NSS donna.henderson2@nhs.scot
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20 January – Tuesday
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Digital Transformation in Action: Scaling Up Teamcare for User-Centered Care
Integrated, person-centered care requires more than innovative service models—it needs a workforce equipped with the right skills, a shared culture, and collaborative practices. The Teamcare training model is designed to do just that: strengthen transversal and digital competencies, foster inter-professional collaboration, and support efficient, user-centered care delivery.
This interactive workshop will showcase how the Teamcare approach can accelerate integrated care by:
- Presenting the Teamcare training approach and tools.
- Exploring opportunities to scale up through communities of practice, including the RSCN and COMFORTAGE pilots, offering real-life user cases for adaptation.
- Supporting co-design of pathways to embed Teamcare competences across regions and health/social care systems.
Why attend?
Participants will:
- Discover first-hand outcomes and lessons from Teamcare pilots.
- Engage in knowledge sharing to facilitate curriculum transferability and scale-up.
- Contribute to developing a shared vision for medium- and long-term sustainability in integrated care.
By connecting digital skills, transversal competences, and inter-professional collaboration, this workshop empowers professionals, caregivers, and organizations to turn integrated care into a practical, scalable reality.
Join us to shape the future of user-centered, digitally-enabled integrated care.