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The Future We Create Today It’s all about Health and Care – of People

Horst Merkle

Chair of the Board, Personal Connected Health Alliance

President of Continua

Director Diabetes Management Solutions, Roche Diabetes Care Inc., Indianapolis

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How to Meet the Future?

• Lack of healthcare personnel

• Increase in chronic diseases

• Rising healthcare cost

Key concept:

• Accountability & empowerment for patient & consumer

Master your own health with less health and care services

World: 60% of deaths are due to NCDs

EU 90%

>70 % of EU healthcare cost caused by NCD’s

Lack of 13 mio healthcare professionals by 2020

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Digitization of Healthcare

Personal Connected Healthcare

• Professional: Easy, secure access to high-quality, real world patient information

• Patient: User-friendly, secure digital health services, respecting privacy

• Health systems: Access to data for quality improvement, population health monitoring, management and research

Technology driven health is messy, chaotic

Need for Structure and Standards

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Personal Connected Health Alliance

A membership association transforming healthcare through personalized, interoperable connected health solutions.

Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA):

– Maintains & publishes the Continua Design Guidelines – 8th edition

– Strong Certification program facilitates consistent implementation

– Works to create favorable policy, regulatory and market environments

– Convenes the Connected Health Summit, organizing worldwide events

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Continua Reference Architecture

• The only solution for authentic interoperability

• Open, standards-based implementation framework for end-to-end interoperability

• Close cooperation with leading formal Standards Development Organizations (SDO’s)

• Accepted as formal standard by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T H810)

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Adoption of Continua Design Guidelines

Denmark: (2012) Nationwide health IT framework mandates compliance with interoperability standards (Continua).

Norway: (Dec. 2014) Parliament adopted Continua standards as the framework for new national health program

Sweden on their way to follow their neighbors in 2016

Brussels: EC Commissioner invited Continua to cooperate to create a Europe- wide Health agenda with focus on Health IT

Finland: (May 2015) announced adoption of the Continua Guidelines in its HIT framework

USA: FDA shows keen interest to collaborate in Guidelines and Certification Program development .

ONC: PCHS delivers input to Interoperability roadmap welcomed (Jan 2015) China & Taiwan: (2015/16) Several

companies and trade organizations join Continua as members. .

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“Primary adoption” – Continua Certified

• Compliant devices and services – 21 Device profiles. ~110 Devices, 6-8 services certified. Not all listed on Continua website

“Secondary adoption” – Continua Compliant

• Example: Continua certified device enables 35 diabetes management systems to upload data from blood glucose device – Implementation perceived as simple, fast, reliable, consistent, scalable

– “3rd parties” act as multipliers of adoption

Adoption of Continua Design Guidelines

Mobile Apps

Cloud Services

Clinical Decision Support

Continua C O M P L I A N T

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Continua Works! – the Opportunities

Manufacturers

• Build Continua certified products (devices, apps and services)

Policy makers & strategists

• Create policies demanding nationwide, connected Health IT – it is possible!!

• Introduce strategies rewarding standards based solutions over proprietary products

Regulators:

• Continue the balanced, risk-based approach

Health Care Professionals

• Engage your trade association

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Web: www.pchalliance.org

Email: ask@pchalliance.org

horst.merkle@roche.com

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Adoption of Continua Design Guidelines

Compliant devices and services

• XX devices and yy services certified

“Secondary adoption” • Continua certified device enabled >30 diabetes management systems to

download data from blood glucose device – Implementation perceived as simple, fast, reliable, consistent, scalable

– “3rd parties” act a multipliers of adoption

Mobile Apps

Cloud Services

Clinical Decision Support

C O M P L I A N T

Empowering individuals to better manage their health.

Adoption of Continua Design Guidelines

“Primary adoption”

• Compliant devices and services – XX devices and yy services certified

“Secondary adoption”

• Continua certified device enabled 35 diabetes management systems to upload data from blood glucose device – Implementation perceived as simple, fast, reliable, consistent, scalable

– “3rd parties” act a multipliers of adoption

Empowering individuals to better manage their health.

Adoption of Continua Design Guidelines

“Primary adoption” • Compliant devices and services

– 21 Device profiles – ~110 Devices and 6-8 services certified, not all listed on Continua website

“Secondary adoption”

• Example: Continua certified device enables 35 diabetes management systems to upload data from blood glucose device – Implementation perceived as simple, fast, reliable, consistent, scalable – “3rd parties” act as multipliers of adoption

Mobile Apps

Cloud Services

Clinical Decision Support

C O M P L I A N T