14th GDHP Summit in The Hague (English)

Compilation of the 14th GDHP Summit in The Hague.

[Atmospheric images of the Summit. On-screen text: GDHP Summit, 22-24 January 2025, The Hague.]

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ABIGAIL NORVILLE, GDHP Chair 2024-2025, The Netherlands: The GDHP stands for the Global Digital Health Partnership. And it really is a partnership, because it's a partnership between several countries. We share knowledge about digitalisation, especially when it comes down to policy making. Policy making within our own countries, but every country has their own history of how they got to the digitalisation.

BIANCA ROUWENHORST, deputy GDHP Chair 2024-2025, The Netherlands: The site visit we did was the Amsterdam Skills Centre. We've learned how technology can improve the training of professionals on the site self, but also train these specialists everywhere in the whole world.

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CÁTIA PINTO, deputy GDHP Vice Chair 2024-2025, Portugal: For us, it's extremely relevant to come to GDHP and to know what is going on in other sites of the world beyond the European Union. We can talk about interoperability, artificial intelligence, software regulation, digital services, national strategies for digital health.

LINAS KAVOLIUS, Chief Adviser, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania: The most important thing I guess is the exchange of succesful projects.

PETER WILLIAMS, Dep. Director Digital Policy, Dept. of Health and Social Care, United Kingdom: The healthcare systems are slightly different and are constructed and funded in a different way. But to have the ability to hear from people and then test things... The one thing I think is probably the most important is to be there in person, to actually have the opportunity to talk to people face to face outside of the set meetings. That's when a lot of the sharing of contacts and networks happen.

ABHI KALRA, GDHP Interoperability Work Stream co-Chair, Canada: I think these summits create a very safe, open and collaborative environment for all the member countries to share their experiences. Most often, we end up taking a little bit more beyond the work stream back home. That's I think a phenomenal part about these summits.

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[Logo GDHP, Global Digital Health Partnership. Find out more about the GDHP. Contact us at GDHP-Secretariat-NL@minvws.nl, visit the GDHP website at gdhp.health, follow GDHP on LinkedIn. Logo Dutch government, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.]