JoinHealth Spring welcome Webinars 2025

Opening 

Sara Pereira (Health Cluster Portugal)

Carolina Dinis (EIT Health Innostars)

Topic 1 - Value-Based Healthcare Concept

• What is Value-Based Healthcare?
• Defining "value" in health
• Comparative insights: USA vs. EU approaches

Topic 2 - Value-Based Pricing Concept

• Fundamentals of Value-Based Pricing
• Its role and implications in healthcare systems

Speaker: Salomé Azevedo (Value for Health CoLAB)

Q&A

• Open space for questions and discussion with the speakers

Topic 3 - Health Economic Evaluations

• Cost-Effectiveness & Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Willingness to Pay and its impact on pricing decisions

Topic 4 - Reimbursement Models 

• Pay-per-Performance models
• Outcome-Based Pricing strategies

Speaker: Francisco von Hafe (Value for Health CoLAB)

Q&A

• Open space for questions and discussion with the speakers

Topic 5 - Use Case

• Cost Analysis of a Value-Based Digital Health Follow-Up Service for Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients 

Speaker:  Jorge Pinheiro Santos (Hospital de Santa Marta - ULS São José)

Q&A

• Open space for questions and discussion with the speakers

Closing

Sara Pereira (Health Cluster Portugal)

Carolina Dinis (EIT Health Innostars)

Opening 

Juliana Alves (Health Cluster Portugal)

Carolina Dinis (EIT Health Innostars)

Topic 1 - Training AI model: the lawfulness of collecting representative health databases

• Introduction to the EU Data Protection Framework and its interplay with secondary related regulatory frameworks: mainly MDR and AIA in MedTech sector 
• Bringing legal key concepts to memory: Data Processing, Health data, Controller and Processor, legal bases, DPIA
• The non-hierarchical legal grounds for data processing purposes
• Illegal data collection and AI training consequences

Topic 2 - Privacy accountability by design through the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) Process: the AI for SaMD (class II a) example

• DPIA for Pre-market study
• DPIA for the Final Product
• AI and MDR Third-party Assessment vs Self-regulation on Data Protection.

Topic 3 - Summarizing the data-protection evidence after DPIAs: for Pre-market study and final product

• Technical measures
• Legal measures
• Organisational measures

Speaker: Yuri Rodrigues (Legal expert)

Q&A

• Open space for questions and discussion with the speakers

Topic 4 - Use Case

• Necessary procedures and requirements for the collection and processing of health data from healthcare institutions
• How should healthtech companies prepare to conduct a clinical study aimed at developing an AI algorithm?

Speaker: Catarina Rodrigues (2CA Braga - Centro Clínico Académico de Braga)

Q&A

• Open space for questions and discussion with the speakers

Closing 

Juliana Alves (Health Cluster Portugal)

Carolina Dinis (EIT Health Innostars)

Opening 

Juliana Alves (Health Cluster Portugal)

Carolina Dinis (EIT Health Innostars)

Topic 1 - Opportunities for Healthcare and Biotech in the Asia–Pacific region

• Hong Kong as a connector to China and the mega project of the Greater Bay Area.
• Overview of Hong Kong’s health innovation ecosystem. 
• Government policies and initiatives driving Healthcare and Biotech growth.

Topic 2 - Market Entry Strategy for Healthcare and Biotech

• Regulatory landscape, compliance challenges, and key market entry considerations.
• Best practices for successful entry into the Healthcare and Biotech market.

Topic 3 - The Role of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC)

• HKTDC initiatives and support for market expansion and growth.

Topic 4 - Use Case: European Success Stories in the Asian Market

• Real-world examples of companies successfully entering and thriving in Asia.

Q&A

• Open space for questions and discussion

Closing

Juliana Alves (Health Cluster Portugal)

Carolina Dinis (EIT Health Innostars)

*Provisional Programme - In collaboration with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council