Every year since 2007, the world of health and innovation meets in Castres-Mazamet for two days of immersion in eHealth.

A time for interdisciplinary meetings bringing together groups as diverse as telecommunications operators, patients, big data, funders and regulators, and, of course, healthcare institutions and professionals. This year, the eHealth University will celebrate the 15th edition of its summer university programme by tackling the issue of how obstacles to eHealth can be lifted.

“eHealth: the end of lockdown!” is not just the programme’s theme, but a call to all stakeholders and operators to unlock their potential. 

Indeed – and the global health crisis that has been ongoing for the last year demonstrates this every day – it is time to lift the obstacles to eHealth and allow it to play its rightful role in the different healthcare systems and patient care journeys.

The eHealth University’s 2021 summer school programme will focus on different topics, such as:

• Lifting territorial obstacles so that we can all take advantage of our different experiences, from the territorial hospital groups to international structures;
• Lifting obstacles on practices, so that implementation replaces relentless, repeated experimentation;
• Lifting technological obstacles so that access to the same quality of care is finally a reality;
• Lifting obstacles facing actors so that the discussions that started 15 years ago at the eHealth University continue well after the summer.

On September 23, the 2021 eHealth Awards finalists will present their projects to the Grand Jury composed of experts.

In addition to the category-based awards (patients, healthcare and medico-social institutions, healthcare professionals, innovative technologies, disability, etc.), four special trophies will be awarded at the end of the day:

The Internauts’Prize, awarded after an online vote by web users once the finalists have pitched their project online:
The Jury’s Favourite Award;
The Jury’s Grand Prize;
And, for the first time, the Business Model Award

Intended to bring all the key players in innovation in the region of the greater Castres-Mazamet’s area and elsewhere together with major clients (industry, healthcare institutions, authorities, etc.), the business convention is at the heart of the eHealth University’s DNA, along with the summer programme’s venues and informal gatherings.

Organized by ABE, a European leader in business conventions, with the support of the EEN (Entreprise Europe Network), Occitania’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the business convention provides a friendly and professional atmosphere for more than 300 high-quality meetings in each of its editions.