1. Alexandre Bisdorff UEMS council Meeting 19-20 October 2018
Report WG e-health
Alexandre Bisdorff
UEMS council Meeting October 2018

2. Digitisation will change every walk of life including health care
There was a consensus that the digitalization of health care and artificial intelligence (AI)
will not make doctors redundant but change their role and tasks
has the potential to make health care more affordable
that digital systems across providers, institutions, hospitals and countries should become compatible for data exchange and coding.

3. Doctors need to play their role in shaping the digitization of health care by
Designing and insisting on the implementation of high standards in ethics, and data privacy and safety
Insuring that doctors can acquire the new skills needed and also that important “old” clinical skills do not get lost.
Insisting that the wealth of data is used for meaningful outcome measures in the evaluation of the quality of care.

4. Next step
to write an opinion paper on this topic to kick off a discussion within the UEMS how these developments should impact on the ETRs and CME.