About the Forum
A lightweight, independent, not-for-profit association, set up for the public common good and for digital sovereignty.
What we are
The Digital Health Commons Forum is an association established under Luxembourg law, working across Europe and beyond. It exists to make the foundations of digital health dependable, so that the effort in health technology can move to where it produces value.
Our activities foster alignment across all stakeholders, established organisations and methods, with policymakers and technologists, driving cultural change across the digital health sector. We act as a caretaker, overseeing and guiding stakeholders in collaborative efforts to enable digital health.
What we do
- Provide guidance, education and training.
- Refine governance, standards, business models, data schema, software guidelines and information organisation models.
- Nurture custodians: organisations that create and drive information management solutions for a community of stakeholders.
- Propose a managed investment fund to accelerate implementation.
Why this can work
- Experience
- A founding board and leadership team with demonstrable experience in successful projects, and a broad and relevant stakeholder network.
- Collaboration
- Organised cooperation and co-creation, building on existing work, to achieve human-scale digital health.
- Commons
- Development of digital health in the common interest, not-for-profit, with an open licence, ensuring fairness, sustainability and safety.
- Context
- Mature digital technology meets a pressing need for a viable alternative to the current market reality, with increasing pressure on health systems.
- Connections
- Recognition and broad networks in digital health, open source, policy and medical domains.
- Policy
- Alignment with open approaches in European policy, challenging lock-in software and service models.
What makes us different
- Not-for-profit and open
- A lightweight, independent association, set up for the public common good and for digital sovereignty.
- Foundation core
- Focus on effective collaboration between all stakeholders, to deliver greater value across the digital health value chain.
- Consumer alignment
- Prioritising the consumer of digital assets, so that solutions are safe and compliant for patients and professionals alike.
- Reuse of existing standards
- Maximising existing digital and clinical standards to respond quickly to need.
The team
The founding board comprises experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in data governance, open technologies, research, health management, IT development, policy and implementation, collectively contributing about 100 years of expertise: Bert Verdonck, Jaana Sinipuro and Stuart Mackintosh.
Contact
Digital Health Commons Forum ASBL, 6 avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. See get in touch.