CEN Workshop on guidelines for introducing tele-medical and pervasive monitoring technologies starts registration and commenting phase

08-07-19 Rongbo Hu 0 comment

The health expenditure in the EU is expected to rise by 350% by 2050 compared to an economic expansion of only 180% and the provision of Long Term Care (LTC) will pose an increasing challenge to the sustainability of public finances in the EU, due to an ageing population. The Responsive Engagement of the Elderly promoting Activity and Customized Healthcare (REACH) therefore represents a solution that seeks to prevent elderly citizens from loss of function and a decline of being able to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) independently. However, GDPR and European national legislations impose limitations on introducing technologies that enable professional and informal care providers to monitor continuous information on a person’s activities and actions even when such monitoring is conducted for the purpose of care.

Hence, the aim of this CEN Workshop is to develop a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA), which will define guidelines for introducing, implementing and operating sensor monitoring technologies into the private homes of citizens who are in need of care and for the purpose of detecting critical events and trends.

The guidelines will describe and exemplify the processes and procedures to support an ethically responsible balance between, on the one hand, respect for the autonomy and privacy of the citizens in need of care and, on the other, the obligation to provide quality care of typically frail citizens.

The proposer of the Workshop is DTU, the Technical University of Denmark, Danish partner of the REACH consortium and the secretariat holder of this workshop is DIN, the German Institute for Standardization.

The kick-off meeting will be held on 11 July 2019 in Berlin (DIN e. V., Budapester Straße 31, 10787 Berlin, Germany).

The workshop participation will be open to all interested parties. Interested parties can submit comments on the draft Project Plan via the ‘Commenting form’ (see below) until 10 July 2019 and register to the workshop by sending an email to the Workshop Secretary Lydia Vogt (Lydia.Vogt@din.de) or Anja Seeliger (Anja.Seeliger@din.de)

For more information, please visit: https://www.cen.eu/news/workshops/Pages/WS-2019-012.aspx



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