EHRA Summit 2017

16 Mar 2017 - 17 Mar 2017

Summit Onsite

Working together to reach out to policy makers.

13:15 - 13:20
- Welcome, G. Hindricks
13:20 - 13:30
- Feedback from the EHRA Spring Summit 2016, H. Heidbuchel

Session 1: Interacting with policy makers at the hospital level – Chaired by G. Hindricks & H. Heidbuchel

13:30 - 13:50
- “As Director of Electrophysiology, I am happy that I studied hospital management in order to deal with my administrators.”, C. Leclercq
13:50 - 14:10
- “I am an expert clinician and do not feel the need to acquire business skills: that is the job of my administrators.”, M. Chalij
14:10 - 14:30
- The view of the hospital administrator, R. Kuhlen
14:30 - 14:50
- Do we need local training or DAS-CAM?, T. De Potter
14:50 - 15:30
- Panel + audience discussion, Plenary
15:30 - 16:00
- Coffee Break

Session 2: Reimbursement and quality assurance advocacy towards national policy makers – Chaired by B. Merkely & K. Zeppenfeld

16:00 - 16:15
- Avenues to innovation reimbursement: the innovator’s perspective, K-H Kuck
16:15 - 16:35
- Testimony of a successful reimbursement change: what worked?, H. Heidbuchel
16:35 - 16:55
- Testimony of a failed reimbursement change: why it went wrong, F. Braunschweig
16:55 - 17:15
- The spiralling down of technology -and DRG- reimbursement: how to stop?, C. Elsner
17:15 - 17:30
- How policy makers try to have innovations adopted faster and more systematically
  through the health care system: NHS Innovation Accelerator, C. Davie
17:30 - 18:15
- Panel + audience discussion, Plenary
20:00 - 22:00
- Dinner

Introductory lecture

09:30 - 09:50
- Advocacy and networking - why is it so important?, J. Brugada

Session 3: How to reach the key decision makers at the European level? – Chaired by H. Heidbuchel & N. De Groot

09:50 - 10:10
- How EHRA/ESC ventures into Horizon2020 funded trial, N. Dagres
10:10 - 10:30
- How to find your way in the “Research & Innovation Participant Portal” when shopping for EU funding?, S. O'Kelly
10:30 - 10:45
- Lessons from the EHRA Innovation Summit: how EHRA can help to clear the hurdles for getting innovative solutions reimbursed, F. Prinzen
10:45 - 11:00
- The vision of ESC on EU health and science policies, A. R. Pries
11:00 - 11:15
- EHRA Position Documents on new technology or standards of care, L. Fauchier
11:15 - 11:30
- Coffe break
11:30 - 12:20
- Panel + audience discussion
12:20 - 12:35
- Late Breaking News: How the new MedTech regulations will affect us all from 2018 onwards, G. Hindricks
12:35 - 12:45
- Take-home messages and adjourn by the EHRA President, G. Hindricks