6.F. Skills building seminar: Digital health and communication

Abstract   Information has always been central to public health practice. As digital health develops it becomes increasingly central to health care delivery, health system management, and population health monitoring. Despite enormous investment, and great effort in collecting these data, much of the potential value of health care information is lost because of poor data architecture. Good design and interoperability are sometimes seen as obstacles to implementation. but in fact they are key to getting value out of health data systems. Tools and ideas developed over the last thirty years by bioinformaticians may be quite unfamiliar to public health practitioners. The intention of this seminar is to introduce some of these ideas, specifically syntactic and semantic interoperability, ontologies, and terminologies, and to show, using case studies, how these may fit into public health practice. Key messages • It is necessary to have an excellent data architecture to get a good return on investment in healthcare ICT systems. • Standards are key to interoperability, be that syntactic or semantic.

Since the launch of the Place Standard tool (PST) in Scotland in 2015 awareness has increased of the critical impact of the climate emergency on health and equity.A 2019 review of the PST, informed by emerging evidence and community and stakeholder feedback, confirmed the need to strengthen its contribution towards place-based climate action.This was partly achieved by integrating enhanced prompts within the PST itself, however with the increased focus of policy and action around climate adaptation and mitigation a knowledge and resource gap remained.So in 2020 PST partners Ã began work with experts from environmental organisations (Sniffer, Sustainable Scotland Network) and other partners to develop a ''Place Standard with a climate lens'' (PST CL).The PST CL toolkit was created through an iterative process integrating feedback from 10 pilot projects chosen to represent the varied communities, scales, landscapes and placemaking projects being undertaken across Scotland.It provides a suite of materials to use alongside existing PST resources to help placemaking conversations consider how climate change might play out in a local area.This ensures that local responses to climate change are designed holistically, delivered collaboratively, and helps achieve on other local priorities such as health, wellbeing and equity.This presentation will provide a brief overview of the project background, describe the Scottish PST with a climate lens, share case study examples from the piloting phases, and enable exploration of the learning from Scotland around the value of integrating health and climate in place-based approaches.While the Place Standard tool was not originally designed as a climate change tool, it is an effective method to support the design of local responses to the climate emergency.A ''climate lens'' can help us to plan the future of our places to maximise the health benefits and minimise the negative consequences of a changing climate.
Based on the Scottish Place Standard tool (PST), the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) adapted and piloted a German version called 'StadtRaumMonitor' from 2019-2021 as part of a Joint Action 'Health Equity Europe' (JAHEE) funded by the EU Commission.The 'StadtRaumMonitor' was developed in cooperation with the NRW Centre for Health Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Wu ¨rttemberg under the leadership of BZgA and with scientific support from the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum.Based on the piloting and the findings of the accompanying scientific research, some adjustments were made to the PST and the website was relaunched offering extended functionality to users.Building on the successes of the 'StadtRaumMonitor', a follow-up project started in 2021: Recognising the health impacts of climate change and the need to include climate change issues when assessing the quality of places, the BZgA started a pilot project with the same project partners to adapt the tool to the context of climate change.The ''StadtRaumMonitor'' with a climate lens aims to address municipal climate adaptation for health promotion.The tool is inspired by the Scottish PST with a climate lens and was developed based on a systematic literature research, focus groups with experts and with actors in municipalities, as well as in participative cooperation with municipal stakeholders.After pre-test and subsequent adjustments, the tool is currently being piloted in four German municipalities, and an evaluation of the application of the tool is taking place.This part of the workshop aims to provide an example of the approach to the further development of an existing tool, here within the context of municipal climate adaptation and on the basis of the ''StadtRaumMonitor'', and thereby build competencies in this field.Furthermore, early insights into the piloting of the German PST with a climate lens will be given.

6.F. Skills building seminar: Digital health and communication
Abstract citation ID: ckac129.361 Organised by: EUPHA-DH Chair persons: Stefan Buttigieg (EUPHA-DH), Anthony Staines (Ireland) Contact: anthony.staines@dcu.ie Information has always been central to public health practice.As digital health develops it becomes increasingly central to health care delivery, health system management, and population health monitoring.Despite enormous investment, and great effort in collecting these data, much of the potential value of health care information is lost because of poor data architecture.Good design and interoperability are sometimes seen as obstacles to implementation.but in fact they are key to getting value out of health data systems.Tools and ideas developed over the last thirty years by bioinformaticians may be quite unfamiliar to public health practitioners.The intention of this seminar is to introduce some of these ideas, specifically syntactic and semantic interoperability, ontologies, and terminologies, and to show, using case studies, how these may fit into public health practice.

Key messages:
It is necessary to have an excellent data architecture to get a good return on investment in healthcare ICT systems.
Standards are key to interoperability, be that syntactic or semantic.
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