Estonia, The Digital Republic: Where Patients Own Their Data

An Insight into Our Possible Future Faster than You Think

This keynote session was presented at the 2018 DPharm conference. Estonia is now a digital republic with a virtual government, blockchained and secure. Our keynote guest from Estonia tells us how Estonia became the fastest country in the world to go digital. Its 1.3 million citizens pay with their mobile phones, have their health records stored in the digital cloud, and filed their annual tax return online in five minutes. This session demonstrates how Estonian citizens have come to own their personal health records, how doctors have to get their permission to use these records, and how patients choose their own medications digitally. We also learn about their challenges, policies, and of course their vision for digital clinical trials.

Speakers:

Indrek Onnik, Program Manager, E-Estonia Showroom, a partner of the Estonian Government

The 9th annual DPharm conference will take place on September 17-18, 2019 in Boston, MA. Learn more at theconferenceforum.org.