The Collaborative Health Information European Framework (CHIEF) is a European Commission funded initiative to propose a framework for the sustainable and periodic collection of comparable non-communicable disease indicators across Europe.
CHIEF sees the indicator process as a tool within a more comprehensive learning health system for long term quality improvement. A learning health system incorporates a continuous feedback loop that first of all translates existing current practices into data, then uses those data to generate knowledge, which is afterwards used to update practices. In this way the system is able to evolve into an effective and evidence-based structure to the benefit of all associated entities. CHIEF built this approach on the ideas successfully demonstrated in a stream of EU co-funded projects, in particular BIRO and EUBIROD.
CHIEF work areas
Federated Analytics
Privacy-preserving methods for analysis across distributed data.Barriers & enablers
Governance, readiness and stakeholder perspectives for a sustainable framework.Achievements
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CHIEF has been realised by the following team:
Coordinators: Nicholas Nicholson, Sandra Caldeira, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Secretariat: Westritschnig Brigitte, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Scientific Chair: Fabrizio Carinci, Unicamillus International Medical University, Italy
Clinical Chair: Massimo Massi Benedetti, Hub for International health ReSearch (HIRS)
Expert network
Phase I (2022-24) · 16 experts
| Expert | Country | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrizio Carinci | Italy | Scientific Chair |
| Massimo Massi Benedetti | Italy | Clinical Chair |
| Zane Baltāne | Latvia | Expert |
| Scott Cunningham | United Kingdom | Expert |
| Tania Di Iorio | Italy | Expert |
| Elisabeth Dupont | Belgium | Expert |
| Stephen Fava | Malta | Expert |
| Niek Klazinga | Netherlands | Expert |
| Astrid Lavens | Belgium | Expert |
| Jana Lepiksone | Latvia | Expert |
| Tamara Poljicanin | Croatia | Expert |
| Ivan Pristaš | Croatia | Expert |
| Elettra Ronchi | France | Expert |
| Peter Rossing | Denmark | Expert |
| Janos Sandor | Hungary | Expert |
| Iztok Stotl | Slovenia | Expert |
Phase II (2025-26) · 15 experts
| Expert | Country | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrizio Carinci | Italy | Scientific Chair |
| Massimo Massi Benedetti | Italy | Clinical Chair |
| Zane Baltāne | Latvia | Expert |
| Tamara Buble | Croatia | Expert |
| Scott Cunningham | United Kingdom | Expert |
| Jelena Dimnjakovic | Croatia | Expert |
| Tania Di Iorio | Italy | Expert |
| Elisabeth Dupont | Belgium | Expert |
| Elettra Ronchi | France | Expert |
| Stephen Fava | Malta | Expert |
| Lisa Pennells | United Kingdom | Expert |
| Tamara Poljicanin | Croatia | Expert |
| Ivan Pristaš | Croatia | Expert |
| Sascha Reiff | Malta | Expert |
| Iztok Stotl | Slovenia | Expert |