The European Care Framework is an independent expert and innovative initiative with the ambition to create a practical, implementable, and technology-enabled European framework for quality and sustainability in long-term care. The launch of the European Care Framework as an independent expert initiative, defining the objectives of the Founding Forum, the expected outcomes, and the technology and innovation framework for implementation.

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič

Real-world use of digital technologies in healthcare - from remote consultations to secure transmission of health data. Participants will gain practical insight into implementing telemedicine solutions, an understanding of legislative challenges, and hands-on experience that will increase both the accessibility and quality of healthcare.

What shape do long-term care reforms take in the European context? A look at a specific systemic reform in Romania and the current direction of EU policies. Connecting global experience with European frameworks and translating policy declarations into real-world practice applicable in the Slovak context.

How to make informed senior management decisions so that they don't hurt the hospital/organization in 2-5 years?  This masterclass will walk you through how to advocate for and then oversee strategic decisions in hospitals and healthcare facilities on a daily basis - from problem identification to approved solution. No dead ends, no underestimating segmented threats and vulnerabilities, and no bubble solutions, i.e., avoiding approaches that only work on paper. You get a practical business case for healthcare - a structured basis for decisions and a way to make strategic decisions that link strategy, processes, IT, cybersecurity, procurement, and operations into one functional and dynamic ecosystem.

A practical session where the reality of operations (facilities, founders, insurance companies) meets security and infrastructure. What are the must-haves (identity, access, auditing, standards, integrations) for digitization to increase efficiency and not incidents?

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič

What are the latest functional solutions that save staff time? Surveillance systems, monitoring, assistive technologies, and robotic automation are already common in social services. They represent a time-saver for caregivers while protecting the patient. What are the operating conditions, and how challenging is it to introduce the full use of Care-Tech into the broad social services system?

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič

How can the principles of “people-centred care” be translated into everyday, measurable practice? The focus will be on continuity of care, human dignity, the right to palliative care, and the implementation of quality through frameworks, standards, and assessment tools. Bringing together experience from care facilities, standardisation, and the protection of patients’ rights creates space for a realistic view of quality as a fundamental standard of dignified care.

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič

Less administration. More time per patient.

Artificial intelligence is already making a real difference by helping healthcare professionals manage the growing administrative burden, work more quickly with data, and improve the quality of decision-making. In the Demo AI in Healthcare talk, we'll show you how AI can be practically used in everyday clinical, managerial, and professional practice.

This is not about theory or futuristic visions. It is about concrete tools and practices that clinicians, healthcare facility managers, and other professionals already use today to make their work more efficient.

What really keeps long-term care functioning – and where does the system break down? The focus is on working conditions, team stability, education, and job safety as key factors in sustaining care professions. In practice, staff capacity is often constrained, highlighting the need to align quality values with technological solutions.

The presentation is based on a questionnaire survey conducted with a statistically significant sample of respondents, including a large number of outpatient clinics in Slovakia. On the basis of the collected data, we will present information and communication architectures as they are actually used in the outpatient sector - from the simplest workplaces with minimal IT equipment to networked outpatient clinics using cloud services, wireless infrastructure, and medical electronics. We identify typical categories of outpatient clinics based on their IT complexity and highlight how their security profiles and associated cybersecurity risks change as they grow. The presentation will also explain why there is no one-size-fits-all security recommendation for all practices and why measures to protect the data being processed must always be tailored to the specific IT environment. The presentation outputs form the basis for the follow-up Masterclass, which will focus on practical, targeted security recommendations for specific practice types.

Where will digitalisation have the quickest effect for staff (tasks, documentation, communication, process management) and what does this look like in a pilot environment? 

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič

Pillars (quality/safety, people, funding, governance), what will be measured, who is the owner of the next steps. The outcome should be a concrete "founding outcome", not a wish list.

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič

The roundtable focuses on long-term care reform as an investment and transformation program, integrating quality, digitalisation, and cost efficiency. The discussion aims to agree on three specific commitments: what to digitise, what to standardise, and how to fund or reward quality.

1on1 interview with a representative of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic will bring clear priorities of the Ministry, a timetable and expected systemic changes - not general declarations. Participants will leave with an answer as to what exactly will change and what lies ahead.

Moderator: Miroslav Alexovič