As part of myHealth@myHands, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) brings strategic foresight and thought leadership to help shape citizen-centric digital health systems across Europe — systems that people can trust, use, and benefit from over the long term.
Our contribution is about looking beyond today’s rollout and today’s constraints. European health systems are being stretched by demographic change, chronic disease, workforce pressure, and fast-moving technology. In that context, “working now” isn’t enough. We help the project ask the harder question: will these digital solutions still work — and still be fair, secure, and usable — as conditions change?
Using futures methods such as horizon scanning, critical uncertainties, and scenario work, CIFS explores what may reshape healthcare in the decades ahead — from digital identity and health data governance to new expectations of transparency, equity, and citizen empowerment. We then help translate those insights into robust design choices, so the infrastructures developed through myHealth@myHands can adapt to shifting policies, technologies, and societal needs.
The aim is simple: future-fit digital health that strengthens trust, interoperability, and resilience — and supports better outcomes for citizens and more sustainable health systems across Europe.
