Putting Health Tools into practice: Designing feasibility studies at an international scale

Putting Health Tools into practice: Designing feasibility studies at an international scale
11 November 2025
Online

As SmartCHANGE transitions from development to deployment, the project’s five feasibility studies, in Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Porto, Jyvaskyla, and Taipei, are now entering their operational phase. This marks a critical milestone: moving from design to real-world large-scale testing of AI-driven risk prediction and lifestyle intervention strategies for children and adolescents.

This 90-minute webinar will offer the first public look at how SmartCHANGE’s mobile health app for families and web-based clinical decision support system for healthcare professionals are being implemented in diverse health and educational settings. Each study site will present its approach, recruitment strategy, adaptations to local healthcare structures, and early experiences from the field and will offer lessons learned into their planning.

Objectives

  • Showcase implementation across all feasibility sites, highlighting variations in clinical pathways, participant engagement models, and integration strategies.
  • Share practical lessons on deploying AI-based prevention tools in real healthcare workflows.
  • Discuss challenges and opportunities emerging from recruitment, ethics approvals, stakeholder buy-in, and technological integration.
  • Foster international exchanges among researchers, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and digital health actors.

Agenda

Time - CETTopicSpeaker(s)
11:00-11:10Welcome & Webinar OverviewDiego Dylan Domenici | TRUST-IT
11:10-11:20SmartCHANGE applicationsHarm op den Akker | ConnectedCare
Valentina Di Giacomo | Engineering
11:20-12:20Study Snapshots
  • Gregor Jurak | ULJ,
  • Tuija Tammelin & Heikki Laaksonen | JAMK,
  • Claudia Dictus & Mariëtte Hoogsteder | VUMC,
  • José Carlos Ribeiro | UPORTO,
  • Sherali Bomrah | TMU
12:20-12:30Q&A SessionPrevious speakers
12:30ClosingDiego Dylan Domenici | TRUST-IT

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Claudia Dictus

Claudia Dictus

Amsterdam UMC (VUMC)

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Mariëtte Hoogsteder

Mariëtte Hoogsteder

Amsterdam UMC (VUMC)

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Harm op den Akker

Harm op den Akker

ConnectedCare

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Valentina Di Giacomo

Valentina Di Giacomo

Engineering

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Tuija Tammelin

Tuija Tammelin

Jamk University of Applied Science

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Heikki Laaksonen

Heikki Laaksonen

Jamk University of Applied Science

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Sherali Bomrah

Sherali Bomrah

Taipei Medical Univerity (TMU)

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Diego Dylan Domenici

Diego Dylan Domenici

Trust-IT Services

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José Carlos Ribeiro

José Carlos Ribeiro

Universidade do Porto (UPORTO)

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Gregor Jurak

Gregor Jurak

University of Ljubljana (ULJ)

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