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6th Digital Health Society Summit

Modernisation in healthcare in the next five years:
How will healthcare embrace digitalisation and catch up on other sectors

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6th Digital Health Society Summit

Starts at:

Tuesday, 5 November 2024 - 09:00
CET

Ends at:​

Wednesday, 6 November 2024 - 17:00
CET

Event Location:

Virtual
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#DHSSummit24

As part of the Digital Health Week, the 2-Day Virtual Summit event promotes the latest thought leadership of the Digital Health Society, showcases innovation, research, European funded projects and addresses the latest digital and data challenges facing digital health.

 

Under the title: “Modernisation in healthcare in the next five years: How will healthcare embrace digitalisation and catch up on other sectors”, the 6th edition of this Summit will look into the challenges healthcare systems face to take advantage of digital technologies and the benefits they could deliver.

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Highlights DHSS 2024

International high-level speakers

Virtual exhibition space

Free registration

Networking opportunities

2 Day programme

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Agenda

5 November

10:00 - 10:10 CET - Welcome & Introduction
10:10 - 10:30 CET - Keynote: Introduction to Digitalisation in Healthcare and the Challenges
  • Ain Aaviksoo - Head of Development, Partner at HeBA Clinic (Estonia)
10:30 - 10:50 CET - Keynote: Estonian Vision for Digitalisation
  • Carmen Raal - Cyber Security Cooperation Adviser at Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia (Estonia)
10:50 - 11:10 CET - Case Study 1: The Northern Ireland Story of the Digital ID to Healthcare - The Art of the Possible
  • Edward O'Neill - Director of Covid Certification Service at Department of Health (United Kingdom)
11:10 - 11:30 CET - Case Study 2: Precision Health, Personalised Care With Integrated Data Intelligence
  • Arjun Jayaswal - Vice President Strategy at Perspectum (United States of America)
11:30 - 11:45 CET - Networking Break
11:45 - 12:10 CET - Case Study 3: Scalling Hospitals at Home Solutions
12:10 - 12:50 CET - Discussion: Skilling, Upskilling, Reskilling of Healthcare Professional

Session hosted by BeWell

12:50 - 13:35 CET - EU Presidencies
  • Bleddyn Rees (Moderator)- Chair at The Digital Health Society (Wales)
  • Miklós Szócska - Former Minister of State for Health (Hungary)
  • Hubert Życiński - Deputy Director at Department of e-Health, Ministry of Health (Poland)
13:35 - 14:00 CET - Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 CET - Thematic Innovation Ecosystem on Global Approaches to Health Data Sharing
  • Andy Bleaden (Moderator) - Communities Director at ECHAlliance (United Kingdom)
  • Mair Caro - Ecosystem Leader at National Center on Health Information Systems (CENS) (Chile)
  • Felix Sukums - Chairperson at Digital Health Innovation Forum (Tanzania)
  • Sara Pereira - Project Manager at Health Cluster Portugal (Portugal)
  • Elizabeth Shenkman - Co-founder at OneFlorida (United States of America)
15:00 - 15:45 CET - Enhancing Health Data Interoperability: Debating EEHRxF and the Blue/Yellow Button - EU & US Experiences
15:45 - 16:15 CET - Presentation: “Transform Health” - Data Governance Principles & Model Law
  • Mathilde Forslund - Executive Director at Transform Health (United States of America)

6 November

10:00 - 10:10 CET - Welcome & Introduction
10:10 - 11:00 CET - Discussion: Building Efficiency in Cancer Care to Improve Health Outcomes
11:00 - 11:20 CET - Keynote: AI and EHDS policy keynote from a Member State Perspective
  • Ira Miessler - Senior Policy Advisor at Federal Ministry of Health (Germany)
11:20 - 11:30 CET - Networking Break
11:30 - 12:30 CET - Why Data Collection, Publication and Use Matters for Public Health Prevention
  • Bleddyn Rees (Moderator)- Chair at The Digital Health Society (Wales)
  • William Flanagan - Owner at Open Sky Data Systems (Ireland)
  • Trenton White - Health Researcher at Barcelona Institute for Global Health (United States of America)
  • Dr. Marius Geantă - President at Centre for Innovation in Medicine (Romania)
  • Richard Price - Head of Policy at European Cancer Organisation
12:30 - 13:00 CET - Discussion: Data First, AI Later
13:00 - 13:30 CET - Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 CET - Who Are the Champions in Our Ecosystems - Deep Dive Into Data & Digital Work of Ecosystems in the Global ECHAlliance Network
14:30 - 15:15 CET - Advancing Women’s Health: Addressing Techquity, UN SDGs, and International Policy Regulations
  • Karolina Mackiewicz (Moderator) - Innovation Director at ECHAlliance (Finland)
  • Irene Aninye - Chief Science Officer at Society for Women's Health Research (United States of America)
  • Carolyn Harris - Labour Member of Parliament for Neath and Swansea East (United Kingdom)
  • Esther Ruiter - Business and Partnership Manager at Africa Health Business (Kenya)
15:15 - 15:30 CET - Conclusions & Closing

Day 3

Match need and solution
A strong community is established with regular quarterly meetings, events and opportunities to network and collaborate.
Break down silos
We encourage and build collaboration across our International Network of Digital Health Ecosystems by building successful cooperation across geographic boundaries to build trust and learn from the experiences across different health systems.
Create economic growth
Ecosystems create mutually beneficial partnerships to improve the delivery of health and social care and provide real economic benefits – using the economic potential within the health economy to help grow the regions economy.
Transform healthcare
Our International Digital Health Ecosystems are multi-stakeholder groups with the patient at the core, driving the agenda, leading with the need.

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Highlights DHSS 2023

94 Countries

20 Virtual Exhibitors

1200+ Registeers

40+ International Speakers

18 Sessions

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