4th Digital Health Society Summit

The Summit will focus on the topic “Data & Digital services to support the recovery of health systems across the globe” which is one the 3 themes of the Global Health Connector Partnership Flagship events in 2022 in the US (Boston, Las Vegas and Washington), India (New Delhi), Africa (Kenya), Spain (Barcelona) and Switzerland. The DHS Summit will build on almost 1000 registrations from 68 countries across the globe.

Agenda

4th October

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome & introduction

• Bleddyn Rees, Chair at Digital Health Society
• Karolina Mackiewicz, Innovation Director at ECHAlliance

10:15 – 11:15 Data & Digital services to support the recovery of global health systems

11:15 – 11:30 How our ECHAlliance community has grown and what we are doing next with our International Ecosystems network

• Andy Bleaden, Community Director at ECHAlliance

11:30 – 11:45 Break

11:45 – 12:30 How do you maximise the use of health data for innovation and recovery?

• Giovanna Ferrari Ph.D, Pfizer, Regional Labeling Lead at Pfizer and Project Lead for Gravitate Health project
• Barbara Di Camillo, Full Professor in Computer Science, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova for Brainteaser project
• Oscar Zanutto, ISRAA-Fabbrica Europa Coordinator – Faber & Italy, Treviso Health Social Care Innovation Ecosystem. Value Care Project

12:30 – 13:00 How do you collaborate globally for health care. What does the Global Health Connector Partnership do.

• Brian O’Connor, CEO of ECHAlliance

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch & Networking

13:30 – 14:00 How can data guide the development of digital skills workforce recruitment, retention and resilience

• George Valiotis, Executive Director at EHMA
• Sanna Rimpiläinen, Research & Skills Manager at Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, DHI Scotland

14:00 – 14:45 Past EU Council Presidencies panel

Moderator: Tapani Piha, Special Adviser to the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and to the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra / Special Adviser, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health & Sitra

• Hrvoje Belani, Head of e-Health and Cybersecurity at Ministry of Health, Croatia
• Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz, International Director and eHealth Europe at the Ministry of Health in France, France

14:45 – 15:00 Break & Networking

16:30- 17:30 The importance of evidence in digital health and pitfalls to avoid

• Joe Kvedar, Editor In Chief at npj Digital Medicine

17:30 – 17:45 Challenges and opportunities of the Green Digital twin transition in health and care.

•  Ilias Iakovidas, Adviser at DG CONNECT at European Commission

17:45 – 18:00 Closing & Wrap up

• Bleddyn Rees, Chair at Digital Health Society
• Karolina Mackiewicz, Innovation Director at ECHAlliance

Day 2 – 5th October 2022: 10:00 – 17:30 CEST

Facilitators: Bleddyn Rees (Chair at Digital Health Society) & Karolina Mackiewicz (Innovation Director at ECHAlliance)

5th October

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome & introduction

• Bleddyn Rees, Chair at Digital Health Society
• Karolina Mackiewicz, Innovation Director at ECHAlliance

10:15 – 11:15 The DHS Round table session

• Dipak Kalra, President of IHD
• Bleddyn Rees, Chair at the Digital Health Society
• Cristinela Velicu, Director Vaccines Policy, Key Markets Europe & Canada at MSD

12:00 – 12:15 Break & Networking

12:15 – 13:00 A panel looking at the latest developments with the European Health Data Space

13:30 – 13:45 How to build successful consortia and bid for European and international projects?

• Karolina Mackiewicz, Innovation Director at ECHAlliance

13:45 – 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 – 14:45 How can we use data to tackle health inequalities

• Andy Bleaden, Community Director at ECHAlliance

14:45 – 15:15 AI & healthcare

• Rachel Dunscombe, Director at the Digital Health Society

15:15 – 16:00 Tackling the gender bias in health data and services

• Jenny Thomas, Programme Director at DigitalHealth.London Ecosystem
• Maria Isabel Iñigo Petralanda, Research Ethics Committee UCA Pontificial Catholic University & Argentinian Ecosystem Coordinator
• Andrea Barbiero, Digital Health & Social Innovation Expert Consultant & Argentinian Ecosystem Coordinator

16:45 – 17:15 How can we support the rebuilding of the Ukrainian Health system in a digital way

17:15 – 17:30 Closing & Wrap up

• Bleddyn Rees, Chair at Digital Health Society
• Karolina Mackiewicz, Innovation Director at ECHAlliance