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The Third Digital Health Symposium at UNGA 78
2023-09-26 - 2023-09-27 | AZ
The Innovation Value Institute (IVI) are thrilled to annouce the upcoming third Digital Health Symposium as part of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), taking place on September 26th & 27th 2023 in New York City. The event is virtual & in-person.

HIMSS23 APAC
2023-09-18 08:00 - 2023-09-20 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE), Jl. BSD Grand Boulevard Raya No.1, BSD City; Tangerang, 15339, Indonesia
HIMSS23 APAC unites thought leaders, disruptors and changemakers representing every sector across the health information and technology spectrum, creating a dynamic and thriving community that fosters the relationship between health and technology. Through collaboration, HIMSS23 APAC aims to strengthen the connection between the minds’ evaluation of opportunities and advancing solutions and the hearts’ desire for success and validation, advancing toward a future of Health that Connects + Tech that Cares.

Africa Healthcare Summit 2023
2023-09-14 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | online
Health care in Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst in the world, with few countries able to spend the $34 to $40 a year per person that the World Health Organization considers the minimum for basic health care. And despite widespread poverty, an astonishing 50 percent of the region’s health expenditure financed by out-of-pocket payments from individuals. Based on the research in a new report, IFC estimates that over the next decade, $25-$30 billion in new investment will be needed to meet Africa’s health care demand. The African healthcare market is projected to exceed $250 billion in 2030. But today, Africa satisfies only 8 percent of regional demand for medical supplies
Join us for the SSCG Africa Healthcare Summit 2023 on Thursday 14 September 2023 to gain latest market insights, learn and hear from our speakers emerging opportunities and technology solutions. The summit will be Hybrid – In person (London) and Virtual (Online)
The theme is “Investment Opportunities, Healthcare Infrastructure, System Strengthening, Innovation, Digital Health, Technologies, Patients care, Clinical Services, Sustainability, Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing and Supply Chains in Africa..
The summit will feature an unrivalled line-up of officials, business leaders and industry experts across Africa. Together they will share insights and perspectives on ways to strengthen African pharmaceutical industry linkages, drive investment in infrastructure and manufacturing sectors.

Intelligent Health
2023-09-13 - 2023-09-14 | AZ
Intelligent Health is THE only large-scale, global summit that purely focuses on AI in healthcare and brings together the world’s brightest AI health brains from pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, health provisions, clinicians, tech companies, startups, investment, and science to advance discussions on how to apply AI and drive technological collaboration in healthcare.
Intelligent Health is not just like any other AI summit – we gather people with passion and desire who are determined to ensure the safe adoption of AI in healthcare with the mission to improve the health of the human race.
Now in its 6th edition, we are going even bigger and bolder as from this year we’ve tossed away the rule book and re-designed the summit to focus on what matters the most. We make innovation with impact happen.

Artificial Intelligence for Industry, Science and Society Symposium
2023-09-11 08:00 - 2023-09-15 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
The 3rd Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Industry, Science, and Society (AI2S2) will take place at Campus Biotech, in Geneva, from 11 to 15 September 2023.
The AI2S2 Symposium is designed to facilitate knowledge transfer on Artificial Intelligence between industry, science, and society.
The 2023 edition includes a selection of renowned speakers presenting a variety of key topics, paired with a series of sessions focused on panel discussions with invited experts and audience interactions.
Registration is free of charge but is moderated, to ensure the presence of a diverse and relevant audience. Registration is also day-by-day, thus you can decide to attend the full event or participate in only specific days as best matches your interests.

Second WHO Symposium on the Future of Digital Health Systems in the European Region
2023-09-05 - 2023-09-06 | AZ
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) in health has sparked public debate on the extent to which technology, and more specifically generative AI, has the potential to infringe upon personal privacy and impact the health of populations. To explore this and other issues impacting current and future European Region health system landscapes, WHO/Europe is hosting the second WHO Symposium on the Future of Digital Health Systems in the European Region on 5–6 September.
To be held in Porto, Portugal, and co-organized with the Portuguese government, the symposium will bring together government representatives, key thought leaders, policy experts, academics, health-care workers, civil society representatives, professional organizations and other partners to help shape actions in support of the “Regional digital health action plan for the WHO European Region 2023–2030” approved at the 72nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in 2022.
The symposium
Over the course of the 2 days, participants will have the opportunity to participate in and contribute to the following topics:
Unlocking the potential of digital health to fight noncommunicable diseases;
Digital health for pandemic preparedness 2.0 in the WHO European Region;
Digital technologies and One Health: balancing and optimizing the health of people, animals and the environment;
Using digital solutions for the prevention and control of communicable disease;
From big data to personalized care: how AI and precision medicine is revolutionizing care;
Beyond the walls: how can telehealth revolutionize health care?
Revolutionizing health information systems for data-driven decision-making
Harnessing the power of emerging technologies for better mental health
During the event, WHO/Europe will launch a new flagship regional report on “Leveraging and scaling up digital transformation for better health and resilience in the European Region”, putting forward new data from all 53 Member States.
The Symposium will be hosted as a hybrid event.

Global Digital Health Summit 2023
2023-09-01 08:00 - 2023-09-02 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | AZ
The Global Digital Health Summit, is a movement for the community of practitioners and providers in the field of digital health, bringing together global leaders, innovators, developers, and experts from the healthcare and technology sectors.

Dakar HealthTech Summit 2023
2023-08-29 08:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Dakar) | AZ
Announcing the Dakar HealthTech Summit 2023 by the HealthTech Hub Africa! Join us on August 29th in Dakar, Senegal, as we bring together policymakers, healthcare innovators, and industry leaders to advance healthcare across Africa.
The summit aims to foster collaboration among key stakeholders, regulators, and policymakers. Together, we’re shaping health tech solutions that seamlessly integrate with Africa’s diverse public health systems and digital transformation strategies. We are making it happen by influencing healthcare policies on national and global levels. Real-world challenges and unique African insights will guide actionable steps toward tangible improvements in population health.

L'université de la e-Santé
2023-06-27 - 2023-06-28 | AZ
E-SANTÉ : OASIS OU MIRAGE AU CŒUR DU SYSTÈME DE SANTÉ
Entre rêve et réalité, le numérique en santé ne cesse de se transformer et d’annoncer transformer la santé. Réalité ou future promesse non tenue ?
La e-santé est-elle cette oasis annoncée ou un mirage au cœur du système de santé ?
C’est la question à laquelle la 17e édition du summer camp de l’Université de la e-santé tentera de répondre, en direct de la ville de Castres, à l’initiative de Castres-Mazamet Technopole, structure d’appui à l’innovation pour le développement économique du territoire.
Conçue et portée Par Castres-Mazamet Technopole
Depuis 2007, chaque année, le monde de la santé et de l’innovation se donne rendez-vous à Castres-Mazamet pour 2 jours d’immersion en e-santé.
Espace de rencontres transdisciplinaires, des télécoms aux patients, en passant par le big data, le financement et la réglementation sans oublier les établissements et professionnels de santé, l’Université de la e-santé fêtera cette année, la 17e édition de son Summer Camp les 27 et 28 juin 2023 !

HIMSS23 European Health Conference & Exhibition
2023-06-07 - 2023-06-09 | AZ
Health that Connects + Tech that Cares
Join European changemakers as we forge paths to improve care for all.
The European healthcare community is gathering at the HIMSS23 European Health Conference & Exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal from 7 to 9 June 2023. Featuring knowledge, expertise and thought leadership in healthcare digitisation, plus a network of professionals, entrepreneurs and investors showcasing the latest and most innovative health technology solutions.
Why attend?
Join the European healthcare community for inspiration, innovation and unrivaled networking opportunities for future collaborations.
Meet the professionals who shape the future of healthcare for the European region and internationally
Hear invaluable insights from experts to stay ahead of the latest health and care trends
Build and nurture the influential relationships that drive your professional development forward
See the latest technology innovations from leading market suppliers and innovators
Earn continuing education credits
Who Attends
The conference draws health leaders and professionals from Europe, as well as a wide variety of attendees representing the global health ecosystem—including government officials, CIOs and senior executives, providers, IT professionals, innovators, consultants, and market suppliers.

ROAD TO 2030: FORGING A NEW NCD PATH BASED ON HARD-WON LESSONS
2023-05-23 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | La Vie des Champs, La Vy-des-Champs 15, Geneva, Switzerland
Join Access Accelerated and our partners during the World Health Assembly to officially launch the six-year report, Key Lessons in Advancing Access to NCD Care: Collaboration, Connectivity, Community, a significant retrospective, and roadmap for future action on NCDs. Hear from the World Health Organization and dive deep into the lessons in a fireside chat with the leaders from the World Bank and the Kenyan Cardiac Society as they examine how the learnings gained over the past six years of cross-sector partnership can accelerate our actions and shape our vision for a healthier future.

How do we meet tomorrow’s health challenges with fit-for-purpose tools accessible to all?
2023-05-22 17:45 - 20:30 (Europe/Paris) | Syllepse in Jardin des Nations, Route des Morillons 2, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
On the occasion of DNDi’s 20th anniversary, this event will explore opportunities to strengthen universal health coverage (UHC) through inclusive innovation, notably for the most vulnerable communities, against the background of a challenging and ever-changing world of infectious and noncommunicable diseases, pandemics, and climate change.
Inclusive innovation will support the goal of UHC by providing access to context-specific, accessible, and affordable health tools for all who need them. It is a key condition for achieving UHC. Yet, despite some progress in recent decades, too many patients still do not have access to adequate treatment, diagnostics, or vaccines, across many diseases. The true test of UHC is to what extent it reaches and addresses the needs of vulnerable populations, for example, those affected by neglected tropical diseases. For many of these diseases, the treatments are still ineffective or unsafe, unavailable, or unaffordable, and in some cases have never been developed at all.
The 90-minute event (followed by a reception) will entail three sessions:
It will start with a “fireside chat” on driving inclusive innovation with two global leaders in public health and medical innovation who will explore how innovation should be directed to strengthen universal health coverage. The conversation will highlight that inclusive innovation demands people-centred design, pooled investments for the public interest in innovative partnership models, and – of course – open science.
This will be followed by a panel discussion, entitled “Best science for the most neglected in a world of climate change, pandemics, and inequities”. We will take stock of looming challenges but also new opportunities to make the world’s medical innovation ecosystem work for all, and to enhance access to treatment and care, including at the last mile of patient access.
Finally, an interactive session will help build a powerful momentum for the role of innovation in UHC: Three leaders will present the opportunities presented by key policy fora in 2023 – from the G7 to UNGA – to advance the agenda for universal health coverage and the role of inclusive R&D within it. The audience will be invited to suggest how to make this momentum even more decisive for a healthy future.

Intelligent Health Data Symposium 2023
2023-05-15 - 2023-05-16 | AZ
You are not alone on the road to interoperability.
Join Smile for the first ever hybrid edition of the Intelligent Health Data Symposium on May 15-16, 2023. With over 20 sessions to choose from, you can make this experience your own and embark on your own adventure. Symposium topics range from trends and innovations in the health IT industry to technology and examples of successful implementations to help you make smarter strategic and operational decisions. Changes in the health IT industry are happening at hyper speed, join us at the Intelligent Health Data Symposium to ensure you don’t miss a beat.

DMEA
2023-04-25 - 2023-04-27 | AZ
The DMEA is one of Europe’s most important events for digital health. Once a year, experts from the digital health industry meet for three days in Berlin. In addition to a comprehensive market overview, the DMEA offers all players a wide range of opportunities for intensive exchange, targeted networking and effective customer acquisition.
We look forward to welcoming you back to the Berlin exhibition halls for DMEA 2023 from 25 to 27 April. After the furious restart of DMEA 2022, experience once again all facets of digital healthcare bundled in one place.

HIMSS23 Global Health Conference & Exhibition
2023-04-17 08:00 - 2023-04-21 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | McCormick Place | Chicago, 2301 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, IL, United States
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition is the most influential health information technology event of the year, where 40,000+ professionals throughout the global health ecosystem meet to build relationships during lively networking events, learn from experts in hot topic education sessions and discover innovative health tech products to solve their greatest challenges.

Taking stock : lessons and next steps for COVID-19 Digital Health investments in LMICS
2023-04-13 14:30 - 16:00 UTC | AZ
Join us to explore lessons learned and opportunities emerging from digital health investments made to support COVID-19 vaccination service delivery in low and middle income countries. This webinar will include insights from countries on adapting and deploying digital solutions for COVID-19 vaccination efforts, and will introduce a tool to support stakeholders in adapting and scaling digital solutions for routine immunization efforts as well as emergency responses.
We invite you to join us on April 13, 2023 at 9:30am ET to discuss:
• How our collective learning about deploying digital health solutions during COVID-19 can inform and improve work for routine immunization, and future health emergencies
• The adapt and scale approach, including the challenges to adaptation that countries faced, and what enabling environment factors can support future success
• How Ministries of Health now bridge parallel routine immunization digital platforms with those created during the pandemic to capture only COVID-19 data, including approaches to data migration, country ownership and sustainability

2023 Conference of the UNESCO Chair of the University of Strasbourg
2023-03-23 - 2023-03-24 | Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, 7 route de Drize, Geneva, Switzerland
The conference will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 23 to 24 March 2023 and will focus on: Social Media and Digital Services (Business, Innovation, Sustainability).
The aim is, on the one hand, to map the current state of research, and on the other hand to contribute to knowledge exchange, linking theory with practice.
The International Symposium, an Expert Meeting, is bringing together university professors, researchers, and politicians, as well as representatives of the business sector and civil society.
The Symposium is jointly organized by the UNESCO Chair of the University of Strasbourg “Journalistic and media practices – Between globalization and cultural diversity” and the University Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI) of the University of Geneva.
It also associates two other UNESCO Chairs: ‘UNESCO Chair for Telemedicine and Multidisciplinary Teaching’ and ‘UNESCO Chair on Language Policies for Multilingualism’. It also associates the UNESCO African Office of Addis Ababa.
See draft program.
Register here.

WSIS: Global Strategy on Digital Health
2023-03-17 10:30 - 11:30 (Europe/Paris) | Centre International de Conférences Genève, Rue de Varembé 17, Geneva, 1202
The role of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 in strengthening country’s autonomy in fast tracking UHC and the health related SDGs.
The Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025
In July 2018, the Secretary-General convened a High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation to advance proposals to strengthen cooperation in the digital space among Governments, the private sector, civil society, international organizations, academic institutions, the technical community and other relevant stakeholders.[1] The ‘Report of the Secretary-General Roadmap for Digital Cooperation’ published in June 2020, subsequently highlighted five sets of recommendations from the Panel on how the international community could work together to optimize the use of digital technologies and mitigate the risks:
1. Build an inclusive digital economy and society;
2. Develop human and institutional capacity;
3. Protect human rights and human agency;
4. Promote digital trust, security and stability;
5. Foster global digital cooperation.
To achieve this, the Panel recommended eight areas of focus (Global connectivity; Digital Public Goods; Digital inclusion; Digital capacity building; Digital human rights; Artificial intelligence; Digital Trust and Security; Global Digital Cooperation) and a way forward with the United Nations as a convener and platform.
In the same year, WHO Member States endorsed a Global Digital Health Resolution to foster the transformation agenda of ICTs and emerging technologies in health. The resolution resulted into a request to develop a global strategy on digital health. Endorsed by the Seventy-third World Health Assembly in the 2020, the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 outlined four strategic objectives (SO) aimed to support countries accelerate their digital health transformation leveraging some of these areas of focus.[2]
In ‘SO1 – Promote global collaboration and advance the transfer of knowledge on digital health’, WHO is building capacity through competency-based trainings and leveraging experiences of countries undergoing digital health transformation to inspire, guide, inform, share knowledge, and strengthen collaboration with other countries. Under this objective, WHO is developing tools and approaches such as the SMART Guidelines – a new approach to systematize and accelerate the consistent application of recommended, life-saving interventions articulated through WHO guidelines in the digital age. Standards-based, Machine-readable, Adaptive, Requirements-based, and Testable (SMART) Guidelines are a comprehensive set of reusable digital health components (e.g., interoperability standards, code libraries, algorithms, technical and operational specifications) that transform the guideline adaptation and implementation process to preserve fidelity and accelerate uptake.
Under ‘SO2 – Advance the implementation of national digital health strategies’, WHO and its partners are working to support countries to own, adapt and strengthen their national digital health strategies in a way that best suits each individual country’s vision, national context, health situation and trends, available resources and core values. This work is guided by the roadmap for national digital health transformation highlighted in and monitored through the Digital Health Observatory where countries will soon be able to once again access knowledge assets and practical information to learn, collect and share evidence to accelerate digital health transformation. Under this SO, the Department for Digital Health and Innovation works to strengthen the capacity of countries to lead, monitor and have autonomy over their digital health transformation journey.
In ‘SO3 – Strengthen governance for digital health at global, regional and national levels’, WHO and partners are working towards harmonizing communities of practice (CoP), creating sustainable common frameworks, tools, principles and values, standards, and ethics to promote the appropriate use of digital technologies as digital public goods (DPGs) in addressing key health system challenges and ultimately ensure no one is left behind. Governance for digital health aims to strengthen the capabilities and skills needed for countries (e.g. policy makers, practitioners) to promote, innovate and scale up digital health technologies and promote standards for safety, security, privacy, interoperability, and the ethical use of data within and outside the health sector.
‘SO4 – Advocate people-centred health systems that are enabled by digital health’ places people at the centre of digital health through the adoption and use of digital health technologies in scaling up and strengthening health service delivery through means such as telehealth. Further An examples of this is the Digital Clearinghouse which serves as a knowledge hub and resource library connecting country governments with proven digital health solutions and enabling solution developers to have clear guidelines and gain credibility for the solutions that they develop. Through its function as a resource library, the Digital Clearinghouse complements the earlier mentioned digital health resources such as the SMART Guidelines.
The Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020 – 2025 has since served as a framework to align and guide all the support provided by WHO and ITU to Member States on digital health transformation. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the world saw an unpresented need and demand for digital technologies to strengthen health outcomes as well as the related capacity and infrastructure needed to support the scaling up of these. The global and national response to the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the demand for digital transformation within global health, but as such, also increased demand for capacity, governance, and infrastructure to sustain the transformation in the long-term.
Session objective
This session will bring together perspectives from Member States (Zambia), development partners (PATH/Digital Square), ITU and WHO to reflect on and discuss how the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 strengthens country’s autonomy in meeting national needs and priorities to achieve UHC and health related SDG targets. Areas which will be explored include, but are not limited to, Digital Public Goods; Digital Capacity Building; and Global Digital Cooperation.
[1] Report of the Secretary-General Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. United Nations. 2020.
[2] Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
