3rd Digital Health Symposium at UNGA 78

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Tue, 26 Sep 2023, 09:00

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Wed, 27 Sep 2023, 06:00

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https://iii.hm/thirddigitalhealthsymposium

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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.

We have made remarkable progress in health as a global society, more than doubling life expectancy in just over two centuries. Public health and clinical innovations have been major contributors to this improvement. But across the world, healthcare systems are facing a major crisis caused by a perfect storm of factors – rapidly rising healthcare costs, clinician burnout and attrition, and demographics going in the wrong direction. Since 2018, there are more people over 65 than under the age of five in the world. Equally half the world do not have access to affordable care and for the half that do, it is becoming increasingly unaffordable. Time magazine recently wrote about the coming collapse of the US healthcare system, and the New York Times published an opinion piece about how that doctors aren’t burnt out from overwork, but demoralised by a broken healthcare system

Ex UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the UK’s NHS is making people sicker and saying “the entire British state is on the verge of becoming a subsidiary of the NHS”, he argues, “pointing out that the cost of healthcare has risen from 27% of day-to-day public spending to 44% since the turn of the century”.

Healthcare is stuck in a time warp. Adapting from Peter Drucker “Every Organization or indeed Industry needs a theory of the Business” and “a valid theory that is clear, consistent, and focused is extraordinarily powerful.” An example is Moore’s Law which set a competitive challenge for the collective semiconductor industry that drove alignment, amplification and acceleration for the entire industry and has created the engine to transform our world into a digital and perhaps the most sustainable one.

We proposed “Stay Left, Shift Left-10X as the Moore’s Law for the Healthcare Industry. Stay Left is about first keeping well people well or if you need rehab or have a chronic disease this can be done best of all from home. Shift Left is about getting patients as quickly as possible from Hospital to Community to Home. 10X is the notion that when digital technologies are applied to health, we can do things 10X better, faster, cheaper and higher volume.

In 1911, the first Solvay conference was convened in Brussels with the major leaders in Science such as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Curie and Lorentz meeting to work on the major scientific problems of the day.

Similarly, the SSUNGA 78 Digital Health Symposium is modelled on the Solvay conference, albeit with a much strong female representation bringing together 50 world leaders in Digital Health and other fields to champion, cooperate and collaborate a new paradigm, platform and processes for achieving health equity globally in alignment with the UN SDG No 3. – “To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

In 2021, the first Digital Health Symposium produced a white paper “Driving the Global Digital Transition for Healthcare” based on the “Stay Left, Shift Left, 10X” strategy outlining the need, rationale, and benefits for doing this with fifteen global co-authors. In 2022 the second Digital Health Symposium co-created the Manhattan Manifesto including 12 guidelines for governments and organizations for achieving digital health equity, signed by fifty collaborators. In 2023, the third Digital Health Symposium will focus on moving from “Ambition to Action” and creating plans for alignment, amplification, and acceleration of our collective efforts to achieve health and wellbeing for all at all ages.

You are invited as a thought, clinical, practice, political or patient leader to attend, co-create and speak at the Third Digital Health Symposium to be held Sept 26th & 27th in New York. The format of the conference consists of TED style stimulus keynotes, panels and working sessions. The symposium is designed to enable discourse, co-design, reflection, and exchange of ideas, concepts, policy, and practice to inform innovative action and build the relationships, trust and shared vision and values to accelerate SDG 3 and global health equity for all, Stay Left Shift Left 10X.

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Symposium Speakers & Panelists

PROFESSOR OF INNOVATION AT MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY AND DIGITAL HEALTH LEAD AT IVI Professor Martin Curley	FOUNDER AND CEO OF IHEAL HEALTHTECH PVT LTD Romita Ghosh	CLINICAL DIRECTOR OF RADIOLOGY AT BLACKROCK HEALTH Dr John Sheehan

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE DIGITAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION Ryl Jensen	CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF ORION HEALTH Brad Porter	DIRECTOR OF HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVES, PURDUE UNIVERSITY Dr Jerome Adams

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN AT AFRICA HEALTH BUSINESS Dr Amit N. Thakker	PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TELEMEDICINE AND EHEALTH (ISFTEH) Dr Michele Y. Griffith	DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITY OF BATH Dr Charles Larkin

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT AMERICAN TELEMEDICINE ASSOCIATION Ann Mond Johnson	GLOBAL LEADER AT THE MCKINSEY HEALTH INSTITUTE Dr Lars Hartenstein	AUTHOR, ONE HEALTH Professor Piero Formica

CEO AND FOUNDER OF XENEX CONSULTING Zen Tharani	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INNOVASCAPES INSTITUTE & CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER FOR ASTROVIRTUAL INC Chuck House	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT HELIOS HEALTH GMBH Dr Monika Suryavanshi

SENIOR ASSOCIATE, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AT JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Patricia Mecheal