The Third Digital Health Symposium at UNGA78
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.
Event Overview
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. According to the WHO and the World Bank Half the world lacks access to essential health services, 100 million still pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses.
Date and time:
26th & 27th September 2023
08:30 – 17:30 (US ET)
13:30 – 22:30 (IST)
Location:
Day 1
VNS Health,
220 E 42nd St,
New York, 10017, USA.
Day 2
Northwell Health,
UJA Conference Centre,
130 East 59th Street,
New York, 10022, USA.
According to the World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 11 percent of the world’s population yet bears 24 percent of the global disease burden and commands less than one percent of global health expenditure. It also faces a severe shortage of trained medical personnel, with just three percent of the world’s health workers deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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 2021, the first Digital Health Symposium produced a white paper ‘The 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 Symposium. 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.
Agenda (Day 1 – 26th September) [VNS Health] **Subject to change
8:30AM | (1) Introductions from the Digital Health Symposium Chairs | |
Professor Martin Curley | Director of Digital Health Ecosystem – IVI & Maynooth University | |
Romita Ghosh | Founder & Chief Executive Officer – iHeal HealthTech | |
Dr John Sheehan | Clinical Director of Radiology – Blackrock Health | |
Ryl Jensen (virtual) | Chief Executive Officer – Digital Health Association | |
8:35AM | (2) Welcome Address from VNS Health | |
Dan Savitt | Chief Executive Officer – VNS Health | |
8:40AM | (3) Welcome Address from Maynooth University | |
Professor Eeva Leinonen (virtual) | President – Maynooth University | |
8:45AM | (4) Stay Left, Shift Left 10X Fundamentals | |
Martin Curley | Director of Digital Health Ecosystem – IVI & Maynooth University | |
John Sheehan | Clinical Director of Radiology – Blackrock Health | |
9:15AM |
(5) Leadership Panel 1 (Global Leadership Panel) | |
Brad Porter | Chief Executive Officer – Orion Health | |
Russell P. Branzell | President & Chief Executive Officer – CHIME | |
Dr Jerome Adams | Director of Health Equity Initiatives – Purdue University | |
Elaine Brennan | Executive Director, Global Strategic Partnerships – Northwell Health | |
Michele Y. Griffith, MD | President – International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth | |
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite | President – ISQUA and Director – Australian Institute of Health Innovation | |
Professor Alain Labrique (virtual) | Director of Department of Digital Health & Innovation – WHO | |
10:00AM | Break | |
10:30AM | Fordham Digital Divide at Fordham University (Register to attend in-person here: https://rb.gy/1sklf) | |
James R. Hastings | Counsel – Rothwell Figg | |
Chinmayi Sharma | Associate Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law | |
Carl Baranowski | Vice President & Chief Legal Officer- University of Texas at Tyler | |
Professor Janet Freilich | Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law | |
Hannah Cooper | CEO & Co-Founder – Cooper/Smith Washington, D.C | |
Michael Harvey | Information and Privacy Commissioner – N&L – Canada | |
Alejandro Lopez Osornio | Senior Implementation Support Specialist, SNOMED International | |
Jenny Colgate | Partner – Rothwell Figg Washington, D.C. | |
Darshana Zaveri | Founder and Managing Partner – Catalyst Health Ventures, Boston | |
Professor Falguni Sen | Professor – Fordham University | |
11:00AM | (6) Leadership Panel 2 (Data-driven Health) | |
Neil de Crescenzo | Chief Executive Officer – Optum Insights | |
Dr Lars Hartenstein | Global Health Leader – McKinsey Health Institute | |
Romina Elias | Chief Clinical Informatics Officer – DELL Technologies | |
Carolyn Gullery | Specialist Healthcare System Advisor – Lightfoot Solutions Group | |
Charles H. House (virtual) | Author, Engineer & Serial Entrepreneur | |
Dr Matthew Barrett (virtual) | Consultant Cardiologist – St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin | |
12:00PM | (7) Launch of International Masters in Digital Health Transformation | |
Professor Kerstin Mey | President – University of Limerick | |
Russell P. Branzell | President – CHIME | |
Professor Stan Kachnowski | Head of Digital Health – Columbia University | |
Professor Martin Curley | Director of Digital Health Ecosystem – IVI & Maynooth University | |
12:30PM | Lunch | |
1:30PM | (8) Leadership Panel 3 (New Models & New Business) | |
Mark Baiada | Founder – BAYADA Home Health Care | |
Dr Tobias Silberzahn | Partner – McKinsey & Co | |
Dr John Martin | Chief Medical Officer – Butterfly Network | |
Ram Fish | Chief Executive Officer – 19Labs | |
Emily Sheldon | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer – African Health Innovation Centre | |
David Walcott | Chief Executive Officer – Novamed | |
2:30PM | (9) Turning Visibility into Action in Healthcare | |
Thomas Bianculli | Chief Technology Officer – Zebra Technologies | |
Rikki Jennings | Chief Nursing Informatics Officer – Zebra Technologies | |
Sheila Minton | President & Chief Executive Officer – Tagnos | |
Andrea Thomaz | Founder & Chief Executive Officer – Digilent Robotics | |
3:30PM | Break | |
4:00PM | (10) AI & Healthcare | |
Richard A.D. Jones | President of Copeland Clinical AI (C2-AI) | |
Dr John Sheehan | Clinical Director of Radiology – Blackrock Health | |
David O’Malley | Senior Vice President of Product Strategy – VNS Health | |
Harvey Castro, MD |
ViTel Health & Author – Chat GPT Health
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Professor Ray O’Sullivan | Consultant – Royal College of Surgeons Ireland | |
Prashant Parida | Chief Executive Officer – Ufinity | |
5:00PM | (11) Longitudal Healthcare | |
David Rosales | Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer – VNS Health | |
Rose Madden Baer | SVP Population and Clinical Support Services – VNS Health | |
5:30PM | Reception at VNS Health | |
7:00PM |
Symposium Networking Dinner | |
Featuring Opening Remarks by Bill Burns – Chief Executive Officer – Zebra Technolgies |
Agenda (Day 2 – 27th September) [Northwell Health] **Subject to change
2 Parallel Sessions will take place on Day 2.
Parallel Session 1
8:30AM | (1A) Welcome (Day 2) | |
H.E. Ambassador Sidique Wai | Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United States; Secretary-General of ECOWAS, The Economic Community of West African States | |
9:00AM |
(2A) Digital Therapeutics | |
Ryl Jensen (virtual) | Chief Executive Officer – Digital Health Association | |
Liz Ashall Payne | Chief Executive Officer – ORCHA | |
Tamar Thompson | Vice President – Head of Corporate Affairs – AstraZeneca Rare Diseases | |
Rachel Loui | Board Advisor & Fractional Chief Commercial Officer – Modicus Prime | |
Professor George Crooks (virtual) | Chief Executive – Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre | |
10:00AM | (3A) Incubating and Adopting Digital Health Solutions at Scale | |
Professor Matt Mullarkey | Instruction Director of DBA Program – University of South Florida | |
Elaine Brennan | Executive Director of Global Strategic Partnerships – Northwell Health | |
Dr Roisin M. Molloy | Chief Executive Officer & Founder – TriMedika | |
Dr Atilla Sik | Director of ITD at the University of Pecs Medical School (Hungary) | |
Aleksandra Liaplina | Program Lead of Blended Finance – IFC World Bank | |
11:00AM | Break | |
11:30AM | (4A) Managing and Governing Innovation in Large Health Systems | |
Dr Adam Walczak | Deputy Director at JHHIP – Hunter NE LHD (Australia) | |
Elise Sweeney Anthony | Executive Director of Policy – Office National Coordinator for Health IT | |
Dr Monika Suryavanshi | Executive Director – Helios Healthcare Architects | |
Dipendra Khadka, Ph.D. | Public Health Expert – Office of Prime Minister (Nepal) | |
Zen Tharani | Chief Executive Officer – Xenex Consulting | |
12:30PM | Lunch | |
1:30PM | (5A) Patient Led Innovation | |
Romita Ghosh | Founder & Chief Executive Officer – iHeal HealthTech | |
Gary Boyle (virtual) | Parkinsons Patient & Advocate | |
Richard Wyatt Haines (virtual) | Founder & Chairman – HCI | |
Sam Baddoo | Founder & Chief Executive Officer – FLERI | |
Mary Carbajal | Chief Executive Officer – B1OS | |
2:15PM | (6A) Hyperconnectivity and Network Centric Healthcare | |
Carol Robertson | Senior Business Development Partner – C&W Communications | |
Donal Morris | Chief Executive Officer & Founder – RedZinc | |
Professor Dan Kilper | Director – Connect Centre | |
2:45PM | (7A) Digital Health – Capacity, Capability, Competence – Global Digital Health Monitor | |
Patty Mechael | Senior Associate – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
Daniel Otzoy García | Global Chief Executive Officer – RECAINSA | |
Nassir Idriss ADAM | National Co-Ordinator – Digital Health Project – Ministry of Public Health & Prevention – Chad | |
Dr Hammadoun Dia | National Co-Ordinator, Digital Health Project – UNDP Mali. | |
Dr Osama El Hassan | Health Informatics & Smart Health Specialist – Dubai Health Authority | |
3:30PM | Break | |
4:00PM | (8A) 10X Technologies Exemplar – Digital Ultrasound | |
Karley Yoder | GM & Chief Digital Officer of Ultrasound – GE Healthcare | |
Dr Peter Weimerscheimer | Vice President of Clinical Implementation – Butterfly Network | |
Vaishali Kamat | GM of New Ventures, Ultrasound Digital Solutions – GE Healthcare | |
Karen Kelly | Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Novick Cardiac & CEO – Panacea Flo | |
Dr Andrew Walden | Intensive Care Consultant – Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | |
Dr Donal Bailey | Chief Executive Officer – Care Connect | |
5:00PM |
(9A) Close, Synthesis & Next Steps | |
Professor Martin Curley | Director of Digital Health Ecosystem – IVI & Maynooth University | |
Romita Ghosh | Founder & Chief Executive Officer – iHeal HealthTech | |
Dr John Sheehan | Clinical Director of Radiology – Blackrock Health | |
Ryl Jensen | Chief Executive Officer – Digital Health Association | |
Dr Lloyd McCann | Chief Executive Officer – Tāmaki Health |
Parallel Session 2
8.30AM | (1B) The three numbers you need to know about healthcare: Moving into the digital future | |
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite | President – ISQUA and Director – Australian Institute of Health Innovation | |
9:00AM | (2B) Live from Uzbekistan | |
Dr William M. Novick (virtual) | Founding Director – Novick Cardiac Alliance | |
Karen Kelly | Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Novick Cardiac Alliance & CEO – Panacea Flo | |
9.30AM | (3B) Unstoppable Africa (Live from Morocco) | |
Dr Amit N. Thakker | Executive Chairman – Africa Health Business (Kenya) | |
Dr Nicaise Ndembi | Senior Science Advisor – Africa Centres for Disease Control & Prevention | |
10.00AM | (4B) Health Data Visualization | |
Charles H. House | Author, Engineer & Serial Entrepreneur | |
10.30AM |
(5B) Data Innovation & 10X Economics | |
Carolyn Gullery | Specialist Healthcare System Advisor – Lightfoot Solutions Group | |
11.00AM | Break | |
11.30AM | (6B) Resilient Health: Examples of Technology Innovations Worldwide for COVID-19 Recovery & Beyond | |
Professor Judith Kuriansky | Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia University Teachers College; Global Council on Health, UAE “SDGs in Action” Initiative; International Association of Applied Psychology | |
12.00PM |
(7B) European Health Dataspace and Sovereign Cloud | |
Jerome de Barros | Policy Officer in Digital Health – European Commission | |
David Asturiol | Policy Assistant – European Commission/DG SANTE | |
12.30PM | Lunch | |
1:30PM | (8B) Telehealth in Remote Areas – Case Study Guyana/Mexico | |
Ram Fish | Chief Executive Officer – I19 Labs | |
2:00PM |
(9B) Health Data Governance & the European Digital Health DataSpace (virtual) | |
Eric Sutherland | Senior Health Economist – Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development | |
Dr Aida Garcia Lazaro | Research Associate in Economics – University of Bath | |
2.30PM |
(10B) Grass Roots Innovation in Mongolia & India | |
Urga Azat | Founder & Director – Oddariya Foundation (Mongolia) | |
Paul Murphy | Research Fellow – Smart Village Movement | |
3.00PM | Break | |
3:30PM |
(11B) Fordham Public Private Roleplay | |
Professor Falguni Sen | Professor – Fordham University | |
James R. Hastings | Counsel – Rothwell Figg | |
4:00PM |
(12B)The 1000 Day Baby Project | |
Milton Chen | Chief Executive Officer – VSee | |
Ted Herbosa | Minister of Health – Phillippines | |
4:30PM | (13B) One Health & Social Prescribing (Video Presentation) | |
Professor Piero Formica | Author – One Health | |
Gareth Presch | Chief Executive Officer – Global Social Prescribing Alliance | |
5:00PM |
(9A) Close, Synthesis & Next Steps | |
Professor Martin Curley | Director of Digital Health Ecosystem – IVI & Maynooth University | |
Romita Ghosh | Founder & Chief Executive Officer – iHeal HealthTech | |
Dr John Sheehan | Clinical Director of Radiology – Blackrock Health | |
Ryl Jensen | Chief Executive Officer – Digital Health Association | |
Dr Lloyd McCann | Chief Executive Officer – Tāmaki Health |