The 4th International Digital Health Summer School, led by IVI, will be hosted in the John Hume Building, Maynooth University on May 12th and 13th 2026. Registration is now open.
Digital Health is emerging as a new discipline, one which combines intersecting disciplines of health, technology, engineering, economics, demographics and much more. While current health systems have served humanity very well, yielding a more than doubling of life expectancy over the last two centuries, systems are now facing a major crisis with full hospitals, a demographic timebomb and record clinician attrition. However, one half of the world’s population don’t have access to affordable healthcare and the other half who do have access are increasingly finding it unaffordable. Global healthcare is facing a perfect storm and what Thomas Kuhn would call a Model Crisis.Digital Health can address critical issues such as accessibility, affordability, variability, quality and clinician work/life balance.
The Summer School seeks to attract senior leaders, clinicians, technologists, patients and policy makers to learn together as part of a high trust learning community which evolves to a high trust high capability innovation community.
Last year’s third International Digital Health Summer School was underpinned by the cutting edge digital innovation methodology ‘ Open Innovation 2.0’ and the Manhattan Manifesto ‘Stay Left Shift Left 10X’, developed at the UN Science Summit Digital Health Symposium in New York in September 2022. Summer School convenor and chair Prof Martin Curley has recently published a book articulating a new theory of the business for health called Stay Left, Shift Left-10X (SL2-10X) which is underpinned by practical case studies of how the theory works in practice. The Summer School will not only teach the new breakthrough theory of SL2-10X but will also share leading examples from real-world practice.
Using the #StayLeftShiftLeft-10X doctrine as the lens and canvas for the two day Summer school, the Summer school will focus on key topics including AI in Health and Data, Digital Cancer, + Electronic Health Records, Digital Sovereignty and Cybersecurity and other related topics. Participants will interact with world leading thought leaders and practitioners in an intimate setting to help learn about and co-create a new ‘win-win’ healthcare future for all.
The focus of the Digital Health Summer School is
- Education: To provide world-leading digital health information to attendees
- Exploration: To foster a high-trust guided open collaborative ecosystem for digital health, generating many options for explorative research and innovation
- Exploitation: To provide for and matchmake opportunities of exploiting digital health solutions
A key goal of the Summer School is to create an intellectual supercollider which accelerates the emergence of a directed Digital Health Open Collaborative Ecosystem. A compelling line up of speakers from across all of the four quadrants of the quadruple helix will present including clinicians, venture capitalists, CEOs, policymakers and most importantly patients.
The first announced lecturers and speakers include:
- Summer School chair Professor Martin Curley
- Florence Dupre, Chief Health Officer, La Poste (France)
- Dr Monika Suryanvashi, Executive Director, Accenture – Concus (Germany)
- Dr Donal Bailey, Chief Medical Officer, Centric Health (Ireland)
- Dr Charles Larkin, Director of Research, University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (UK)
Maynooth University’s new campus and St Patrick’s College old campus provide the perfect backdrop for a major international Summer school where the fast moving technology trajectory of digital health solutions collide with the evolving fields of health and medicine. Participants will receive a copy of Martin Curley’s Stay Left Shift Left-10X book and a Summer School certificate from the Innovation Value Institute.
The Summer School Fee is €450 euros with an Early Bird rate at 40% discount is available until 30th March. Register your attendance here.
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