Health Data Summit Riga 2021

Health Data Summit
Riga 2021

November 26

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ONLINE SUMMIT “HEALTH DATA SUMMIT RIGA 2021: DIGITAL LEAP FOR IMPROVED PATIENT CARE”

For a second year in a row, the summit focuses on patient-centered care and the growing pressure to manage access, quality, and costs. The aim is to explore how technology and quality data can be used to benefit the patient-doctor relationships, improve health outcomes and make health systems more effective.

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Speakers from all over the world

The summit is joined by high-level decision makers, practitioners, patients, industry leaders and founders of health start-ups from around the globe. Among the speakers are Ministers of Health of Latvia and Denmark, Chairman of the Latvian Association of Large Hospitals, representatives of Intel Corporation, WorldUpstart Corp, Microsoft and others.

Summit Schedule

The speeches and discussions of the day are centered around two main focus points – “Health data and infrastructure” and “Empowering healthcare innovations”.

Part 1
November 26, 2021
Part 2
November 26, 2021

09:30 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 10:05
Introduction
By Mārtiņš Daugulis Moderator
10:05 - 10:15
Making It Personal. Personal Patient Story
By Harijs Gals Board Member, Lung Cancer Patients and Relatives Association
10:15 - 10:30
Opening Speech. State of Play with Digital Health in Latvia, vision of the digital health strategy and best practice examples of public and private partnerships
By Daniels Pavļuts Minister of Health of the Republic of Latvia
10:30 - 10:55
Keynote. AI in Healthcare: Addressing data challenges using Federated Learning
By Prashant Shah Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, Intel Health and Life Sciences, Mario Romao Director EU AI and Global Healthcare Policy, Intel

Prashant will discuss opportunities using Federated Learning to enable AI collaboration between hospitals without sharing sensitive patient data.
10:55 - 11:01
Pitch. Value Based Health Care
By Hendrik Johannes (Henk) Veeze Senior International Medical Director, Diabeter

Do what is important to patients. To offer high-quality diabetes care in such a way that diabetes complications in our (young) patients can be prevented as much as possible in the future. Continuously measure the results and try to improve even more. Be transparent about the results so that patients know who is achieving which results.
11:01 - 11:07
Pitch. Longenesis: accelerating biomedical research without borders
By Emil Syundyukov Chief Technology Officer, Longenesis

A novel approach will be presented for privacy-preserving Data Discovery and Ethics-by-Design Patient Engagement, already empowering 160 000+ patients in 6+ disease domains worldwide
11:07 - 11:13
Pitch. Smartomica: data analysis for Personalized Medicine
By Renats Lokomets SmartOmica representative

Smartomica is a Latvia-based biotech company focused on the development of comprehensive AI-based solutions to translate scientific data specifically relevant for each individual patient into clinically applicable products for the benefits of both the doctor and the patient.
11:13 - 11:19
Pitch. Use of patient’s secondary data for value-based healthcare
By Lilian Tzivian Assoc. Prof. at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia.

Importance of availability of patients' data for secondary use - preliminary conclusions from the University of Latvia project "Survival of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in Latvia: essential aspects of using a value-based health care (VBHC)"
11:19 - 11:25
Pitch. Data Collaborative Project
By Mārcis Leja Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia

Data will save people lives. Data collaborative is aiming at improved decision making in prevention, early detection and management of gastric cancer and its premalignant lesions by scalable, data-agnostic, data-driven, AI-powered trusted data sharing and by combining various federated data sets; this project is expected to serve as a demonstrator for similar approaches in other conditions.
11:25 - 11:31
Pitch. Molecular Tumor Board implementation
By Valts Ābols CEO, Children's Clinical University hospital in Latvia

The introduction of Next Generation Sequencing in clinical practice opens new horizons for precision oncology. Targeted and effective treatment approaches based on genetic and molecular understanding of the cancer are increasingly practiced in treatment of children and provide new opportunities to improve cancer cure rates and health outcomes – survival and quality of life. The systematic interpretation of increasing amounts of sequencing data, aiming to translate molecular alterations into clinical decisions are challenging and are addressed via the implementation of Molecular Tumor Boards.
11:31 - 12:51
Panel discussion. Health data and infrastructure. Q&A session
By Reinis Jansons Resident Physician in Otolaryngology, Chief Medical Officer, Anatomy Next, Hendrik Johannes (Henk) Veeze Senior International Medical Director, Diabeter , Valts Ābols CEO, Children's Clinical University hospital in Latvia, Andrew Warrington EMEA Healthcare Industry Senior Manager, Microsoft, Emil Syundyukov Chief Technology Officer, Longenesis, Baiba Vilne PhD, Head of Bioinformatics Unit, Rīga Stradiņš University

Panel discussion on how meaningful data can improve patient journey and support healthcare professionals’ work and quality of services.
12:51 - 13:40
Lunch break

13:40 - 13:50
Making It Personal. Patient Story
By Baiba Ziemele Founder of Patient Organization Network in Latvia, President of Latvian Alliance of Rare Diseases
13:50 - 14:10
Keynote. Digital Health and Development of European Health Data Space
By Andrzej Ryś Director Health Systems, Medical Products & Innovation at DG Santé, European Commission

What are the problems? Focusing on health data issues and current statistics.
14:10 - 14:25
Speech. The digitalization of the healthcare system, the acceleration of digitalization during the pandemic and the need for trust in data security
By Magnus Johannes Heunicke Minister for Health of Denmark
14:25 - 14:40
Keynote. Better Use of Health Data? - The Answer Blowing in the Wind!
By Troels Bierman Mortensen CEO/Founder, DataFair

Public-private partnership about better use of Health data, Danish Health data project OSCAR
14:40 - 14:46
Pitch. Digital health and personalized screening for early detection of diseases
By Ronald Zwartkruis International partnership lead Public Health, Topicus

Using digital pathways for recruitment, participation and follow-up of screening processes to detect cancer and infectious diseases have shown to be valuable in public health policies. Learning from aggregated data and data from individual citizens for risk stratification and personalization could be an important step ahead of us. Some perspectives for the three nationwide cancer screening programmes in The Netherlands.
14:46 - 14:52
Pitch. AI adaption in Latvian healthcare system
By Kaspars Grosu Customer Relations and Business Development Manager, Datamed

AI addaption in Latvian healthcare system in hospital of Traumatology and Orthopaedics by DATAMED
14:52 - 14:58
Pitch. Helping children to access sustainable continuous rehabilitation in VR
By Marina Petrakova Founder and CEO, Vreach

VREACH is a VR-based medical rehabilitation tool for specialists aiming to conduct highly-customized and engaging sessions for children with different functional disorders. VREACH highlights patients' experience together with the timely, effective and measurable process, which are the key towards rehabilitation goal achievements.
14:58 - 15:04
Pitch. Better patient health outcomes without spending more
By Kristaps Krafte CEO, Vigo Health

While healthcare systems have been slow to adopt value-based care models, digital health startups, like Vigo Health, are ready to embrace risk-based payment schemes and deliver dramatically improved health outcomes without spending more.
15:04 - 15:10
Pitch. Augmented Reality in Healthcare
By Madara Kalniņa-Kalnmale CEO, LightSpace Technologies

LightSpace Technologies develops Augmented Reality headset which is the first AR device to be able to reconstruct objects up to the smallest detail, creating high resolution, optically precise near-life image to ensure precise overlay onto patient at the most optimal viewing distance - to support surgeons in pre-operating process to plan the surgery and as a real time visual guidance during surgery in which CT and MRI scans are showed as overlays to guide the surgeon to make more precise cuttings, reduce error factor and make the procedure less invasive.
15:10 - 16:30
Panel discussion. Empowering healthcare innovations. Q&A session
By Āris Kasparāns Director, National Health Service, Siim Saare Founding Partner, Health Founders, Sergey Jakimov CEO, Longenesis, Karina Sotnik Founder/CEO, WorldUpstart Corp, Kristaps Krafte CEO, Vigo Health, Ronald Zwartkruis International partnership lead Public Health, Topicus

Panel discussion on how the public sector can thrive through public-private partnerships and the role policy, regulatory and support framework plays in encouraging or hindering innovation.
16:30 - 16:40
Closing remarks. Next steps in building the State Digital Health Strategy
By Daniels Pavļuts Minister of Health of the Republic of Latvia
16:40 - 16:50
Key takeaways of the summit
By Mārtiņš Daugulis Moderator
16:50 - 17:00
Closing
By Dita Erna Sīle Board Member, AmCham Latvia