Riga 2020
Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring
The summit will focus 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.
Speakers from all over the world
The summit will be joined by high-level decision makers, practitioners, patients, industry leaders and founders of health start-ups from around the globe. Among the speakers will be Ilze Viņķele, Minister of Health of the Republic of Latvia, Dr. Abraham Verghese, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School, Stella Kyriakides, Europe Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Microsoft EMEA Health leader Elena Bonfiglioli and others.
Summit Schedule
The speeches and discussions of the day will be centered around two main focus points – “Digital Patient as a Catalyst for Better Outcomes and Improved Services” and “Digital Healthcare as a Prerequisite for System Sustainability and Smart Governance”. In total the summit will feature 6 speakers and two panel discussions.
Part 1
November 26, 2020Part 2
November 26, 2020
10:05 - 10:20Making It Personal. Personal Patient Story
By Zinta Uskale Founder of Pink Train Foundation
10:20 - 10:55Keynote. State of Play with Health Data in Latvia in Light of Challenges Brought by the COVID-19
By Ilze Viņķele Minister of Health, Republic of Latvia
10:55 - 11:30Keynote. Digitalization: the Promises, Perils and Lessons Learned
By Dr Abraham Verghese Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School, USA
11:30 - 12:45Panel Discussion. Putting Patient in the Center of Healthcare Through Data Availability. Q&A session
By Valts Ābols CEO, Children's Clinical University hospital (CUH) in Latvia, Ain Aaviksoo MD MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Guardtime Health, Emil Syundyukov Computer Scientist dedicated to Healthcare and Education, Walter Ricciardi Chair of the EU Cancer Mission, Erik Forsberg Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Managing Director, EIT Health Scandinavia, Baiba Ziemele Board member of World Federation of Hemophilia, President of Latvian Alliance of Rare Diseases
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🗣 The first Health Data Summit Riga has concluded, the much-needed debate about data usage in healthcare has happened. Thanks to the extensive inspiration and knowledge gained during the summit a roadmap for digital health strategy will be created. See you next time!
🙏 Thank you to all the speakers, moderators, partners, supporters and of course - our digital attendees!
🤝 Organizers (Ministry of Health of Latvia (Veselības ministrija), National Health Service (Nacionālais veselības dienests) and AmCham Latvia) are especially grateful to:
▪️ Co-hosts Novartis and Roche
▪️ Partners Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Latvia (Ziemeļvalstu Ministru padomes birojs Latvijā) and Microsoft
▪️ Supporters AbbVie, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and TVNET. ... See MoreSee Less
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🗣 The topic of "Digital Healthcare as a Prerequisite for System Systainability and Smart Governance" is placed at the second spotlight of Sharing Is Caring / Health Data Summit Riga.
Thanks for the detailed and valuable speeches to Stella Kyriakides European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and keynote Elena Bonfiglioli (Managing Director Health and Life Sciences, EMEA, Microsoft)!
🎥 Join the Livestream:
▪️ In English (only in English): bit.ly/2V0sgFH
▪️ In Latvian (it is possible to easily switch between English/Latvian, when clicked on the headphone icon at the lower-right corner of the video): bit.ly/3fwuxC3
❓ Ask questions to the speakers: menti.com with the code 5035232
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🗣 The first Panel Discussion "Putting Patient in the Center of Healthcare Through Data Availability" has been very fruitful. We are grateful to the moderator of the discussion Valts Ābols (CEO, Children's Clinical University hospital (Bērnu klīniskā universitātes slimnīca) in Latvia) and participants of the discussion: Ain Aaviksoo MD MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Guardtime Health, Emil Syundyukov (Computer Scientist dedicated to Healthcare and Education), Walter Ricciardi (Chair of the EU Cancer Mission), Erik Forsberg (Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Managing Director, EIT Health Health Scandinavia), Baiba Ziemele (Board member of World Federation of Hemophilia / Federación Mundial de Hemofilia, President of Latvian Alliance of Rare Diseases (Latvijas Reto slimību alianse)).
🎥 Join the Livestream:
▪️ In English (only in English): bit.ly/2V0sgFH
▪️ In Latvian (it is possible to easily switch between English/Latvian, when clicked on the headphone icon at the lower-right corner of the video): bit.ly/3fwuxC3
❓ Ask questions to the speakers: menti.com with the code 5035232
🔎 More about the agenda and speakers ➡️ www.healthdatasummitriga.eu ... See MoreSee Less
2 days ago
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