Riga 2020
Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring
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.
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 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 are 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 features 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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Happy New Year to health data enthusiasts!
We are back to share some news, this time McKinsey & Company report “Digital Challengers in the next normal”, which states following:
Regarding healthcare it underlines that better health promotes economic growth by expanding the labor force and boosting productivity, while also delivering immense social benefits.
▪️ One of key elements needed in order to fully benefit from digitization in healthcare is a system of digital medical records.
▪️ Another source to unlock the economic benefits through improved healthcare is tele-medicine.
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🗣 "We hope that today's summit could be the starting block tangible future of data-driven healthcare in Latvia for more personalised healthcare."
➡️ Watch the video and hear The Health Data Summit Riga “Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring” closing words by Zinta Jansons (President of AmCham Latvia)!
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The Health Data Summit Riga “Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring” online event took place on November 26 (2020) and was organized by Ministry of Health of Latvia (Veselības ministrija), National Health Service (Nacionālais veselības dienests) and AmCham Latvia.
▪️ 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.
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🗣 "Patients must be put in the center and their data is the core of digital healthcare."
➡️ The Health Data Summit Riga “Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring” aimed to establish recommendations for a health data strategy and data-driven decision making. Watch the closing words of Ilze Viņķele (the Minister of Health of Latvia) and get to know what's next for Latvia!
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The Health Data Summit Riga “Toward Data-Driven Health: Sharing is Caring” online event took place on November 26 (2020) and was organized by Ministry of Health of Latvia (Veselības ministrija), National Health Service (Nacionālais veselības dienests) and AmCham Latvia.
▪️ 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.
🎥 All speeches can be watched ➡️ www.healthdatasummitriga.eu/livestream/ ... See MoreSee Less
5 months ago
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