HEALTH DATA SUMMIT RIGA 2021

The Health Data Summit Riga “Digital Leap For Improved Patient Care” is an online summit organized by Ministry of Health of Latvia, National Health Service and AmCham Latvia. It is the largest gathering of its kind in Latvia covering topics related to data governance in healthcare.

Technology and access to quality data can reshape the relationship between patients, healthcare providers and the healthcare system to meet the demand for personalized and outcome driven services.

COVID-19 pandemics has highlighted the need for acceleration of digitalization of healthcare systems and significantly increased demand for digital solutions and interoperability for improved coordination.

Thus, enabling adoption of digital healthcare solutions and integration into the healthcare system to ensure sustained patient access has become obvious. How to deepen access to health data to support digital health solutions? How to leverage data for healthcare innovation? The summit will focus on patient-centered care and explore how health innovations can benefit the patients and doctors by making entire systems more effective.

We look forward to raising awareness of the importance of healthcare data and the necessity to invest in digital health strategy by various stakeholders: patients, policy-makers, industry and society-at-large. By sharing best practice examples, we would like to inspire health innovations to benefit the patients and foster public-private partnerships to accelerate innovation and acceptance of digital solutions.

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.