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Dr Ramadan
AlBlooshi, Chief Regulatory Officer, Dubai Health City Authority, said “In the
past five years, the UAE Government has launched several strategies including
the National Innovation Strategy, The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy and
Block Chain Strategy to empower change across industries. Disruptive
technologies are offering effective tools to revolutionize the health sector by
enabling innovative, cost-effective and patient-centred systems. Collaborations
among health authorities across block chain are allowing us to have unified
health systems and laying the foundation for new healthcare services such as
telehealth.
Lina H
Shadid, Healthcare Practice Lead at PwC, spoke on the New Health Economy
focussing on digital transformation and the role of data and AI in the age of
Trust.
Lina
Shadid, Digital Health Lead at PwC Middle East noted: “The promise that data
science and artificial intelligence (AI) hold for revolutionising healthcare is
undeniable - from the way healthcare is delivered all the way through to how
data is collected, assessed and used to benefit the greater good. But for AI to
truly benefit the healthcare system, we need to see a concerted effort on the
part of the entire ecosystem, an effort to cut through the hype and prepare for
the changes and potential that emerging technology bring to the industry. This
transformation requires a collective effort -- from providers, payers, patients
and all the way through to regulators, data scientists and academics. The
promise of big data and AI in healthcare is huge.”
Amit
Sadana, General Manager & SVP AMESA at IQVIA spoke on how genetics will
take digital health to a new level and decoding a genomic revolution. He
highlighted on using genome sequence and big data to manage one’s health and
how genetics will take digital health to the next level.
Atif
Albraiki, CEO at Malaffi addressed the audience how besides the many breakthroughs
in medicine, healthcare data vastly remains in silos and how this affects the
provision of care. He highlighted how Health Information Exchanges connect
healthcare and provides value to stakeholders.
Mr Albraiki
added, “I am glad that HIEs are now an integral part of all conversations
around improving healthcare through technology. We are happy to carry the flag
for connecting healthcare, by also sharing our experience with Malaffi, which
has already started to provide value for both providers and patients.”
Nadine de
Clercq and Natasha Faizan of Amana Healthcare presented the case of using eye
gaze technology to communicate with children of special needs.
Haytham El
Sahat, surgical oncologist and Medical director at Mediclinic spoke on the role
of AI in medicine and how digitization will change the distribution of
personnel and leadership roles.
Blending
Nordic experience with local excellence, experts at the conference hailed from Finland , Sweden ,
Denmark , Norway Germany
Anni
Iso-Mustajarvi, Head of Business Development at Mehilainen from Finland spoke on the digitalization of patient
journey and developing high quality services beyond traditional boundaries
while Claus Nielsen of Data for Good Foundation from Denmark
Magnus
Clarin, Dean - School of Information Science at Halmstad University in Sweden
Ben
Furneaux, Global Head of Affordability at Cigna spoke on cost care and the need
for affordable healthcare solutions while Dr. Sven Korner delivered a keynote
on using AI for profitability and using semantic processing to interpret data
to deliver real knowledge.
Guests also
had access to exhibitors in the foyer that included PwC, du, Evoteq, Anker
Innovations, Thuraya, Prestidge Group and IQVIA.