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Two big weeks for global digital health

 

This week and next, we are celebrating the role of digital technologies to advance health—with Digital Health Week from November 29th to December 3rd and the Global Digital Health Forum from December 6th-8th.

Digital Health Week

Theme: The global week of action to champion health for all in a digital age.

Digital Health Week is a global week of action to celebrate, promote, and advocate for digital health and its critical role in providing health for all by 2030. Digital Health Week creates space for diverse stakeholders within and across countries to come together at national and regional levels to exchange ideas and experiences, reach consensus on the main challenges and opportunities in their contexts, and agree on what needs to happen to ensure digital transformation of health to achieve universal health coverage.

 

Global Digital Health Forum

Theme: Improving Health Through Digital Transformation

Every year, the Global Digital Health Forum provides an opportunity for Digital Square and its partners to come together, share our work, and contribute to a thriving community of digital health practitioners. This year, the Forum explores how digital technologies expand the reach of health services, improve the responsiveness of health systems, and accelerate our collective progress toward global health goals.

To hear from PATH, join us for sessions listed here. For more info, check out the full agenda.

The list below highlights sessions focused on digital health global goods and/or with speakers from the global goods community:

Monday, December 6

Lightning Talk: Impossible is Normal

Clayton Sims, Chief Technology Officer, Dimagi

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM GMT

 

Panel: Managing Multiple Health Financing Schemes Using openIMIS - Experiences from Cameroon

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM GMT

 

Panel: Collaborative Workflows Across Community Health Information Systems Using FHIR

Norman Hooper, Senior Software Engineer, Dimagi

Francis Odhiambo Otieno, Technical Pro, Ona

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM GMT

 

Individual Presentations: Stopping Infectious Disease & Preparing for Epidemics

Jordan Lerner, Senior Project Manager, Dimagi

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM GMT

 

Individual Presentations: Strengthening Digital Health Ecosystems

Christina Riley, Portfolio Lead, Akros

Austin McGee, DHIS2 Deputy Technical Lead, HISP University of Oslo

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM GMT

 

Individual Presentations: Investing in People Who Defend Our Health

Hailey Burgess, Research Associate, Dimagi

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM GMT

Measuring Health Access: An Overview of GIS Methods and Datasets for Quantifying Health Access

Matt Berg, CEO, Ona

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM GMT

 

Tuesday, December 7

Individual Presentations: Strengthening Digital Health Ecosystems

Taylor Downs, Head of Products, OpenFn

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT

 

Individual Presentations: Strengthening Digital Health Ecosystems

Mary Rocheleau, Associate Director of Technology Solutions, Dimagi

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM GMT

 

Panel: Innovative Geospatial Data Use to Achieve Maximal Mosaic Vector Control Coverage in Nchelenge Zambia

Christina Riley, Portfolio Lead, Akros

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM GMT

 

Panel: OpenMRS 3.0 - A Renaissance in Technology and Collaboration

Grace Potma, Director of Product, OpenMRS

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM GMT

 

COVID-19 Response in Mauritius: Border Control and National Testing Using OpenELIS, HIE, and FHIR

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM GMT

 

Wednesday, December 8

Individual Presentations: Strengthening Digital Health Ecosystems

Srikant Mohan, Researcher, Dimagi

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM GMT

 

Lightning Talk: Breaking Down Our Assumptions in Designing Chatbots for Healthcare in LMIC Contexts

Gayatri Jayal, Director of Consumer Innovations, Dimagi

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM GMT

 

Panel: Driving Interoperability & WHO Recommended Digital Content with a FHIR-Based SMART Ecosystem

Matt Berg, CEO, Ona

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM GMT

 

Individual Presentations: Strengthening Digital Health Ecosystems

Clayton Sims, Chief Technology Officer, Dimagi

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM GMT

 

Panel: Digital Solutions - Transforming Clinical Quality in Formal and Informal Private Facilities

Dimagi

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM GMT

 

Panel: Breaking a Vicious Cycle! Reproducible Approaches to Foster Trust in Routine Community Health Data

Lilanna Bagnoli, Project Manager, Dimagi

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM GMT

 
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