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