DigI:Digital Health: The Game Changer
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Expert Meeting:
Global Digital Health: The Game Changer for Health Systems and User Involvement
organised by
Center for Global Health, TUM, Centre for Global Health, UiO and the Basic Internet Foundation
Monday, 8. Oct 2018, 14:00 - 16:45 h
Klinikum rechts der Isar der TUM, Neuro-Kopf-Zentrum, München
Agenda (tentative)
The goal of the expert meeting is to discuss experiences from transforming health into digital health, and to identify opportunities and strategies for Digital Global Health for All. Experts from both Germany, Norway, and Tanzania will report from their experiences in digitisation of hospitals, information reach-out and involvement of health workers, patients, and the societal benefits from digital health.
- 14:00h Welcome to the Neuro-Kopf-Zentrum (Prof. Hemmer)
- 14:10h "Digital empowerment and inclusion - a Norwegian perspective" (Prof. Josef Noll, UiO)
- Prof. Noll from the University of Oslo (UiO), Department of Technology Systems, is project leader of the "Non-discriminating access for Digital Inclusion" (DigI) project. He is also Secretary General of the Basic Internet Foundation, established by UiO and Kjeller Innovasjon to foster "Internet lite for all".
- 14:30h Data integration and Data Sharing (Prof. Bernhard Hemmer, TUM) - (tbc)
- Prof. Hemmer is Director of the Neurology Clinic at TUM's rechts der Isar clinic since 2007. He specializes in the field of neuroimmunology.
- 14:50h From Digital health to Global Health (Prof. Andrea Winkler, TUM and UiO)
- Prof. Winkler leads the Centre for Global Health at TUM and at UiO. She specializes in the field of global health and global neurosciences.
- 15:10h Digitalisation: Empowering hospitals and defeating diseases (Prof. Klaus A. Kuhn, TUM) - (tbc)
- Prof. Kuhn is Chair of Medical Informatics at TUM School of Medicine / Informatics. He specializes in innovative IT concepts and solutions for translational research in the field of medicine.
- 15:30h Benefits of digital for Tanzania (Dr. Bernard Ngowi, NIMR)
- Dr. Ngowi is director at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Tanzania, and will report from his health-related experiences in Tanzania, and how digital health increased the reach-out to the local population.
- 15:50h Bringing Digital Health to Africa, Experiences from the Cystinet project (Mr. Jan Knobloch/Bernd Brügge, TUM)
- Mr. Knobloch and Prof. Brügge, both from Applied Software Engineering at the Department of Informatics, TUM, specialize in tools and processes for the development of workable systems for small mobile devices.
- 16:10h Global Preparedness and Digital Health (Elibariki Mwakapeje, MoH)
- Mr Mwakapeje, working at the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Tanzania, is involved in medical preparedness, e.g. Anthrax. He is currently preparing the roll-out of information kiosks in Northern Tanzania, and will report from his experiences.
- 16:30h Discussion: Strategy for Digital Global Health for All
- 16:45h End of meeting
Venue
The colloquium takes place at Klinikum rechts der Isar der TUM, Neuro-Kopf-Zentrum, Bibliothek, 4th floor, OG Ismaninger street 22, 81675 München
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