2023 Digital Health Summit

Conference Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:00am – 8:15am

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:15am – 9:00am

How Digital Health Can Improve Patient Outcomes

The healthcare industry is ripe for change. From chronic illnesses, such as heart disease and diabetes, to risk assessment, there are countless opportunities where technology can enhance clinical workflows, improve experiences and elevate overall care. As physicians today face high rates of burnout and patients demand increased attention from their doctors, digital tools are emerging as credible solutions to such problems. It is freeing up doctors’ time and allowing them to administer care both more attentively and effectively. Digital tools that collect data and support interventions outside the clinical setting offer meaningful opportunities to identify risks and engage patients. Consumer-facing apps and clinical monitors that actively or passively collect data can also serve as an early warning system for prevention and disease management. This session will explore ways in which digital health is helping healthcare organizations to make significant improvements in patient experience and outcomes.

9:00am – 9:45am

Advancing Digital Patient Engagement

Rapid advancement in mobile digital health technologies has given consumers greater control over their healthcare and the ability to engage more deeply with providers. Nevertheless, consumer experiences are far from consistent as they use virtual care, symptom checkers, chatbots, provider search apps, online scheduling and myriad other tools and apps. Many patients report unsatisfactory experiences related to ease of use, siloed functionality and other factors. This session will explore how to advance digital patient engagement and opportunities for differentiation.

9:45am – 10:15am

Networking & Refreshments Break

10:15am – 11:00am

Digital Health Trends, Health Equity and the Future of Healthcare

Digital health trends like telemedicine, IoT devices, and virtual reality surgical training continue to attract massive investment, helping the industry improve health equity worldwide. Put simply, health equity is all about making healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone — and digital health trends are the driving forces behind health equity. Of course, there are many challenges on the road to achieving this goal, with stakeholders at all levels of government involved and a myriad of social determinants of how we collect, analyze and share health data. This session will explore digital health trends with real momentum and why they matter to health equity and the future of healthcare. 



11:00am – 11:45am

Overcoming Barriers to Digital Adoption in Healthcare

The global pandemic has challenged almost every aspect of our lives, with fundamental shifts in everyday life now self-evident. It has acted as a digital accelerant across healthcare, much as it has across other sectors, as practitioners look to overcome unforeseen challenges to traditional workflows. An interesting outcome of COVID-19 has been the realization that many of the long-term barriers to robust healthcare system delivery can be solved using these recently adopted technologies, as resilience begins to center on digitizing traditional touchpoints. This session will explore ways providers can overcome barriers to digital adoption in healthcare.

11:45am – 12:30pm

Digital Health Interventions for the Delivery of Mental Health Care

The pandemic has shifted mental healthcare delivery to digital platforms, videoconferencing, and other mobile communications. These tools offer the possibility of expanding the reach and accessibility of mental healthcare. As healthcare providers continue to embrace the role that technology can play in broadening access to care, the implementation of digital mental healthcare solutions must be carefully considered to maximize their effectiveness and accessibility. This session will explore these digital health interventions for the delivery of mental healthcare, as well as considerations for ensuring equity in access to digital mental health interventions among diverse populations.

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Luncheon

1:30pm – 2:15pm

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Panel: How Providers are Leveraging Digital Tools as Services Expand

Hospitals and healthcare systems have been forced to implement and accelerate projects for telemedicine and other digital tools to continue serving patients. While many hospitals have been severely impacted by the need for social distancing and other measures to prevent spreading infection, COVID has also cemented the convenience of digital tools among consumers and providers, some of whom were previously reluctant to adopt new technologies. This session will explore how digital health tools and a fortified digital patient experience are permitting healthcare systems to forge a new normal – one that more seamlessly integrates telemedicine and digital health.

3:15pm – 3:45pm

Networking & Refreshments Break

3:45pm – 4:30pm

How Connected Health Devices are Changing Healthcare

Healthcare wearables have been around for quite a while. In the late 1980s, the invention of digital hearing aids marked the beginning of the industry’s digitalization and gave rise to a whole new category of medical devices. Since then, wearables have evolved in various forms and learned to perform various operations.

Today, powered by smart sensors, AI and machine learning technologies, wearable devices are being actively adopted for remote patient monitoring, early diagnostics, monitoring chronic conditions, enhancing everyday health and lifestyle patterns, and even handling emergency situations. This session will explore how connected health devices are changing healthcare.

4:30pm – 5:15pm

How Digital Healthcare is Reshaping Health Insurance

Digital healthcare has is beginning to reshape health insurance markets. Payers been slow to digitize and are still behind other industries in their use of AI and automation, as well as in customer satisfaction. They’re now starting to catch up. Both incumbents and disruptors are making substantial and growing investments in digital programs. For incumbents, the impetus has been equal parts ambition and fear: the investments are simultaneously bold moves to capture new value pools and defensive actions in response to external tech-driven disruption. This session will explore winning formula of concrete steps that can help health insurers along the path to digital transformation.

5:15pm

End of Day One

Networking Breakfast

8:00am – 8:15am

Chairperson’s Remarks

8:15am – 9:00am

The Future of Digital Healthcare

Innovations in digital health are reshaping how healthcare is accessed and provided, introducing a new risk landscape for healthcare providers to navigate. This session will explore we explore how healthcare will become increasingly distributed, connecting patient data from the hospital to the home and community care settings; how healthcare leaders can tap into the power of data, AI and cloud-based digital platforms to improve patient care and streamline hospital operations for increased efficiency; and what is needed to bring this vision of digital healthcare transformation to full fruition.

9:00am – 9:45am

How COVID Accelerated Healthcare’s Digital Transformation

The past years have seen a boom in technology-enabled healthcare solutions—from telemedicine service connecting rural communities with world-class care to the proliferation of wearable devices helping Americans proactively monitor their exercise data and even irregular heart rhythms. The growing digitization of health has only been accelerated by the unique challenges of COVIC-19, in which it became increasingly clear that we needed more solutions for a society that has shifted so significantly to the online realm. This session will explore how COVID accelerated healthcare’s digital transformation.

9:45am – 10:15am

Networking & Refreshments Break

10:15am – 11:00am

Improving Patient Engagement through Digital Health

Momentum has been building in healthcare and providers are turning to new connected health solutions that allow them to more effectively treat and communicate with patients. This session will examine how connected health not only offers physicians new ways to treat and manage patients, but creates new ways for patient engagement, helping patients become more informed about their healthcare and, ultimately, improve health outcomes.

11:00am – 11:45am

Capturing the Value in Connected Health

Accelerated digital healthcare adoption amid COVID-19 means now is the time for organizations to embrace the transformation. Connected health – which sits at the intersection of digital and traditional care – is regularly discussed as a way to harness the power of new technology to improve patient engagement and health outcomes. This session will explore the transformative potential of connected health and actions your organization can take to build a connected health ecosystem.

11:45am – 12:30pm

How Digital Tools will Transform Personalized Healthcare

The personalization of healthcare has the potential to enable the most effective care to become available to individuals faster and at a lower overall cost than before, aimed at achieving the best possible clinical outcomes in the long term. This session will explore how digital health tools could play a key role in personalizing healthcare, for example, by providing new channels for continuous or frequent patient monitoring outside of the clinical setting, supporting decision-making, and facilitating access to care, in relation to several stages of the care delivery pathway.

12:30pm

Conference Concludes

Workshop

Digital Healthcare Management: Why it is Important and How to Leverage it to Differentiate Your Organization

The healthcare industry is at a tipping point. Empowered consumers now expect on-demand and more convenient services options from their healthcare organizations, just like they do from retail organizations and beyond. In the world of healthcare, however, increasingly competitive health plan contracts and employer requests for proposals expect innovation and differentiation. New entrants, capitalizing on high costs and poor engagement, are siphoning off business from traditional players while some frustrated large employers are threatening disintermediation altogether. What does it all mean? The status quo in healthcare is no longer an option. This session will explore how organizations must reinvent their approach to thrive in this era. Topics to be discussed will include:

– Supporting whole person care with a comprehensive solution

– Generating insights that enable early interventions

– Extending the reach of staff to improve patient engagement

– Delivering measurable value and continuous improvement