Scotland Digital Health and Wellness Day at Expo 2020
Discover what Scotland is doing to promote wellness, deliver better diagnosis and develop health treatments of the future, through data-driven intelligence and pioneering innovation. Join our Digital Health and Wellness virtual event on 31 January 2022 for investment, partnering and research opportunities.
Health is wealth
Participate online in Scotland’s digital healthcare event at Expo 2020 Dubai on 31 January 2022 to find out more about Scotland’s approach and solutions to meeting some of the biggest global healthcare issues.
This event highlights Scotland’s world leading research, excellence and collaboration in providing integrated healthcare solutions and sets out the future vision on empowering citizens to better manage their health and wellbeing.
Transforming digital healthcare
Monday 31 January 2022
1pm-5pm Dubai GST | 9am-1pm UK GMT
*Note: Minor information in the following programme is subject to change.
Welcome
1pm-1:05pm GST Dubai | 9am-9:05am UK GMT
Scottish Development International
1:05pm-1:10pm Dubai GST | 9:05am-9:10am UK GMT
Ivan McKee, Minister for Trade, Scottish Government
Importance of collaboration and building a wellbeing economy.
Keynote address + Q&A
1:10pm-2:15pm Dubai GST | 9:10am-10:15am UK GMT
Professor Jason Leitch CBE, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government
The Scottish Government's shared vision for the future of healthcare and how Scotland is using technology to deliver this vision.
The Q&A will invite stakeholders from the UAE to discuss Scotland’s and the UAE’s approach and response to meeting some of the biggest global healthcare issues, and the importance of international collaboration.
Digital health in Scotland - transforming the future of health and wellness
2:30pm-3:45pm Dubai GST | 10:30am-11:45am UK GMT
Panel discussion
Moderated by Hal Wolf, CEO, HIMSS
Panel:
- Professor Jason Leitch CBE, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government
- George Crooks, CEO, Digital Health & Care (DHI) Innovation Centre
- Brian Hills, Interim CEO, The Data Lab
- Marian McNeil, CEO, Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC)
- David Lowe, Clinical Director Scottish Health Innovation Partnership, Scottish Government
Breakout sessions
4pm-5pm Dubai GST | 12pm-1pm GMT
Session 1: Training of the future - How healthcare education is progressing with technology
- David Russell, International Lead, School of Medicine, University of Dundee
- Iris Grunwald, Professor of Neuroradiology, University of Dundee
- Debbie Wake, CEO, MyWay Digital Health
Session 2: Precision medicine in action
- Marian McNeil, CEO, PMS-IC
- Carol Clugston, The Living Lab, University of Glasgow
Session 3: Data driven healthcare - How Scotland is using data and intelligence to enhance wellness
- Janette Hughes,Director of Planning and Performance, DHI
- Grant Reilly, Head of Communications and Marketing, DHI
Session 4: Diagnosis - The roles of data and AI in delivering predictive healthcare
- Brian Hills, Interim CEO, The Data Lab
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) supports transformational collaboration between universities and businesses. The DHI team helps drive knowledge exchange around digital health and care innovation. It is recognised as one of Scotland’s key national assets to support health and care service transformation and promote Scotland to international networks.
The Data Lab is Scotland's Innovation Centre for data and artificial intelligence (AI). It enables industry, public sector and world-class university researchers to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. Its core mission is to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from data.
Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC) brings together industry innovators, clinicians and world-class researchers to collaborate on precision medicine opportunities.
Scotland’s ability to develop new solutions for healthcare based around informatics, big data and patient stratification is almost unrivalled. An outstanding level of academic and industry collaboration has created a truly open innovation environment.
Scotland has one of the largest information and technology communities in Europe, and an innate determination to provide healthcare solutions that benefit everyone. So, it's the natural choice for innovative digital health and care projects looking for integrated technology solutions.
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