The Crisis as an Opportunity: National Digital Health Symposium 2020 Puts Sustainable Digitization in the Healthcare System at the Center
The National Digital Health Symposium 2020 - on December 16th as a web conference. © TMF
This year, the National Digital Health Symposium will take place on December 16, 2020, as a web conference. Participation is free of charge.
Live transmission of the keynotes and panel discussions from the House of the Federal Press Conference in Berlin. Active participation in the discussion rounds is possible using digital tools. Participation is free of charge.
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic represents an unprecedented stress test for social security systems. Therefore, the two organizers, the GVG and TMF, are focusing on the accelerated digital structural change in our healthcare system at the Digital Health Symposium 2020 (NDHS). The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) is a cooperation partner for the first time. Against the backdrop of the German EU Council Presidency, the event also focuses on the European level.
As a "clear consequence of the coronavirus crisis," GVG’s Managing Director Dr. Sven-Frederik Balders, identifies the increased willingness of all social system actors to embrace change: "Certain care structures will no longer be adequately maintained if we do not incorporate digital elements more strongly into care."
Sebastian C. Semler, Managing Director of the TMF, sees NDHS 2020 as an important milestone in advancing digitization in the healthcare system further: "I hope that we will continue consistently with the electronic patient record and intelligently network in a sustainable research data infrastructure." He cites examples such as the Medical Informatics Initiative of the BMBF, the medical register landscape, and the joint genome platform for research and care. "Digitization must be useful for patients as well as for doctors. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital developments and subjected them to a utility test," explained Dr. Andreas Gassen, Chairman of the Board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV). The symposium will explore, among other things, the contribution sustainable data infrastructures and digital care formats can make to meeting future challenges in four thematic blocks:
- Thematic Block I: On the way to the European Health Data Space: Addressing pandemics through networked exchange, including Dr. Markus Leyck Dieken, gematik; Ioana-Maria Gligor, European Commission; Dr. Peter Geibel, DKG; Prof. Dr. Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna
- Thematic Block II: COVID-19 as an accelerator of digital health data exchange?, including Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast, Uni Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Roland Eils, Berlin Institute of Health; Dr. Andreas Gassen, KBV; Martin Litsch, Federal Chairman of the AOK
- Thematic Block III: Data protection and patient emancipation in a digitized healthcare system, including Jan Kuhlmann, Patients' Rights and Data Protection; Michaela Mayrhofer, BBMRI-ERIC; Dr. Thilo Weichert, Network for Data Protection Expertise
- Thematic Block IV: European Perspective: Lessons learned from COVID-19, including Annemieke Ålenius – eHälsomyndigheten (Sweden); Esti Shelly, Ministry of Health of the State of Israel
Registration for the event is now open at www.digital-health-symposium.de. The entire program is also available online there. Participation is free of charge.
The Organizers
Together, with 40 years of experience in the field of digitalization of healthcare, two umbrella organizations, and a new event format - the Society for Insurance Science and Design (GVG) and the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF) launched the National Digital Health Symposium on November 14, 2019, in Berlin. The GVG and TMF unite all important actors of a future learning healthcare system. While the GVG comprehensively represents the social security system in Germany with payers and providers, the TMF represents medical networked research and contributes to its extensive e-health network.
The National Digital Health Symposium
The National Digital Health Symposium sees itself as a networking and exchange forum for service providers, payers, and medical research, including the perspective of manufacturers and patients. The goal is to accelerate the digital cultural change. It is about realistically facing challenges, tackling them constructively, and jointly shaping the future healthcare system.
Twitter: @DigiHealth20
Press Contact
GVG e. V.
Joachim Nöhre Senior Referent Public Relations
Phone: 030 8561123-32
E-mail: j.noehre@gvg.org
TMF
Wiebke Lesch Press and Public Relations
Phone: 030 - 22 00 24 731
E-mail: presse@tmf-ev.de
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