These two Digital Health Sessions are hosted by researchers at DTU. Denmark's Technical University, CBS Copenhagen Business School, Systematic and the Rigshospitalet

New technologies like sensors and wearables provide novel opportunities to predict, prevent, and personalize healthcare services. But how do we adopt these technologies to patients, organisations and society? Through two sessions on digital health we will explore this, by combining insights on the newest trends in health technology with perspectives on user behaviour, digital innovation, and value creation.
 

Combining perspectives

No new technology trend can be understood without also understanding its implementation and use. This is particularly true within health technologies, as the patients who need to adopt new technology, are often not very confident technology users. At the same time, introducing new technologies might completely change the way health professionals work and interact with patients. These are perspectives to understand in close relation to technological advances. In two sessions at the Digital Tech Summit, we join forces between DTU and CBS and explore health tech developments as well as their use and implementation.
 

Digital health solutions: Cheaper and more personalized solutions

Technology is providing new solutions to treatment that promises cheaper, more accessible, and more personalized solutions for patients. The session ‘Digital Health Part 1’ will explore what promises digital health technologies holds for future health care. This will be done through seven short presentations by start-ups, large corporations, researchers, health economists and hospitals.

Speakers include Jakob E. Bardram, professor at DTU Health Tech, who will introduce the concept of "Digital Phenotyping", and explain how the wealth of data collected through wearables can be used for identification of "Digital Biomarkers".  We will also hear Mikkel Harbo, Director at Systematic, who will explain how data is used for patient monitoring and interventions, through electronic healthcare records. And we will hear how Danish hospitals feel an increasing need for new technologies from the Chief Physician at Rigshospitalets children's hospital, Morten Breindahl.

The opportunities that technology creates, need to be developed in close interaction between multiple actors, including hospitals, municipalities, insurers, patients/users, and technology providers. To open up for the many perspectives, the session ‘Digital Health Part 2’ invites you to join the discussion of how new technologies are put into use.
 

The challenges of implementation, adoption, and value creation

While new technologies can sound promising for patients as well as public budgets, they will also require new ways of working for healthcare professionals, new responsibilities for patients and an altogether new way of thinking about healthcare. The second session on digital health will explore what opportunities these challenges bring along through discussions, network and exchange of ideas with speakers and session participants.

Discussions will be facilitated by Christiane Lehrer (Assistant Professor) and Daniel Fürstenau (Assistant Professor) and Sine Zambach (Postdoc), who are all specialized in digital health services and their implications for organizations and users. The discussions will focus on the organizational and societal implications of digital health solutions, and revolve around three central topics.

The first session will discuss Artificial Intelligence and digital health. It will explore how data can be used to measure and influence health outcomes as well as how organizations can use data analytics for the successful innovation of products and services.

The second session investigates health behavior change. It will consider how healthy behavior can be induced through the use of technology such as wearables, and what that demands from patients and their relatives.  Furthermore, the discussion will consider how users interact with digital technologies.

The third session is centered around value-based healthcare. It will evaluate the possibilities of this integrative approach that considers medical quality, patient-centered outcomes and efficient healthcare delivery together in a holistic way with the goal of maximizing patient value utilizing digital health solutions.

We look forward to seeiing you at Digital Tech Summit, and hope that you will join us for these important talks and discussions on digital health.