Inviting you to take a playful journey, while critically reflecting on the Digital Age and how it transforms our lives
Inviting you to take a playful journey, while critically reflecting on the Digital Age and how it transforms our lives
Systems and services: imagining the future of healthcare
Novel digital technologies related to health and medicine
Ethics in health data
Impact of big data in medical research and clinical practice
Designing molecules for personalized healthcare
Image guided diagnosis for better treatment
While the next generation of “digital natives” might regard new health technologies and data transparency as the “seamless backbone of society,” the current generation faces a data tsunami. Information is flooding in at an unprecedented rate and the receding wave presents a potentially devastating risk to personal safety and privacy. At the same time, advances in health research and technology serve society Improving quality of life on multiple levels.
At the WORLDWEBFORUM, ETH Zurich uses its digital platform to showcase the latest health technologies and to foster discussion and learning surrounding the important ethical principles of digitalizing health related data. It highlights Both the complexity and potential connections, while providing on interactive playground to explore questions, ideas, and solutions.
Health systems worldwide face fundamental challenges: rising costs, conflicting interests, societal trade-offs.
But many thought leaders and industry participants see a tremendous opportunity around the adoption of new technologies to achieve significant benefits for our health systems, both in terms of efficiency as well as the quality of the outcomes.
In this context, we want to create a new, innovative platform for this discussion in Switzerland, that combines the leading thinkers from Switzerland with the true Digital Health shapers and thinkers from around the world.
The findings of this standing group of members of academia, pharma and biotech, mayors and providers, politicians and regulators will regularly be published in a white paper
The «Re-Inventing Digital Health for the 21st Century in Switzerland» workshop will become an exclusive part of the Track Digital Health, chaired by ETH Zurich.
The event takes place for the first time at the 7th annual meeting of WORLDWEBFORUM in Zurich, January 17-18, 2019, by invitation only.
Presented by
Thursday, Jan 17, 2019
RICHARD RAU, POST DOC, COMPUTER VISION LAB, ETH ZURICH
MIRKO MEBOLDT, PROF., PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GROUP, ETH ZURICH
PASCAL BUHOLZER, FOUNDER & CEO, SCEWO
JAN HISS, POST DOC, COMPUTER-ASSISTED DRUG DESIGN, ETH ZURICH
Friday, Jan 18, 2019
FELIX GILLE, POST DOC, HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY, ETH ZURICH
FILIPE DA CONCEICAO BARATA, POST DOC, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, ETH ZURICH