Africa Health Tech Summit

14/12/2022

A fruitful Cocreation Session: A person-centred approach to the digital transformation health, brought together key stakeholders on a journey to:
-formulate inspiring objective statements,
-unpack the gaps & solutions needed,
-enrich understanding of the current landscape of initiatives and potential partners.

Three break-out groups focused on the building blocks of the person-centered health model, which are:
1. Enabling policies and standards,
2. Digital enablement of health providers,
3. Digital health skilling and entrepreneur-ship.

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Our very engaging morning panel: Digitalization - Delivering a universal, connected, affordable care and building resilient health systems by Africa - emphasised how digitization can make more healthcare accessible, affordable and of higher quality.

Discussions also assessed the progress of digitization along key fundamentals such as leadership and governance, investment in digital infrastructure and skilled workforce, policy, regulations, standards, and interoperability as well as services and applications.

Panelists also outlined the wide range of innovative digital health solutions & examined the role of governments, institutions, and the private sector in digitizing public health.

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Intense discussions at the Digital Health Investment Roundtable focused on involving all actors on the digital transformation for health, & what is needed to drive increased & better coordinated investments to move towards the joint goal of achieving UHC.

Transform Health’s new Conceptual Framework aims to guide investments & action for the digital transformation of health, thus helping to lay the path towards health for all in the digital age.

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Good morning! Our activities today at Norrsken Foundation kick-off with a Digital Health Investment Roundtable by Health, Speak Up Africa and Helina on the role of additional catalytic investment as part of comprehensive national strategies, to support the digital transformation of health systems.

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Thank you all to our fantastic panelists, partners and engaging audience! Stay tuned to our social media platforms for continuous updates and information on the

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Our final panel on Monday was on African Women in Digital Health, where panelists discussed investments & conducive environments for the growth of women entrepreneurs in the the health tech space, including skillset development.

African union Smart Africa Africa CDC

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The plenary on a Pan African Digital Health Network focused on creating a continent-wide network, and aims to effectively engage countries and partners to foster a vibrant information exchange and learning culture.

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Our Monday afternoon panel session on Connecting Africa’s Digital Health Blueprints to Financing brought together funders of data and digital health on the Continent to share priority areas of investment.

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Dr. Shivon Byamukama, MD of Babyl Health Rwanda states that collaboration with innovators and political will by governments is important if Africa is to accelerate digitization in the health sector, and leapfrog into the future.