Health 2.0, one of the world’s most recognized health innovation conferences, is making its first appearance in the Middle East on January 27-28 at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai.
The convention will be the first of its kind in the region, showcasing the latest web and mobile-based health technologies serving health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers.
Health 2.0 aims to develop concrete recommendations to accelerate the adoption of health innovation technologies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Middle East, at large.
“Our goal is to assess the opportunities and challenges facing the adoption of new health technologies in the GCC, while identifying several major barriers to the broad adoption of health innovation technologies,” said Kenneth Seymens, Managing Partner of MedicaIQ and Health 2.0 Middle East organizer.
Hot topics to be discussed at Health 2.0 include the desire of the region to protect patient privacy by drafting new laws relating to how health data is captured, used, and shared, as well as the prevailing use of smartphones to access medical information in the area.
“The pervasive platform in terms of how users access information in this region is via mobile phone. This region has the largest incidence of mobile phone penetration in the world. Almost two to one,” said Seymens.
“It lends itself very readily to providing mobile healthcare solutions that reside on smartphones,” he added.
Speaking at the conference will be Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., past president of the American Telemedicine Association and former NASA astronaut. Dr. Harris has logged over 438 hours and 7.2 million miles in space travel.
The first Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Francisco in 2007 and has since expanded to 13 countries. More sessions are scheduled for San Francisco, India, and Silicon Valley later this year.
For more information, visit Health 2.0.
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