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Join us at the 3rd edition of one of the world’s leading gatherings of top experts who shape the future of healthcare, pharma and wellness. Also known as Webit.Health Summit & Expo, hosted by Webit.Festival 2019. Join us to explore and experience the future of healthcare. Expand your horizon. Get inspired by exceptional ideas. Join the community of people who improve the state of wellbeing and change lives.

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Webit.Health Programme Commitee is chaired by Prof. Shafi Ahmed - the most watched surgeon in the human history and world’s renown innovator in VR/AR

Daniel Kraft Physician-Scientist. Chair for Medicine at Singularity University & Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine		Ali Parsa CEO, Babylon
Joseph Elborn President, European Health Parliament		Junaid Bajwa Global Lead for Strategic Alliances, Digital Centre of Excellence at Merck & Co
Dan Vahdat Founder & CEO, Medopad		Anu Acharya CEO, Mapmygenome

Agenda, Impact and knowledge areas:

• AI
• VR/AR, Imaging
• Exponential Medicine
• Personalized Medicine
• Genomics and biotech
• Well-being and Longevity
• Marketing & Communication in healthcare

Who attends?

• Healthcare, pharma and biotech Innovators
• Founders and new disruptive healthcare, pharma and wellness entrepreneurs
• healthcare marketing agencies
• Investors
• Governments, Policy makers and regulators

Partners (sponsors and exhibitors)

Webit.Health is proud to be supported by some of the world leading industry innovators including:

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World's Biggest Startup Challenge

Webit.Health is the place to meet the hottest startups and founders of health, biotech, pharma and wellbeing starups around the world! Over 4000 startups apply for the Webit.Foundation grants. A significant number of them are in the health domain. Join Webit to withness the future of healthcare. If you are founder/work for disruptive startups - apply below and get a free exhibition slot and opportunity to pitch at the Webit.Health Stage in front of the global leaders and investors. Stay tuned for the BIG winers of the Webit.Heath Awards in 2019. The winner of the special Webit.Health Awards 2018 was Prof. Shafi Ahmed, the 2019 Chair of Webit.Health Programme Committee and global role model for and innovators. See more information here See you at Webit.Festival Europe over 13-15 May 2019 in Sofia. Warm regards, The Webit Team

Health is so important to all of us, it requires change. How do we create a better future for all of us?

In healthcare around the world there's change in quality, sometimes poor access. How do we enable technology to deliver the things that we all aspire? - to make healthcare free for all at a high quality. That's the role of Health.Summit chaired by prof. Shafi Ahmed. Medicine is the perfect example of how the fourth industrial revolution is changing all of us.

What about Europe?

We need data and insights on the health of European citizens, on how we organize care, and on how much our health systems cost. The EC joined forces with the OECD and the Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and analyzed each EU country. The reports show that our healthcare needs to be more effective, accessible and resilient. For example, 80% of healthcare costs are spent on treating chronic diseases, but just a fraction on prevention. Shifting on prevention not only tackles inequalities in health and quality of life, but also offers an enormous economic return. Today, one in four patients have no access to a family doctor or a local health center, and have to go to an emergency department. With available and affordable primary care we can avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. Too often patients are searching for the best possible treatment in a maze of scattered health services. Integrated care, where all care providers work more closely together delivers better results for patients. "The state of Health" in the EU links the strengths and challenges in the different European countries to common health priorities across the EU. The reports help policymakers make relevant and efficient choices so all of us can enjoy a healthy future.

Teaching tens of thousands of people together to improve the education resources.

As a global surgeon prof. Shafi Ahmed thinks about how to scale the learning and education around the world. Now we are connected with cables, by phones and satellites. And because we are connected now we can reach far more. We have social media to connect with people.  We are changing the paradigm of the doctor-patient relationship using AI, chat bots, deep machine learning, avatars and holograms. In the next 2-5 years we are going to communicate in a different way. The human interaction will little bit disappear because it is too expensive.

I thought "How can I connect with people around the world? Let's connect my avatar with other avatars in America, in India. Can they come to my theater together in this virtual space? They call me the Virtual Surgeon.

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Imagine someone operating on the other side of the globe, calling you and saying: "I need some advice, can you come?" Plane travel - too long, inefficient. What about transporting yourself as a hologram?

Shafi Ahmed has been spending a lot of time talking about how we use technologies in a way that we haven't done before. And at Webit.Festival Europe 2018 he announced that he and Mr. Martin Dockweiler are launching the first digital hospital in South America. The hospital will be called SAMD (Shafi Ahmed Martin Dockweiler) University Hospital. It will have a center of innovation, research, teaching. They will be testing new technologies.

The future is not today or tomorrow. It's happening all around us as we speak. And that is the future we create for ourselves.  

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Missed the 2018 edition of Webit.Festival Europe? Don’t miss the 2019! Get your super early bird 2in1 tickets – 2 for the price of 1 here!

One of the questions we ask and answer everyday is “How are you?”. For as simple question as that one, it is very difficult to respond objectively mainly due to the small amount of information we have about our physiological condition. And if we think this is the doctor's job, we better think again because it is estimated that 99.8% of our lives are spent outside our physician’s office or the hospital. Therefore, we are the only ones capable of answering that question and the medical devices of today are here to help us do it as accurately as possible. At the 2017 edition of Webit.Festival Europe the Founder & CEO of Biovotion Dr. Andreas Caduff revealed the power of the new generation of integrated hybrid medical devices. If the goal is patients to use medical technology on their own, then it is the responsibility of the companies developing this technology to make it accessible to people and easy to use. It is important to understand that digital health consists of more elements than just the software and the hardware. It is not enough to create the product only, simply because in order to integrate that product, a platform is necessary. Even though some stakeholders believe developing an app with the device will lead to success, in reality, there are more additional layers to be considered among which regulation is of great importance.   [caption id="attachment_5168" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The Founder & CEO of Biovotion Dr. Andreas Caduff[/caption] Today’s real game changer - GDPR is a regulation which protects the privacy of people’s data within the European Union. Patients have more control over their personal data and the right to ask their data to be deleted or exported so they can bring it to another vendor. Of course, the main focus is on privacy and the prevention of data leaks in case of which serious penalties exist. Biovotion created Everion - a device which measures many parameters among which heart rate, number of steps, pulse wave analysis and many more. A well-known fact is that the longer we walk, the longer we will live. What makes Everion special is that it is a device that can be worn not only during our workout, but also prior and after it, pretty much 24 hours in a day. After Biovotion developed the device which gathers and stores a lot of data, they launched an app. The company didn’t stop there - in fact, the next step towards secure data storage and the ability to export functionalities was the cloud. Finally, in order to create a functioning ecosystem out of this medical device, Biovotion needed a communication platform. The truth is, only when all necessary elements are present, it is possible to develop a sustainable business that creates value. Medical wearables gather a lot of data - the health and fitness data together with the true medical data can be combined to get the most accurate results of what is happening inside our bodies.

“The biggest value that we derived today is data gathered individually.”, Caduff said.

Everion’s interface enables consumers to understand very quickly what is happening and what the gathered data actually means. The device allows consumers to monitor their physiological condition continuously which means they get the full picture of how their body functions. Making this information accessible to people encourages them to take care of themselves and manage their health situation. The new era of physiological monitoring introduces hand attachments capable of monitoring the heart rate variability. These medical devices tolerate motion and are very easy to use. The goal is to benefit people by making accurate measures and communicate them with a user-friendly interface. You can watch his full lecture here:   If you want to keep up with the latest trends in the world of digital economy and technology, then Webit.Festival is the right place for you. Visit our website and book 2 in 1 of our Super Earlybird tickets for Webit.Festival Europe 2018. Feel the Webit vibe with some of the best photos from this year’s event! [easingslider id="4954"]

Today the state of multitrillion dollar healthcare worldwide is inefficient, bureaucratic and too expensive. But all this could change thanks to the implementation of exciting new technologies for digitalization of health. The time has come for the healthcare industry to follow transport’s suit and to embrace disruptive innovators like Uber and Lyft, who used the full potential of mobile technology to revolutionize the taxi industry. Thousands of startups, along with giants like Google, IBM, Apple, Samsung and many others are entering the new market for Digital Health and will totally transform the way people are treated today. All this will lead to healthcare, which is much cheaper and effective, experts believe that in the next 10 years this will be the most transformed industry in the world. Part of the reason is the rise of IoE devices, which will give medics accurate and live information about our health status. Wearables now monitor everything from blood sugar to blood pressure, medication, weight and levels of activity. According to recent research the medical device industry market, which totaled about $5.1 billion in 2015 will almost triple by the end of decade. Better monitoring, including devices and home visits, can lower the need of hospitalization and lead to huge cost savings. The CVS Health Research Institute calculated that deployment of remote devices and using their data could save as much as $63 million per 100 000 patients with high cholesterol and diabetes. Digital healthcare investment already has gone through several different waves. In 2013 the market was all about consumer wearables, in 2014 we saw the rise of healthcare big data. 2015 was the year of virtual care delivery and in 2016 we saw some development in payer disruption. But this year we can expect a return to developing technology that enables providers of health services to extend their reach and take greater risks. Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the forming of an expert committee, that will create guidelines for countries and implementers on how to use digital health strategies to improve reproductive health outcomes. Disruption of the healthcare industry will require continued movement towards a more value-based model, which will help for improving of preventive medicine, patient-centered and patient-powered care and reduced costs. If you want to keep up with the hottest trends in the world of digital health Webit.Festival is the right place for you. During the Health & Wellbeing Summit, you can listen to top level speakers such as the Consultant surgeon & Co-founder of Virtual Medics and Medical Realities prof. Shafi Ahmed. He is the first doctor who streamed a live operation using Google Glass to 14 000 students in 2014.

By the end of the decade the market for digital health products and services will be at least $233 billion. Big part of this growth is due to the development of technologies for virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Digital health is already helping us to manage, track and improve our health and is improving our living standard. This innovative sector in medicine is only a part of the healthcare revolution in the last century, that has led to an increase in life expectancy worldwide with more than 25 years. Now that we are close to the limits of our lifespan limits the industry is more concerned with the topic of making our life not just longer, but more productive, especially during the years after 55. The healthcare of the new generation will soon increase efficiency in the delivery of services, reduce costs and personalize the whole process of treating the ill. Last year the 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab at the University of New South Wales managed to develop an actual model of cancer cell using the data from a high-resolution electron microscope and a CGI. This can totally transform the cancer treatment after decades of peering into a microscope to examine cells. Meanwhile the Australian VR company Liminal is trying to provide better life experience for people, who aren’t able to leave their hospital bed. The reason for that is not just comfort, but the fact that loneliness is often linked to higher risk of disease and slower recovery time. The VR and AR are already revolutionizing the surgical education and training. If you find this interesting you can meet in person the pioneer in this new branch of medicine Dr Shafi Ahmed. He is one of the first confirmed speakers for the Digital Health Summit during Webit.Festival 2017 in Sofia. Dr Ahmed is the first person in the world who live-streamed an operation using Google Glass. In 2014 he showed the world the removing of cancerous tissue from the liver and bowel of a 78-year old man. You can watch a link here. But beware, there are graphic images. In an online poll, nearly 90% of the students who watched the live video said that they want this type of learning process to be part of their curriculum. During the Digital Health Summit you can also learn the latest trends in EHRs, Telehealth Systems & Telemedicine Developments, Mobile Health Applications & Devices, Medication monitoring & Wellness Devices, Chronic Care Management, Genetic Science and Pharma Technologies.