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Building Revenue and Loyalty with Digital Health: Presentation, Janne-Olli Järvenpää, Mehilainen

Janne-Olli looks at how the Mehilainen hospital and outpatient network has launched a suite of IT services that really allow HR departments and line managers to get their hands around sickness issues and has helped cut absenteeism by 20%. He also analyses Mehilainen's mobile app which allows consumers to chat to doctors (with face to face follow ups if necessary) for a flat fee. The app received more downloads than Pokemon Go in Finland during first week of its public launch. Mehiläinen is a leading Finnish social and healthcare services firm with circa 11 000 professional and expected revenues of €700m in 2017.

How Digital Intelligence and Real Time Analytics Can Drive Healthcare Transformation: Presentation, Mark Ebbens, GE Healthcare

Mark, Mahen and Stephanie will discuss the introduction of operational Command Center into healthcare organizations. Command Centre is a transformational journey, combining the latest in systems engineering, predictive analytics and innovative problem solving to support the new processes and drive real-time decision making to improve patient management in and out of the hospital and quality of care. They will share a first-hand customer experience with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Humber River Hospital in Toronto and insights into the growing interest in Europe.

CARE gets serious in Myanmar

India’s CARE Hospitals is close to signing an exclusive partnership agreement with two hospital groups in Myanmar bringing its entry into the market one step closer.

Living Better at Home: Presentation, Nimrod Altman, Natali

Predictive eMonitoring, eHealth apps and Telehealth can be used to launch services ranging from homecare to medical care and from elderly care to chronic disease management programs. This is precisely the strategy adopted by Natali Healthcare Group, the largest Israeli eHealth company, which was bought by the chinese Sanpower Group in late 2014. Today, Natali has 150,000 Israeli subscribers and Sanpower has over 1 million. Here Nimrod lifts the lid on these fascinating, fast-growth business models.

Bangladesh: An attractive investment destination: Presentation, A M Shamim , Labaid Group

Despite their massive growth, the big Indian private hospital chains hold under 20% of the multi-speciality acute sector and under 5% of private outpatient business. Here we look at their development and also at new innovative outpatient models. What can the rest of the world learn from these? And how is elderly care set to grow in the region? How are India's neighbours developing?

The future of remote diagnostics: Presentation, Alexander Boehmcker, Telemedicine Clinic Group

Teleradiology, the remote interpretation of images, has only become a viable business model in the last decade. Telepathology - the digitisation of diagnostic tests - is taking off now. Computer aided diagnostics will follow. All this creates a new market for collaborative diagnostic networks. Alex, who runs Europe's largest teleradiology group, explores the opportunities and challenges thrown up by this new world.

Improving therapy sessions with e-health: Presentation, Joris Moolenaar, Karify

How can online treatment best complement treatment in "the real world"? Psychiatric patients in the Netherlands and the UK can now use cloud-based programmes to reinforce face-to-face counselling. Karify has 26,000 patients in the Netherlands and is growing 12% month-on-month. It has recently opened in Spain, Belgium and the USA. Joris looks at how the sector is growing and the wider lessons for operators.

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