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Welcome to #T5THC

Metasystems in healthcare: Building trustful partnerships

Learning to partner and collaborate may be the most important skill for the survival of many sectors. Our old ways of doing business don’t suffice anymore. Furthermore, the future is too fast and too complex to go at it alone. In the future, competition will happen on the level of ecosystems, not just on the … Continued

By Dado Van Peteghem Co-Founder @ Imagin3 Studio

Driving innovation through the convergence of technology and healthcare

Over the years, technological convergence has increasingly gained attention in all layers of companies and organizations. This change gives rise to the creation of new applications and business models in the healthcare sector, with new consequences, challenges and practices. Innovation is at speed. But what about the implementation and strategies?

By Jessica J. Federer Managing Director @ Huma // Board member, advisor & investor in tech and healthcare companies

The importance of digital transformation for Flanders’ healthcare policy

(Dutch spoken session) – Update and insights on the key elements of the 2019-2024 healthcare strategy and the impact of digital transformation now and beyond 2024.

By Wouter Beke Vlaams Minister van Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Gezin

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How digital health is transforming healthcare financing

mHealthBelgium: a joint initiative by industry and government

You hear it so often: “digital is the future”, and this is also applicable to the health care domain. Apps are used on a daily basis, and everything is nowadays available mobile. But what is the difference between all those thousands of health related apps? Which one are reliable (or not)? And why? How can … Continued

By Steven Vandeput Advisor Digital Health @beMedTech

Transmural digital care: who is in the lead of the change from sick-care to health-care

By Caroline Verlinde Directeur @ VIVEL (Vlaams Instituut voor de Eerste Lijn)

Plenary: Start-up track winners

By Claude Marinower Municipal Officer for Digitization @ City of Antwerp

Cervical fluid – potential unlocked through IoT

In this talk, you will learn:  Cervical fluid basics Contraceptive potential Treatment Potential Cervical fluid – data Impedance data

By Kristina Cahojova CEO & Founder @ kegg.tech

Foundational Principles for Digital Health to function in and transform a Future Healthcare System

With all of the innovations that are being developed to digitally transform healthcare, there are still many conditions that need to be either changed or created de novo to support these systems, to go beyond initial adoption to the new standard of care.  What foundational principles need to change?  How do we use these new … Continued

By George Mathew Chief Medical Officer, Americas @ DXC Technology

Big data in healthcare in Belgium: lessons learnt and recommendations for the future

Big data is here to stay, but there are still some challenges that we need to address to make big data truly work in Belgium. During this 10-minute presentation, Dries Hens, medical doctor and co-founder of LynxCare, will explain several use cases of the use of big data within Belgian hospitals and elaborate on the … Continued

By Dries Hens Chief Business & Medical Officer @ LynxCare Clinical Informatics

Closing thoughts

By Geert Reyniers #T5THC Advisory Board Chairman // CCO @ Multipharma

Let’s network and visit our partners

The use of technology to advance real-world patient insights

Improving patient outcomes by making the brain measurable

Medical imaging, such as MRI or CT scans, is of paramount importance for the diagnosis and follow-up of people with brain disorders. The available scanning technology today indeed offers a unique insight into the anatomy and working of the brain. However, the result of a brain scan, the radiological report, is still largely qualitative, descriptive, … Continued

By Wim Van Hecke CEO @ Icometrix // Visiting Professor @ VUB

Innovative technology as an extra sense for people with diabetes

Indigo is set to disrupt the growing Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) market with a long-term insertable optical microchip. Indigo’s solution will answer the patient’s need for a hassle-free, invisible CGM without a body-worn device and will address the physician’s quest for a multi-biomarker sensor that also measures lactate and ketones besides just glucose. Personalised diabetes management will be … Continued

By Tom Segers Director of Product Management @ Indigo Diabetes

Plenary: Start-up track winners

By Claude Marinower Municipal Officer for Digitization @ City of Antwerp

Cervical fluid – potential unlocked through IoT

In this talk, you will learn:  Cervical fluid basics Contraceptive potential Treatment Potential Cervical fluid – data Impedance data

By Kristina Cahojova CEO & Founder @ kegg.tech

Hoe technologie de zorg nog zou kunnen verbeteren

(Dutch spoken session) – Vanuit haar eigen ervaring haalt Karlien enkele voorbeelden aan waarin technologie een invloed heeft op de kwaliteit van zorg. Ze licht kort toe waar de knelpunten liggen en geeft enkele “quick wins” mee waar we alvast mee aan de slag kunnen.

By Karlien Hollanders Patient Advocate

iNNOCENS project: Augmented intelligence in the NICU by applying Machine Learning on patient monitoring data

The innocens project is a research and development project that aims to predict complications of prematurity by learning the computer to detect patterns in monitored vital parameters. The innocens technology provides continuous and explainable model output to the relevant stakeholders at the bedside. Swift action based on an individualised risk assessment can improve benefit and … Continued

By David Van Laere Staflid Neonatologie @ UZA

Closing thoughts

By Geert Reyniers #T5THC Advisory Board Chairman // CCO @ Multipharma

Let’s network and visit our partners

Implementing digital health strategies for healthcare institutions – how to get organized?

Future health and care models

The present outcome of continuous research and innovation with a focus on interactive healthcare and the hospital of the future.

By Catherine Van Der Straeten Head of the Health Innovation and Research Institute @ Ghent University // Hospital Clinical Professor @ Ghent University

Legal challenges for digital health: (re)new(ed) rights and responsibilities

Innovation in healthcare also causes changes to the traditional medico-legal concepts that are the backbones of the healthcare systems. Concepts such as patient rights, medical liability and competence to act (who may do what) will need to be revised and new concepts need to be added, such as for decision support and health-robotics. In this … Continued

By Tom Goffin Professor Health Law @ UGent

Plenary: Start-up track winners

By Claude Marinower Municipal Officer for Digitization @ City of Antwerp

Cervical fluid – potential unlocked through IoT

In this talk, you will learn: Cervical fluid basics Contraceptive potential Treatment Potential Cervical fluid – data Impedance data

By Kristina Cahojova CEO & Founder @ kegg.tech

How digital health contributes to Patient Empowerment as a basis for equality in the patient-doctor relationship

(Dutch spoken session) – In de machtsbalans tussen patiënt en arts heeft de arts het overwicht. Is het digitale een “power equalizer” die de balans weer in evenwicht brengt? Of heeft “digital health” niets met macht te maken?

By Edgard Eeckman Chairman @ Patient Empowerment // Communication Manager @ UZ Brussel

New method for continuous monitoring of major health issues via wearables

Only 5 % of all wearables have been scientifically validated, most of them are just gadgets. Progress however is made in accuracy of wearables and mainly in algorithms to distill relevant information from objective measured data. The method that we promote is based upon longer existing scientific insight bringing the method of metabolic energy use … Continued

By Prof. Daniel Berckmans M3-BIORES Department of BioSystems @ KULeuven // Chairman of the board @ BioRICS

Closing thoughts

By Geert Reyniers #T5THC Advisory Board Chairman // CCO @ Multipharma

Let’s network and visit our partners