Arium Health announces Latin American Digital Health Congress programme
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The event will bring together health and technology experts and officials to analyse the sector’s challenges and drive digital transformation in health.
Arium Health, an information technology services company that aims to raise quality standards in health and drive digital transformation, has announced the programme for the first Latin American Digital Health Congress, to be held on 15 November at the Hotel Intercontinental in Santo Domingo.
Fedor Vidal, CEO and Managing Partner of Arium Health USA and an international expert in health technology and business, announced that there will be more than 30 speakers. The Minister of Health, Dr Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas, will open the congress, and international guests will include Dr Elsie Koh, chief medical information officer at Azura Vascular Care; Jim Rogers, senior director at Silverline; Ronda Rogers, director of population health & consumer engagement at Geneia; and Arturo Aceves-Serrano, director of international market development and communications at Philadelphia International Medicine.
Amelia Reyes Mora, president of AF Comunicación Estratégica, an agency specialising in health and health tourism communication and coordinator of the event, said it is an ideal setting for sharing, keeping up to date, building knowledge networks and exchanging good practices. She thanked the media partners and sponsors and the institutions that have endorsed the congress.
Strategic topics to support transformation will be addressed, such as Change Management: without a change of mindset there is no change in the system, by Julio Zelaya, an authority on change management.
Luis Alberto Rodríguez, general director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Specialties Medical Centre (CEMDOE) and AFFINIS, will speak on Precision Health. Edgar Matamoros, IT Services Solution Manager at Ricoh Latin America, will talk about The digital era in health: where we are heading, and Mite Nishio, innovation and telecommunications consultant, will present The impact of exponential technologies.
The panels will be moderated by Dr Alejandro Cambiaso, president of the Dominican Health Tourism Association; Dr Eduardo Read, president of the Dominican Association of Primary Care Centres; Juan Carlos Restrepo, vice president of Technology at Grupo Humano; and Eddy Martínez, president of the Parque Cibernético.
Hospital digital transformation will be discussed by Dr José López, medical director of Central Romana; Greisy Concepción, general director of Grupo Rescue; Héctor Sánchez, deputy general director of HOMS; and Claudia Arvelo, administrative director of the Instituto Espaillat Cabral.
Digital transformation in health risk administrators (ARS) will be analysed by María Waleska Álvarez, executive president of Nap del Caribe; Nepomuceno Mejía, senior manager of Knowledge and Innovation Management at the Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud; and Lucas Gaitán, general director of Unipago.
The panel on the impact of the digital era on training the new generation of healthcare providers will feature José Armando Tavarez, rector of ITLA; Leandro Féliz Matos, general director of Research at UNIBE; Eddy Pérez Then, dean of Health at O&M; and Franklin Gómez, coordinator of the emergency and disaster residency at the Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud.
The challenges of implementing primary care and a single electronic medical record will be discussed by Dr Pedro Luis Castellanos, Superintendent of SISALRIL; José Manuel Vargas, president of ADARS; Dr Francisca Moronta Ceballos, president of the Association of Family and Community Medicine; and Magdalena Rathe, executive director of Fundación Plenitud.
Endorsers and sponsors include Amadita Laboratorio Clínico, Farmacia Carol, Ricoh, Philadelphia International Medicine, ITLA, INTEC and the Dominican Health Tourism Association, among others.
For more information: congresosaluddigital.com. info@afcomunicacion.com