25 Jun Israeli Digital Health Innovators feature at Digital Health Festival in Melbourne
Israeli digital healthcare experts and innovators featured at the recent Digital Health Festival held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The conference brought together international healthcare professionals, policymakers, and technology innovators, all committed to improving healthcare through digital solutions.
Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Head of ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate) Innovation at Sheba Medical Centre addressed delegates on transforming healthcare, using digital health to enhance accessibility, efficiency, and quality of care.
Sheba is recognised as the largest and most comprehensive healthcare facility in the Middle East and as one of the top 10 hospitals in the world.
Offir Levy, Healthcare Chief Technology Officer for Israeli cyber security company Claroty, spoke about “Securing the Smart Hospitals of the Future” and the importance of managing healthcare cyber security risk more generally.
Claroty was co-founded in 2014 by Israeli venture group Team 8. It focuses on protecting critical infrastructure such as hospitals and power grids and commercial and public sector facilities.
In addition, two leading Israeli digital health companies, MD Clone and Datos Health, exhibited at the Digital Health Festival.
MDClone focuses on empowering exploration, discovery, and collaboration utlising healthcare data to improve patients’ health. Powered by a patented technology for producing synthetic data, MDClone’s technology platform enables researchers and organisations around the globe fast and easy access to clinical data, while fully protecting patients’ privacy.
Datos Health specialises in remote care automation, monitoring and engagement. Its Open Care platform was recently selected by Northern Health in Victoria, to integrate into Northern Health’s virtual care delivery in cardiac rehabilitation, back pain, lung cancer, severe asthma and gestational diabetes programs with plans to expand Datos Health into other digitised patient care programs into the future.
Dr. Katharine See, Director of Respiratory Medicine at Northern Health, praised Datos Health’s digital platform during her address on value-based care. Dr See highlighted that the digital platform has the potential to enhance patient equity and accessibility, streamline early detection and intervention for patients, and ultimately deliver improved patient outcomes more efficiently.