ICTs and Older Persons: Health Systems Change for Healthy Aging: The Role of Remote Care & AI


Global Coalition on Aging

Session 296

14:00–15:00 CEST (UTC+02:00), Thursday, 13 August 2020 ICTs and Older Persons Thematic Workshop

Healthy aging in our era of longevity must be centered on prevention and wellness—with a focus on maintaining functional ability rather than singularly on treatment of disease. Remote care delivery, telehealth and telemedicine, including videoconferencing with healthcare providers, tablet-based patient education, and devices that can monitor, prompt and track diet, exercise, and medication usage, have been proven to create benefits across the health care system leading to reduced costs and improved outcomes for patients. Properly combining technology and healthcare, especially monitoring in the home, has incredible potential to engage patients in their own health management, detect and diagnose chronic conditions earlier, and therefore enable a more healthy and active aging. What does systems integration look like, and how do we ensure safe and secure adoption of technology aligned to patient needs and comfort levels?

Panellists
Ian Philp
Ian Philp CEO Age Care Technologies

For the past 30 years, Professor Ian Philp has been developing, refining and enhancing the EasyCare methodology of person-centred care. In 2017, combining the best of his data, knowledge and insights with an enhanced assessment tool and a digitised platform, Age Care Technologies was created to advance the health, independence and well-being of older people everywhere.

Prof. Ian Philp is the Professor of Global Ageing at the University of Stirling, UK, and an Associate of GE Health Partners and a Consultant to the World Health Organisation.

Ian holds a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh and was a practicing physician for 35 years in the UK National Health Service. As Professor of Health Care for Older People at the University of Sheffield, he led teams which won the UK hospital team of the year in the care of older people and the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for research into improving the quality of life of older people.

Ian has ten years’ experience as an Executive Medical Director of hospital and community services and from 2000-8 he was the National Clinical Director for Older People in England.


Dr. Angeli Möller
Dr. Angeli Möller Vice President Head of Global Data Assets, Pharma Digital Transformation & IT Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Angeli Möller has two roles at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, she leads the artificial intelligence work stream and heads Global Data Assets. The Global Data Assets team ensure the Bayer pharmaceutical division has both the analytical platform and the data it needs to bring value to patients and health care professionals. Before joining Bayer she worked as a data scientist for translation medicine at Thomson Reuters, and as a researcher at Cancer Research UK and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine. As keen proponent of pre-competitive collaboration she also sits on the executive committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH) and on the investment committee of the Pistoia Alliance. In addition to her role at Bayer, Dr Möller is a board member of RareX, an organization that accelerates research into rare diseases. Follow Angeli Moeller on LinkedIn.


Dave P. Ryan
Dave P. Ryan General Manager, Health & Life Sciences Business Intel Corporation Moderator

Dave leads the global Health & Life Sciences business unit at Intel that focuses on digital transformation from edge-to-cloud in order to make precision, value-based care a reality. His customers are the manufacturers who build life sciences instruments, medical equipment, clinical systems, compute appliances and devices used by research centers, hospitals, clinics, residential care settings and the home. Dave has served on the boards of Consumer Technology Association Health & Fitness Division, HIMSS’ Personal Connected Health Alliance, the Global Coalition on Aging and the Alliance for Connected Care.

Dave is an outspoken advocate worldwide on the challenges and opportunities in an aging world – including United Nations, OECD, USA Capitol Hill, Milken, IFA, IAGG events and ministerial meetings across Asia & the EU. His call for a new social contract across ages was published in the AARP International Journal. He founded Intel’s China Health unit and was elected to the American Chamber of Commerce’s China Health Cooperation Program Steering Committee. He also led the build-out of Intel’s worldwide Age Friendly Initiative on aging including engagement across APEC to OECD, WHO and G-20. He previously served as the commercial GM of Intel’s BioChip Operation.

Dave holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and is a Wharton Fellow. He is a board member and former Chair for a worldwide non- profit dedicated to improving infant care (www.RIE.org). He is also President of the Board of Governors of a veteran’s historical preservation organization (www.ECSAA.org).


Sara Smolley
Sara Smolley Co-Founder, COO Voiceitt

Sara is the co-founder and COO at Voiceitt, a digital health startup that has developed a unique speech recognition technology to help people with disabilities live more independently. Sara's academic background and her growing career in impactful technologies have been driven by her passion for combining high-ambition entrepreneurship with positive social impact. Having grown up in South Florida, she moved to Israel after spending five years in Asia - at a biotechnology startup in Hong Kong; and in various corporate and startup environments in Seoul, South Korea, where she also completed a Global MBA. Sara holds an Economics degree from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City, where she co-founded the Columbia Chapter of Net Impact, the international nonprofit which strives to orient business principles toward sustainable social goals. Passionate about socially-responsible business, high-ambition entrepreneurship, innovations in medical tech and accessibility technologies, and women's business leadership anywhere in the world. Sara now leads Voiceitt's business development, grant writing, and strategic partnerships. She lives in between New York and Tel Aviv.


Topics
Artificial Intelligence Big Data Blockchain Cultural Diversity Cybersecurity Digital Economy Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Health Infrastructure
WSIS Action Lines
  • AL C1 logo C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C2 logo C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C5 logo C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
  • AL C6 logo C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C7 E–BUS logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
  • AL C7 E–HEA logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
  • AL C7 E–SCI logo C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
  • AL C10 logo C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
  • AL C11 logo C11. International and regional cooperation
Sustainable Development Goals
  • Goal 3 logo Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 9 logo Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 16 logo Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17 logo Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development