Draft agenda outline

Day 1: 10:30 am - 12 pm

Session 1: Inaugural
Will involve Government top Policy makers and will touch upon the event deliberation themes. The session will touch upon the event key theme and will also see release of whitepapers from NATHEALTH and its partners. The session will further.

  • Effectively collaborate on the national UHC agenda: Successfully integrating into the ecosystem envisioned as Arogya Bharat where both public and private sector delivers their responsibility while fulfilling their key obligations to key stakeholders
  • Demonstrate real demand and innovate in channelizing this demand to scale hyper efficient models of care delivery
  • Leapfrog with use of digital technologies to tackle the need for integration (of public with private, of cities to remote villages, of patients to care, of physical with remote)
  • Embrace Continuum of care – appropriate care delivery for patient needs
  • Reinforce Regulatory Clarity and shape future architecture - tied to long term vision and build quality technical capacity to enforce
  • Revolutionaries Medical Education and enable the Private Enterprise in strategic areas where private participation is a policy priority
Release of papers at Inaugural Session: Arogya Bharat Report, Dialysis Whitepaper, Health Financing Paper, Vision Paper on East India

Day 1: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Session 2: Revolutionizing Medical Education

The session will focus on some strategic pathways to boost medical education in India. The panels will discuss: PPP models for nonlinear talent generation, alignment of private sector with district public hospitals to improve the existing bed capacity, patient pool, and rich clinical information, tackling imbalance in delivery infrastructure correlated to significant regional imbalance in distribution of health professionals, and more.

The session will also shed light on:

  • Current state of medical education
  • Progress/key initiatives
  • Key existing gaps and challenges
  • Opportunities and Ideas ahead for revolutionizing medical education
  • Expanding infrastructure and quality through Public private partnerships
  • Leveraging digital solutions to expand reach
  • Invigorating nursing and allied services capabilities
  • Upskilling and reskilling and enabling career progressions
  • Reducing disparity in outcomes in the system
  • Applying learning from other global systems for India

Session 3: Embracing Patient Safety (1.30 pm - 2.30 pm)

The key deliberation points of this session will revolve around protecting patients while ensuring access, importance of setting standards, driving adoption and consumer awareness, and the role NATHEALTH should play to spearhead this movement.

Lunch 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Session 4: Health Financing (2:30 pm - 3:45 pm)

The session will touch upon the subjects of PPPs (VGF) in healthcare for infrastructure creation, leveraging the AB-PMJAY network to cover the missing middle, linking reimbursement to health outcomes, and more. The speakers will be a right mix of financing firms, regulators, government officials, PE funds, global investors, private insurance, hospitals, multilateral funding agencies, and more.

Session 5: Digital Health (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)

Planned jointly with NASSCOM - the session will focus on Pathway to scaling up digital health adoption in India.

The panels will deliberate on the challenges of Digital Technology adoption in Public and Private healthcare ecosystem (integration with existing systems, ease of use, cost of implementation, infrastructure constraints, regulatory compliance, and more) and their possible mitigation. The spotlight will also be on adoption success stories, key challenges to the successful digital adoption in hospitals and diagnostic chains, overcoming challenges, the role of digital technology in re- imagining primary care in a post-Covid era.

Day 2: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Session 6: Re-imagining integrated care delivery and care continuum towards preventive health and wellness

The discussion will steer towards new frontiers in Smart Devices, Innovative delivery models, AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning), Supply Chain Innovations, and more.

Session 7: What are the global opportunities for India’s healthcare sector?

Globalizing Indian healthcare is a major vision of the healthcare industry. The session will thus shed light on our country's medical value travel full potential, global supply chain integration, How can India bat for for global healthcare delivery (remote monitoring, virtual care delivery, etc.), India as data/analytics hub (payers, providers, etc.), and the expansion of India's complementary medicine opportunities.

Day 2: 12 noon - 1:30 pm

Session 8: Healthcare CSR Awards Ceremony

With an aim to unite all stakeholders in healthcare, the event will feature the Healthcare CSR Awards Ceremony to bring together and felicitate corporations practicing healthcare CSR and other philanthropic organizations in this field. This session will feature a presentation on the best practices in healthcare CSR activities, and then move on to focus on key lessons and challenges faced on the ground level with the release of a best practices document followed by a series of discussions.

The vision of the CSR Awards is to also enumerate the roles and principles that NATHEALTH on behalf of the industry and other key stakeholders should envision, to follow and shape this nascent healthcare CSR sector to catalyze innovations. Further, organizations with commendable CSR practices to be identified and felicitated for their efforts by an esteemed jury of global recognition.

Thought leadership Seminars (Both Day 1 and Day 2)

Spotlight on: Universal Dialysis, Digital governance, Organ Donation systems

Roundtables/Fire side chats (Both Day 1 and Day 2)

Session 9: Digital Health Business Opportunity Pavilion (in partnership with NASSCOM)

The Pavilion will be a unique way of learning and collaboration for the entire healthcare ecosystem. An opportunity for all stakeholders to learn from various players from around the world who are building highly innovative models in healthcare, which have proved to be highly resilient during the pandemic and have the potential to become the ‘next big thing’ in this new era of uncertainties. At the same time, the Pavilion will present new opportunities for players to collaborate with each other and to create new win-win outcomes.

Business Opportunity Pavilion is offering owners of unique businesses, opportunities related to healthcare from around the world and India, to showcase and exhibit themselves to all the participants of the summit. They can:

  • Partner with investors, industry leaders, delegates
  • Promote their innovation
  • Gain market expertise and understanding through discussions and networking
  • Understand about Digital Health used cases and scalable platforms
  • Learn about commercial marketplace offerings
  • Be a part of the Buyer-Seller conclave

Session 10: Start-up Innovation Hub & Hackathons (in partnership with NASSCOM)

Amid the entrepreneurship fervor in the country, the summit is providing an opportunity to leading start-ups in healthcare to present their innovative business models, and a chance to resolve the key challenges they are facing. Start-ups and business leaders can leverage this platform to connect with each other for access to technology, investments, and collaboration to support the upcoming players in the healthcare ecosystem.

In the audience, there will be leading business accelerators, VCs, angel investors and leading healthcare companies and this facilitation will lead to mentorship, investments and partnerships with the private sector leading to increased market access opportunities. On Day 2 post lunch, the Start-up Mela will be opened up to a larger audience.