UNITAR
11 October 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - In collaboration with the Global Surgery Foundation, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, VSee, and Health Tech Without Borders, UNITAR is pleased to announce the launch of the webinar series “Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Future of Global Health Technologies”. Health technologies have become a cornerstone in the worldwide pursuit of universal healthcare access. Their multifaceted impact encompasses enhanced healthcare efficiency, extended healthcare services reach, and secure health information sharing. These innovations foster care continuity and reduce medical errors.
The series will hold a total of 7 webinars aiming to raise awareness about technologies that can amplify telemedicine access, particularly in low-resource settings where the need is most acute. Telemedicine is a powerful tool for bridging healthcare gaps, especially in low-resource settings where telemedicine emerges as a transformative solution, breaking down barriers to healthcare access. By providing timely, cost-effective care and connecting underserved communities with expert medical guidance, it promises to bridge critical gaps in healthcare delivery and improve overall health outcomes.
The monthly open-access webinars will feature experts in the field of healthcare, technology, telehealth and from different backgrounds. Each session will follow a dynamic "fireside chat" format, lasting about 60 minutes.
This webinar series is open to healthcare professionals, policymakers, technology innovators, and anyone interested in the future of healthcare.
The launch is taking place on Thursday, October 19th at 4 pm (CET).
About the Partners
About the Global Surgery Foundation:
Our mission is based on evidence that the majority of the most urgent needs in global health are surgically related. This includes maternal, child, trauma and cancer care. As such, one of the most effective pathways towards Universal Health Coverage is to increase access to surgical care. We are a leading international alliance dedicated to ensuring that every individual has access to life-saving surgical care so that they may have safe and healthy lives. Headquartered in Geneva (Switzerland), the GSF unites governments, the private sector, and international and local institutions towards one common goal: bring life-saving surgical care to those who need it most.
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About Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health:
The Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) strives to enable collaborative programmes in global health for residents, medical students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduates by reaching across geographic, cultural, economic, and gender boundaries to inspire a new generation of global health leaders. CIGH creates partnered programmes that build capacity both overseas and in the United States in underserved, low-resource communities.
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About VSee:
Founded in 2008, VSee was born out of the visionary Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab and Computer Graphics Lab in Silicon Valley, where its co-founders Drs. Milton Chen and Erika Chuang were completing their PhDs. Driven by user-centric design, the initial VSee video application was created to make remote work simple. Following a pivotal opportunity to deploy VSee for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon, VSee began to focus exclusively on the healthcare sector, pioneering the first virtual waiting rooms as well as other groundbreaking telehealth workflows and capabilities. Over the last 15 years, VSee has built up a comprehensive suite of flexible telehealth building blocks, becoming the fastest platform to move innovation to reality. Today, we are the go-to digital transformation tool for healthcare enterprises to address the dual challenges of patient engagement and clinician shortage.
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About Health Tech Without Borders:
Health Tech Without Borders (HTWB) was founded in 2022 and is working with corporations, universities, governing agencies, and other institutions around the globe to bring help, hope, and healthcare efficiently to local communities affected by the crisis. HTWB focuses on supporting any person affected by humanitarian disasters while remaining non-sectarian and apolitical. HTWB is a global non-profit organization aiming to mitigate such healthcare crises by leveraging digital tools and technology to provide immediate access to health resources. It acts as an innovative hub that connects companies offering digital tools with experts in medical and psychological care and also offers online training for clinicians in crisis areas in medical and mental health challenges, as well as vetted digital health tools.
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