Programme

June 3: Investing in Prevention for Healthy Ageing

How can we, and why should we, keep people healthy? This first day will give you insights in solutions to increase effects of life style changes on system level and on individual level. We will also discuss solutions for early diagnostics, and gains and risks from incorporating them in healthcare.

We know that investments in prevention can give us a longer and healthier lives and save future healthcare costs. But how much, and which investments should healthcare make?

How can we measure the benefits of investments in prevention, via life style changes or via technologies for diagnostics and screeing?

How can we develop management systems that support efficient prevention measures?

9.00 Uppsala Health Summit Opening

Minister introductory speech: Ulf Kristersson. Is ageing an opportunity or a problem? Why do we need to keep people healthy? Which policy areas should be involved?

9.40 Plenary Session 1

John Beard, WHO: Prevention needs for healthy ageing. An international policy perspective on why and how to invest in prevention.
Lars Lind, Uppsala University: Patient registers and primary prevention – A vision for how epigenetic studies can help us design personalised prevention programmes.

10.45 Coffee Break

11.15 Plenary Session 2

Mitch Higashi, Chief Economist, GE Healthcare: Integrating prevention measures in a healthcare system. Why and how?
Mary Durham, vice president research, Kaiser Permanente: Challenges healthcare providers face investing in prevention and early detection. How the industry is demonstrating the ‘value of technology.’

12.15 Lunch

13.15 Workshops in parallel:

15.15 Coffee Break

15.45 Plenary Session 3

Prof. Hans Rosling, Gap Minder: Myths about ageing populations, health and money

16.15 Panel discussions summing up discussions from workshops

18. 30 Conference dinner hosted by GE Healthcare.

Venue: Norrlands Nation

June 4: Care for Autonomous Ageing

Insights in how technical and organizational solutions can be implemented to deliver affordable, high-quality care, and in definitions and perceptions of quality. Autonomy, multimorbidity and dementia are notions to take into account.

Autonomous caretakers, affordable care and management of cooperation over professional and organizational borders. Evaluation of treatments and technologies, costs and benefit from society’s and the individual’s perspectives.

8.45 Welcome back! What did you learn yesterday?

9:00 Opening speech

H.M. Queen Silvia

9:20 Plenary Session 1

Professor Claus Wendt, Chair of Sociology of Health and Healthcare Systems, University of Siegen, Germany: Comparative Health Policy and Healthy Ageing
Anders Ekholm, Deputy Director, The Institute for Futures Studie:Technologies for autonomous ageing – gains, risks, needs, and obstacles
Prof. Ben van Hout, Health Economics and Decision Science, University of Sheffield, UK: Costs and benefits in new treatments for elderly – How can we estimate the value?

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00–13:00 Workshops in Parallel:

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Plenary Session 2

Nicklas Lundblad, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Google Europe: How can the digital development change our perception of healthcare?

14:45 Panel discussions

Summing up discussions from workshops

15:45 What will you bring back home?

A panel discussion with stakeholders on what they have heard, learnt and would like to implement tomorrow.