This digital dialogue session will explore some of the emerging lessons for strengthening integrations of digital technologies into health services at scale and sustainability beyond Covid in mixed health systems. The aim of the discussion is to explore the role of government in facilitating a process of digital transformation that supports increasing access to effective and affordable health services by all social groups.
This is especially challenging because it will involve new kinds of engagement between government and a variety of private non-state organisations, including small and large digital technology companies. The session will explore two main questions:
- How should governments balance physical health services with digital enablers. The thinking behind India’s launch of the digital health mission and priority measures governments will need to take to ensure digital health services contribute to progress towards universal health coverage?
- Emerging lessons from the rapidly increasing role of the private sector in health and the fragmentation of health markets. What are the implications for government’s role in overseeing digital health transformations in mixed health systems?
Speakers
- Dr. Dinesh Arora, IAS, Public Health and Policy Expert (former Director NHM Kerala, & Director NITI Aayog (Health) and former Deputy CEO, National Health, Authority/Ayushman Bharat, Govt. of India)
- Dr. George Gotsadze, Founder and President Curatio International Foundation, Republic of Georgia
Discussant
Birger Forsberg, Associate Professor of International Health, Department of Global Public, Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Moderators
- Gerald Bloom, Institute of Development Studies, UK
- Priya Balasubramaniam, Public Health Foundation of India, Centre for Sustainable Health Innovations, Singapore.
This webinar is part of the Digital Dialogue Series on Mixed Health Systems.
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