DOHA: Twenty-five ground-breaking initiatives were unveiled as the world’s healthcare elite were introduced to next generation global game-changers at the second World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH).
From virtual surgery simulators to 3D printed prosthetics, the experts spent the past two days in Doha, discovering 20 new initiatives.
The WISH Innovation Showcases represent some of the most promising developments in future healthcare, ranging from practical, low-cost, devices to tech-based and design-led solutions.
Following a worldwide search for innovation, each project was chosen by WISH for its potential to transform healthcare globally by reducing costs of delivery and improving quality of care.
WISH 2015 provided the innovators with a platform to display and discuss their works with 1,000 of leading experts and decisionmakers.
Through the Innovation Showcases, delegates experienced new approaches to issues, including clinical training; design and sustainability; disease diagnosis and management; intravenous technology; rehabilitation therapy; ocular health; maternity; road traffic accidents; reconstructive surgery; blood donation; critical care and ambulance service access; and the role of microfinance in developing healthcare systems.
Qatar Foundation’s Your Health First initiative was on hand to show how it promotes healthy lifestyles in the country.
Delegates also met WISH Young Innovators — five talented inventors and thought leaders aged 30 or less, who represented the next generation of healthcare innovation leadership.
The Young Innovators chosen by WISH have launched ground-breaking new schemes that, like the Innovation Showcases, promise to transform healthcare delivery.
They include measures to improve childbirth safety, hearing aids, affordable access to healthcare, and patient experience data collection.
This year they were given a chance to present ideas to WISH’s global healthcare community.
Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi, President, QF, said, “The Young Innovators represent that future and it is essential to engage and make them part of our global community.
“We can learn a lot from motivated young people who have grown up surrounded by ideas and technology that will secure a healthier future for all,” he added.
The Peninsula
