Healthcare
The most important thing for the future of healthcare is health and how medical practice fulfill the need of the core resource for the future: the self-perceived increasing quality of life. Health has gone from ‘not being ill’ to a quality, a potential. People will invest in this asset, not only in financial terms.
The extent to which healthcare transformation is taking place varies from countries to countries and regions in parallel with their economic status. Integration of evidence-based preventional and complimentary strategies into mainstream practice will be required to save the healthcare system in an aging society. As countries strengthen their economies they will also have the possibility to adapt their healthcare systems to meet the needs of the people. More and more people will be looking for services that will help understanding one’s individual health profile and how this impacts personalised anti-aging and wellness strategies.
There will be an increasing demand for affordable approaches for high-risk identification, early detection and effective risk factor allocation. Healthcare is becoming detached from the purely physical, from purely functional disorders. It will be focusing more and more on the whole person, on putting physical, mental and spiritual fragments back together. Healthcare policy makers need to be aware of these new developments and decisions need to made what healthcare research and what policies need to be implemented as a priority.
Session 1, May 3, afternoon: Risk profiling
Chris De Bruijn, Chairman, Foundation, International Molecular Medicine Forum - IMMF
"My Genes, My Health"
This approach combines the analysis of genetic predisposition by means of gene variant testing ("genotyping") with an in depth analysis of the functioning of the immune system / brain network and metabolic profiles ("phenotyping"). This approach allows the establishment of an integral picture of an individual´s personal health situation and makes it possible to - on the molecular level - design a personalised anti-aging and wellness strategy.
NIPED Prevention Passport
NDDO Institute of Prevention and Early Diagnostics (NIPED) in Amsterdam developed the Prevention Passport. The program is based on a rigorous process involving a multidisciplinary group of experts, focusing on affordable approaches for high-risk identification, early diagnosis of different diseases and effective risk factor allocation. Its purpose is to inform on adequate and cost-effective disease management by rational resource allocation, evidence-based non-pharmacological treatment options and cost-effective generic drug use for pharmacological risk factor management and the most common (organ) manifestations of specific diseases.
Session 2, May 4, morning: Implemention of healthcare policies in the field of prevention and complimentary medicine
Integrating evidence based complimentary medicine into mainstream medicine
The “Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine” is a model institution of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia at the Teaching Hospital of Kliniken Essen-Mitte. The aim of the Department is to provide a scientific assessment of techniques used in complementary and Traditional Chinese Medicine, clissical naturopathy and mind/body medicine. Following an initial period of 5 years, the Department was co-opted unanimously into the University Clinic at Essen by the Senate of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Oncology prevention and early detection strategies
In this session, we will look at healthcare policies related to cancer prevention and screening that can achieve measurable improvements in cancer-related healthcare and compare the effect of existing cancer prevention and screening program and policies in a number of countries.The extent to which cancer prevention and screening programs have been implemented today varies between countries and regions in parallel with their economic development status. The implementation of healthcare policies in the field of cancer prevention and screening/early detection has become a priority for national policy makers.
Catalysts
Trend Watcher
University Partners
Philosopher
Psychologist
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