"Dubai Health" Organizes an international camp to promote medical innovation and sustainability in Australia and Dubai
DUBAI, 17th March, 2017 (WAM) – Dubai Health organized the international training camp, “Innovation and Sustainability Week in Healthcare”, which was held in cooperation with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, Siemens Healthineers, and the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Center (ARM Hub).
A number of healthcare experts, academics and university students participated in the camp, which lasted for two weeks in Australia and Dubai, and aimed to develop sustainable solutions that improve patient experience.
The camp’s activities included a group of programs and activities that dealt with ways to employ technology, digital health, design thinking, and sustainability principles in medical practices.
During the first week of the camp, which was organized in the Australian city of Brisbane, Dubai Health staff were briefed on the components of the academic healthcare system in Australia, through scientific sessions and field visits to a number of the most prominent innovation centres, including the Translational Research Institute (TRI), Wesley Hospital, and the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge District.
As a partner of the programme, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Center (ARM Hub) reviewed the role of robotics, automation, artificial intelligence and modern manufacturing technologies in supporting more sustainable models of healthcare service delivery.
The second week of the camp, which was held in Dubai, focused on developing collaborative solutions across two parallel tracks, with Siemens Healthineers, as a partner in designing the program, leading the joint workshops, offering its global and local expertise in healthcare technologies and sustainability, and contributing to supporting the teams to develop applicable and scalable ideas.
Professor Corey Stewart, founder and CEO of the Center for Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM Hub) at Queensland University of Technology, said: In cooperation with Dubai Health, we reviewed the mechanisms for transferring innovation in the healthcare sector from laboratories to hospitals, by employing robots and artificial intelligence technologies to improve the quality of care. The spotlight was on the company “MicroBio” in Brisbane, which succeeded, through the integration of data and artificial intelligence, in reducing the detection time of blood poisoning from 24 hours to just three hours.
The activities also included the “Design for Change” camp, in which students from four universities in the UAE participated, namely the University of Rochester Technology – Dubai, the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, the American University of Sharjah, and the Mohammed bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences – the learning and discovery arm of “Dubai Health”, with the aim of developing sustainable solutions based on modern technologies and digital health, focusing on the needs of patients, and contributing to supporting the quality of care and expanding the scope of applicable solutions.
Dr. Yassin Hajayat, Director of the Innovation and Technology Center at Dubai Health, stressed that the camp reflects a shared commitment to enhancing sustainability within academic health systems through applied innovation and knowledge exchange at the international level, noting that the program brings together doctors, academics, students and partners around common priorities for developing innovative ideas, testing them, and expanding their scope of application.
He valued the partnership with the Queensland University of Technology, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Center (ARM Hub), and Siemens Healthineers, praising their support and commitment throughout the camp.
For her part, Engineer Razan Daoud, Director of Business Development and Enterprise Services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Siemens Healthineers, said that this camp represents a practical model of what can be achieved when an academic health system comes together with a leading university and partners from the industrial sector to develop joint innovative solutions.
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