Hong Kong’s Digital Health Landscape

We will hear from Dr Chui Tak-yi, JP, Under Secretary for Food and Health, HKSARG who will provide an update on Hong Kong’s digital health strategy and the local landscape. Dr Chui Tak-yi will articulate the progress to date as well as some of the opportunities and challenges being faced. This will lead onto a discussion that will focus on the key initiatives being implemented in HK in both public and private sectors. Our panel of experts will share their successes and demonstrate the challenges they have faced. 

About the speakers 

 Dr Chui Tak Yi graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, in 1981.  He has served in the public health care system of Hong Kong for more than 30 years.  His current duties are to assist and support the Secretary for Food and Health in the setting of policy objectives and priorities on agriculture, fisheries, food safety, veterinary public health, environmental hygiene, medical and health, and related implementation issues, handling Legislative Council business and strengthening the working relationship with Legislative Council, and engaging and liaising with all stakeholders to explain and solicit support for government policies and decisions.

Dr Ngai Tseung Cheung is the Head of Information Technology & Health Informatics of the Hospital Authority (HA) and also the Consultant for eHealth for the Hong Kong Government. He has taken HA from a virtual “green fields” site to today’s situation where every patient has a complete interoperable electronic patient record which can be accessed by his/her clinical carers in any of the 43 hospitals and 120+ clinics of the HA. The HA’s Clinical Management System (CMS) has been integrated into all the major care delivery process, providing decision support, workflow enablement, and informs the management and planning functions at all levels. His current work focuses on innovation and digitization to ensure the sustainability of healthcare in Hong Kong, with work streams including the next generation of the Hospital Authority’s Clinical Management System (CMS), HA’s single integrated patient app (HA Go) with integrated teleHealth, clinical AI and the Smart Hospital. Together these will enable new enhanced service delivery models in the post-COVID era, with patient-centric personalised care, advanced data driven decision support and risk prediction and enhanced clinical communications and operations.

He also works with the Government to operate and further develop the territorywide Electronic Health Record Sharing System (eHRSS) and the wider eHealth ecosystem in Hong Kong. The eHRSS provides a standards-based, detailed patient record reaching across nearly 2000 provider organizations in the public and private healthcare sectors.

NT is active in the informatics research and education communities, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He holds a medical degree from the University of Sydney and a Master’s degree in computing science from Imperial College, London.

Andrew Wong joined Prudential Corporation Asia as Chief Health Officer in January 2018. Andrew has over 30 years of international experience in executive management positions across Asia, Australia, Middle East and Europe in the insurance and healthcare industry. Prior to joining PCA, Andrew was the CEO, Asia Pacific of Munich Health from 2014 to 2017, based in Singapore. Prior to that, Andrew held a number of senior executive positions within Bupa in Asia and the UK. The latest position he had with Bupa was the CEO of Bupa Thailand from 2008 to 2014. Andrew is a Chartered Accountant and he holds a Master of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Jonathan Larsen is Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund. He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for 30 years and brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most rece ntly Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues and sp anning 19 countries. Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Ha milton where he spent eight years advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe. Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and w as named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker mag azine. He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist as well as local media throu ghout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

Pamela Tin received her PhD from the School of Public Health at The University of Hong Kong. With experience in both academic and public policy research, she is dedicated to improving health and social policies through research and advocacy work to promote the holistic wellbeing of all persons in society. Pam and her team at OHKF has published papers on various topics ranging from health workforce to end-of-life care policies. Notably, the policy paper 'Fit for Purpose: A Health System for the 21st Century' published in November 2018 was named 'Best Policy Study/Report Produced by a Think Tank' by the University of Pennsylvania Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program ‘2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index.

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