Business Programme
Clinic on Your wrist: The Role of Wearable Devices in the Modern Preventive System
Healthcare Innovations and Technologies
Today, we are on the threshold of a revolution where digital services give patients seamless access to a wide range of tools to monitor their health. Smart assistants, such as watches, fitness trackers, rings, and other wearable gadgets, are becoming increasingly popular both in Russia and worldwide. These devices don’t simply complement our image; they are fundamentally changing our behaviour, forcing users to reconsider their approach to preventive care, and becoming the first line of defence in preventing disease. Data validation is a key focus. Technology developers are working to obtain the status of medical devices for their inventions and conducting clinical trials to ensure their data can be trusted unconditionally. Meanwhile, the industry is also addressing the problem of ‘information noise’. How can we distinguish arrhythmia from sensor failure? How can comprehensive health monitoring prevent increased anxiety and hypochondria among the population? Where will technological transformation ultimately lead us, and will gadgets be able to replace doctors?
Diagnosis from Neural Networks: Science Fiction or Current Reality?
Healthcare Innovations and Technologies
Artificial Intelligence technologies are rapidly transforming medical practices. New AI application scenarios enable the industry to move beyond standard, routine tasks to more in-depth processes with a variety of combinations. Today, composite multimodal AI is revolutionizing the industry by replacing physician intervention, identifying pathological patterns that are invisible to the human eye, generating clinical hypotheses, establishing a comprehensive picture of a patient’s health, and offering personalized treatment protocols based on retrospective data. The medical community is already praising the advantages that come from using AI agents: increased accuracy in identifying pathologies, a reduction in false positives, and cost-effectiveness. However, there are still numerous ethical and regulatory questions that experts plan to discuss during the session. Will AI remain a physician’s ally, or will it become a source of new systemic risks? What does Russia’s experience with AI developments suggest? And is there a limit to the development of AI in healthcare?
Living Longer and Better: A Longevity Strategy for Individuals and Countries
Healthcare Innovations and Technologies
A key challenge of modern healthcare is to shift the focus from simply increasing life expectancy to building an individual trajectory for healthy longevity. This involves maximizing your quality of life and preserving your energy, mental clarity, and functional activity for many years to come. Healthy longevity medicine shifts the focus from treating diseases to proactive management and prevention, where nutrition and physical activity serve as tools that can influence the underlying mechanisms of aging. To create a culture of healthy longevity, the role of nutrition must be completely reconceptualized. Today, it is not simply a matter of satisfying your hunger, but a comprehensive strategy that provides your body with high-quality fuel for a long and active life. Physical activity, for its part, has established itself as an accessible tool for influencing the underlying mechanisms of aging. Today, this concept involves not only going to the gym, but also any systematic activity that becomes integrated into your lifestyle: from running and swimming to seasonal activities such as skiing and ice skating. What consistent steps need to be taken at the government, societal, and individual levels to transform the philosophy of healthy longevity into a daily norm? Is there a gold standard for the duration and intensity of health-promoting physical activity? What are some of the most promising innovative technologies for preventing premature aging?
Elements of Safety: What Each Link in the Pharmaceutical Industry Chain Brings to the Table
Healthcare Innovations and Technologies
The national goal of Russia’s ‘Long and Active Life’ project is to increase life expectancy to 78 years by 2030 and to 81 years by 2036. Achieving these targets requires coordinated interdisciplinary work and the consolidated efforts of the entire medical industry, including the pharmaceutical sector. Drug security is underpinned by state programmes and effective regulatory solutions for achieving sustainable development in the national pharmaceutical industry, both in terms of innovation and meeting the current needs of the state drug supply system. People’s access to essential medications is directly dependent on the level of professional competence of physicians, including their broad clinical awareness about a number of serious life-threatening and hereditary diseases in order to ensure early diagnosis and effective patient management. What strategies and approaches are needed to achieve sustainable drug security? What joint decisions by the government and manufacturers ensure compliance with quality, safety, and efficacy standards for medications, as well as drug accessibility? How can early diagnosis standards be incorporated into clinical practice to ensure patients have prompt access to essential therapeutic solutions? What factors can increase patient compliance with prescribed therapy?