AS/COA Healthcare Dialogues
AS/COA Healthcare Dialogues
AS/COA's Healthcare Dialogues addresses key challenges and growing opportunities in healthcare across Latin America. The healthcare agenda covers a diverse range of topics including pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, medical devices, healthy living and wellness, technology, financing, and insurance. The aim of the Dialogues is to promote public-private cooperation, increase awareness of medical technologies and innovation, encourage regulatory harmonization and collaboration, and share best practices in health financing.
The dialogues have focused on sustainable healthcare systems, the importance of innovation and e-health in providing equitable and efficient care, and the need to focus mental health, screening, and NCDs.
The dialogues provide a platform for COA corporate members to engage with key stakeholders on best practices in meeting the growing demand for access to quality healthcare, and creating innovative solutions that promote inclusion, competitiveness, and regional economic development.Healthcare Dialogues is co-chaired by Hugo Villegas of Medtronic and Felicia Knaul of the University of Miami.
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Key themes:
- Innovation in Healthcare
- Health as a driver of social and economic growth
- The role of enabling conditions in supporting health innovation
- Using data to support evidence-based health policy
- Digitalization of healthcare
- Sustainability of Healthcare
- Innovative healthcare financing models
- Financing healthcare innovation: impact, challenges, and opportunities
Opportunities are available for COA corporate members to sponsor the Healthcare Dialogues.
2024 Healthcare Dialogues Sponsors
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AS/COA's Healthcare Series offers recommendations to address inefficiencies and inequities in the region's health systems.
AS/COA's Healthcare Series offers recommendations for governments, providers, and stakeholders to address inefficiencies and inequities in the region's health systems.
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