Conference
Innovation in Digital Health
The NOVAHealth Innovation in Digital Health group is promoting a Conference on February 28th, 2025, in the Auditorium of the Rectory of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
This Conference enables innovation and transformation in the healthcare sector and how it is shaping healthcare systems, inviting all participants to inspiring debates about the future of digital healthcare in Portugal.
The academic community and NOVAHealth partners are invited. Submit your Abstract by February 16th, 2025.
Registration must be made by February 21th, 2025.



SUBMISSIONS
Authors interested in presenting their research on the conference topic should submit their work in (instructions and selection criteria in the call for abstracts, posters or oral presentation).
Conference Registration
Deadline: February 21th, 2025

Submission
Deadline: February 16th, 2025

Confirmation of Acceptance
Deadline: February 21th, 2025

Any additional questions send an email to novasaude@nms.unl.pt
PROGRAM
February 28th, 2025 | Auditorium of the Rectory of Universidade Nova de Lisboa
9h30 – 9.50h: Opening Remarks
Pró-Rector Professor Cláudio M. Soares
José Paulo Santos (NOVA FCT, Co-Coordenador do Grupo Innovation in Digital Health)
9h50 – 10h30: Digital Health – The only path forward
Sérgio Laranjo (CHRC Researcher, NOVA Medical School)
10h30 – 11h00: Coffee-Break / Poster Session
11h00 – 12h40: Communications
11h00 – 11h20: Communication 1 – Consumer Tech & Smart Health
Diego Costa Pinto (Marketing & Analytics Lab, NOVA IMS)
11h20 – 11h40: Communication 2 – The Role of Engineering in Healthcare
Carla Quintão (NOVA FCT)
11h40 – 12h00: Communication 3 – Artificial intelligence models to predict in-hospital mortality among HF patients using integrated digital health records from primary and hospital care
José Miguel Diniz (ENSP)
12h00 – 12h50: Roundtable “The Role of Wearable Devices in the Personalization of Healthcare”
Moderator: José Paulo Santos (NOVA FCT)
Filipe Branco (Novo Nordisk, Clinical, Medical and Regulatory Director -ad ínterim)
Ana Londral (NOVA-FCT, Value for Health CoLAB, CHRC-NMS)
Sara Lobo (C-mo Medical Solutions)
Sérgio Laranjo (CHRC Researcher, NOVA Medical School)
Carla Quintão (NOVA FCT)
13h00 – 14h30: Lunch and Poster Session
14h30 – 15h10: Information Revolution in Health
Hugo Gamboa (NOVA FCT)
15h10 – 17h00: Communications
15h10 – 15h30: Communication 1 – From Hippocrates to Hypotheticals: AI, Medical Liability, and the Standard of Care
Vera Lúcia Raposo (NSL)
15h30 – 15h50: Communication 2 – PROMBot-Hypertension: Co-Creation for Patient Engagement and Hypertension Monitoring
Ana Londral (NOVA-FCT, Value for Health CoLAB, CHRC-NMS)
15h50 – 16h10: Communication 3 – Case Studies of AI-based Predictive Models for Oncology
Leonardo Vanneschi (NOVA IMS)
16h10 – 16h30: Communication 4 – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Miguel Mascarenhas (FMUP)
16h30 – 17h30: Roundtable “The future of AI in healthcare: A present-day challenge and opportunity”
Moderator: Teresa Magalhães (ENSP NOVA, Co-Coordenador do Grupo Innovation in Digital Health)
Hugo Gamboa (NOVA FCT)
Nuno Neuparth (NMS)
Miguel Mascarenhas (FMUP)
Leonardo Vanneschi (NOVA IMS)
Vera Lúcia Raposo (NSL)
17h30: Concluding remarks
Teresa Magalhães (ENSP NOVA, Co-Coordenador do Grupo Innovation in Digital Health)
Innovation in Digital Health
Improve healthcare through collaborative interdisciplinary innovation in digital health within NOVA, leveraging cutting-edge technologies, data-driven insights, and human-centered design to enhance accessibility, affordability, and effectiveness of healthcare delivery, while complying with legal and ethical requirements, and ultimately improving patient outcomes and well-being.
CO-COORDINATORS
