(In collaboration with the American College of Healthcare Executives & HIMSS Eurasia)

The HIMSS Eurasia HealthTech Awards Ceremony, held immediately following the opening session, will feature awards in two distinct categories.

The "Healthcare Innovation & Production Awards" will be presented to the congress’s main sponsors in recognition of their investments in the health technology ecosystem, their support for Turkey’s digital health transformation, and their contributions to the realization of HIMSS Eurasia HealthTech 2026.

The "Innovative Technology Award" will be presented to a domestic manufacturer that has distinguished itself in the field of health technology through the development of original products and solutions. This award aims to highlight Turkey’s capacity for domestic and national production in the healthcare sector and to honor innovative manufacturers on an international platform.

The awards will be presented in the Main Hall, with the participation of high-level representatives from the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Health and executives from HIMSS.

Moving healthcare beyond hospital walls: home care, remote patient monitoring and hybrid care models. Field experience from UK (NHS), Canada (Toronto General – UHN) and Spain (openEHR International), examined alongside the perspective of the Turkish Ministry of Health’s Directorate General of Health Services.

The transformation of health data into a strategic asset: from data ownership, governance, secure sharing and interoperability standards to sustainable value models. Uzbekistan’s national digitalisation experience, HL7 Europe’s standards and EHDS perspective, KLAS/HIMSS market analysis and field implementation, examined from both public and private sector viewpoints.

In Collaboration with TÜSEB and Sanofi

A 2035 roadmap for the shift from hospital-centred models to health ecosystems powered by data and artificial intelligence. Congress Chair and Deputy Minister of Health Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şuayıp Birinci shares Türkiye’s national transformation vision, while IBM Chief Health Officer Dr. Mark Davies presents the global perspective on digitally enabled integrated care models.

From genomics to longevity science and from next-generation medical technologies to AI-enabled drug discovery — the trends that will shape the health paradigm of the coming decade. Leaders from Stanford, Sanofi, Lilly and the Ministry of Health of Côte d’Ivoire bring together scientific, industry and global health perspectives, moderated by the President of TÜSEB.

From “one-size-fits-all” to care personalised through genomics, biomarkers and real-world data. The UAE’s national-scale precision medicine experience and AI-enabled clinical decision support from Spain, examined alongside the regulatory perspective under the moderation of the President of TİTCK.

The rise of global patient mobility and Türkiye’s transition to a sustainable, data-driven health tourism ecosystem. The policy, coordination, promotion and field perspectives of the Ministry of Trade, USHAŞ, TGA and the Private Hospitals Platform, together with Mass General Brigham International’s global partnership experience, moderated by the President of OHSAD.

Introducing SDS, the national digital maturity framework developed by the Turkish Ministry of Health, and its relationship with HIMSS’s global maturity models (EMRAM, INFRAM, DIAM). The Ministry, HIMSS and executives of advanced digital hospitals examine how national measurement and global benchmarking meet in one framework, and the new roadmap for hospitals.

Turning HIMSS EMRAM and digital maturity models into measurable transformation roadmaps for hospitals. Field experience from Çam and Sakura and Bilkent City Hospitals, the infrastructure perspective of Turkcell DBS and the medical technology industry view of ARTED, brought together under the moderation of the Deputy Minister of Health.

Taking the fight against obesity beyond the hospital walls, this session explores preventive and personalised healthcare enabled by wearables, mobile health, remote monitoring and national platforms such as e-Nabız. It brings together the Ministry of Health’s policy and data perspectives with the clinical insights of the Turkish Obesity Research Association (TOAD).

Closed, invitation-only session. Redesigning the chain of care from hospital to home as a seamless, data-driven and clinically safe process: the clinical and legal framework for home-based treatment, reimbursement models, data integration and remote monitoring, examined with experts from the regulator, providers, academia and industry to build a shared roadmap.

Policy experience from countries managing digital health transformation at national scale. Deputy-minister-level decision-makers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Morocco examine national e-health strategies, data sovereignty, AI governance and regional cooperation, moderated by Türkiye’s Deputy Minister of Health and Congress Chair.

Integrating primary care and community-based care with digital health: preventive medicine and chronic disease management through telemedicine, remote monitoring and population health analytics. Perspectives from academia, a Saudi healthcare provider, ISfTeH and industry, moderated by the Director General of Public Health.

Within the framework of the “Hospital Digitalisation Protocol” signed between the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Türkiye and HIMSS, the awards will be presented to the chief physicians and project teams of the hospitals that have qualified for HIMSS Stage 6 and 7, under the auspices of the Directorate General of Health Information Systems of the Ministry of Health, by the Congress Chair, Deputy Minister of Health Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şuayıp Birinci.

The Role of Data, Digital Health, and Fertility Insights in Shaping Next-Generation Population Policies (Merck)

(Novo Nordisk)