Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) together with the Health Information Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) successfully presented a knowledge sharing programme themed, “Digital Health: From possibility to reality” at the Jetwing Colombo Seven recently.
This was a great opportunity to hear from and network with key figures who are driving Sri Lanka’s digital health roadmap. The programme was held with the participation of a large number of tech savvy medical professionals, ICT experts, software developers, venders as well as health industry related stakeholders in Sri Lanka.
The keynote speaker of the programme was Professor Vajira H. W. Dissanayake, who spoke on the the topic of “The Digital Health Ecosystem of Sri Lanka” while several doctors who work as team leaders of digital health projects also shared their insights and firsthand experiences at this forum through their presentations and the panel discussion that followed.
The panellists comprised of Dr. Nishan Siriwardena, Team Leader of the Hospital Information Systems Project, Health Informatician, Ministry of Health; Dr. Pamod Amarakoon, Team Leader of the District Nutrition Monitoring System, Health Informatician, Ministry of Health; Dr. Buddika Dayaratne, Health Informatician, Ministry of Health and Mr Irshad Deen, General Manager – Enterprise Products & Solutions of SLT.
They shared their unique experiences and knowledge gained through their projects, on the topics “Hospital Information System (HISL)”, “Monitoring Children in the Community Using Smart Phones”, “Gathering Country Wide Data on the Incidence of Data Electronically” and “Partnering The Digital Transformation of Sri Lanka”, respectively.
Keynote speaker Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake addressing the gathering said,
“The developments in digital has opened the way for amazing new possibilities in the healthcare industry with regards to treatments, powerful diagnostics, and opportunities to share the rapidly growing wealth of knowledge. Undoubtedly, healthcare has become more effective; however, on the other hand, it has also become more complex and costly.”