“The need for exchange, dialogue, between what I call stakeholders, decision-makers, institutions, entrepreneurs, industrialists, researchers, start-up creators, software publishers, healthcare professionals, around digital healthcare is more necessary than ever ”. It is by virtue of this objective that Isabelle Margo, then a journalist, decided in 2016 to create from scratch a event dedicated to digital health: City Healthcare was born. “Responsible for dealing with health and economic issues, I had noticed the irremediable emergence of digital technology in France”, she continues, “the many hopes that it aroused, but also and above all the problems that met the professionals ”.
Our ambition is to envision the future and to build projects, between professionals, companies, territories, around the uses of digital health.
Isabelle Margo, founder of City Healthcare
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Problems that it therefore intends to identify and combat, by bringing together in a single place all the parties concerned by the development of e-health. Since then, Healthcare, which has chosen the Grand Est region, at the crossroads of Europe, to imprint its brand and its ambitions, has established itself in the national landscape through a unique concept.
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Three main issues
“Open to all categories of professionals concerned with e-health, but also patient associations and health students, it brings together more than 70 exhibitors and partners as well as 70 experts, from national and international territory, around around forty round tables and workshops, without forgetting a special openness to cross-border countries (Luxembourg in particular) ”.
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September 30 and 1is next October, the Prouvé congress center will therefore dedicate a space of 2,000 m² innovations dedicated to health and will become the epicenter of a broad reflection on the subject. “Our ambition is to identify blockages, to better understand each other, to envision the future, to build projects, between professionals, companies, regions, around the uses of digital health. And face three main challenges together: the efficiency of the healthcare system, economic growth and French health sovereignty, ”concludes Isabelle Margo.
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