KATHMANDU: The Health AI Conference (HAICon) Conference concluded with a declaration to empower countries with limited resources, like Nepal, to transition from being consumers to producers of health AI knowledge and technology.
The Health AI for All Network (HAINeT), established to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration in the health AI field, organized the conference, which began on Tuesday in Kathmandu.
The conference focused on identifying health service challenges in developing countries and discussing how health AI can offer solutions. It also explored how health AI can bring about significant changes in health service delivery, improve human health, and ensure universal access to healthcare.
Moreover, HAICon included extensive discussions on how developing nations can not only be consumers of health AI technology but also become producers.
Experts also discussed how health AI can be developed as a global public good, the current state of health AI, and its potential to contribute to health services in Nepal and similar countries.
HAICon also addressed how to ensure that no individual is excluded from the benefits of health AI and explored policy frameworks, challenges, and possibilities for its integration into health systems.
The event was co-organized by the Ministry of Health and Population and the Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics (NAMI).
The next conference will be held in Uganda next year.
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