Tracks and Topics

This track explores how hospitals can preserve compassion, dignity, equity, and the human touch while navigating rapid technological disruption, evolving patient expectations, workforce pressures, and increasing longevity. We seek contributions that demonstrate how people-centred care – for both patients and the workforce – can thrive alongside innovation and remain at the core of hospital strategy and operations.

Topics

1. Strategies or care models to improve patient experience in access, equity, and outcomes of care
2. Supporting workforce wellbeing, resilience, and long-term retention
3. Building diverse and inclusive management teams and strengthening leadership pipelines
4. Assessing and managing the experiences of patients, families, the workforce, and communities in using digital technologies or digital care
5. Redesigning services and patient care processes to enhance patient experience and efficiency across patients, families, caregivers, and the healthcare workforce
6. Delivering human-centred care models under sustained financial pressure

This track highlights the leadership capabilities, governance models, and financial strategies required to guide hospitals through demographic shifts, economic uncertainty, climate pressures, organizational transformation, and rising longevity-related care demands. We seek real-world examples of strategic leadership that drives resilience, delivers value, and overcomes systemic barriers.

Topics

1. Building financial resilience through cost-control strategies and long-term sustainability planning
2. Leading transformation at scale in complex and integrated health systems
3. Innovative leadership strategies or decision-making models in resource-constrained environments
4. Public–private partnerships that expand access, efficiency, and value
5. Implementing value-based healthcare for effective management and outcomes
6. Sharing leadership lessons from regional and system-level experiences (e.g. Nordic countries, Southeast Asia, Global South, Tiger economies)

This track addresses the urgent need for healthcare systems to become environmentally sustainable, resilient, and low-carbon. We seek contributions that showcase strategies, leadership approaches, investment models, and measurable outcomes that advance net-zero healthcare while supporting long-term community wellbeing and healthspan.

Topics

1. System-wide approaches to achieving net-zero healthcare
2. Financing and investment models that enable the green transition in healthcare
3. Designing, retrofitting, and operating resilient, low-carbon healthcare infrastructure, including greenfield and brownfield facilities
4. Strategies for decarbonizing healthcare operations (e.g. clinical care, supply chains, facilities management, waste reduction) while ensuring security and continuity of services
5. Embedding environmental responsibility into hospital culture and management practice
6. Engaging communities and external stakeholders to address climate-related health impacts and social and environmental determinants of health
7. Repositioning hospitals to address patient longevity

This track highlights real-world digital and AI innovations that improve clinical care, enhance operational performance, strengthen financial sustainability, and support care delivery across the continuum. We seek contributions that address real problems, demonstrate measurable impact, and share practical governance models.

Topics

1. Workforce-focused digital solutions that reduce burden and enhance work–life balance
2. Implementing transformational technologies with measurable clinical and operational impact
3. Introducing patient-facing digital applications and personalized care tools
4. Integrating big data, analytics, and AI for clinical and operational improvement
5. Guiding leaders and stakeholders through digital transformation and AI adoption
6. Financing digital transformation to achieve financial return on investment while supporting environmental and operational sustainability
7. Achieving digital integration with community-based and non-hospital providers
8. Developing secure and trusted frameworks for the responsible and efficient use of patient data in digital health and AI transformation

This track focuses on advancing clinical care models that improve quality, safety, financial sustainability, and long-term population health outcomes. We seek contributions that highlight innovative clinical approaches, specialty leadership, and care delivery models that extend beyond traditional hospital settings.

Topics

1. Improving clinical care processes to achieve better outcomes and efficiency
2. Engaging patients and communities in designing integrated care pathways
3. Advancing nursing leadership and innovative nursing-led care models
4. Enhancing safety for both patients and the healthcare workforce
5. Leading specialty services such as mental health, paediatrics, rural health, and preventive care
6. Financially sustainable clinical operations through efficient pathways and cost-effective models
7. Establishing hybrid and longitudinal care models beyond hospital walls (e.g. hospital-at-home, advanced home care, community-based delivery, telehealth, remote monitoring)
8. Advancing integrated and longitudinal senior care models in continuum of care