Digital Healthcare Track
Sponsored by:
Idit Klaiman
VP Delivery & Projects
Matrix Medika
Track Moderator
BIO:
Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Matrix Medika. Brings over 30 years of experience in developing technological systems, medical device products, and complex digital healthcare systems. Leads large-scale projects in healthcare organizations and the global market, with a passion for technological innovation and for developing and empowering women leaders in the field.
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Moshe Klaiman
CEO & CTO
Matrix Medika
11:20 - 11:40
Farewell Gift - A Forward-Looking Summary of 25 Years of Digital Health - From the Era of Punched Cards to Gen AI
What is the common thread linking the early days of data processing with punched cards to the era of generative artificial intelligence? And what can this thread teach us about what lies ahead?
Drawing on a quarter-century of experience in the healthcare sector, this lecture offers a broad perspective grounded in accumulated practice, historical processes, and profound technological and organizational transformations. The talk will present insights gained over the years, examine key challenges and opportunities encountered along the way, and look forward—toward both the near and more distant future of the healthcare system. Offered as my personal and original farewell gift to you.
BIO:
With over 20 years of experience in development, management and R&D in the healthcare industry, Moshe founded Medika (now part of Matrix) to deliver high-end projects, systems, and domain expertise to cutting-edge medical device and digital healthcare companies.​ Under Moshe’s leadership, Medika has made a name for itself by taking on the regulation, cybersecurity, and development challenges unique to the industry.
11:40 - 12:00
The Real-Time Hospital - The New Generation of Healthcare IoT
Dr. Amit Lehavi
CEO
QLOG
Hospitals are undergoing a fundamental shift toward real-time, data-driven operations, where IoT is no longer a nice-to-have but a core infrastructure layer. This lecture explores how real-time visibility, smart sensors, and operational intelligence are transforming efficiency, safety, and quality of care across modern healthcare systems.
BIO:
Dr. Amit Lehavi is the Founder and CEO of QLOG, a venture-backed healthcare technology company supporting hospitals in Israel, EU and the UK. With hands-on experience deploying large-scale IoT and RTLS solutions in live hospital environments, Amit works closely with clinical and operational teams to turn real-time data into measurable impact.
12:00 - 12:20
Predicting Momentum: Mapping Digital Health Trends through Real-World Success
This session provides a strategic overview of the 2026 Digital Health landscape through the unique lens of Family Office investments. To demonstrate this in action, we will present a case study of Predicta Med, showcasing how data-driven forecasting transforms technological trends into proven, real-world success.
Nurit Kantorovich BIO:
Nurit Kantarovich is VP of Global Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Arieli Group, with nearly a decade of experience in senior management roles across sectors. She leads healthcare focused investments, innovation programs, and strategic collaborations with hospitals, universities, and global partners. Nurit is Co Director of the SHAAR Healthcare Innovation Hub, a joint initiative with Shaare Zedek Medical Center, supporting early stage MedTech and Digital Health ventures. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa.
Shlomit Steinberg-Koch BIO:
Shlomit Steinberg-Koch, BSc, MBA – Co-Founder and CEO: B.Sc. In biomedical engineering, MBA in technology management, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her first startup was established in 2012 in the field of Melanoma detection, based on an algorithm she developed together with Sheba hospital. She worked in the past six years for Mazor Robotics in multiple roles including R&D, project and product management roles and led the machine learning projects in the innovation department of Mazor, until the acquisition by Medtronic in 2019 for $1.6B. In early 2020, Shlomit founded Predicta Med, an AI based startup revolutionising autoimmune disease diagnosis & treatment by empowering primary care physicians and specialists. The company is collaborating with leading providers such as Mayo Clinic, Cedars Sinai and Stanford.
Nurit Kantarovich
VP of Strategic Partnerships, Arieli Group
Co-director, SHAAR Healthcare Innovation Hub
Shlomit Steinberg-Koch
Co-Founder & CEO, Predicta Med
Gilat Schreiber
Head of Health Intelligence Agency
Israel Ministry of Health
12:20 - 12:40
From Data to Impact: Managing Disease Outbreaks Through Health Intelligence
The Israeli Health Intelligence Agency integrates health system data to generate actionable intelligence for health risk assessment and decision-making. In this talk, I will present the use of a health intelligence framework during the 2025 measles outbreak, combining morbidity and vaccination data to enable real-time situational awareness, outbreak forecasting, and targeted public health interventions. The case highlights the value of health intelligence in supporting timely, evidence-based action during complex health events.
BIO:
Gilat Schreiber, a 20-year veteran in the medical industry, served in various R&D and engineering roles including CEO of startup companies.
Currently, Gilat is the Head of the Health Intelligence Agency in the Israel Ministry of Health, spearheading Israel's health intelligence organization in monitoring and overcoming health threats.
Erez Metula
CEO
AppSec Labs
12:40 - 13:00
When Medical AI Gets It Wrong: Practical Security Lessons for AI-Driven Healthcare
AI is increasingly used in medical devices and digital health products to assist with diagnosis, monitoring, and clinical decision-making. These systems are often trusted as objective, reliable, and safe — yet their behavior can be influenced in ways that are not well understood by product teams, clinicians, or regulators.
This short, practical session demonstrates how AI-powered medical workflows can be misled by carefully crafted but seemingly legitimate inputs. Without exploiting software bugs or breaching systems, the talk shows how techniques such as prompt manipulation and context poisoning can change AI behavior, suppress warnings, or produce misleading recommendations.
Using simple, controlled demonstrations, attendees will see how small changes in input or context can lead to significantly different outcomes — highlighting risks that traditional cybersecurity controls and compliance processes do not address.
The session concludes with clear, non-technical guidance on what medical device and digital health teams should be asking when evaluating or building AI-enabled products: how to recognize AI-specific risks, how to reduce over-trust in AI outputs, and how to design systems that fail safely when AI behavior becomes unreliable.
This talk is intended for product leaders, engineers, quality, regulatory, and security professionals who want a clear and practical understanding of AI security risks in medical technology — without requiring prior expertise in AI or cybersecurity.
BIO:
Erez Metula, an application security expert, is also the founder and CEO of AppSec Labs, a leading company in the field of application security.
He is the author of the book "Managed Code Rootkits", and holds an MSc in computer science.
Erez has extensive hands-on experience performing security assessments, code reviews and secure development trainings for worldwide organizations, and had previously talked at international security conferences such as BlackHat, Defcon, OWASP, RSA, SOURCE, CanSecWest and more. Erez is a frequent trainer at BlackHat, providing cutting edge security training for developers and penetration testers.
Erez had helped companies from all sizes, from startups to fortune 500 organizations.
Erez focuses on advanced application security topics and has performed extensive ground breaking research on web application, mobile application and IoT security.
13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch, Exhibition Visit
14:00 - 14:20
Imaging Systems Cloud Strategy
Imaging healthcare IT transition process to the cloud - evolvement, scalability, security, and clinical impact and cloud deployment methods.
BIO:
Business manager in the field of medical imaging archiving, with extensive experience working with healthcare organizations and complex medical systems. Specializes in guiding customers through the implementation of advanced medical records archiving solutions, including RIS and PACS. Skilled at connecting clinical, technological, and business needs, and building long-term partnerships based on value, trust, and measurable results.
Asaf Agler
Key Account Manager
Philips
14:20 - 14:40
Digital Health - The Academic Perspective
Dr. Refael Barkan
V.P. for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Internationalization, HIT, Founder of the Faculty of Medical Technologies
The lecture will examine the central role of academia in shaping the future of digital health in light of the profound transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare systems. It will highlight the need for academic institutions to respond to these changes by developing new multidisciplinary professional roles, redesigning medical and health sciences curricula to incorporate AI literacy and the responsible use of advanced technologies, and fostering academia–industry collaborations in clinically meaningful, applied AI research.
BIO:
Dr. Refael Barkan serves as Vice President for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Internationalization at HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, and is the founder of a uniquely pioneering academic ecosystem in Israel in the field of digital medicine. He conceived and established the country’s only undergraduate (B.Sc.) program in Digital Medical Technologies, also recognized as a technology-oriented pre-med program, and subsequently founded the Faculty of Medical Technologies at HIT. He is a member of the 8400 health network and is actively engaged in numerous national and international initiatives in technology-driven education and training for the health and medical professions, as well as in clinically meaningful applied research in medical technologies in general and digital health in particular.
14:40 - 15:00
From Medical Devices to Integrated Platforms: RehabFlow and the Clinical Digital Lab
Yael Guggenheim
Rehabilitation Innovation Manager
Tzafon Medical Center
Digital rehabilitation technologies play a growing role in clinical practice, yet remain fragmented and disconnected from electronic health records. Following the opening of the Helmsley Rehabilitation Center, the first comprehensive rehabilitation center in northern Israel we are introducing RehabFlow , an integrative platform connecting rehabilitation technologies with clinical workflows, and the Digital Lab of Tzafon Medical Center as a hospital-wide innovation infrastructure enabling real-world development and validation of digital health solutions.
BIO:
Yael Guggenheim is an occupational therapist and digital health innovator with international experience. As a member of the Innovation Unit at Tzafon Medical Center, she leads rehabilitation innovation and digital health initiatives. Her expertise lies in the implementation of clinical technologies in real-world healthcare settings, at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and system-level innovation.
15:00 - 15:20
FHIR & Data Portability - A New Era in Israel
Adi Roll
FHIR IL Community Manager & National Initiative Co-Lead
8400 - The Health Network
The FHIR standard and Israel’s Medical Data Portability Law mark a profound shift in the Israeli healthcare system—from closed infrastructures to a model that enables intelligent data flow, data-driven innovation, and accelerated adoption of AI solutions.
This lecture will present the FHIR standard, its implementation in Israel, and the unique FHIR community model. It will explore the opportunities and the new era emerging from the combination of standardization and regulation as a foundation for development, collaboration, and large-scale deployment of solutions across the healthcare ecosystem.
BIO:
Adi Roll is a senior business development and digital-health strategy consultant, specializing in patient-journey design, value-based transformation, and the development of scalable services and products for healthcare organizations. With over a decade of experience establishing and managing a multidisciplinary private medical center, she has advised hospitals, HMOs, digital health startups, and clinical teams on strategic processes, innovation models, and experience design that drive adoption, engagement, and measurable outcomes.
Adi leads the national FHIR-IL Community and spearheads Israel’s FHIR implementation initiative - a joint national program of the Israeli Ministry of Health and the 8400 Health Network. Representing 8400, she brings together hospitals, HMOs, startups, government teams, and global experts to advance interoperable health-data exchange and cross-ecosystem collaboration. Her work focuses on translating clinical and patient-experience needs into practical, standards-based digital solutions that enable innovation at scale.
Adi holds an LL.B from Tel Aviv University and has completed advanced studies in digital strategy and marketing.