Bringing Innovation into Healthcare Systems: From Promising Science and AI to Routine Patient Benefit
A high-level conference during United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week examining how AI, personalised medicine and other health innovations can move beyond research projects and pilots to become safe, scalable, sustainable and equitable components of routine care. The meeting will bring together governments, healthcare systems, patients, clinicians, regulators, payers, investors, innovators, industry, technology leaders and international organisations to examine the full innovation-to-care pathway and identify the frameworks, governance and system capacity needed to translate promising science into sustainable patient benefit.
Event details
Event type
Policy Session
Format
In-person
Audience
Ministers and government representatives; national and regional health-system leaders; international organisations and development partners; hospital executives; clinicians and implementation leaders; patients and civil-society organisations; regulators; HTA bodies; payers and procurement authorities; academic innovators and research institutions; incubators, accelerators and living laboratories; pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-technology, diagnostics and digital-health companies; investors, foundations and development-finance institutions; data, AI and infrastructure experts; and global-health and implementation partners.
Why this event matters
Health innovation is advancing rapidly, with new medicines, diagnostics, digital technologies and AI creating significant opportunities to improve healthcare. However, too many promising innovations remain confined to research projects, pilots or specialist centres instead of becoming part of routine care.
The event addresses this implementation gap by focusing on what healthcare systems need to do to identify priority needs, evaluate innovations, govern data responsibly, generate appropriate evidence, finance implementation, integrate technologies into clinical workflows and scale what works. This is particularly important for personalised medicine, where the ability to distinguish between patients only creates value when health systems can act on that information
Strategic frame
Translating Health Innovation Into Sustainable Patient Benefit
The conference will examine the full innovation-to-care pathway, bringing together governments, health systems, patients, clinicians, regulators, payers, investors, innovators, industry, technology leaders and international organisations.
The strategic focus is to establish the frameworks, governance and system capacity needed to move promising science, AI and other health innovations beyond pilots and into safe, scalable, sustainable and equitable routine care.
Core question
What must governments, healthcare systems, innovators and investors align from the outset so that AI and other promising innovations move beyond pilots and become safe, scalable, sustainable and equitable components of routine care?
Agenda snapshot
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00–09:15
Opening remarks setting the context for translating health innovation into sustainable patient benefit, with a focus on frameworks, governance and healthcare system capacity.
Session 1 – Start with the Need, Not the Algorithm: What Should Health Systems Innovate For?
09:15–10:45
Exploring how healthcare systems can identify genuine patient and system needs, shape innovation priorities and ensure AI and other technologies deliver measurable patient and system benefit.
Coffee and Networking Break
10:45–11:15
An opportunity for participants to connect and exchange perspectives across healthcare, government, research, industry and innovation.
Session 2 – De-risking Adoption: Governing AI and Aligning Evidence, Regulation, HTA, Procurement and Financing
11:15–12:15
Examining how evidence, regulation, HTA, reimbursement, procurement and financing can be aligned to create a credible and sustainable pathway from innovation validation to adoption.
Strategic Closing Roundtable – From Adoption to Scale: A Global Framework for Innovation-to-Care
12:15–12:45
Exploring how effective innovations can move into routine, sustainable and equitable care, feeding into the New York Framework for Innovation-to-Care and its six practical readiness questions.
People and contributors
Denis Horgan
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Join us at Bringing Innovation into Healthcare Systems: From Promising Science and AI to Routine Patient Benefit
24 September 2026 | 20:00 - 21:00
Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY, New York, NY, USA • North America
Interested in this event?
IPM Alliance welcomes engagement from policymakers, scientific experts, patient organisations, health-system leaders, industry partners and implementation actors.