Forum: High-Tech Medicine & Soft-Touch Healing – Advancing Innovation in Integrative Health

Marking the 10th anniversary of the Osher Integrative Medicine Network Forum, the 2024 conference aims to foster much-needed dialogue on how technology influences and impacts integrative healthcare.

Breakthroughs in medical technology have catalyzed advancements in therapeutic approaches, but the interface of integrative healthcare and technology has received less attention.

Can innovative tools like wearables, artificial intelligence, and advanced diagnostics provide new insight into integrative health modalities such as acupuncture, meditation, and music therapy, or help inform whole-person health approaches?

This forum will facilitate discussions and collaborations across new domains to explore current projects, future possibilities, and the opportunities and challenges in applying technology to enhance integrative health care practices.

Presentations will include keynote sessions, plenary and short talks, panel discussions, audience Q&A and live demonstrations to address topics under the following 8 plenary themes:

• Bias and Health Equity through a Technology Lens
• Independence and Aging in Place
• Body-Mind Connections and Technology
• Accelerating the Development of Innovative Technologies in Industry
• Educational and Ethical Innovations with Technology Implications
• Complex Systems Perspectives on Traditional Healing Systems
• AI & Machine Learning for Integrative Health
• Music, Movement, Meditation and Machines

Offered free of charge, all are welcome to attend, including researchers, clinicians, technologists, ethicists, traditional integrative healthcare scholars, students administrators, and policymakers. Attend in-person or online.

In-Person:

• Connect and network in-person with familiar faces and new potential collaborators
• Learn from on-site demos from exhibitors and sponsors
• Monday evening on-site reception
• Explore on-site posters and engage with poster presenters

If you cannot join us in person, you can still connect with the conference sessions by registering for online attendance.