HCW@Home attended the Geneva Digital Health Day 2026 this Thursday, May 21, at Campus Biotech. Now in its third edition, the event is organized by the Geneva Digital Health Hub in partnership with the Geneva Health Forum and the World Health Organization, on the sidelines of the 79th World Health Assembly. It brought together healthcare professionals, innovators, policymakers and researchers around the key challenges shaping digital health today.
Tobias Kuster, Director of Iabsis, pitched HCW@Home during the Project Speed Dating session: three minutes to introduce our open-source telemedicine platform to the audience, followed by in-depth conversations with interested organizations.
A great opportunity to highlight what makes HCW@Home distinctive: a free software solution (GPLv3), sovereign and self-hostable, already deployed by leading humanitarian organizations such as MSF and the ICRC for remote consultations in demanding settings. As the healthcare sector grows increasingly dependent on proprietary platforms, our approach offers a concrete alternative that meets real-world requirements for data privacy and ownership.
The topics covered throughout the day (AI in health, implementation science, space technologies, equity of access) directly resonate with our current work and confirm the relevance of an open, interoperable telehealth infrastructure designed for field realities.
Thanks to the gdhub and Geneva Health Forum teams for putting the event together, and to everyone we met on site. The conversations continue.