It gives me great pleasure to send this message for Digital Health Week 2018.

In the past three years I have seen the rapid growth of digital health around the world. I recognise the important role that Digital Health would play towards achieving Universal Health Coverage by 2030. Sri Lanka has taken important steps to implement Digital Health to strengthen our health care delivery system that would be showcased at the event. We hope that our lessons would be valuable to others, and we would be able to learn from the experiences of others from around the world.

I am pleased to see that so many international organisations involved in Digital Health from around the world have chosen Colombo, Sri Lanka as the venue to meet this year. I see this as a recognition of the role that Sri Lanka has played in promoting Digital Health around the world since Sri Lanka took the leadership in the Commonwealth Medical Association in 2016.

I understand that over 600 delegates from over 60 countries would be attending Digital Health Week 2018. I wish to welcome all of them to Sri Lanka and wish them a fruitful conference and a pleasant stay in Sri Lanka.

Dr Rajitha Senaratne  M.P.
Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine

This is the third consecutive year that we are organizing celebration of Digital Health in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Our main objective is to bring digital health and its enormous potential to the attention of the policy makers at the highest level and to empower and recognize individuals and organizations spearheading digital health innovation and implementation. The latest addition to the Digital Health feast that we put out every year is the Digital Health Expo. We are expecting Digital Health companies to participate at the Expo to meet digital health implementers from the government, academic and private sectors. Today the Health Care Industry and Health Care Professionals are depending on Digital platforms and there is enormous demand for this business.

Apart from the Digital Health Expo, we have lined up five main conferences and the Commonwealth Digital Health Awards during this week. In this background it gives me great pleasure to invite all of you to the Digital Health Week 2018 in Sri Lanka.

We do hope that you will find the whole week productive as well as enjoyable.

Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake
President
Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka

President Elect
Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics

Chairman
Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health

President
Commonwealth Medical Association