The European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) invites Members, friends, colleagues and all eHealth enthusiasts in Europe to the Symposium "Joining for Visions of Person-centric Health" on the association's tenth anniversary. The two-day conference will be held on 21-22 October 2009, in Brussels, and will be hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). "In the last ten years, EHTEL has witnessed eHealth becoming a powerful force in modernizing healthcare, improving quality and efficiency of care, empowering patients, and increasing patient safety," says Martin Denz, Medical Doctor and President of EHTEL. "With this Symposium, we invite all friends of EHTEL, old and new, to join us in looking at accomplishments and challenges for future-proof health and care. Let's commit with EHTEL in joining all stakeholders at the forefront of innovative change for the benefit of European health systems."
The symposium will convene between 100 and 150 policy makers, users, researchers and vendors. Keynote speakers will review the progress in eHealth over the last ten years and develop healthcare visions for the future. Presentations will highlight individual aspects of eHealth such as reality checks on telemedicine, the state of reimbursement for telehealth services, regulatory matters, and continuity of care supported by telemedicine in hospital and ambulatory care. A panel will convene protagonists of new health and eHealth trends and representatives of various eHealth stakeholder groups to debate latest trends and visions.
More information, including about latest programme updates as well as registration, is available at www.ehtel.org/symposium. As seats are limited, EHTEL encourages all interested individuals to register early.
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About EHTEL
EHTEL (The European Health Telematics Association) was founded in 1999 as a membership driven European association. EHTEL members are key actors in the field of eHealth and include healthcare authorities & government services, healthcare professionals, patients, citizens and consumers associations; industry groups, insurers, international and national not-for-profit associations, researchers, and independent consultants.
EHTEL provides a platform to all European eHealth stakeholders to exchange information, to identify challenges and find solutions towards realising its goals of promoting eHealth tools to improve the quality of health for patients and citizens, access to services, efficiency of care and cost effectiveness. EHTEL provides a number of communications services to its members, actively advocates on the eHealth issues vis-à-vis public institutions, and works through established task forces to achieve these goals. For more information on EHTEL visit www.ehtel.org.