14 - 16 April 2015, Berlin, Germany.The Congress plays an important part in enabling exhibitors and visitors at conhIT to keep abreast of latest developments. Practical orientated lectures are in the foreground. Taking "Shaping the Future with Health IT" as its slogan, the Congress will feature 18 sessions on key industry topics in three congress halls.
Priorities of the sessions that will be published in a visitor flyer in November were decided upon by the advisory committee during their meeting on 16th September 2014 in Berlin. Until the end of the year they will be filled with content. A total of 50 committee members are working to organise a quality programme of outstanding events and making every effort to satisfy the audiences' needs. The list of committee members is effectively a who's who of the world of healthcare IT and includes high-ranking representatives of associations, administrations, ministries, industry and science.
Call for papers announced on October 1st - applications are invited online - the deadline is October 31st 2014
As in previous years anyone involved in healthcare IT can submit their entry on a suitable topic for the sessions listed by the call for papers. The session titles are as follows:
- IT strategy and IT service management for small and middle-sized hospitals. Practical Successful examples.
- Innovative IT-solutions in intersectional networks and highly specialized outpatient care
- MIT - Medical engineering networking and IT in hospitals
- Efficiency increase with IT process support
- Telemedicine: Motivation and necessity in the medical supply - Telematics infrastructure requirements
- Value contribution of IT in the hospital
- Big Data - from the grey mass to intelligent solutions
- Patient Empowerment with Social Media and in- hospital communication work
- Mobility in patient care
- IT in nursing: continuity of care with IT support of nursing care
- Health telematics and added value
- Ambient Assisted Living - a conveyor of interoperability?
Applications can be submitted directly using the contact form on the conhIT website (www.conhit.com, Congress & Academy, Call for Papers), where in addition to general information on the call for papers visitors can also find details of the session topics.
Any companies wishing to submit a paper must be represented at the Industrial Fair as exhibitors. The deadline for registrations for the Industrial Fair is 5 December 2014.
About conhIT - Connecting Healthcare IT
conhIT targets decision-makers in IT departments, management, in the medical profession, healthcare services and administration, nursing, doctors, doctors’ networks and medical care centres who need to find out about the latest developments in IT and healthcare, meet members of the industry and make use of opportunities for high-level advanced training. As an integrated event, over a period of three days conhIT combines an Industrial Fair, a Congress, an academy and Networking Events that are of particular interest to this sector. Launched in 2008 by the German Association of Healthcare IT Vendors (bvitg) as the meeting place for the healthcare IT industry and organised by Messe Berlin, this event recently recorded 359 exhibitors and 6,495 visitors in 2014 and has now become Europe's leading event for the healthcare IT sector.
conhIT is organised in cooperation with the following industry associations: the German Association of Healthcare IT Vendors (bvitg), the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (gmds), the German Association of Medical Computer Scientists (BVMI) as well as content participation by The National Association of Hospital IT Managers (KH-IT) and the Working Group of Directors of Medical Computing Centres at German University Clinics (ALKRZ).