19 - 21 April 2016, Berlin, Germany.The conhIT Congress offers visitors and exhibitors of Europe's leading healthcare IT event the ideal platform for finding out about innovations, trends and the industry's prospects. In the past the reactions from visitors to the congress were consistently positive due in particular to the highly practical approach of the papers and the relevance of the selected topics.
This year the congress organisers are once again inviting healthcare IT players to contribute to the programme. The theme of this year's event is 'focus on the patient - innovative healthcare IT'. A total of 11 sessions will be taking placing for which entries can be submitted. The topics are as follows:
- Patient empowerment: information and management using digital instruments.
- Less bureaucracy in nursing documentation - challenges and possible solutions - not only in long-term care
- Medical and medical-economic processes
- Quality management and quality assurance - the importance of data quality for optimising care processes
- Benchmarking in the healthcare sector - methods, projects, experiences and results
- Mobility and apps
- IT strategies and IT management
- Intersectional Electronic Communications
- Big Data in medicine - an opportunity or simply hype? Methods, approaches and experiences
- Health telematics and the German E-Health law
- Patient centered IT process support focusing on treatment and decision-making
Entries can be submitted from 22 September to 31 October 2015. It is not planned to extend the deadline. For further details and application please visit www.conhit.com. Any companies wishing to submit a paper must be represented at the Industrial Fair as exhibitors.
The advisory committee decided upon the main topics on 1 September in Berlin. Details will be published in a visitor flyer in November 2015 and the exact content will be put together by the end of the year. More than 50 committee members are involved to organise high-quality programme closely oriented to the needs of the target groups.
The list of committee members is effectively a who's who of healthcare IT and includes high-ranking representatives of associations, administrations, ministries, industry and science.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.conhit.com
About conhIT - Connecting Healthcare IT
conhIT targets decision-makers in IT departments, management, in the medical profession, 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 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 recorded 388 exhibitors and around 7,500 visitors in 2015 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). The National Association of Hospital IT Managers (KH-IT) and the Working Group of Directors of Medical Computing Centres at German University Clinics (ALKRZ) have provided contributions to the subject matter.