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Leadership Symposium
This will focus on the solutions-driven approaches to implementing strategic systems and ensuring clarity of the benefits to all stakeholders of the healthcare organisation. It will encompass effective leadership and implementation strategies within the context of organisational change and innovation through the adoption of IT.
Speakers include:
- Dr Eric Maurincomme
Vice President, e-Health, Agfa HealthCare - Uwe Poettgen
CIO, Asklepios Clinics, Asklepios Kliniken, Germany - Pr Philippe Kolh, MD, PhD Professor, Chief Information Officer,
University Hospital of Liege, BELGIUM - Joan Marques Faner, graduated in Computer Science
C.I.O., Son Dureta University Hospital, Illes Balears, Spain - Solomon Hagos
HMIS Senior Expert and Telemedicine Coordinator
Federal Ministry of Health, Adis Ababa, Ethiopia - Dr. Wilhelm Marhold
General Director, Otto Wagner Hospital
CEO, Hospitals in the Vienna City Council
Physicians IT Symposium
This will address IT as a foundation for innovation, expansion of care delivery and clinical empowerment. Through interactive dialogue, physicians will have the opportunity to discuss ways in which they can balance technology and patient care and ensure physicians requirements in IT projects.
Speakers include:
- Cornelia M. Ruland, RN, PhD
Medical Center & University of Oslo, Norway - Univ. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mallinger
Vice Rector of Studies, Medical University of Vienna - Dr. Luis Alegre
CMO of the Balearics, Spain
Nursing Informatics Symposium
This will provide a unique opportunity for nursing leaders, nursing practitioners and nursing informatics professionals to examine the pivotal role of IT in today 's ever-changing healthcare environment. It will allow participants to consider implications for their own working environments, through facilitated discussions in German and English.
- Prof. Ursula Hübner
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany - Dr. Christine Schaubmayr
Chief Nursing Manager
Innsbruck University Hospital
Combined Session and Hospital Tour
Towards the end of the symposia, a combined session will provide interactive dialogue between all three groups to advance the team approach and discuss challenges and solutions from each perspective. A hospital tour / demonstration designed to showcase quality tools for each of these audiences will then take place.
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About The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition
The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition is the ultimate forum for leaders and experts in health IT from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). It has been designed for and by the healthcare IT community in the EMEA region - be they technology users, buyers, vendors, providers or healthcare regulators. Addressing the perspectives of clinicians, directors and other healthcare professionals, The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2007 will offer educational sessions, vendor exhibitions, best practice exchange networking sessions and other professional development opportunities.