The World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition has been designed for and by the healthcare ICT community in the European region including: technology end users, vendors, providers and policy makers.
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eHealth: A Lead Market in the Making
By the year 2010 the, the European Commission and other regional organisations predict that the eHealth industry will be worth roughly 20 billion Euros. As Europe moves towards this dynamic, new reality, industry leaders will meet to discuss strategies for successful eHealth deployment through 2010 and beyond. Best practices exchange and candid dialogue about relevant case studies will transform theoretical knowledge into powerful, practical tools for use in today’s European healthcare IT community.
Featured Speakers
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Esko Aho
Former Prime Minister of Finland
President, Sitra, The Finnish Innovation Fund
Esko Aho has had a long and distinguished career serving Finnish society. He held the post of Prime Minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995. During this period, Finland overcame a deep economic recession and made the historic decision to join the European Union. After the 2000 presidential campaign, Aho joined Harvard University for one year as a lecturer, and following his retirement from the Finnish Parliament, he worked as a private consultant. Esko Aho was appointed President of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development, Sitra, as of 1 July 2004. Esko Aho was invited to head a group of experts on reinforcing EU research and innovation performance, which submitted its report to the European Commission in January 2006.
Professor Nicholas Negroponte
Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Lab
USA
Professor Negroponte was the first to predict and describe how digitalization would affect every industry in every part of the world. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being Digital. He has continued to understand the directions that technology is taking business and society and to effectively forecast the transformations that are defining our future.
He is also the founding chairman of MIT's Media Lab, one of the world's leading interdisciplinary research centers and the driving force behind One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a project to bring durable, affordable and innovative computers to children worldwide. As a computer, OLPC is a conceptual and technological breakthrough that is destined to revolutionize computing.
Symposia and Workshops
Pre-conference programmes explore today’s relevant issues for European Physicians & Nurses
Nursing Informatics Symposium
3 November, 2008
This Nursing Informatics Symposium will provide a unique opportunity for nursing leaders, nursing practitioners and nursing informatics professionals to examine the pivotal role of information and information technology in today’s ever-changing healthcare environment.
Physician's IT Symposium
3 November, 2008
This dynamic symposium will focus on the physician as leader in IT integration and access to clinical data and systems to ensure improved decision-making, care processes and the changing physician/patient relationship.
