31 October - 1 November 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.HIMSS Europe has announced a world-class conference agenda at HIMSS Amsterdam 2013 on 31 October and 1 November. Join us and learn about the most up-to-date developments and gain insights into the critical issues facing HIT leaders today. Hear from global CIOs as they confront today's major challenges in health IT.
Opening Keynote
Bertram S. Reese, Senior Vice President and CIO, Sentara Healthcare
Sentara Healthcare is an integrated health system with net revenues of more than $5 billion. Sentara is comprised of 11 acute care hospitals, a health plan with 450,000 covered lives, 7 nursing centers, 3 assisted living centers and medical groups with over 600 providers.
If you call it an IT project, you have already failed: Getting a grip on change management and adoption
Henning Schneider, CIO, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Henning has been the head of the medical IT department at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf for 5 years. Previously he was program manager at Siemens AG Healthcare Sector running complex customer projects to improve healthcare processes by integrating clinical work-flows with IT and medical devices.
The difficulty of calculating the ROI: The experience of the Hospital de Dénia
Vicent Moncho Mas, CIO Hospital de Dénia, Marina Salud, Spain
Vicent Moncho is currently Director of Organization and Information Technologies of Hospital de Denia. Vincent participated in the implementation of electronic health record in the primary care of the region of Valencia with 1,120 primary care centres with over 5,200,000 patients.
HIMSS Amsterdam offers plenary sessions that focus on the state of HIT in the Netherlands
Plenary Session: Patient Safety and IT
Jan Vesseur, Chief Inspector, Dutch Health Care Inspectorate, The Netherlands.
Plenary Session: Patient Enabling
Marcel Heldoorn, Senior Policy Officer ehealth, NPCF (Dutch Patient and Consumer Federation), The Netherlands.
Jacqueline Baardman, Adjunct Directeur, NPCF (Dutch Patient and Consumer Federation), The Netherlands.
Rob Dijkstra, NHG (THe Dutch College of General Practitioners), The Netherlands.
The HIMSS Amsterdam networking events will bring together health IT experts, healthcare providers and working professionals in a variety of related fields for discussion, sharing and networking in a convivial atmosphere.
The Networking Reception will open HIMSS Amsterdam.
This year's leading networking event is the Spider Awards Dinner. The Spider Award is granted every year to promote innovative projects, to stimulate the use of IT in healthcare and to share knowledge on IT-projects.
Both the reception and dinner are included in the admission price to the conference.
For further information and registration, please visit:
http://www.himssamsterdam.eu/2013/
About HIMSS Europe
HIMSS Europe is dedicated to bringing together all the major players in the Health ICT community to transcend borders and languages and engender a truly regional dialogue. As members of HIMSS Europe, individual professionals (managers, administrators, clinicians, technology experts and users), vendor companies and IT providers meet, interact and learn from one another.
With the opening of its Europe office in Brussels, HIMSS is now positioned to provide activities, programmes and education specifically designed for the Europe Health ICT community. Guided by a Governing Council of members from within the Europe region, the HIMSS Europe staff will focus on the needs of individual and corporate members across Europe to ensure dedicated services and membership value.