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NYeC Digital Health Conference: Call for Speakers

July 2011

Call for SPEAKERS

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) will hold its Digital Health Conference December 1-2, 2011 in New York City at Pier Sixty on the Chelsea waterfront. The event—the first of its kind in New York City—will educate and bring together health information technology (HIT) stakeholders including: providers of all types, the public sector, private industry, health plans, and hospital administration. This conference will showcase the latest technologies, celebrate achievements, inspire collaboration, and advance healthcare innovation.

Conference Details for Speakers

NYeC is seeking special session proposals that showcase HIT innovations, use case studies and/or evidence of empirical findings, explore new information technology tools and perspectives, suggest practical applications of existing technologies, and/or highlight advances in healthcare due to the use of HIT.

The conference is organized around four tracks: Chronic Disease, Hospitals, Primary Care, and Health and Wellness. These sessions may take the form of a traditional presentation with a discussion, an interactive panel discussion with a moderator, a technological demonstration, or any other type of interactive/creative display.

Description of Track Scopes

  • Innovations in the Inpatient Setting: How real-world, practical accomplishments in care coordination, outcomes improvement, workflow efficiencies and administrative effectiveness are improving care in hospitals.
  • Advances in the Delivery of Primary Care: How new technologies are improving the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of the delivery of primary care. Innovations will include patient engagement, improving practice workflow and integration of devices.
  • Chronic Care Management: Showcase new technologies such as Telehealth, wireless health technologies, disease management programs, medication adherence programs and ways to better care for chronic patients including the needs of caregivers and the aging.
  • Health & Wellness: Showcase patient, employee and consumer programs that are using digital technologies to help individuals maintain active and healthy lives.

Submission Information

The deadline for all papers and proposals is 11:00 pm ET July 29, 2011.

For more information and to download a speaker application form, visit www.digitalhealthconference.com