The Future of Informatics 2010 (HC2010 - BCS Showcase Event)
The UK's largest, most powerful and rewarding event for health informatics and social care professionals. A new international standard venue, an exhibition packed with leading HI companies, a fresh approach to networking opportunities, more service and clinically based content, and a more dynamically structured conference programme. The conference theme is "Achieving Quality, Innvoation and Productivitys: meeting the challenges with health informatics. The HC2010 exhibition is designed specifically for commercial organisations to meet key health informaticians and clinicians who make choices and procurement decisions.
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Apr 27, 2010 09:00 AM
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Apr 29, 2010 06:00 PM |
| Where | Birmingham, United Kindgom |
| Contact Phone | +44 1423 526971 |
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New elements this year include:
- A Career/Professionalism Zone: this will provide an opportunity for delegates to look at career paths, and talk to senior staff and other experts about possible opportunities for them. We are especially encouraging students to talk to Universities, eSkills and others about options for starting and pursing a career in health informatics.
- An NHS Zone: where NHS organisations (mainly informatics services) will demonstrate things they are doing to further the cause of health informatics in the UK.
- A Leadership Master Class: Professor Michael West will hold a master-class at the end of the second day, this interactive Master-class will be of relevance to anyone interested in how to create a better work environment both for fulfilling the mission of their organisation but also for ensuring the flourishing, well being and development of staff.
- A National SHA CIOs Forum: most of the national SHA Chief Information Officers will take part in an open forum at the end of the event to discuss and debate key themes from the event and take questions from the audience.
- The Regional Showcase will continue this year, with examples of best practice being demonstrate from the Midlands areas.
Leading Key-Note Speakers at HC2010 include:
- Dr Gwyn Thomas CIO for Wales
- Professor Heinz Wolff, Founding Director Brunel Institute for Bioengineering
- Prof Denis Protti, University of Victoria, Visiting Chair of Health Informatics, City University
- London
- Prof Aiden Halligan, Hospitals Chief of Safety, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
Also speaking at key-note level within the streams will be:
- Sam Sharps, Director of the Digital Britain Report
- Richard Hamblin, Director of Intelligence for the Care Quality Commission
- Professor Lionel Tarassenko, Director of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
- Brian Derry, Chair of Assist
A group of NHS CEOs discussing how they plan to deal with the challenges of future years through effective use of information and information systems (stream one, day one)
An update on Research and Development in the field (stream three, day one)
- The impact of ICT on Society (stream four, day one)
- Clinical Showcases: clinical leaders and examples of best practice to support clinical practice demonstrated by experts from across the UK (streams on both days two and three);
- National and international consideration of how to provide safe, secure and effective records (stream 3 on day three);
- Delegates will be able to contribute their views during the interactive café discussion about informatics as a profession and how it should be recognised for the critical role it plays in the delivery of a modern, safe, high quality and value for money health service (stream 2, day one).
