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AfriHealth 2011

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
November 30, 2011 (All day) - December 1, 2011 (All day)
Link: 
AfriHealth
Location: 
Kenya International Conference Centre Nairobi
Kenya

On November 30--December 1, researchers, medical practitioners and ICT personnel will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the 2011 AfriHealth conference and “share information on the developments in the use of ICT to improve health care in Africa." The program outline states:

The theme for AfriHealth 2011 questions the extent of current research and development using ICT technology and the amount of effort being made to progress ICT developments in the African Healthcare arena. We believe that we can do much more than is presently being done for Healthcare. The Conference, in its fourth year, will be the meeting point for all healthcare participants to share ideas, showcase developments, and develop action plans to speed up improvements in the industry.

The theme of the conference will be “Consolidating the gains of technological innovation through effective management.” Several presentations at the conference will discuss the ramifications of using open source methods and software to improve current healthcare practice and efficiency.

Below is a short list of topics that will be presented at the conference:

  • Consolidating the gains of technological innovation in healthcare through effective management (Professor Yunkap Kwankam, Executive Director, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), Switzerland )
  • Aiming for a more integrated approach in healthcare delivery at national and local levels (Dr Katherine Getao, Head of eGovernment, Office of the President, Kenya)
  • An overview of latest worldwide trends in telemedicine (Frank Lievens, International Co-ordinator, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, Belgium)
  • IT systems in African hospitals: Are they feasible? (Johann Odendaal, President, South African Health Informatics Association)
  • Benchmarking the performance of hospitals and hospital IT adoption  (Angela Dunbar, Member of HIMSS Europe Governing Council & eHealth Adviser, Spain)

To register for this event, visit: https://www.aitecafrica.com/event/registration/74

To view the conference program, click here: http://intranet.openhealthnews.com/sites/intranet.openhealthnews.com/files/aitecafricahealth.pdf