Health Statistics meetings & conferences

2013 Health Data Users Conference

Methods, Measures and Meaning: Making the Most of Health Data

September 23 and 24, 2013 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The 2013 Health Data Users Conference provides a forum to highlight data relevance and showcase how data are used to inform decisions in today’s world of shrinking resources. The conference will take place at the Delta Hotel, in the heart of downtown Ottawa, September 23 and 24, 2013.

Our theme this year is Methods, Measures and Meaning: Making the Most of Health Data.

Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Colocated with other events part of DataSys 2013

Tracks:

FUNDAMENTALS
Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY
Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS
Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE
Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE
Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

CHALLENGES
Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL
eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services

Second National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare

The eHealth Initiative Second National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare will be held July 31st - August 1st, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Washington D.C.  The two-day event will feature a series of brief case studies and interactive multi-stakeholder panels on integrating different systems and transforming data into actionable healthcare intelligence. Last year, the inaugural Forum hosted more than 350 experts from across the country – and we look forward to more people attending this important conference in 2013!

Who Should Attend?

- Hospital, Health System and Clinic executives

- Health Information Managers

- Health Plans/Payers executives

Titles include:

• Chief Executive Officers

• Chief Operating Officers

• Chief Medical Officers

• Chief Financial Officers

• Chief Quality Officers

• Chief Information Officers

• Medical Directors

-VPs, Directors, Officers, Managers of

• Quality Analysis/Improvement/Management

• Risk Management

• Analytics/Data Analytics/Clinical Analytics

• Clinical & Medical Informatics

• Health Information Technologies

• Medical Operations

• Medical Directors

• Medical Officers

• Medical Economics

• Data Analysts

• Performance Management

• Underwriting

• Claims

• Case Management

• Disease Management

• Clinical Outcomes

• Utilization Management

• Decision Support Analysts

• Senior Nursing Staff

• Directors of Public Health Programs

• Researchers/Scientists/Epidemiologists 

4th Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference

June 10-12th, 2013 Stockholm, Sweden

The Nordic-Baltic Region of the International Biometric Society welcomes you to the 4th Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference, NBBC13, June 10-12th, in Stockholm, Sweden.

The conference offers excellent opportunities for learning about recent advances in biometry, exchanging research experience and getting to know colleagues from neighboring countries.

The organisers can be contacted at info@nbbc13.org.

Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine 57th Annual Conference

September 22-25, 2013 Quebec City, Canada

AAAM's conference is regarded as the most authoritative forum on current knowledge in traffic injury control and presents active and published research in multidisciplinary appraoches to automotive-related trauma in areas such as epidemiology, biomechanics, treatment and management, transport psychology, accidentology, and human factors.

Who attends?

AAAM's conference is attended by 150 experts, including emergency physicians or nurses orthopedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiologists, physiatrists, urologists, emergency medical providers, epidemiologists, biomechanics or vehicle design engineers, automotive engineers, crash investigators, health policy specialists, internists, psychologists, sociologists, or other human factor specialists, accident reconstructionists, or road safety specialists.

Meeting highlights

The meeting will begin with the 4th Annual Student Symposium Sunday, September 22, in which student researchers present their works in progress.

Global Health Metrics and Evaluation

June 17–19, 2013 Seattle, Washington

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) 2013 Annual Conference

June 8-14, 2013 Austin, Texas

This year’s conference, “Thinking Big: The Future of Cancer Surveillance,” will explore innovative and creative ideas for how science, technology, policy, and collaboration can shape the future of cancer surveillance. Sessions will address future directions, both realized and potential, from multiple perspectives on cancer surveillance in North America.

For more information, please contact info@naaccr.org.