Newsletter no 2, December 2006, Tromsø, Norway
Take care of grandma
Do we care? And how do we care for elderly people today and in the future? With fewer young people around to take care of the increasing number of older people, how are we going to cope?
As a growing proportion of the world’s population is aging, a key challenge is how to provide high quality of care to senior citizens. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are highlighted as a means to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s healthcare sector.
You can participate as a delegate, submitting an abstract for oral presentation, poster or ePoster presentation, giving a tutorial, or arranging a workshop or symposium. And you can participate as an exhibitor.
We would like to invite you to register for the Tromsø Telemedicine and eHealth Conference (TTeC) 2007, “Elderly – Who Cares?” to be held from 11 to 13 June 2007 in Tromsø, Norway. Our online registration system is now open. WELCOME!
The TTeC 2007 conference aims to promote practice, research and development within the field of telemedicine and eHealth in elder care. The conference will provide a meeting place for exchanging knowledge and debating strategies between the key players. This event will strengthen efforts to maximize the potential for technology initiatives that contribute to better healthcare and quality of life for the elderly.
Who should participate?
- healthcare professionals, managers and consultants
- policy- and decision-makers
- users, developers, researchers and producers of telemedicine and eHealth services
- representatives from patient organizations
- academics, scholars and students in the field of health, medicine, social sciences, technology and informatics
Central issues
This conference is a platform for contributors to present their research or other work, and we invite state-of-the-art presentations as well as perspectives on the future related to key issues such as:
- Driving forces and terms for technological and organizational changes
- Active aging and ICT
- eHealth applications in elder care
Programme
The conference programme will include plenary keynote sessions, parallel sessions, moderated discussions, tutorials, workshops, symposia, poster and e-poster sessions and commercial exhibits.
Keynote: There will be 5 keynote speakers during the conference, and George Demiris is our first confirmed keynote speaker.
George Demiris is an Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems at the School of Nursing, and Biomedical and Health Informatics at the School of Medicine, at the University of Washington. He is the Chair of the Knowledge in Motion Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Chair of the Working Group on Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). He received his Master’s degree in Medical Informatics from the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany and his PhD degree in Health Informatics from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the design and evaluation of information technology applications for older adults, smart homes and other informatics applications that support aging in place and independence.
Symposium: “Information security and legal aspects – who cares?”
One of the parallel sessions will be arranged as a symposium focusing on security and legal issues, related to communication and sharing of electronic health information within the nursing and caring sector and between institutions and healthcare levels.
A separate Call for Abstracts has been issued for this symposium, with submission deadline 15 February 2007.
Mini-seminar: “Tilgang på langs - Informasjonsdeling og sammenhengende pasientforløp: Juridiske og sikkerhetsmessige aspekter.”
A national mini-seminar (in Norwegian) will be arranged as a follow-up to the symposium on legal and security aspects. The intended audience will be health executives at national, regional, and local level, healthcare workers, system developers and suppliers, research scientists, and users/citizens/patients.
Finally, we would like to remind you of the deadline for the submission of abstracts, Monday 15 January 2007.
Please forward this newsletter/call for abstracts to your colleagues and others interested in these topics.
Best regards,
Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine
Gunn-Hilde Rotvold
Conference Chair
Associate Professor Aksel Tjora
Chair of the Scientific Committee
Siri Bjørvig
Chair of the Programme Committee
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If you have any queries, please contact us:
General info, practical details, registration:
Vibeke Hemmingsen
vibekeh@telemed.no.
Sponsorship, trade exhibition, accommodation:
Tromsø Event AS, c/o Torill Berg
post@tromsoevent.com
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