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Events
Annual and Forthcoming Events
University of Maryland Fall Health IT Summit
October 7, 2011 - College Park, MD:
The Summit’s goal is to stimulate research and
collaboration between the University of Maryland and potential partners in
government, industry, clinical organizations and advocacy groups.
The event delivers a forum for stakeholders across
the health ecosystem to discuss health information technology strategy, policy
and technology issues that Maryland, and indeed the nation, is facing.
The event showcases the multi-disciplinary resources
of the University, through its College Park and Baltimore campuses, that are
being leveraged to accelerate health transformation.
The event also provides a forum for engaging
students and furthering intra-campus collaboration and research opportunities.
Click here
for details.
White 2011 - Second Annual Workshop on Health IT and
Economics
October 21-22, 2011 - Washington, DC: WHITE is a health information technology (IT) summit that gathers prominent scholars in a multidisciplinary setting.
Despite IT’s potential to transform healthcare delivery, significant challenges remain regarding design, implementation,
utilization, and evaluation. These issues are being actively explored in fields as diverse as medical informatics,
computer science, public health, business, and economics. Each field brings a unique perspective and insights;
collectively, these disciplinary approaches are complementary.
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for details.
Other/Past Events
11th Annual CIO Forum: Information Technology in Government and Business
For decades information technology (IT) and digital infrastructures have
served as a platform for innovation. From the personal computer to the Internet
to social media, scores of IT innovations have spawned new business models,
created novel products and services, and helped business and government
organizations discover new ways of engaging with their customers and
constituents. What are the new frontiers in technology-enabled innovation? What
are the new developments that will create disruptive change in the organization
of work across a range of sectors in both business and government? How do
executives manage the continued wave of technological innovation and identify
technologies that are most likely to create value? How do they create and
sustain an innovation culture in their organizations? On Friday, November 5, 2010 leaders from
government and a range of industries joined together to answer these questions
and discuss technology-enabled innovation
and the future.
Additional details about the forum can be found at the
CIO Forum Web site.
The CIO Forum is proudly hosted by the Robert H. Smith School of Business'
Center for Health Information and Decision
Systems (CHIDS) and the Center
for Digital Thought and Strategy (DIGITS).
White 2010 - First Annual Workshop on Health IT and
Economics
WHITE is a health information technology (IT) summit that gathers prominent
scholars in a multidisciplinary setting. Despite IT’s potential to transform
healthcare delivery, significant challenges remain regarding design,
implementation, utilization, and evaluation. These issues are being actively
explored in fields as diverse as medical informatics, computer science, public
health, business, and economics. Each field brings a unique perspective and
insights; collectively, these disciplinary approaches are complementary.
The first annual WHITE meeting was held in Washington DC in October 8-9,
2010. The workshop was hosted by the Center for Health Information and
Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University
of Maryland, College Park. CHIDS (www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids) was established in
2005, and is the first academic research center focused on health information
and decision systems in a leading business school. Check the program highlights of the event at
WHITE website.
CIO Forum
Established in 1999, the CIO Forum is a yearly meeting of top chief
information officers, technology strategists and academic researchers in the
mid-Atlantic states. The Smith School hosts annual CIO Forums in
October-November every year at Van Munching Hall, presented by the Center for
Electronic Markets and Enterprises (CEME) and the Center for Health Information
and Decision Systems (CHIDS). Every year the Forum centers around a central
theme. Events are highly interactive and focus on the most important issues
confronting technology strategists in the emerging digital economy, including
e-commerce, the IT talent shortage, Internet strategy, multi-sourcing, next
generation architectures, and other topics. Checkout the highlights and details
about the forum at the CIO Forum
Web site.
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