Center for Health Information & Decision Systems  

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. Click here 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.