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Are Hackathons the Future of Medical Innovation?
Doctors can look inside you with magnetic fields and pill-mounted cameras. They use robots to perform surgeries and lasers to fix your vision. And yet, in so many other ways, the field of medicine seems stuck in the past. Doctors carry pagers. They make you call them to schedule an appointment. They force new patients—and even old patients with new needs or new insurance—to fill out a bunch of paperwork ... on actual paper. Doctors are Luddites in white coats.
This is what makes medical hackathons so much fun to read about. Originally the brainchild of Silicon Valley, a hackathon brings people from different fields—clinicians, engineers, entrepreneurs, software developers—together…
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In Healthcare, it Takes More Than a Better Mousetrap to Win
For new innovations in healthcare to take hold, for them to make the way that we all experience healthcare better and for them to ultimately enrich their creators, they are going to have to take a lesson or two from the early days of Apple’s iPod marketing.
Science Outreach at Specialized Conferences
The scientific communities must engage the public in healthy ways to provide information that can be trusted to be truthful and accurate. Repositories of such information, like Wikipedia, provide free access to enormous amounts of information. The concept of collective outreach enables top scientific experts, including those who have created the new information and technologies, to engage in creating content that can benefit all of society.
Conventional Wisdom?
Is the pace of medical discovery really so blistering that only a circuit of nonstop meetings can accommodate the headlong rush of critical new information? Or is the constant conference part of the drug companies' scheme to hypnotize the doctor class and create a fleet of medical Manchurian Candidates?
The Game Changers
At breakneck speed, technological innovations are transforming the way we work, travel, learn, communicate, manage our health, even experience reality. From the Internet of Things to virtual reality, how will disruptive technologies further revolutionize the world we live in and what will those changes mean for society?
Why do people attend conferences? 5 key reasons for attendees and event organizers
A number of years ago, I was chatting with a friend of mine who works in market research and he turned to me and asked, “This may be a stupid question, but why do people attend conferences?”
Are Hackathons the Future of Medical Innovation?
The events have become media darlings because they hint at a shifting medical culture. Plodding, multiyear, multisite trials one day yielding to the Steve Jobs-ian ideal—let your mind run free, and you can solve any problem. It’s important to recognize, however, what these get-togethers are good for, and what they’re not good for.
13 Mistakes Not to Make When Attending a Conference
Here's how to avoid wasting your time and travel budget and get the most out of a professional conference.
10 Ways to Make the Most Out of a Conference
Besides bringing boatloads of business cards and collecting them from other people, what else should you be planning on when you have an event coming up? From prepping beforehand to having a great time while you’re there, here’s what you need to know to make the most of your next conference.
7 Reasons It Still Makes Sense to Go to Professional Conferences
We have such easy access to information today. The web offers us so many different ways to meet, learn, collaborate, express ourselves, monitor and measure that it’s almost dizzying. We use our desktop computers, tablets, smart phones—even gaming devices—to quickly connect, research, share, comment and update. Is there even any need to leave work and attend live professional events anymore? Yes.
How 45 working mothers in science are trying to make academic conferences parent-friendly
Conferences are key networking opportunities for scientists to get hired and advance their careers – but moms often miss out due to cost and childcare issues.
Digital Health Summit
Digital Health Summit focuses on the latest products and consumers' growing demand for high-tech health services.
Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit
The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit (DHIS) is an Unparalleled Annual Gathering of the Leading Innovators, Investors, Payers, Providers and Policymakers who are Driving the Digital Health Revolution.
Exponential Medicine
Exponential Medicine is a unique and intensive four-day experience that gathers world-class faculty, innovators and organizations from across the biomedical and technology spectrum to explore and leverage the convergence of fast moving technologies in the reinvention and future of health and medicine.
Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH
Fortune Brainstorm Health, in association with IBM Watson Health, gathers not only C-suite leaders of top companies, hospitals, insurers, and cutting-edge pharma and biotech companies, but also titans of venture capital, tech and telecom, and other industries, all of who are rapidly changing the face of health care. Our aim is not only to push some boundaries in each of these areas, but also to show how businesses, both established and new, can lead the way.
HCIC
The Healthcare Internet Conference -- called HCIC for short -- provides three full days of educational programming featuring speakers from leading healthcare institutions nationwide on topics of timely interest to Web leaders.
Health:Further
Come join the annual gathering of people who believe we can make healthcare better, together. We gather once a year to pursue our two highest ideals: that health is a human right, and that health must be supported sustainably and affordably.
Healthcare Innovation
Across the country, Healthcare Innovation hosts a series of events and programs that promote improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare through information technology. We partner with provider organizations across the country to share healthcare technology success stories and best practices, while also providing a platform for insightful debate and dialogue on the future of healthcare.
HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition
Every year, the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition showcases the newest technologies, trends, and solutions in health IT, but these three pillars of the Conference remain the same.
HIMSS Europe
HIMSS Europe is renowned for gathering the most influential hospital CEOs and CIOs with the most important technology providers and industry leaders. Health 2.0 Europe, the leading showcase of cutting-edge innovations transforming health systems, brings together a grassroot community of innovators.
Internet of Health
Realize the full clinical potential of digital health at the only event bringing together the top providers, payers and medtech OEMs in America
MD&M West
MD&M West connects you with thousands of advanced design and manufacturing professionals for three days of industry immersion. Source from the world's largest collection of medtech suppliers.
Medical Informatics World
Medical Informatics World has become the critical meeting place for health IT executives and innovators, delivering the knowledge-sharing needed to continue improving patient care and outcomes.
Medicine X
As the most-discussed academic medical program in the world, Medicine X is making tangible change on a global scale. We advance health care with humanity by bringing together all health care stakeholders to co-create solutions that are transforming how health care is advanced and delivered.
Rock Health Summit
The Rock Health Summit is put on by Rock Health, an early stage fund that supports startups building the next generation of technologies transforming healthcare. Rock Health events bring together diverse minds from healthcare, technology, and beyond to wrestle with the industry’s most challenging problems.
Symplur
Symplur has a unique position in relation to conferences in the healthcare industry...From the millions of conference tweets collected and analyzed we have gained deep understanding and appreciation for the increasingly important social component of conferences.
The AI Summit
Get involved with the only AI business event powered by Industry Leaders.
The Future Of:
The Future Of: is The Wall Street Journal’s relaunched interview series featuring senior WSJ editors in conversation with the leaders who are shaping the future. The experience in the heart of New York, includes a lively discussion, questions and networking.
World Health Summit
Since its first appearance in 2009, the World Health Summit (WHS) has brought together opinion leaders from academia, politics, civil society, and the private sector to take responsibility in all health related challenges
Black Women's Health Conference
Raising health awareness and increasing knowledge of health-related issues that impact black women and girls. Joining voices together to talk about black women’s health in ways that are understandable and meaningful to all!
CE
Find your discipline or check out the following links which feature websites offering CE for all if not most of the health related specialties.
CME
Almost everyone in the medical profession must meet periodic continuing education requirements to retain their certification and/or licensure. Nowadays you can fulfill all your requirements online. Then again who wants to stay home - there has to be a CE event at your favorite city or that faraway beach or ski resort.
Conference Series
World renowned scientists, Noble laureates and scholars in their respective fields grace our events as keynote speakers, panel experts, and organizing committee members. Our speakers gain global visibility and recognition as we take them straight to the audience through live streaming that broadcasts your spoken words all over the globe instantaneously.
ehi LIVE
ehi LIVE is the UK's leading event for digital health, hospital information, cyber security and healthcare innovation.
Empower Fitness
EMPOWER! is… …a Weekend Fitness Celebration, power packed with the industry’s top presenters delivering amazing fitness workshops, lectures and master classes packed with fun, movement and education.
Global Health & Innovation Conference
The Global Health & Innovation Conference (#GHIC) is the world's leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,200 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries.
Health Connect Partners
At Health Connect Partners, our goal is to connect providers and suppliers through educational meetings and conferences. Our mission is to provide the best in healthcare education and networking so providers learn real solutions and suppliers understand their real needs.
IDEA
IDEA continues to set the standard for the industry by providing the world’s best practical fitness education, newest programs, trends and research. Through our fitness events and conventions, we reach thousands of personal trainers, group fitness and mind-body instructors, program/fitness directors and business owners.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
IHI’s annual world-class conferences offer opportunities to learn the latest improvement ideas, connect with like-minded colleagues, and generate momentum for change in your organization.
Institute of Women's Health & Integrative Medicine
The Institute of Women’s Health and Integrative Medicine, founded by sisters Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D. and Karen Hudson, C.H.H.C., is an educational and research organization whose mission is to provide advanced training to primary health care practitioners and to conduct and support clinical research in women’s health and natural therapies and integrative medicine.
National Wellness Institute
The National Wellness Institute (NWI) is the leader in providing professional development and engagement opportunities that support individuals from a variety of disciplines in promoting whole–person wellness.
Opal Group
Opal Group organizes premier conferences catered to top executives and decision makers throughout various industries. We are dedicated to providing high-quality events and information, through unparalleled speaking sessions, workshops, and unique face-to-face networking opportunities.
Q1 Productions
We believe you can achieve greatness in your professional role. Q1 Productions provides professional enrichment and educational resources needed to excel in your career and industry.
The Medical Device Conference
10x is the thought leaders forum for medical device execs and the annual meeting for the Medical Devices Group, the world's largest medical device community. We limit participation to 200 guests to keep it intimate and meaningful. And you'll meet people with the skills and services you need to grow your business. For many, the conference is about new ideas. For others, it’s about new business.
World Conference on Tobacco or Health
This is the world's largest gathering of tobacco control advocates, policy makers, researchers, public health and clinical experts. If you're involved in any area of tobacco control, this is the Conference you don't want to miss!
World Congress
World Congress offers unique conferences and events in health care, life sciences and pharmaceutical that are unmatched by any other organizer.
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Your Path to Meaningful Connections in the World of Health and Medicine
Connect, Collaborate, and Engage!
Coming Soon - Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.
