2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and Technology July 27-29, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Dr. Josep M. Picas. M.D., University of Barcelona, is President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He served for several years as deputy Director of the Hospital de l’Esperança in Barcelona. From 2004 to 2007 he was Medical Director of Municipal Institute of Health Care Services (Public HMO in Barcelona). He has been Director of Primary Care of Barcelona City, CIO at the Hospital del Mar and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau in Barcelona. Dr. Picas is now leading a new project to re-structure healthcare, including Medical Home and new pharma approaches.

re-structure healthcare
Medical Home and new pharma approaches

Peter Waegemann (www.peterwaegemann.com) has spent 35 years as EHR leader and standards expert. He is an acknowledged international Advocate of Health Informatics, particularly in EHR, mHealth, and e-care systems. The former CEO of the Medical Records Institute (Boston, USA) has been a world leader of 12 HITC standards organizations and has been named as one of 20 people who make US Healthcare better (HealthLeaders Magazine). Waegemann is co-founder of the international standards committee ISO TC215 and coordinated all healthcare standards activities as Chair of ANSI HISB for eight years. His recent focus is on the interaction and effect of the emerging Digital Society on healthcare. Waegemann’s latest book is “Knowledge Capital in the Digital Society”.

electronic patient record systems, standards, networking, telemedicine and the creation of the national information infrastructure.

Gisele Roesems-Kerremans is Deputy Head of Unit of the (ICT for) Health and Wellbeing unit within DG CONNECT, the Communications Networks, Content and Technology DG. She joined the European Commission in 1994 as a Scientific officer in the domain of Software technologies in the ICT research programme and then moved on to the areas Micro/Nanosystems and Nanoelectronics.She studied Civil Engineering / Computer sciences at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and started her career as a system engineer in the telecommunication sector and continued later in the automotive industry.

Areas Micro/Nano systems and Nano electronics

Professor Gunnar O Klein has spent 40 years on IT for health and medical research. He was for many years working for Karolinska Institutet, the medical university of Stockholm, Sweden both as a cancer researcher and for the development of health informatics research and education. He is now professor of eHealth at the Centre for Empirical Research on Information Systems at the Örebro University School of Business. He has made many contributions to the development of security techniques for health and semantic interoperability. He was leading European Standardization of Health Informatics in CEN/TC 251 1997-2006 and was a co-founder of the global standardization in ISO/TC 215. He is now involved in research on patient empowerment in interaction with healthcare using apps and other techniques and new innovative functions for managing elderly patients with multimorbidity. He is a member of the regional eHealth steering group and one day a week he works as a primary care physician.

eHealth
healthcare apps

Dr. Placide POBA-NZAOU is an Assistant Professor of IT and HR in the HR & Organization Department at the School of Business at University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. His research interests include the adoption and implementation of enterprise systems, open source software, the deployment of IT in support to HR processes, and the impacts of IT in health care organizations. He has had several articles published in journals such as Journal of Information Technology, Information and Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Systems Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Medical Informatics, European Research in Telemedicine, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Implementation Science, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare and Business Process Management Journal. Dr. Poba-Nzaou research have also been published in the proceedings of international refereed conferences such as HICSS, ECIS, AMCIS and ASAC. Moreover, he has an extensive experience as a Consultant.

Adoption, implementation and impact of information technologies and systems (Enterprise and SMB) Information technologies and systems applied to human resource management (HRMIS) Impact of information technology and systems in the health sector