The following is a guest blog post by Brooke Chaplan.
Healthcare facilities the world over have to constantly maintain competent and knowledgeable staff and need to be aware of recent health care advances, discoveries, and much more. Attending a health care conference allows you an educational experience that could be vital to your career. Listed below are multiple health care conferences that will be upcoming in the year of 2016 and are some of the best to attend (See also Healthcare Scene’s list of conferences).
Medical Informatics World Conference
Location: Boston at Seaport World Trade Center
Date: Register in 2016, but the conference is April 4-5th of 2017
The Medical Informatics World Conference focuses mainly on patient engagement and satisfaction. Another topic spoke during this conference is predictive analytics. Leading researchers, scientists, and technology experts will be speaking at this conference. This specific event is geared towards hospital/health care, government, and academic employees.
Quality Grampian Conference
Location: Suttie Centre at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. For the
(Americans reading this, traveling may be far, but you deserve a vacation, and though the 2016 date has passed, there are similar events already scheduled for January 2017 for robotic surgery and more!)
Date: May 23rd, 2016 at 8:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
The Quality Grampian Conference focuses on quality and safety in the health care field. Quality Grampian’s fifth annual conference is geared specifically towards health care students and professionals. Quality Grampian is presented by the University of Aberdeen, NHS Grampian, and Robert Gordon University. There is absolutely no charge to attend this health care conference, except maybe some travel costs.
The Digital Health Summit Conferences
Location: Moscone Center, San Fransicso, CA
Date: June 6-7 2016
(This date may be coming up, but look for the Las Vegas Conference hosted in January 2017.)
The digital world is already changing so much about healthcare and jobs in the industry and this conference hopes to show new business owners and entrepreneurs the new world of digital, high-tech health. Full of insightful keynote speakers, panel engagements, workshop sessions and product launches this educational conference goes over the trends and needed technology for making a new venture or clinic successful.
The Future of Medicine – Technology and the Role of the Doctor in 2025
Location: Variable
Date: May 19th, 2016
This conference discussion focused on medicine and its evolving discoveries within the next 10 years. The event was aimed to educate health care professionals and employees and presentations were shown by leading health care experts and doctors. Your clinical staff who may only have bachelor degrees will benefit since it will be going into a lot of new technologies as well. Though it already happened, you can find reviews on what was discussed.
Attending a health care conference is an excellent way to maintain knowledge about leading health care advances. Continuing and furthering education shows true dedication to your profession, which is greatly appreciated no matter what industry you are in.
About Brooke Chaplan
Brooke Chaplan is a freelance writer and blogger. She lives and works out of her home in Los Lunas, New Mexico. She loves the outdoors and spends most her time hiking, biking and gardening. For more information on improving health education or gaining a bachelor degree in health information management check out courses online at the University of Cincinnati. Brooke is available via Twitter @BrookeChaplan.
