December 2007   Issue 2

eHealth Newsletter   Latest News Dr Winnie Tang, Dr N.T. Cheung and Dr C.P. Wong are honored to be a member of Organizing Committee of the HIMSS AsiaPac08 Conference & Exhibition.  The first OC meeting was held on November 13, 2007. HIMSS AsiaPac 2007 The Conference was graced by the attendance of over 1,100 healthcare experts, practitioners and officials from the Asia Pacific regions major hospitals, healthcare systems and national governments. Public-Private Interface - Electronic Patient Record Sharing Pilot Project (e-PR) The PPI-ePR Evaluation Results Announcement and Users Experience Sharing, as part of the HA Convention 2007 was held on May 7 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The 2nd China International Symposium and Exhibition on Digital Hospital and Electronic Medical Record Application It was co-organized by the Chinese Hospital Association (CHA), the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Ministry of Health of the PRC, the Ministry of Information Industry of the PRC, China International Travel Healthcare Association (ITHA) and Internet Professional Association (iProA), jointly to promote mainland medical service digitization.  Private Practice IT Report We had commissioned Hong Kong University to conduct a study to look into the attitude of private sector and the view of whether they have any barrier on the complementation of computerization particularly in ePR and the sharing of clinical information. The report has been officially used as our reference material.  Please click here to download. eHealth Training Program for Nursing Professionals This program is collaborating with iProA, IANS and Nursinfo(HK) to increase awareness of nurses, boosting up their confidence and producing a group of leaders in nursing informatics.  The GHMT Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macau-Taiwan Engineer (Hong Kong) Forum A special event was held on 29-30 November, 2007.  The venue of the seminar was in the new Phase 2 of Hong Kong Science Park.  The Steering Committee on eHealth Record Sharing The Steering Committee is chaired by Permanent Secretary for Food and Health .  Many Consortium members are in different working groups to contribute their effort to enhance Public Healthcare for the overall benefit of all.   Highlight Box HIMSS AsiaPac 2007 PPI-ePR The 2nd China International Symposium & Exhibition on Digital Hospital and eMR Application eHealth Training Program The Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau Technology Forum Steering Committee on eHealth Record Sharing Upcoming Events 2008 The 8th Kellogg Business of Healthcare Conference (19 January) 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (30 January - 1 February) e-Health 2008 (4-7 May, Vancouver) The Healthcare Finance Conference (23-26 June, 2008) CGI Healthcare Conference (4-6 May,  Alexandria, Virginia) Digital healthcare Conference (7-8 May) Healthcare Conference 2008 (1 September, France)     Press RoomAnnouncement

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