E-health

The growing expectations about rapid online developments in all areas of this sector have thrown up some difficult, but fascinating challenges.

The eHealth track at the J. Boye conference seeks to move beyond the many grand visions about the infinite possibilities within the eHealth sphere and so often hyped up at conferences and in the media; these are often the visions of vendors, gurus, politicians and consultants.

Instead, we wish to examine:

• some of the online projects / initiatives that have actually come to fruition
• the relevance and impact of these projects on the real stakeholders
  • patients and their relatives (incl. patient and community groups)
  • front line health professionals
  • the online professionals providing the solutions within the constraints of budgets and changing political climates

These could include:

• useful examples of the use of social software / 2.0 technologies in patient outreach and engagement projects – focus predominantly on results and solutions rather than technology and products
• some of the difficult and sudden scenarios eHealth professionals have had to work through for the first time (pandemics, scares) and how they have been handled / dealt with and learnt from
• developments of common standards regionally / nationally / internationally

Other tracks

• Intranet
• Higher education
• Online communication
• Online strategy
• User experience
• Web content management
• Web project management

Schedule for days

• Tutorial Day, Tuesday May 4th
• Conference Day #1, Wednesday May 5th
• Conference Day #2, Thursday May 6th