The Saudi E-Health 2012 conference was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 11−13 March 2012. The purpose of the biannual conference is to bring together both health-care providers and information technologists to empower the advancements in the delivery, quality, and continuity of health care. The conference's strong ties to the Saudi Association for Health Informatics (SAHI) and health-care communities offer abundant opportunities for interaction and collaboration along with the National E-health initiative as guided by the Saudi Ministry of Health.
The focus of the conference was on introducing key concepts, issues and applications in applied health informatics, the discipline addressing the preparation for, and the procurement, deployment, implementation, resourcing, effective usage, and evaluation of health informatics solutions in the health care systems.
Objectives
- To expand awareness about health informatics and emphasize its importance in enhancing the quality of health care delivery, ensuring the efficient utilization of resources.
- To create opportunities for networking, exchange of experiences and sharing knowledge in the field of health care informatics
- To explore new trends and latest technologies in e-Health.
Main topics:
- consumer health informatics
- mHealth tele-expertise
- Health care Information Systems (HIS and PCIS)
- Interoperability, standards and coding
- Public health informatics and translational informatics (from molecules to populations)
- eHealth experiences.
