Current Events
The Future of Technology in Behavioral Health
Nov. 10-12, 2010
2010 Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics
Baltimore Convention Center (Baltimore, Md.)
Health care reform, the parity legislation, and a continued struggling economy are combining to fundamentally transform the health and human service market. This has created unique market opportunities, as well as challenges, for behavioral health and social service organizations. Technology will play an integral role for these organizations—both payers and service providers—to meet the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities. The 2010 Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics, a two-day executive update on emerging technological tools and their implications for leaders of organizations that pay for or deliver behavioral health services, will focus on four critical areas of technology deployment:
- Technology Improving Effectiveness & Efficiency
- Technologies Bringing Health & Human Services to the Community
- Emerging Treatment Technologies for Mental Health and Addiction Disorders
- Technologies Supporting Consumerism & Consumer Recovery
Health Innovation Week
Oct. 3-10, 2010
(San Francisco, Calif.)
Fred Trotter's OSHealthCon
Sept. 29-30, 2010
Open Source Health Software Conference
United Way CRC (Houston, Tex.)
Linux Fest adds open-source medical track
Sept 10-12, 2010
Ohio Linux Fest
Columbus Convention Center (Columbus, Ohio)
The Ohio Linux Fest, a free and open-source software conference and Expo, has added a FOSS Medical Track and is looking for talks on open-source medical applications. Click on Ohio Linux Fest for more information about the open source medical track.
2nd International mHealth Networking Conference
Sept. 8-9, 2010
mHealth InitiativeTown &C ountry Resort Hotel (San Diego, Calif.)
Mobile phones are being transformed from forbidden gadgets to essential tools for healthcare, and healthcare enterprises must develop a clear strategy for wireless infor- mation exchange. Thousands of new applications have been created for healthcare use, and more are being added every day. mHealth, enabled by mobile phones and other wireless computing devices (mDevices), is the revolutionary adoption of new communi-cation patterns in healthcare that is stimulating the introduction of Participatory Health. Enabled by mHealth, Participatory Health is transforming healthcare from a physician- and hospital-centric system to one that seeks to connect and coordinate the roles of all health participants, including patients, the wide range of healthcare providers, payers, pharma, wellness providers, and more.