IIT/ Stuart School of Business Hosting
The Illinois Institute of Technology/Stuart School of Business is hosting The Association for Health Care Technology and Management (HCTM) 5th International Conference on "The Hospital of the Future ’06." The conference is being held Thursday and Friday, August 17 and 18 at the Stuart School of Business, 565 W. Adams in Chicago.
The 5th International Conference on the Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology is themed "Technology in Health Care in the 21st Century: Trends, advances, management and challenges—what we know and what we need to study."
The 21st century has heralded a new era in the generation and implementation of technologies in health care delivery worldwide. There are waves of innovations in genetics, biotechnology, and in better management of such and other medical technologies. The past four HCTM conferences have examined a variety of issues: how much technology is enough? What are the returns and benefits from medical technologies, and what are the applications and the organizational and other issues in cutting-edge technologies such as e-health. This conference occurs at an important juncture, when the future direction of research must be determined. To do so, trends and advances being made in the field of technology and its management in healthcare delivery must be identified. Based on analysis of these advance, what are the challenges and specific areas and topics that need further study. This conference will cover some of these areas and to find answers to some of these questions.
The conference will cover these important topics:
- Trends in the State of the Art on managing technology in healthcare delivery.
- Advances in the state of knowledge in management and applications of technology in healthcare delivery.
- Evaluation of where we stand and where we should be going in the management, application, implementation and assessment of clinical and administrative technologies in healthcare delivery.
- A Ph.D. track is designed for doctoral students at all stages of their dissertation who wish to have their dissertation (from the idea stage to the final draft) reviewed by experts from academia and industry and to receive constructive comments and suggestions.
For more information and specific questions about sessions at the conference please contact conference co-
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