The seminar will take place on Wednesday 30 November, from 3.30 pm to 6 pm, in the Hospital Moises Broggi (C/Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer,90, Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona.)
The presentations will be in English and the debate will be in Spanish and English. There will not be an interpretation service.
Organisation of this event has been made possible thanks to the funding received from La Caixa, as part of its Internationalisation at Home programme. Attendance is free of charge, but due to the limited number of places available, please confirm by emailing the organisers.
Venue
Hospital Moises Broggi
C/Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer,90, Sant Joan Despí
Barcelona
Espanya
When
30/11/2011 15.30h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Fundació «la Caixa»
Program
On behalf of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) Health Sciences department’s Health Lab, I would like to invite you to the Informatics, Health and Society: The Challenges of Forced Coexistence seminar. It is to be given jointly by Professor Michael Rigby, Emeritus Professor of Health Information Strategy, School of Public Policy and Professional Practice, Keele University, UK, and Professor Sabine Koch, Professor in Health Informatics and Director of the Health Informatics Centre (HIC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
In the summer of 2010, The Challenges of Developing Social Care Informatics as an Essential Part of Holistic Health Care workshop was held at Keele University, UK. The meeting was organised by the European Science Foundation as part of an exploratory programme in areas of interest for the future. It involved a group of 23 people from 15 different countries covering a range of disciplines: social work, medicine, nursing, ethics, informatics, psychology, legislation, organisation and systems, health care management and health care policy.
The unanimous consensus reached by those taking part was reflected in the final declaration entitled Social Care Informatics Meets Health Care Informatics – A Holistic Citizen-Centric Vision for Information and Communication Technologies to Support Personal Health. This declaration and the accompanying report represent a call for action in many areas to guarantee a truly holistic vision for citizens’ social and health care. It has been picked up and echoed by bodies such as the International Network of Integrated Care, the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum, the World of Health IT/EU Health Ministers’ Conference and the OECD/NSF.
The seminar will allow those attending to find out, first-hand, about which elements form part of this holistic vision and which need to be taken into account from now on for introduction in our society. Attendees will learn about this from the experts who have been involved in its creation and current promotion.