The 18th annual conference of Institute of Health Management Research (IHMR), Jaipur will be held from October 3-6, 2013 on the theme ‘Healthcare India: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations’.
Healthcare professionals are constantly finding the need to rethink operations management, funding and financing, staffing issues, quality management and assurance. The healthcare industry is also striving to enhance hospital design and integrate technology to improve healthcare service and delivery.
Opportunity is being created both by developments in healthcare industry itself as well as increasing awareness amongst the people of their own well-being .The result is rising expenditure on healthcare products and services of all kinds. Entrepreneurs have come up with and implemented better solutions to old problems and launching new businesses to meet the increasing health-conscious population.
Taking into account the opportunities and challenges faced nowadays, the healthcare industry aims at improving the quality of life, diagnostic and treatment options, as well as the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the healthcare through proliferation of innovations. Based on the concept of innovation in healthcare, the 18th Pradanya International Conference aims to try and address questions regarding the process of innovation in healthcare.
Key takeaways
- Will act as a platform for healthcare leaders and professionals to share best practices, exchange ideas and discuss strategies on how to spend the least resources while achieving the best outcomes
- Gain firsthand informtion on the healthcare developments of Asia and get insights to effective healthcare management practices of today
- Learn about effective plan designs
Major tracks
Keeping in mind the theme ‘Healthcare India: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations’ the following areas will be considered:
Health/ Hospital management
- Drivers for healthcare innovations
- Health technology assessment
- Managing non-communicable diseases
- Aligning quality and cost in healthcare
- Future hospitals: Planning, Designing and Management
- Workforce governance Pharmaceutical management
- Drivers for pharmaceutical innovation
- Emerging trends for pharmaceutical services in hospitals
- Pharmaceutical opportunities in non-communicable diseases
- Managing quality and affordable medicines
- Fostering workforce for 2020
- Innovations, IPR and Access to Medicines
Key speakers (health–hospital)
- Dr Nittita Prasopa Plaizier, Programme Grant Manager, PFPS, WHO, Geneva.
- Dr Chandrakant Leharia, AEFI & New vaccine focal person at WHO, India
- Dr Vivek Desai, CEO, HOSMAC India, Mumbai.
- Dr Chandil Gunashekara, CEO, Rx eHealth Enablers, Bangalore
- Dr Sanjeev Singh, Senior Medical Superintendent, AIMS, Kochi.
- SV Kiran, Vice president, HR, Sakra World Hospital, Bangalore
- Vasanth Kumar, ACCESS Health International
Key speakers (pharma)
- Sudarshan Jain, Director, Abbott Healthcare
- Vivek Padgaonkar, Director, OPPI
- Hemant Dande, President, Raptakos, Brett & Co
Contact Details:
Conference Secretariat
18th Pradanya, IHMR
1 PD Marg, Near Sanganer Airport
Jaipur – 302011, Rajasthan (INDIA)
Tel: (0141) 3924700/ 2791431-34
Fax: (0141) 3924738
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://jaipur.iihmr.org/Academic/Pradanya/Home.aspx
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