Fleming Gulf's - The LatAm Healthcare IT Summit 2014 to be held on 3rd and 4th April 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil is gearing up to what promises to be a converging platform for Healthcare IT thought leaders, architects, developers and solution providers to showcase their designs, ideas, concepts that have created benchmarks throughout the region. Currently, it is estimated that the Latam health care market is said to be the second largest of the Western hemisphere and corresponds to more than 40% of the total South American market and is now worth $45 billion which means, providing a robust IT infrastructure to support operations and facilities is of utmost importance. The summit will stimulate dialogue on crucial issues on how to seize new opportunities, develop innovative tools and techniques for the challenges faced by Healthcare Informatics and IT professionals in the region.
Apart from hosting Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from leading healthcare facilities from Brazil and other LatAm regions, the summit will also host renowned industry experts leading the efforts on some of the biggest projects in the region. Dr. Carola Hullin, President of International Medical Informatics Association for Latin America (IMIA-LAC), Dr. Marco Antonio Gutierrez, President of Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (SBIS), Alan David March, President of The Argentina Medical Informatics Association (AAIM) and Dr. Carlos Arteta Molina, President at The Colombian Association of Informatics in Health (ACIESA) will orate on best practices, challenges and success stories on some of the biggest on going and completed projects that they have undertaken.
The common challenges and the complex problems a Healthcare CIO and IT organizations face are compounded by hurdles in leveraging technology efficiently and effectively to improve patient care and yet maintain profitability. The current inter-regional environment for Healthcare IT and it's future, mobile technologies, wearable devices, the implications of the cloud, eHealth and the coming of age in Health Informatics are some of the topics that will be covered through highly focused yet highly interactive sessions over both days.
The summit has been tailored to provide implementable strategies and solutions to the key challenges in the Healthcare Information systems in Latin America. This two-day conference and workshop will feature more than 15 presentations that are of paramount importance to the booming Healthcare IT industry.