January 7, 14, 21, 28 | AeHIN 7th General Meeting
VIRTUAL
“Strengthening Regional Health Systems Response to COVID-19: Digital Health Experiences in Asia” The Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) promotes better use of information communication technology (ICT) to achieve better health through peer-to-peer assistance and knowledge sharing and learning through a regional approach for greater country-level impacts across South and Southeast Asia. The AeHIN General Meeting (GM) is an annual gathering of government, development partners, non-government organizations to discuss the latest trends with digital health governance, architecture, program management, standards, and interoperability. The 7th AeHIN General Meeting, which will be conducted virtually, aims to promote a regional set of principles and call-to-action in adopting digital technologies for pandemics. With networking as its foundation, the annual meeting hopes to be an avenue for knowledge sharing across South and Southeast Asian countries.
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March 1-5 | IHE North American Connectathon 2021
VIRTUAL
The IHE NA Connectathon is the healthcare industry’s largest, most rigorous interoperability testing event. Hundreds of industry’s top leaders gather annually to collaborate and test implementations of IHE Profiles and other world-class standards. IHE’s unique testing environment allows vendors to test, re-test, and debug their systems in minutes because participants are working toward a greater goal.
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March 9-12 | LOINC Conference
VIRTUAL
LOINCers from around the globe will participate in this conference dedicated to the LOINC standard. Each day, the conference will feature informative presentations by members of the LOINC team and the LOINC user community. In addition, there will be a combined Laboratory and Clinical Committee meeting on March 9, as well as individual Laboratory and Committee meetings on March 12.
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March 22-25 | AMIA 2021 Virtual Informatics Summit
VIRTUAL
The COVID-19 health crisis has highlighted the critical importance of biomedical and health informatics research. Stakeholders recognize the need for data sharing, data harmonization, and methods and tools to increase the pace and efficiency of discovery. The AMIA 2021 Virtual Informatics Summit is the ideal venue to learn about best practices, new methodologies, and shared challenges in four main areas: Translational Bioinformatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Implementation Informatics, and Data Science.
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April 8-11 | GHIC 2021: Global Health & Innovation Conference
VIRTUAL
The Global Health & Innovation Conference (#GHIC) is the world’s leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with nearly 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.
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April 27-29 | Global Digital Development Summit
VIRTUAL
The GDD Summit started as an idea to gather adjoining sectors from health and development to meet and learn from each other, explore successes and failures, identify relevant trends, and enhance collaboration opportunities across different sectors, actors, and geographical borders. For three days, policymakers, executives, government representatives, NGO management, data scientists, digital health technologists, and others will showcase real-life case studies of life improvement through digitization, explore in-depth new and emerging technologies, and provide insights into harnessing the power of data to enable thriving societies.
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May 5 | Global Digital Development Forum
VIRTUAL
The Global Digital Development Forum on May 5th, 2021, co-organized by USAID, Chemonics, Digital Impact Alliance, IntraHealth International, TechChange and Save the Children. GDDF 2021 will be different from other ICT4D conferences and other online events. We are committed to community-driven sessions that explore digital development challenges and opportunities with four key benefits: ICT4D focus, peer connections, your ideas, and new experiences.
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May 17-19 | HL7 FHIR Connectathon
VIRTUAL
An HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Connectathon features hands-on FHIR development and testing. This is a chance to get your hands dirty and learn by helping evolve the FHIR specification. Participants select one of several tracks based on level of readiness and area of interest, and can engage in hands-on, heads down development and testing. There is an opportunity to work directly with other FHIR developers and senior members of the FHIR standards development team. Participants are expected to write some software intended to demonstrate FHIR connectivity.
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May 18-20 | AMIA 2021 Virtual Clinical Informatics Conference
VIRTUAL
CIC is where clinician informaticists of all disciplines share their innovations in bringing the technology advances out of the lab and into the patient room. The collective goal is to leverage technology in new ways, to advance healthcare delivery, access and outcomes. CIC features workshops and presentations that provide attendees with practical tools they can bring to their home institution to continue the goal of achieving the quadruple aim. The conference’s unbiased, evidence, and experience-based content helps foster and build a true learning health system.
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June 7-10 | HL7 FHIR DevDays
VIRTUAL
HL7 FHIR DevDays is an event for IT professionals in healthcare, whether new to FHIR or with previous experience, to learn about FHIR in a collaborative environment. Participants will have a chance to work with the specification surrounded by others doing the same thing, side by side (virtually) with experts to answer any questions. The three pillars for DevDays are: learn, code and share.
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June 7-11 | HELINA 2021 Conference: Pan-African health informatics conference 2021
Kampala, Uganda and VIRTUAL
The 2020/2021 Edition of the Pan African Health Informatics (HELINA-2021) conference will be held as a blended virtual and in-person conference due to Covid-19. The conference will be hosted by the Uganda Health Informatics Association (UgHIA – https://ughia.org) in partnership with the Makerere University, School of Public Health and the Ministry of Health (MOH), Uganda under the theme “leveraging digital health for public health emergencies within routine care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”. The main theme for the Conference was inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic and the role that digital health technologies play in such public health emergencies and particularly, their increasing adoption and use during the current pandemic. The conference will also focus on digital solutions in routine care and the role of digital health in supporting continuity of care in a pandemic such as Covid-19.
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August 9-13 | HIMSS 21
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition draws a huge variety of attendees across the health information and technology ecosystem—including CIOs and senior executives, providers, IT professionals, government officials, innovators, consultants, market suppliers, and more.
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September 28-29 | DHIS2 Symposium
VIRTUAL and Washington DC, USA
As the largest US-based DHIS2 event, the Symposium serves as an essential pillar in the DHIS2 community. It is an opportunity to discuss challenges encountered, lessons learned, and engaging innovations in leveraging DHIS2 – all geared towards the focus of using data to drive action and impact.
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September 30 | OpenHIE Academy Live
VIRTUAL
A live virtual learning opportunity from the OpenHIE Academy geared toward HIT leaders and/or professionals who are new to the OpenHIE community and framework. Spaces are limited.
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October 2-October 4 | MedInfo 2021
VIRTUAL
MedInfo is the International Medical Informatics Association’s (IMIA) internationally acclaimed triennial “World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics”.
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October 5-8 | OpenHIE Virtual Community Meeting
VIRTUAL
The OpenHIE Community Meeting provide a unique opportunity for implementers to collaborate and improve their knowledge of OpenHIE, share examples of how OpenHIE models can be used practically, and to propose new priorities. OpenHIE meetings allow leaders to come together, share, and learn about approaches to designing interoperable solutions and governance frameworks that can be applied to health system information exchanges.
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October 18-22 | HELINA 2021 Conference
VIRTUAL and Kampala, Uganda
The main theme for the Conference was inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic and the role that digital health technologies play in such public health emergencies and particularly, their increasing adoption and use during the current pandemic. The conference will also focus on digital solutions in routine care and the role of digital health in supporting continuity of care in a pandemic such as Covid-19.
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October 30-November 3 | AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium
San Diego, California, USA
The Annual Symposium builds on more than 40 years of sharing research and insights for leveraging information to improve human health. The AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium showcases the latest innovations from the community of biomedical informatics researchers and practitioners.
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November 29 – December 2 | 2021 OpenMRS Virtual Implementers Conference
VIRTUAL
For 15 years, the OpenMRS Community has come together to share experiences, demo solutions, and dive into the questions and challenges facing OpenMRS developers and implementers worldwide. This year objectives are: Building Shared OpenMRS Assets, Assuring the Quality of OpenMRS Products, and Determining Implementation Strategies for OpenMRS 3.0.
Registration is OPEN
December 6-8 | Global Digital Health Forum
VIRTUAL
The Global Digital Health Forum features diverse and engaging sessions to connect government stakeholders, digital health developers, researchers, donors, implementers and field experts from across the globe. The Forum features panel presentations, hands-on workshops, poster presentations, lightning talks, facilitated expert round-table discussions, digital health workshops, and interactive solution demonstrations.
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December 9 | Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization
VIRTUAL
The Joint Initiative Council will hold its third Open Forum in coordination with the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP). Representatives from the 9 standard organization members of our JIC and from GDHP will to explain their expectations on the International Patient Summary standard.
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