The health care industry is transforming in response to demands for better quality, decreased costs and easier access. In addition, we are seeing greater focus on improving health, wellness and care for consumers and patients. Our health care industry offers to its customers—hospital stays, physician visits, drugs and devices, and insurance. Even if they are excellent, these solutions typically fall well short of what most people want for their overall health care. There are disconnects, duplications, waste, lack of continuity, and gaps that could be eliminated through convergence. Through Convergence, we can provide an innovative, integrated, holistic solution that addresses health repair and restoration, preventive services, well-being, and financing. Convergence allows providers and payers to operate independently while leveraging each other’s strengths to optimize care delivery. Essentials to any convergence strategy is shared risk, clear communication and technology that enables seamless, secure data sharing and analytics to manage costs and provide a best in market consumer/patient experience. According to the Oxford’s Learner’s Dictionary, convergence is (1) to move toward a place from different directions and meet, (2) to move toward each other and meet at a point, or (3) to become very similar or the same. I propose defining convergence in healthcare as: 1. The collaboration of payers and providers to provide population health management, and 2. Divergent healthcare organizations becoming similar organizations. Convergence in healthcare2018 ix a two-day conference providing a forum for decision makers from across the health sector to discuss and learn from one another.

Patient centerd (Hospital/health)

• Hospital M & A
• Mobile health
• Health start ups
• Medical devices
• Pharma

Public health

• Universal Health Coverage
• NHM
• PPP
• Ayushman Bharat

HIT

• AI
• IoT
• Health informatics
• Virtual reality and
• augmented reality
• Block chain and
• health data
• Cyber crime and
• cyber security

Day – 1

Day 1: Friday, 11th January 2019

Day 2: Saturday, 12th January 2019

Poster Presentation Guidelines

• The size of the Poster should be 2 feet wide and 3 feet high.
• At the top of the poster, please include the title of your paper and the names of authors, affiliations, as specified in the submitted abstract.
• Ensure that the main text and text used in figures and tables of the poster is in dark color, of the large and bold font so that one can read from a distance of 2 meters (6 feet).
• Avoid long textual passages and use graphs and diagrams as much as possible.
• Please bring pins or clips that you might require to mount your poster on space/board that will be provided.
• We will have one poster sessions on 12th January 2019
• Please check for the final schedule of poster presentations which will be posted on the conference website, to note when your poster presentation is on.
• You are required to be present near the poster during the specified time for poster presentation and clarify/answer the questions from the participants/ evaluators.
• Posters presented by students and research scholars who have also registered for the conference will be considered for the ‘Best Poster Award,’ by a committee which will evaluate the posters.
• “Best Poster Award” will contain a certificate and a cheque, which will be announced and presented in the valedictory session of the conference in the afternoon of 12th January 2019.

Oral Presentations Guidelines

Presentation file should include the last name of the presenting author

• Please aim for 8-10 minutes of presentation content to allow 2-3 minutes for questions. Prepare PowerPoint presentations with 15 slides.
• Take your presentation directly to the room allocated for your presentation, where you should copy it onto the computer well in advance of the start of your session.
• Oral Presentations presented by students and research scholars who have also registered for the conference will be considered for the “Best Oral Presentation Award,” by a committee.
• “Best Oral Presentation Award” will contain a certificate and a cheque, which will be announced and presented in the valedictory session of the conference in the afternoon of 12th January 2019.

Pl. coordinate with Dr. Gyan C Kashyap – 9967162925
For abstract submission- mail id- conference@iihmr.org

Payment Details

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