1. IHE World Summit Current status (Dec 2, 2015) Jürgen Brandstätter
Co-chair, Global Deployment Coordination Committee (GDC)
Co-chair, Pharmacy Planning committee
Member, IHE International Board
CodeWerk Software GmbH, Austria

2. IHE World Summit Mission Strategy to fulfill the mission Event scope
A spot to "meet" and "feel" IHE
Bring people together and create communication
Within IHE community (let participants feel as "IHE Family“)
Between IHE community and others
Demonstrate the "excellence" of IHE and raise the image and reputation
Strategy to fulfill the mission
Provide a high-class program, venue and atmosphere …
… to attract high-class speakers, IHE champions and audience
Event scope
Global (topics, speakers and audience)
At eHealthWeek with larger focus on Europe
Event concept
Target audience: Decision-makers and strategic oriented persons
First class keynotes
Main part: Panel sessions to different topics with participation of the audience
First held in Istanbul, 2013

3. Date / Location for 2016 IHE World Summit Date: 7/8 June 2016
Location: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Addon: IHE International Strategic Board meeting 5/6 June 2016
e-HealthWeek
8-10 June 2016 (same location),
IHE is involved in e-HealthWeek program planning
Registration will be started in mid-Dec
Price level: 300 € (early bird, excluding social event)

4. Organizational details
Main organization taken over by HIMSS Europe (also organizing e-HealthWeek)
MuO with IHE International signed
Financial risk (and benefit) taken by HIMSS
Budget assures IHE being cost neutral
Marketing and communication
Material will be created by HIMSS (logos, graphics provided)
Communication under main responsible of HIMSS, but IHE will also use it‘s channels
Material already available:
Sponsoring concept and flyer
World Summit announcement on website (prominent!)
World Summit website is embedded in e-HealthWeek website
Website with World Summit announcement already online!

5. Program planning Programm planning committee
Current active members:
Jürgen Brandstätter, Austria, Lead
Mike Nusbaum, Canada
Chris Carr, US
Stephane Spahni, Switzerland
Attila Farkas, Canada
Marcelo Rodrigues dos Santos, Brazil
Charles Parisot, France
Karima Bourquard, France
Joyce Sensmeier, US
Dedicated TCons scheduled
Next TCon at after the GDC F2F
Draft program available at FTP
Please join the team! Volunteers welcomed!

6. Program planning (v6) Opening and Closing by IHE International
Elliot Sloane and David Mendelson are requested
Opening keynote shall also cover „IHE Essentials“
2 Keynotes proposed, each one from EU/U
EU recommendation of 27 IHE profiles - expected impact on Europe
Peter Zilgavis or Gerald Cultot, DG Connect, European Commission
Already contacted, confirmation pending
eHealth Exchange Network in US - Bottom up complements top down?
Mariann Yeager, CEO Sequoia project

7. Program planning (v6)
5 Panels (preliminary confirmed, changes possible)
Panel 1: Connecting the world - from projects to operations! Controversal panel showing individual initiatives to bridge Europe with US, provoking discussions with top-down projects such as TrilliumBridge and epSOS
Chair: Charles Parisot
Panel 2: National e-Health interoperability innovations and strategies Many countries are in the process of implementing innovative e-Health strategies. This panel puts a light on those innovations and strategies.
Chair: Elliot Sloane
Panel 3: Driving clinical and business intelligence using data mining on a document sharing infrastructure Aspiring to improve quality, health outcomes, cost control while leveraging new technologies.
Chair: Christian Lovis
Panel 4: Annual Hot-Topic: Patient Summary - What is it and how is it used? This panel targets the different aspects of a Patient Summary by providing information about different views, approaches and for what use-cases it shall serve.
Chair: Jürgen Brandstätter
Panel 5: IHE Conformity Assessment Testing in a Global Context Vendors who have done CA shall talk about their experiences as well as users leveraging CA in testing or procurement
Chair: Mike Nusbaum

8. Social events
Tuesday, Jun 7: Boat trip with dinner on the beautiful Amsterdam channels
Price: 75 €
Wednesday, Jun 8: Opening Reception of e-HealthWeek
Included in eHW ticket
Wednesday, Jun 8: eHealth Week Special Event
Thursday, Jun 9: Community Dinner

9. Call to action (soon) IHE International and GDC National initiatives
Use all communication channels for announcing
National initiatives
Do local marketing and announcing (very important!)
Support formation of „country delegations“ by providing assistance in registering, e.g.
„We recommend that we all stay in hotel …“
„We recommend that we all take the flight …“
Development committees
Do marketing and announcing in the committee
Everyone
Inform and announce in the own network
Go for announcing ahead - GDC informs you when you can start!

10. Changing the Way Healthcare CONNECTS