GDC Agenda 2015-06-30

Welcome

• Participants
• Review and Approve Agenda

World Summit Status Quo

• Mission

• The World Summit could be the one “truly international” IHE event to give IHE an international touching base.
• A spot to "meet" and "feel" IHE
• Bring people together and create communication

• Among IHE Deployment Committees
• Between IHE people and IHE-interested parties (gov, projects, ...)

• Demonstrate the "excellence" of IHE

• Raise the image and reputation of IHE
• Celebrate ourselves
• Let participants from Deployment Committees feel as an "IHE Family"

• Strategy to fulfill the mission

• Provide a high-class program, venue and atmosphere

• Not "Working Group Meeting" character

• To attract high-class speakers, IHE champions and audience

• Past events

• Successfully held in Istanbul 2013
• Two times cancelled in 2014 (Orlando, Chicago)
• Skipped for 2015
• Next time 2016?

• Event concept (in Istanbul)

• Key notes held by IHE Internals + Panel sessions to certain topics + Social events included (even hotel booking)

• Advantages:

• Panellists were recruited out of participants -> no additional costs, no blocking because of waiting for speaker confirmation
• People felt convenient and not just as listener but a kind of "active part of the community" -> teambuilding factor ("we are IHE family")

• Lessons learned

• Start to plan and announce early
• Having good marketing and communication

• Liaison organizations must be used for marketing (HL7, ISO, ...)

• For cost coverage: 70% of the audience must be activated by the region, rest can be filled international
• Deployment Committees must be strongly enchoraged to activate their members
• IHE people have to be treated same as external participants (no bonus for the "own" event)
• Organizing team must be solid, champion needed to lead!

• A lot of work -> financing concept is needed

Strategic questions

• Do we need such an event?
• How does it fit to CATs, HIMSS or other regional IHE events?
• What purpose and character should it have to make sense?
• Possible dates/locations?

• Which region (Europe, US, Asia, ...)?

• Opportunity 1: eHealth week in Amsterdam http://www.ehealthweek.org

• Jun 8-10, 2016 (Wed-Fri) -> we could place it Mon/Tue
• Q: Other surrounding events conflicting?

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Global Deployment Coordination Committee