6th International Conference on
the Management of Healthcare & Medical Technology

“Towards responsibility and compliance in the innovation and management of healthcare technologies: international perspectives and comparative experiences”

Pisa, Italy

3-4-5 October 2007

• ORGANISING COMMITTEE
• CONFERENCE THEME AND SECTIONS
• KEY DATES
• CONTACT & MORE INFORMATION

• ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Prof. Giuseppe TURCHETTI
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

Prof. Cristina MASELLA
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Prof. Mario DEL VECCHIO
Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy

Prof. Elie GEISLER
Stuart Graduate School of Business, Chicago
USA

Prof. Koos KRABBENDAM
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Stuart Graduate School of Business, Chicago, USA

• CONFERENCE THEME AND SECTIONS

The theme for the 6th International Conference on the Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology is “Towards responsibility and compliance in the management of healthcare technologies: international perspectives and comparative experiences”.
The conference will explore the issue of responsibility with respect to each phase of the healthcare technology life cycle; hence the conference will have the following general sections:

• Section 1 - Healthcare technology development: concept generation of innovative healthcare technology; ethical issues concerning innovative healthcare technology; projected  future research direction needs; technology-driven innovations versus health need-driven innovations; uptake and safe diffusion of new medical technologies/ devices, constructive health technology assessment; product life cycle management models for healthcare technology.
• Section 2 - Healthcare technology compliance and regulation: commercialization authorization; liability and insurance issues in healthcare technology; Health Technology Assessment and reimbursement decisions; trends, advances, and challenges of technology in healthcare and the social policy issues of health care delivery: affordability, access, availability; Compliance and ethical implications; Trends and advances in technology for healthcare delivery and the issue of quality of care; The role of government and its influence on trends, advances, challenges and future research in technology for healthcare delivery.
• Section 3 - Healthcare technology adoption by the healthcare organization: hospital based-Health Technology Assessment; investment planning and programming; business-planning;
• Section 4 - Healthcare technology management by the healthcare organization: organizational impacts, change management; business process re-engineering; technology overlapping; development of sound information systems; performance measurement; audit; maintenance; safety and replacement plans; anonymous incident reporting systems;
• Section 5 - Contributions from PhD students are welcome and encouraged. One section of the Conference is allocated to presentations by PhD students on the subject matter of their doctoral thesis (at all stages of preparation). The students presenting their work will thus have the opportunity to explain and defend their research questions, the investigative approach and methodology they have chosen to test their hypotheses to a qualified audience of experts, thus benefiting from useful suggestions and feedback on their work. Alternatively, PhD students whose research project is in an advanced stage can decide to present the outcome of their research in one of the above mentioned sections.

For all sections papers dealing with benchmarking across countries, regions and types of providers and payer systems are especially welcome.

• KEY DATES

• CONTACT & MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please visit http://www.sssup.it/HCTMconference2007 or contact the conference coordinator at: HCTMconference2007@sssup.it