Taiwan proposal to host MedInfo 2017 1 1. Goals and Objectives ................................................................................................................................3 (1) Goals and Objectives for MedInfo 2017 ....................................................................................................4 2. Society profile ..............................................................................................................................................7 (1) Profile of the bidding Society Association ................................................................................................8 (2) Financial Stability ......................................................................................................................................9 (3) Society staffing ....................................................................................................................................... 10 (4) Conference history and experience ......................................................................................................... 11 3. Dates and Conference Organization .................................................................................................................13 (1) Dates ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 (2) Conference Program ............................................................................................................................... 14 4. Conference Venue ............................................................................................................................................16 (1) Location .................................................................................................................................................. 17 (2) Taipei ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 (3) Conference Venue- Taipei International Convention Center .................................................................. 19 5. Accommodation ...............................................................................................................................................25 6.Support: Government, Host and Support Organizations ...................................................................................30 (1) Support Letter from Government ............................................................................................................ 30 (2) Support Letter from Host and Support Organizations ............................................................................ 32 7. Organizing Committee .....................................................................................................................................33 (1) Local Organizing Committee .................................................................................................................. 34 8. Requirements/ Obligations ...............................................................................................................................35 (1) Budget Proposal .................................................................................................................................... 36 (2) Conference Registration Fees ............................................................................................................... 37 9. Social Program .................................................................................................................................................38 10.Bid Summary ...................................................................................................................................................42 2 1. Goals and Objectives Goals and Objectives for MedInfo 2017 3 (1) Goals and Objectives for MedInfo 2017 The board of the Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics offers to host the MedInfo 2017. We are committed to gather scientists, researchers, users, vendors, developers, consultants and suppliers in a multidisciplinary environment to cooperate and share knowledge about how to use information collected by clinicians to improve the health of the world population. The Taiwan Medical Informatics Association will use a successful bidding to: • set new objectives to facilitate safer health care by the use of information and communication technologies to connect people and systems • exploit the potential of the presence of an international forum in Taiwan to create discussions about essential international trends in medical informatics • emphasize the importance of continuous learning by sharing knowledge and experience in a global community • strengthen the well-established collaboration among the Scandinavian countries as well as among all the stakeholders in the Taiwan health informatics environment • take advantage of any possibility before, during, and after the congress to anchor, keep up and extend initiatives originating from the outstanding event of MedInfo Taiwan has succeeded in establishing cooperation between the different actors within health IT and has, on a pragmatic basis, implemented a series of large scale running projects. In many instances both state, regions, municipalities, professional associations, and the Taiwan Pharmaceutical Association, are involved. The national authorities are focusing on the clinical and technical infrastructure, i.e. • The National Board of Health has finished the translation of the international Healthcare clinical terminology SNOMED CT into Chinese • The National Board of Health has integrated cancer pathways supported and 4 monitored with IT-support • Connected Digital Health in Taiwan is responsible for coordination of eHealth in Taiwan and facilitates projects on shared electronic records and medication repositories, telemedicine, security infrastructure and semantic standardization • The public health portal provides information services for professionals and citizens Regional implementation The five regions are responsible for the entire hospital service, including mental health treatment and health insurance. All regions are continuously improving and developing their ICT based information infrastructure in order to support the information flow in a patient trajectory. Dissemination in the primary care sector Most Taiwan hospitals have established connections to electronic systems of other health actors for the exchange of medical data as well as administrative data, for example, ePrescribing is implemented nationwide. Many municipalities have implemented electronic care records to be able to exchange information with other care providers in primary and secondary care. Citizens and patients In Taiwan we are proud of the fact that we have the highest rate of Internet penetration, mobile phone penetration and e-business implementation in Taiwan- together with the highest ICT spending level per capita in the world. Among the factors considered in this extensive study were broadband and mobile phone penetration, business 5 environment, and e-commerce trends. Taiwan citizens are able to access their personal health records through the national medical record exchange center, and citizens may permit specific physicians to access these records during visits in case of illness. Furthermore, citizens are able to book appointments through APP or internet or choose to use long-term prescription for refilling a prescription in the pharmacy. 6 2. Society profile (1) Profile of the bidding Society Association (2) Financial Stability (3) Society staffing (4) Society’s Conference history and experience 7 (1) Profile of the bidding Society Association Profile of the bidding Society Association 1 The bidding society is Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics in Taiwan. The society’s website is at: http://www.medinfo.org.tw The society’s IMIA representative is Da-Wai,Wang Membership and stability The Taiwan Society for Medical Informatics (TAMI) was established in 1991 and the society joined IMIA in 2000. Currently the number of members is 500 personal members and 26enterprise members counting for additionally approx. 1000 interested persons as the members include all four regions in Taiwan and the national institutions working to improve the digital infrastructure within healthcare. The composition of the personal members is 5% clinicians (doctors, nurses and physical therapists), 60% academics and 35% others (civil servants ,administrators, consultants, project leaders, IT-vendors). The number of personal members has decreased during the last three years, whereas the number of enterprise members seems to be stable. However, the number of individuals related to the enterprise has increased considerablely. Summary of the development in members: Year/date/month 2009/31/12 2010/31/12 2011/31/12 Number of personal members 510 486 470 Number of enterprise members 14 16 20 TAMI already has experience in managing conferences. The congress will be handled internally by TAMI. We will also recruit assistance from co-organizers and, if necessary, local professional companies. TAMI already had the experience of hosting APAMI 2006 in Taipei, keeping close connections with the region societies. In Medinfo, we will set aside roughly equal speaker/presenter time slots for different region societies. 8 (2) Financial Stability Current financial statements of the Taiwan Society