About the Conference

Overview

It is designed to share, to advance and to leverage healthcare knowledge across healthcare sectors, disciplines and philosophies.

Unlike traditional conferences, this online only conference:

1. is not linked to a geographical location and therefore involves no traveling and accommodation expenses;
2. does not require the participant to be physically present;
3. offers unmatched opportunities for interaction with presenters as well as other participants;
4. is always open - presentations are available to participants forever after their publication;
5. participants can visit the conference from anywhere, at any time - via the Internet;
6. participants can spend as little or as much time at the Conference as they choose.

Cost to attend: Free

Date and Time: 24 / 7 / 365 - 24 hours/day, 365 days/year

Location: Online only - The Internet is the conference venue.

Format: Weekly - New presentations are added every Sunday at 16:16 EST. Participants: Healthcare professionals (clinicians, administrators, academics, architects, economists, educators, policy makers, government, researchers, industry, etc.) from all disciplines, across all healthcare sectors, as well as, consultants, organizations and businesses.

All others with an interest in learning about innovative and significant work underway in healthcare.

Registration: Optional - Participants who are interested in entering their name in the Conference's WhoIs? worldwide registry of healthcare professionals (including knowledge, skill and expertise in key areas) will be able to do so by registering.

Exhibitor space: Available - To organizations, businesses, speakers, authors and consultants to promote their products and publicize their services to a wide and diverse spectrum of healthcare professionals worldwide.

Presenters: Welcome - If you are interested in presenting your work, product(s) or service(s) or would like to suggest a presenter or topic area please contact us.

Contact: Gloria Lattanzio, CEO (Chief Executive Organizer)

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telephone: 416 - 525 - 5465

Manifesto

showcase what's happening in healthcare ... around the corner and around the world.

• the people - their work, their ideas and their achievements;
• the organizations, the consultants and the businesses - their services and their products;
• the authors and the speakers - their books, their services and their experiences.

This unique, cutting-edge site was conceived of and designed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals to allow them to collaborate and share their work across sectors, disciplines and philosophies.

Our Goal

To showcase innovative, interesting and critical work underway in healthcare, work which is making significant positive contributions to the health system and to people's lives.

What Drives Us

To create a legacy of healthcare knowledge, accessible and widely available to all healthcare professionals, and interested others, anytime, anywhere. And, to remove barriers to sharing and accessing healthcare knowledge by making it available free-of-charge.

Our Values

Inclusiveness: We believe that everyone working in healthcare is doing work of value, (be it clinical, administrative, policy, research, education, ...). And, we believe that if the work is worth doing – it’s worth sharing. So, we give all professionals, organizations and businesses the opportunity to increase the value, visibility and impact of their work, services and products by showcasing them. Presenters who enjoy outstanding international reputations present alongside grassroots community organizations thereby democratizing the healthcare landscape and giving everyone a worldwide stage to share their work.

Social Justice: We approach healthcare from a broad social determinants of health perspective. We believe that the relationship between deprivation and health is basic to any responsive healthcare system. And that, we can no longer afford the luxury of focusing primarily on the prevention and treatment of illness while ignoring its root causes.

Collaboration: We are facing unprecedented challenges in healthcare. Do we have the knowledge to tackle these challenges? We believe we do. And so we built a site which gives the healthcare sector the ICT (Information Communication Technology) tools to share and collaborate in radically new ways, and in real time to tackle these challenges. We built this site to:

Harness the collective intelligence, collective knowledge and collective wisdom of the the world's healthcare professionals because ...

Knowledge is no longer the privilege of the few but the right of the many.

Funding

making healthcare knowledge accessible and available to all healthcare professionals, anytime, anywhere, FREE-of-charge.

We are small, nimble and operate on a shoestring budget. We do so by choice and by design. We do not seek, or receive, subsidies of any kind from, nor do we look to, traditional sources such as government, special interest groups or corporate investment.

Instead we look to 3 distinct, yet complementary, funding models:

• Page (present, promote, publicize) services,
• Sponsorship, and
• Donations

Page services: We are continuously creating and sell an assortment of specialized services. Page services are designed with businesses, organizations, consultants and professionals in mind. They are designed to increase the visibility, value and impact the work, products and services showcased.

Our goal is to become self-sustaining by funding the ongoing design, operation and maintenance costs of the platform from the sale of Presentation services.

Sponsorship: We would like to use sponsorship as a conduit - to channel monetary resources from those who have to those who have not. Sponsorship is designed for organizations and businesses which want to support and advance work in specific areas of healthcare.

Donations: Finally, we look to donations to support the ongoing development of the Conference platform. This includes R & D into new technologies, new methodologies and new ways by which professionals, organizations and business can better showcase their work, products and services.

Grounded in age old values of thrift and frugality, these funding models are designed to deliver maximum value to all presenters, participants, exhibitors, sponsors, donors and staff through the judicious and effective use of funds.

Vision

health equity for all.

Working toward our vision means working together towards eliminating health disparities which are dehumanizing, avoidable and unjust.

We recognize that health, and inequalities in health, are influenced by a variety of public policies and social, political, economic and environmental factors, which lie outside the exclusive jurisdiction of the health sector. Health equity focuses not only on health care and health outcomes but with the broader considerations of social justice directly related to health.

The magnitude of this issue requires the health sector to collaborate with government and society to address those factors that influence health. That is well beyond the scope of this Conference and our control. But what we can do is …

To begin to affect change and inspire hope by facilitating collaboration across all health sectors, across all health disciplines... around the corner and around the world.

Cross-sectoral collaboration fosters creativity and innovation which, in turn, begins to address the unprecedented challenges facing the health system of today; and will inspire major breakthroughs for the future.

But, to achieve this, we need to look beyond our individual sectors, silos, disciplines and philosophies...

The time is... RIGHT ... NOW !

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