Submission Deadline Extended until February 15, 2022 1t 11:59 pm EST.

Call for Abstracts Open Now!  Click here for submission requirements

Submission Deadline Newly Extended: All submissions must be received by February 15, 2022 at 11:59 pm EST and must adhere to the template described in the guidelines.  Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by March 1, 2022.

Save the Date for this Live In-Person International Symposium - Registration Opening Soon
October 14 - October 16, 2022
Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Program Overview

This 2022 live international symposium, sponsored by The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will bring together researchers, innovators, and problem solvers from the United States and around the world to address research, innovative projects, and practical solutions to promote compassionate, healing relationships in healthcare as technology transforms clinical interactions, incorporating lessons from the pandemic. We shall explore this topic from a variety of perspectives with diverse patients and caregivers, practitioners, educators, technology designers and vendors, government leaders, institutional leaders, and healthcare stakeholders. 

Topics Will Include:

• Lessons from the pandemic about promoting healing relationships in healthcare
• Relationships matter more than ever in healthcare, and health information technology (HIT) is changing them
• Addressing inequity in the social and digital determinants of health
• Designing human- centered HIT – for practitioners and patients
• Teaching HIT use to empower relationship-based care
• Developing HIT competencies throughout healthcare
• Staying well in the evolving world of HIT
• Working with government, institutions, and stakeholders to protect and promote healing relationships and human capital
• Shared data: implications, ethics, and stewardship