2013 mHealth Summit Call for Presentations Now Open

ARLINGTON, Va., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The mHealth Summit is pleased to announce that the 2013 Call for Presentations is now open and will close on June 7, 2013. 

The mHealth Summit is the world's largest tradeshow and conference focused on all aspects of mobile health.  It connects the most complete range of stakeholders and thought leaders from across the ecosystem.  This year's event is expected to attract 5000 attendees from 60 countries and will take place December 8-11 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, DC.

Individuals are encouraged to submit transformational and innovative presentations that deliver pragmatic evidence that mobile health has moved from theory to adoption and from pilot to scale.  Sessions will focus on advancing wireless technologies and mobile health collaborations for improved and transformational health delivery outcomes, how the implementation and integration of these new mobile and wireless technologies are improving workflow efficiencies resulting in better access to healthcare, while concurrently reducing the cost of healthcare delivery.  

The conference will be preceded by one day of symposia followed by three days of keynote addresses, executive spotlights and track sessions focused on Business, Technology, Research, and Policy as it relates to mobile health in the home, the hospital and everywhere in between.

The categories for submission include:

• Business and Funding Opportunities
• Big Data
• Emerging Technologies
• Care Settings and mHealth Integration
• Consumer/Patient and Physician/Provider Engagement
• Global Health
• International Perspective
• Interoperability and Standards
• Regulatory and Policy
• Payers/Health Plans
• Pharma & Life Sciences
• Privacy and Security
• Research

Submissions are expected to represent cutting-edge content, usage cases and discussion of the challenges, implications, impact and opportunities.  All submissions will be reviewed by the summit review committee.

To learn more about the guidelines, submission criteria, process and categories for submission please visit: www.mhealthsummit.org

General and press registration will open in June 2013.  The event will be open to all credentialed media.    

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About the mHealth Summit:  The mHealth Summit is presented by the HIMSS Media, with organizing partners:  mHIMSS, the mHealth Alliance, the National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.  The 2013 mHealth Summit is the premier and largest international forum that connects the most complete range of stakeholders and thought leaders from across the domestic and international mHealth ecosystem.  It is focused on advancing wireless technology and mHealth collaboration for improved and transformational health delivery and outcomes, as well as workflow efficiencies that will result in improved access to healthcare while lowering the cost of delivery.  For more information, please visit www.mhealthsummit.org.

For additional information on the 2013 mHealth Summit's organizing partners, please visit:

About mHIMSS:  www.mhimss.org
About the mHealth Alliance:  www.mhealthalliance.org
About the National Institutes of Health:  www.nih.gov

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