AFCEA Bethesda’s Seventh Health IT Day is expected to bring together more than 600 senior-executives and IT professionals from across industry and federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. The goals of the event are to foster bett...

The annual AFCEA Washington, DC Winter Gala is the highly anticipated, must-attend social event of the year for senior leaders from the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, Armed Services, intelligence agencies and industry. The gala, in its 39th year, will feature savory bites, delicious drinks, carolers, The Strolling Strings, and much more. Tickets are now available for this widely-attended black-tie affair to be hel...

STRANSCOM's Acquisition Directorate, Distribution Process Owner (DPO) Division, will be conducting the 4th Annual Information Technology (IT) and Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) Industry Day meeting. An overview of upcoming procurements for the IT and A&AS programs will be presented in the morning. The Government will also be conducting one-on-one break-out sessions for each program in the afternoon. Please continue to monitor...

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Massachusetts Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public- and private-sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use th...

Addressing and Overcoming Key Challenges for the Region These are uncertain times for the bunker fuel industry; fuel prices are rising, demand patterns and emission control deadlines are looming. By the time of this conference, we will be just one month away from the imposed emission regulations on sulphur content, the industry is about to face its biggest change in years. Platts 3rd Annual Mediterranean Bunker Fuel conference will once again...

The 5th annual FeTech Conference which will take place on 27th - 28th November 2014 and will be hosted at the Fraser Suites, Perth. FeTech 2014 is the industry's 'how to' for commercially and competitively unleashing the value in Australia's magnetite and low grade iron ores deposits. This will be your chance to hear the key insights into achieving efficiencies and cost reductions in iron ore beneficiation. Join the industry's leading mineral...

In total, 26 key speakers from across the country will come together to discuss the integration of mental health into the NDIS, highlighting emerging lessons from the launch sites. The changing landscape for service providers and the integration of the NDIS with other schemes will be examined, including how to maximize choice and control by supporting and preparing people with mental illness for a successful transition to the scheme. The confe...

The 5th Annual Women in Engineering Convention will be discussing strategies to ensure women play a pivotal role in infrastructure boom and the engineering industry as a whole. This conference will bring together over 150 women across the engineering field to discuss efforts on how to promote female leadership within engineering. KEY STRATEGIES TO BE DISCUSSED - Playing a pivotal role as a woman engineer in South Africa's infrastructure boom -...

Patient safety is the biggest single issue in the NHS and UK healthcare. After a year of unprecedented focus on patient safety, 2014 is the start of the next stage in the journey to eradicate avoidable harm and deliver improved outcomes. The legacy of the Francis report (and the government’s formal response) into Mid Staffordshire, the Keogh review into trusts with unusually high mortality rates and the Berwick review on behalf of the Pr...

The Asia Pacific region has seen the introduction of stringent local and global regulations which have forced the concept of pharmacovigilance to expand beyond just identifying adverse events to incorporating risk management plans. Today pharmacovigilance is on the minds of every pharma and bio executive, and starts earlier in the drug development process. And rightly so, considering the startling fact that 200,000 patients die each year from...