2017 May Taichung Conferences were Successfully Held
From May 20th to 22th, the 2017 International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics was held successfully in Taichung, Taiwan.
The conferences brought together over 70 scholars in the related field all over the world. Conference chair, Professor Yung-Chyuan Ho started the opening remarks. Prof. Chih-Jen Tseng from Chung-Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan made the first keynote speech titled “Development of a New Unified Electronic Medical Record System and Paperless Hospitals”. Professor Su-Hsin Chang from Washington University in St. Louis, United States brought an excellent keynote speech topic in “Modeling Multi-Morbidity Related to Obesity and Surgical Treatments of Obesity Using Large National Databases”. After the coffee break, Professor Yang Xu from Peking University, China and Dr. Chalong Cheewakriangkrai from Chiang Mai University, Thailand brought us 2 amazing keynote speeches. In the afternoon, Dr. Ming-Chi Wu from Chung-Shan Medical University and Professor Shih-Hsin Chen from Cheng Shiu University made 2 plenary speech as well. The audience actively involved in the Q&A after each speech and gained great knowledge from those brilliant presentations.
Branch session with variety related topics are held by different session chairs after the keynote speeches. Conference participants made presentations to share their work with scholars and got sincere advice from others. Best papers were selected by the session chair and rewarded for each session.
In the next day, participants visited the Chang Bin Show Chwan Memorial Hospital and Asian Institute of Telesurgery. Later, participants also visited Lu-Kang Old Street. They visited the historical places of interests. It was an educational and interesting day.
The conferences are aimed to introduce the latest technological development and academic research on hot issues of the related field. It provided a platform for domestic and foreign experts and technicians to exchange ideas and achievements.
