The Impact of European Healthcare Conferences

2013 was a remarkable year for healthcare conferences. We like to call 2013 the year healthcare conferences became social. More than 1,080 healthcare conferences were registered and tracked with us last year. That’s more than twice the number from 2012. In other words, it was no longer just the cutting edge health tech conferences that engaged socially – a large number of clinical and other mainstream healthcare conferences joined in. With all the data that we continually collect from these conferences, we’re having lots of fun looking at what’s taking place and especially at what some of the best performers are doing. In a previous blog, we looked at some of the leading U.S. based conferences. We’ve since received much feedback and many requests wanting us to look at some similar healthcare conferences based in Europe. For this quick study we’ve chosen four very successful European conferences: #doctors20: Doctors 2.0 & You (Paris, France), 2 days #health2eu: Health 2.0 Europe (London, UK), 2 days #e4p: eyeforpharma (Barcelona, Spain), 3 days #TEDxNijmegen: TEDxNijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands) 1 day Similar to our previous blog, our aim is to put the focus on the lasting impact of a healthcare conference. Can we to some degree evaluate quality by looking at what happens after the conference is over? Like we previously wrote: “Not all healthcare conferences are created equal. Some conferences leave a lasting impact with stories that will stay with you as a...
Source: Fox ePractice - Category: Health Managers Authors: Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter #doctors20 #e4p #health2eu #TEDxNijmegen Doctors 2.0 & You epatients eyeforpharma Health 2.0 Europe healthcare conference healthcare conference analytics patients included Source Type: blogs