IFHE-EU congress 2017

Eind mei heeft het Europese congres van de International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE) plaatsgevonden in Bologna, Italië.
Onze Italiaanse zustervereniging SIAIS (Italian Society for Architecture and Engineer for Healthcare) is organisator. Het thema van het congress is “How to promote, develop and spread the knowledge of healthcare engineer multidisciplinary integrated and exchange of technical experiences”.

Meer info: www.ifhe-eu2017.com

Welcome to Bologna in MAY 2017

For the 7th European Congress for International Federation of Hospital Engineering

The SIAIS (Italian society architecture and engineering for health) association of Italian Hospital Engineering is proud to organize the 7^th Congress of IFHE-EU, the bi-annual conference of IFHE Europe, the European branch of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE), which comprises more than thirty hospital engineering associations from all continents.

IFHE Europe was founded in 2005 in Strasbourg and unites the associations from twelve countries: Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and Spain.
Since then the conference has been held with ever more resounding success in Baden-Baden, Vienna, Goes, Paris, Bern and Turku.

Year 2017 congress will be held in Bologna Italy  29th to 31st  of May as an international congress together with an annual national congress of the Association of Italian Hospital Engineering  (SIAIS).
The IFHE-Europe is now the biggest event of its kind in the European region and can be seen as the most important platform for the discussion of hospital-specific technical topics.

The objective of IFHE Europe:
– to gain an overall view of the challenges facing European healthcare policy in general and the associated technology- and organization – specific topics in particular, whilst taking into account the particular circumstances in each country.
– Improvement of technical and infrastructural management in hospitals.
– Promotion of an awareness for efficient hospital engineering.
– Discussion and comparison of experiences and working methods.
– Promotion of multi-disciplinary integrated planning and design.
– Improvement of efficiency in the management of technical processes, maintenance and safety in hospitals.

The topics under discussion constitute a cross-section of the most important technical and infrastructural problem issues that hospitals face: energy saving and energy efficiency improvement, planning and design optimization , architecture and landscape, maintenance and safety in hospital sharing experiences, ICT improvement and innovation, European rules and roles, sustainable development, hospital hygiene, Health Technology Assessment, and many more.

The conference focuses on comparing notes on best practices and exchanging experiences, to encourage innovations, benchmarking and the creation of common European standards.

The target audience of the IFHE-Europe encompasses executives in the healthcare industry, management, development, heads of medical technology departments, construction, safety, IT, energy, building services engineering and hygiene from companies, hospitals, universities and institutes.
Approximately 500 international and national delegates are expected in Bologna to attend the conference. The exhibition arranged in part of the congress is expected to have national and international companies giving services to  hospitals.