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.

Call for Abstract

* the full registration fees include attendance at the scientific program, congress material, lunch, welcome cocktail dinner and technical visit
** fees include attendace at scientific program, congress material, lunch, welcome cocktail dinner, technical visit
*** accompanying fees include social program, lunch and welcome cocktail dinner
**** student fees include attendace at scientific program, congress material and lunch

For the Gala dinner on Tuesday, 30 may, there is an extra charge of 60,00 EUR.

Exhibitors’ registration fees, more information can be found here.

Registration fees
Note!Register early to take advantage of the lower registration fee. The ‘early bird’ registrations and payments must be made by 31 March 2017. All registrants will receive a confirmation letter from the Congress Office after the early registration deadline.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Sunday, May 28

9 am/12.30 pm – EU-Exco meeting (6-8 people)
10.30 am – Coffee break
1.30 pm – Lunch
03.30/6.30 pm – EU-Council meeting
8 pm – Cocktail Dinner

Monday, May 29

8.30 am – Registration Opening
9.30 am – Congress activities
11.30 am – Opening ceremony
1.30 pm – Opening of sponsor area and lunch among the stands
3/6 pm – Congress activities
7 pm – Welcome cocktail Dinner

Tuesday, May 30

9.30 am/1 pm – Congress activities
1.30/3 pm – Lunch among the stands
3/3.30 pm – IFHE-EU Assembly
3.30/6.30 pm – Congress activities
6.30/7.00 pm – Congress-Closure
8.30 pm – Gala Dinner

Accomodation