2019 INFORMS Healthcare Conference

The 2019 INFORMS Healthcare Conference co-hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital will be held July 27-29 in the Boston area.

The conference theme, “Transforming Health with Data, Mind and Hand,” highlights the potential joint impact of analytics, academia and practice, as exemplified by the long history of successful collaboration between both institutions. Inspired by MIT’s motto, “Mens et Manus” (“mind and hand”), the collaborative effort reflects a joint vision of using data analytics and research to impact medicine, healthcare policy and delivery.

In addition to hosting regular sessions on the well-known tracks of Personalized Medicine, Healthcare Delivery, Public Health, Information Technology, Supply Chains and Economics, the conference will feature practice-oriented sessions. In an effort to bring together the academic community and practitioners, one or more of these sessions’ participants will be industry experts on a particular topic; other speakers will be academics who work in the same domain. Industry participants include experts from Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Athenahealth, OptumLabs and other healthcare organizations. The aim with these sessions is to further broaden the reach of the INFORMS community, and to connect academics with healthcare professionals to forge new collaborations to impact practice.

The conference venue, MIT Sloan, is at the heart of Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Mass., home to multiple leading organizations in healthcare technology, medicine, pharmaceuticals, public health and biotechnology. Similarly, Boston is home to several of the best academic medical centers in the United States. There will be two field trips showcasing the spectrum of work being conducted at the MIT Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital.

For more information on the conference, including information on registration, the venue or the program, visit: http://meetings.informs.org/healthcare2019/.