Rural and Elderly Health Care Informatics Conference

The IREHI conference is an interdisciplinary multitopic conference with workshops, tutorials and demo sessions. The main objective of IREHI is to bring together researchers in information technology, healthcare, professionals in ICT industries, public and community health agencies committed to improve and transform healthcare in rural areas and for the elderly. IREHI enables the direct exchanges between researchers from developed and developing countries, on healthcare issues in rural areas and for the elderly people. Additionally, it helps to share implementation initiatives conducted in both developed and developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries. The goal is to discuss approaches, national ICT policy frameworks for healthcare system and contributions the UHC objectives. Another goal is to discuss the conditions and modalities for transferring technical resources at affordable cost to developing countries, investigate multisectorial integration strategy (health – education – agriculture – environment) to address specific challenges healthcare in rural areas.