OVERVIEW

1st "Talking healthcare around the world" conference is organized by Hedra. This online CME course will be held from Nov 28 - 29, 2020.

Course Description:
This conference unites together academics, clinicians, and practitioners from a wide variety of fields, for the collaborative, multidisciplinary examination of the ways in which the pandemic has impacted healthcare and healthcare communication. Themes and issues for the conference include, but are not limited to:

Stream A: Healthcare, communication and the pandemic
We welcome papers examining any aspect of healthcare or healthcare communication, and the coronavirus pandemic. The paper could inscribe, but are not limited to: diversity, ethnicity, gender, language, age, neurodiversity, or another element of identity; healthcare experiences, delivery and/or outcomes; multilingualism in healthcare settings; health literacy and/or numeracy; practitioner or caregiver team interactions; patient-practitioner/caregiver interactions; patient empowerment; translation and interpreting in healthcare settings; legal issues, workplace realities, job requirements, performance assessment; and the roles and functions of communication in public health.

Stream B: Communication and end-of-life care
How can we utilize communication to enhance geriatric care? In managing health and wellness in elderly care? For pain management? In managing specific concerns such as poor eyesight or hearing, diabetes, and cancer? In cases of cognitive decline? What is the role of communication in the psychosocial wellbeing of older people, particularly in cases of restricted mobility, loneliness, social isolation, and loss? How can we advance the quality of end-of-life care? What role does communication take in this? How can we educate practitioners and caregivers about this? What role does language play in supporting family members and friends? How does this vary, in matters of culture and identity? In what ways do contexts such as palliative care homes and hospices affect communication? How has the coronavirus pandemic impacted end-of-life care?

Stream C: Communication and emergency care
What is the role of communication in urgent and emergency care? Where are the problems and gaps, influencing the delivery of successful outcomes? In follow-ups? What problems do clinicians and practitioners face, in communicating across platforms, media, teams, cultures, identities, and other issues, in trying to deliver emergency care? What communication errors may be identified? How can they be handled? What practices are used and how do they impact patient safety? What can be taught, and how? How has the coronavirus pandemic impacted emergency care? What happens to emergency communication, in the situation of a pandemic?

Stream D: Data analytics and the pandemic
In order to discover how the pandemic is impacting patients, we are soliciting papers from medical practitioners in all areas. These papers ask use structured interviews, and evaluate the data with content analysis software. Conference participants interested in cooperating with this effort will publish papers in a journal special issue with HEDRA advisory board members.