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PROGRAMME

WAEH2026 meeting

Programme 2026

The full programme will be announced soon.

On the programme?

  • Eye Hospital Management – Strategic and operational management of eye hospitals, focusing on financial sustainability, performance, and organizational growth.
  • Patient Experience (User Experience) – Designing and improving the complete patient journey in eye care, across physical and digital touchpoints, from first contact to long-term follow-up.
  • Digital Transformation in Eye Care  –Challenges and hurdles of digital transformation in eye care, including implementing a new Electronic Patient File, how to work FAIR in collecting images in ophthalmology and developing AI models to diagnose glaucoma in an early stage.
  • Public Health Systems & Comparative Models – Understanding and comparing global health system models and their impact on access, financing, and delivery of eye care.
  • Human Resources & the Workforce of the Future – From Boomers to GenZ – Rethinking workforce strategies in eye hospitals to bridge generations, develop new skills, and build resilient, motivated teams.
  • Quality of Care in Eye Care – Ensuring high-quality, safe, and outcome-driven eye care through measurement, standardization, and continuous improvement.
  • Applied research & innovation in Eye Hospitals – Share applied, non-clinical research from your eye hospital – topics can include for example research on big data, artificial intelligence, improving the efficiency of patient pathways, developing outcome measurement indicators and improving quality of care and operations.

Questions? Please contact Maaike van Zuilen –