Annual WAEH meeting 2009

2022-05-16 10:48:37

The annual WAEH-meeting has taken place in Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallin and Tartu.

Overall theme WAEH 2009: ‘eye care network development’

Eye care network development:

Cooperation in primary health care
Franchise Network Development country wide

Innovations:

The boundary of our eye product – service
Out of the Box:
- Experience economy
- Virtual reality

Returning topics from WAEH 2008:

Admittance criteria: have to be set-defined during WAEH 2009
Research network: who does what kind of research? Overview of international scientific activities
Education network
International exchange of personnel
Future of eye hospitals
Task differentiation
Marketing & communications: how can we cooperate in the WAEH?

Would you like to know more about the outcomes of this meeting?

Please contact

Maaike van Zuilen

Tel +31-(0)6-456 32 117
or please fill in the contactform

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A worldwide network of eye hospitals

Contact

Maaike van Zuilen,
maaike.vanzuilen@waeh.org