International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH)

The International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) highlights innovations and research in patient-centered communication and healthcare interaction across disciplines and cultures.

Key Topics

• Communication during pandemics
• Assessing communication education methods
• Telemedicine and electronic consultations
• Shared decision-making implementation
• Social media and internet in healthcare
• Novel teaching approaches like simulations and remote learning
• Communication with underserved populations
• Interaction between communication and mental health
• Gathering clinical information and reasoning
• Chronic illness and multimorbidity
• Workforce challenges and communication
• Health literacy determinants and outcomes
• Ethics in healthcare communication
• Cross-cultural communication and interpreters
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare
• Intervention research and implementation
• Patient empowerment and self-management
• Cultural humility and sensitivity
• Patient expression of emotions and cues
• Non-verbal communication
• Concepts and measurement of shared decision-making
• Development of communication measurement tools
• Misinformation and disinformation
• Communication related to bias and discrimination
• Health promotion and prevention
• Responding to patient emotions with empathy
• Language discordant care
• Health policy and practice innovation
• Teaching and assessment of learners in health professions
• Patient-centered communication strategies
• Communication with caregivers and families
• Palliative and end-of-life communication
• Patient evaluation of care quality
• Quality improvement and patient safety
• Decision support tools
• Population-level healthcare communication
• Interdisciplinary healthcare team communication
• Occurrence and outcomes of health literacy

Who should Attend

• Patients, patient advocates, and caregivers
• Academic faculty leaders and medical researchers
• Healthcare leadership and clinical professionals
• Students in the field of health communication
• Patient experience and healthcare administration professionals