09:00 - 11:30 Workshop A: Innovations In Healthcare - How To Make Innovations Happen From Sub-Group Activity To Across The Organisation

(includes morning refreshments)

The workshop focuses on how health care organisations make the workplace a place to constantly improve services through innovations. Important steps involved in this process are:

• Encourage a culture of “dreaming big” by every employee
• Ensure all the employees take ownership of the organisational vision
• Replace intellect with discipline, imagination and passion
• Create internal platforms of thinking, doing and communicating innovations

The workshop uses case study and sub-group activity methods to understand the principles and practices of making innovation an organisational differentiator. At the end of the workshop, the participants will be able to equip themselves with the essential knowledge and skills of applying the concepts and practices of innovations in their respective organisations. Thus the workshop attendees will have benefited by not only acquiring newer knowledge and skills sets, but can also contribute significantly in applying innovations in the health organisations they represent.

Your workshop Leader:

Dr. G. V. Ramana Rao
Executive Partner, Emergency Medicine Learning Centre (EMLC) and Research
GVK EMRI

Dr. GV Ramana Rao has completed MBBS from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad in 1980. He did MD in Community Medicine from the same college. He also possesses Postgraduate Diplomas in Pubic Health and Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Ramana Rao is working as Executive Partner, heading the Emergency Medicine Learning Centre (EMLC), and Research divisions at GVK EMRI.

11:45 - 15:00 Workshop B: Free And/or Open Source Electronic Health Records: Case Studies, Best Practice And Lessons Learned

(includes working lunch)

The International Open Source Network (IOSN) is a Center of Excellence for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in the Asia-Pacific Region. It shapes its activities around FOSS technologies and applications. Via three centers of excellence – IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island Countries), and IOSN South Asia, based in Manila, Suva and Chennai respectively, the IOSN is tasked specifically to facilitate and network FOSS advocates and human resources in the region. The vision is that developing countries in the Asia-Pacific Region can achieve rapid and sustained economic and social development by using affordable yet effective FOSS ICT solutions to bridge the digital divide. Gain insights and case studies from an UNDP Center of Excellence for Free and/or Open Source Software.

This workshop will be proceeded by a pre-conference online discussion with prospective workshop participants to get your involvement from the start and get the best hands-on experience during the session explaining:

• What is free and/or open source software?
• Current examples and issues
• Best practice and lessons learned

Your workshop Leader:

Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo
Director - UP Manila
National Telehealth Center

Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training who is currently the director of the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center. He presently manages the International Open Source Network for ASEAN+3, a centre of excellence in free and/or open source software established by UNDP, and he manages the Community Health Information Tracking System (or CHITS). A Stockholm Challenge finalist in the health category in 2006, he is also the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).

15:00 - 17:30 Workshop C: mHealth for development: The opportunity of mobile technology for healthcare

(includes afternoon refreshments)

This workshop will examine issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the workshop attendees to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, as well as mHealth applications that promise greater impact on heath care initiatives.

The workshop will cover areas including:

• mHealth applications
• Current impact and future needs
• Case studies
• mHealth value chain and call to action
• Remote data collection
• Remote monitoring
• Communication and training for healthcare workers
• Disease and epidemic outbreak tracking
• Diagnostic and treatment support

Your workshop Leader:

Prof. S. K. Mishra
Prof. & Head, Dept. of Endocrine Surgery Nodal Officer, SGPGI Telemedicine Program
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences

Saroj Kanta Mishra completed his Masters in General Surgery (1983) at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. He is also involved in application-oriented Telemedicine Research and Development Projects since 1999. His portfolio includes being a Principal Investigator & Research Collaborator in various National and International e-health projects. Member of National Task Force on Telemedicine, Member and Chair of various national E-health Project review committees and undertaken assignments as e-health Consultant for ITU, WHO and UN. Founder Secretary of Telemedicine Society of India. He is instrumental in setting up a School of Telemedicine and Biomedical Informatics which is recognized as National Resource Centre of Telemedicine by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India.