Conference Day One: Tuesday 9 February 2010

08:30 Registration & Refreshments

09:00 Chairman’s Welcome Address

09:10 The Essential Must-Haves For Healthcare Informatics: Discovering The Long-Term Benefits Of Future Healthcare Provision In Asia

Identifying road blocks which need to be overcome in order to pave the right tracks for health IT innovation
What are the key infrastructure and technology aspects that need to be in place?
How will innovative informatics models help attain essential long-term benefits?

Dr. Sarah Muttitt
CIO
Ministry of Health Holdings, Singapore

09:40 Enablers Of Future Technology Innovations In Asia

Analysing the drivers and sharing the vision for the next 5 years
Measuring the gaps and necessary investment that need to be undertaken to adopt more advanced technology
Researching and communicating with your staff and consumers and embracing their knowledge and expectations to further grow technology applications

Raymond Chong
CEO
Samitivej Hospitals

10:10 Coffee & Networking Break

10:40 Panel Discussion: What Role Do National Initiatives Play In Driving Better Healthcare And Where Does Healthcare Informatics Fit In The Next 5-10 Years?

What are the national priorities for health informatics in the next years?
Is advancement of certain technology implementations simply a question of infrastructure?
What role do individual healthcare providers play in driving national initiatives?
What examples can be used as a benchmark for the successful deployment of healthcare informatics initiatives?

Panelists:

Baljit Singh Bedi Advisor, Health Informatics Centre for Development for Advanced Computing (CDAC), Ministry of Communication & IT (MCIT), Govt. of India	Dr. David Chaokai Chang Chairman Taiwan Nobel Medical Group
Ranjan Dwivedi National Professional Officer e-Health World Health Organization	Dr. Wong Kirk Chuan COO Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) Sinagpore

11:20 How The Next Generation Of Physicians Can Help Drive IT Innovations: Necessary Decision Support Requirements For Enhanced And Efficient Patient Care

Overcoming the resistance to perceived threat of professional autonomy
How the new generation of physicians can further influence the actual utilisation of clinical decision support systems
Evaluating benchmarks for clinical decisions support systems

Dr. Mahendran Maliapen
Director
National University Health System (NUHS)

11:50 Lunch & Networking Break

A special luncheon address by Brian Rosenfeld M.D., Executive Vice-President & Chief Medical Officer - Philips-VISICU

This lunch presentation will review tele-health applications with a special emphasis on tele-ICU care. By analyzing the current state of ICU care the presenter will demonstrate the benefits of remote care as enabling the leveraging of scarce intensive care specialists across wide geographic areas and to hospitals without the required level of expertise. Explore further how infrastructure can be extended to providing centralized care across the entire patient continuum from the home to the hospital and then home again.

Stream A: Cost Control and Administration Management

Stream B: Innovative Models in Telemedicine and e-Health

Stream C: Improving Quality Through Innovative Management & Technology

12:50 Planning ahead: Is Asia Pacific healthcare sector ready for the future?

Focus investment and planning of Hospitals over the next 3 years and discovering the key measurement of success in technology implementation
Recognising the bottle necks to be removed for patient workflow efficiency
Reviewing a case study on hospital efficiency in form management

Hélène Blanchette
Go-to-Market Strategy Manager
Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Gender sensitive health care in knowledge management, a new IT perspective to support gender equality and health equity in the South East Asia Region

Gender sensitive health care (GSHC) model development
Lesson learnt and best practices from the past, on going and GWH network communication from all countries in the region
The GSHC knowledge management is prepared as one of tools in the GWH-PKM to support health providers’ empowerment and capacity building in the implementation of gender sensitive health services for patient care

Dr. Erna Surjadi
Regional Adviser Gender, Women and Health
World Health Organization

Spotlight Session: Discover The Latest Technology Applications Which Will Aid Your Hospital’s Quality Management And Deliver The Most Efficient Patient Care

13:10 Preparing For Private Equity – Lessons Of Private Equity Healthcare Funding For Providers

Where your financials need to be
Strengthening organisational capability and the core team
Valuations and the panacea of mis-matched expectations

Sameer Mehta
COO Dr Mehta Hospitals & Director Mehta Children’s Hospital
Dr Mehta Hospitals

A Decade Of Telemedicine In India: Opportunities And Challenges

Overview of telemedicine activities and projects in India spanning the last ten years
Unique case studies leading to the development of best practice models for telemedicine
Challenges experienced and opportunities discovered in Indian telemedicine and what the future holds for a country with a billion people in which 75% live in villages and almost no access to specialist healthcare

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

How Healthcare IT Best Supports The Quality Improvement For Healthcare Providers

Learning how to improve service quality and patient care with successful strategies and tools
Measuring aspects of your performance and how IT can help start up the essential quality initiatives
Using advanced information systems and integrated decision support to carry out quality assurance activities

Ken Toyoda
President
HCI Inc

13:50 Using A Case Mix To Improve Equity And The Delivery Of Primary Care: An Account Of Global Experiences

Predicting high-risk users for inclusion in care management
Determine budgeted payments and fairly allocate resources within programs
How to best assess the efficiency of provider practices and monitor intervention effectiveness

Dr. Karen Kinder Siemens
Director ACG International
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Innovative Models In Telemedicine And EHealth In A Developing Country

eHealth and telemedicine offer significant benefits to developing countries by providing greater access especially to the underserved
Trust networks are fundamental to telehealth technology is important but the social networks determine success or failure
Adopting free and/or open source software so that developing countries can fast track integration by introducing eHealth and telemdicine concepts as early as the undergraduate level, without being burdened by high cost of licensing

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

Importance Of Dashboards In Healthcare

How healthcare management dashboards help in business efficiency
How Clinical dashboards help in clinical excellence
Using these dashboards as the most effective way to provide a bird’s-eye view of the results of intelligent analytics

Dr. Suman Bhusan Bhattacharyya
Healthcare IT Expert
Indian Association for Medical Informatics

14:30 Coffee & Networking Break

14:50 Grhasia Hospital Case Study: Information Systems Implementation For Hospitals With Limited Budgets

Understanding the main drivers for implementing and upgrading hospital information systems
The implementation journey and working towards best case outcomes despite budget limitations
Introducing EMR in the hospital and how to best overcome resistance from physicians in regards to new technology implementations

Dr. Joep A. Djojodibroto
Head of Drug and Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Department
Grhasia Hospital of Yogyakarta Special Province

Mobile Delivery Of Healthcare Information To Practitioners

Facilitating health professional practice and communication and reducing health disparities by applying new approaches
Real-time monitoring of patient vital signs, and direct provision of care through leverage on medical records
Examination of available mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, PDAs, and other wireless devices to support portability of medical records

Manish Gupta
CIO
Healthcare Global Group

Advancing The Benefits And Effects Of Clinical Decision Support Systems On Physician Performance And Patient Outcomes

Best practice governance models for clinical decision support
Interdisciplinary communication and patient safety: Fall and injury prevention across the care continuum
Addressing challenges of complex clinical workflows and the demands on staff time

Prof. Jai Mohan
Vice-President
Malaysian Health Informatics Association
Professor of Health Informatics & Paediatrics
International Medical University

15:30 Facilitating Equity And Efficiency In Malaysian Primary Health Care Through The Application Of The Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) Case Mix System

Benefits of applying the ACG Case-Mix System on available data from multiple primary health care providers and systems in Malaysia to gain a better understanding in the differences in morbidity burden and resources need by various population sub-groupings
How the ACG Case-Mix System could assist in monitoring data quality and its ability to identify “high risk” or “high cost” patients
Establishing a fair basis upon which to assess provider performance on a regional basis and improve the efficiency in the delivery of primary health care in both the public and private sectors

Dr. Peter Lee
Senior Consultant
ACG International Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Improving Accessibility Of Care And Health Outcomes For Rural Communities

Understanding the availability and accessibility of healthcare according to your geography and rural population
Analysing the gaps in infrastructure and technology
Best approach to implementing and advocating accessibility of healthcare and investment in necessary technology updates

Dr. K. Selvakumar
Prof. of Neurosurgery & Chairman – Telemedicine
Sri Ramachandra University

Informatics As A Tool Towards Better Quality And Accreditation In Healthcare

Taking advantage of the multidisciplinary quality improvement initiatives designed to ensure excellence in all areas
Importance of information systems for measuring and improving health care quality
Highlights of informatics applications for quality and accreditation in healthcare; with case study and lessons learned

Dr. Ravindra Karanjekar
Head of Hospital Group
Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd.

16:10 Panel Discussion: Engaging Your Staff To Embrace Innovations In Informatics

How to engage physicians and their role in driving innovation
Engaging the nursing department and their role driving technology innovation
The role of IT departments to foster and create dialogue to push forward innovations

Panel Members:

Dr. Low Cheng Ooi CMIO - Singhealth & Chairman Medical Board Changi General Hospital	Dr. Karanvir Singh Consultant Surgeon & Head of Medical Informatics Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Jeffrey Yeo Deputy Director, Operations (Corporate Planning) Tan Tock Seng Hospital	Dr. Jeffrey H. Staples Divisional President, China & North Asia Parkway Holdings Ltd

Panel Discussion: Can Telemedicine Be Transformed Into A Profitable Value Add?

Private vs. public healthcare and the different benefits for each by applying telemedicine
What implementations or strategic decisions are necessary to make telemedicine a profitable asset?
Evaluating the applications of telemedicine for healthcare tourism

Panel Members:

Dr. K. Selvakumar
Prof. of Neurosurgery & Chairman – Telemedicine
Sri Ramachandra University

Nandkishor Dhomne
CIO
Manipal Health Systems

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

CxO Discussion Group

This closed door session is designed to cater for informal discussion between C-level executives on areas such as:
Budgeting issues and the questions of ROI in the next years to come
Hospital management and best practice to engage all departments when it comes to technology innovations
How can Asian hospitals and healthcare providers stay competitive?

Moderated by:

Dr. Dilshaad Ali
CEO
Pantai Hospital Ipoh

Access to this session is by invitation only. If you would like to receive an invitation, please email enquiry@iqpc. com.sg with the following subject line: CxO Discussion at Innovative Healthcare Management

16:50 Coffee & Networking Break

17:10 Taiwan Case Study: Innovative Models In Personal Health Records And Applications For EHealth

EMR developments over the past years in Taiwan
Necessary development of applications by using the infrastructure and devices
Evaluating the benefits and planning for further innovation

Prof. Hsu Chien-Yeh
President - Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics & Professor Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics
Taipei Medical University

17:40 Indias’ Efforts For Standardization In Health Informatics

Examine the need for a standard health information system across the country that meets the requirements of diverse groups
How the Department of Information Technology (DIT) undertook the initiative for defining the framework for an Information Technology Infrastructure for Healthcare (ITIH) in India and proposing Standards for Telemedicine
Suggested framework to cover billing formats, clinical standards, data elements, health identifiers, minimum data set, legal framework and messaging standards, with a primary aim to define an acceptable Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Baljit Singh Bedi
Advisor, Health Informatics - Centre for Development for Advanced Computing (CDAC) - Ministry of Communication & IT (MCIT)
Govt. of India

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