Conference Day Two: Wednesday 10 February 2010

08:30 Re-Registration & Refreshments

09:00 Chairman’s Welcome Back Address

09:10 Improving Health Care In Rural Areas: Information And Communications Technology Solutions For Least Developed Countries

  • An overview of cost-effective applications of information and communications technology, useful to health policy - and decision-makers in least developed, landlocked, and small island countries in Asia and the Pacific
  • How applications contribute to (a) the expansion of the primary health-care force and enriching the skills level, (b) upgrading and broadening medical infrastructure and logistics, (c) providing affordable access to drugs and medical supplies, and (c) enhancing data collection and analysis of health trends
  • Exploring innovative uses of mobile devices, Geographic Information Systems, space-based sensors and other tools for applications such as computer-base training and distance learning and other technologies to aid better healthcare provision in rural areas

Jorge Martinez-Navarette
Associate Economic Affairs Officer
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

09:40 International Case Study: The Future Of UK National Health Service – Lessons For Others

  • Can top quality care be afforded for all?
  • Attracting the best leaders; and addressing the future of Academic Health Science Centers
  • Managing consumer expectations and demand

Trevor Campbell Davis
CEO
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

10:10 The Role Of IT In Implementing Innovative Global Trends In Healthcare – A Japan Example

  • Why emerging global trends require an IT Infrastructure
  • How IT is moving patients from spectators to fully interactive partners
  • Expanding EMR solutions – Mobile, portable and web-based

Dr. John Wocher
Executive Vice President and Director, International Affairs/International Patient Services
Kameda Medical Center

10:40 Coffee & Networking Break

11:10 Panel Discussion: The Question Of ROI: How To Justify The Spend On Technology And Upgrades

  • Are there valid models to quantify the benefits of investment?
  • How do healthcare providers decide on their budgets for IT investment?
  • What do vendors need to provide to overcome the paradox of perceiving intangible benefits in IT?

Panelists:

Harald Feiel
Director of IT Services
Prince Court Medical Centre

Dr. Christopher Bain
Information Manager
Western & Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service Australia

Manish Gupta
CIO
Healthcare Global Group

11:50 The Hospital Management Technology Ecosystem: Getting Better Return On Your Investment

  • Better understanding the environment in which management information systems (that healthcare managers and executives use) operate
  • Analysing major influencing factors on the evolution of technologies in this space
  • Examining the evidence and highlighting how knowledge of the environment can be used by healthcare managers and executives in their IT purchasing and planning decisions

Dr. Christopher Bain
Information Manager
Western & Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service Australia

12:20 Lunch & Networking Break

Stream D: Systems Implementation & Transformation with Break-Through Solutions Stream E: mHealth: Initiating Mobile Patient Care and Service Delivery

13:20 Spotlight Session: Gaining The Advantage In Your Administration And Healthcare Provision Through Latest Software And Healthcare Information System Applications

Spotlight Session: Introducing Devices To Help You Collect Aggregate And Patient Level Health Data And Helping Provide Healthcare Information To Practitioners, Researchers, And Patients

13:40 Breakout Session: Confidentiality, Ownership And Transfer Of Medical Records

During this informal session you are given the opportunity to sit in groups with your peers and discuss such topics as:

  • Is the owner of the medical record the health service provider who created that record?
  • Who can dispute the ownership and under which right?
  • Can an organisation charge an individual a fee for providing access to the individual’s medical records?

Hong Kong Case Study: Evaluating Available Variety Of Mobile Healthcare Delivery

  • Evaluating possible patient care delivery such as applications of handheld devices and how these aid the physician
  • Evaluation of mobile workstations and the benefit for patient care
  • How bedside terminals can foster better service delivery and more efficient and accurate patient care

Pascal Tse
Chief Information Technology Officer
St. Teresa’s Hospital

14:20 Informatics For Smart Ageing And Independent Living To Better Position Healthcare Systems For The Future

  • Analysing and defining intelligent assistive technologies
  • Creating smart home environments and connected communities of care
  • Reviewing the needs, state-of-the-art, approaches, gaps and opportunities, research evidence and what’s needed to better position health systems for the future

Prof. Jeffrey Soar
Director - Collaboration for Ageing & Aged-care Informatics Research
University of Southern Queensland

Exploring Emerging Areas For Mobile Device Applications

  • Applications of handheld devices and mobile workstations
  • Mobile synchronous (voice) and asynchronous (SMS) telemedicine diagnostic and decision support to remote clinicians
  • Clinician-focused, evidence-based formulary, database and decision support information available at the point-of-care

Ranjan Dwivedi
National Professional Officer e-Health
World Health Organization

15:00 Coffee & Networking Break

15:20 Privacy For E-Health Systems: Lessons Learned And Implementation Recommendations

  • Outcomes of conducted face to face interviews with patients and survivors on privacy concerns during cancer
  • Development of a prototype called Cancer Patient Portal based on the identified requirements
  • Running a usability study on profile management to further identify and overcome patient/survivor privacy concerns

Dr. Nasriah Zakaria
Lecturer School of Computer Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia

Benefits Through Technology Innovations For Healthcare Providers And Emergency Patients At GVK EMRI

  • Sense Reach Care paradigm to locate the place of emergency (Sense); arrive at the scene in ambulance (Reach) and provide pre-hospital services (Care) under medical direction and continue support till the patient is handed over to hospital (virtual handholding) leveraging technology
  • Experiences and experiments of technologybased innovations to provide better patient care to emergency victims including voice logging, automatic vehicle location technology (AVLT), integration of medical, police and fire emergencies
  • Tracking and monitoring response times and performance indicators using technology for creating greater transparency

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

16:00 Necessary Implementations To Move To A Complete EMR System

  • Establishing a new governance structure to drive the development of an effective EMR system and associated care model
  • Driving implementation accountability by making every major section of the project plan accountable to a non-IT leader (in partnership with IT) so that they may drive the decision making and performance monitoring for their portion of the project plan
  • Assisting in championing key initiatives and assist in removing organisational change barriers

Dr. D. P. Saraswat
Director Operations (South)
Max Healthcare Institute

Breakout Session: Patient Self-Help And The EHR.

During this informal session you are given the opportunity to sit in groups with your peers and discuss topics on:

  • How to best review and select resources and tools to assess patients for risk factors, language preferences, documentation of patient risk factors in individual records
  • How to develop templates of patient action plans for prevalent chronic conditions
  • How to review, identify and plan for expanded services of focus (e.g., planned visits, group visits, staff huddles, etc.)

16:40 A Physician’s Perspective On The Acceptance Of Clinical Information Technology And Its Successful Implementation

  • What are the physicians primary concerns and drivers?
  • What and how does the implementation of technology need to happen to keep the physician engaged
  • Addressing implementations and changes in clinical services and patient care; knowledge management and learning and internal efficiency and administration

Dr. Karanvir Singh
Consultant Surgeon & Head of Medical Informatics
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

17:10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks & End Of Conference

 
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