Industry Perspectives Abstracts

Title: Patient-Centered Healthcare
Speaker: Brian J. Kelly, Executive Director, Health & Life Sciences Practice, Accenture

The electronic sharing of data across the health and life sciences value chain has the potential to transform the industry improving care and reducing costs. This session will discuss the vision of interconnected patientcentered care and give a global industry perspective about this market and efforts to realize this vision.

Title: Using Business Intelligence to Improve Healthcare Delivery, Outcomes and Evidence Based Decision-Making
Speaker: Melissa A. Fitzpatrick, RN, MSN, FAAN,Chief Healthcare Strategist, SAS Institute

Healthcare providers strive to create organizational cultures in which decisions are based on evidence and in which best practices are defined and replicated. Doing so requires a focus on data, performance measurement, and collaboration to assure continuous and sustained improvement. This session provides insights and strategies to assist healthcare leaders and frontline care providers in using business intelligence solutions to enhance measurement, accountability, and communication to create a hospital organizational culture of evidence based decision-making and best practices.

Title: Using IT to Improve Healthcare Quality, Cost and Access
Speakers: Jason Kimrey, Area Director, Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group; Jared Quoyeser, Americas Healthcare Industry Marketing

Technology is quickly becoming an essential ingredient in evolving the current healthcare business model by enabling seamless interaction and high-quality information exchange throughout the complex healthcare system. Intel’s Digital Health Group has been working closely with hospital systems and healthcare companies around the world to understand their business objectives and related information technology needs to accelerate change by connecting people and information in new ways to improve quality, reduce costs, and increase access to care for everyone. Some key areas of focus include driving standards and interoperability as well as the adoption of Electronic Medical Records, mobile point of care, clinical information systems, management information systems, and digitized imaging. Intel will share some best practices and examples of benefits that hospitals have derived from deploying innovative technologies.

Title: The Importance of Clinical Input into Implementation of Healthcare IT
Speakers: Neil Jordan, Executive Director WW Healthcare Industry; Andrew Kirby, NHS Programme Director, Microsoft

In today’s marketplace there are millions of dollars being spent on the design and implementation of clinical IT software and systems in the healthcare environment. In addition to requirements for robust and reliable technology, one must also consider the practical issues which affect the end user and the importance of input from the clinical community. This presentation will discuss the ongoing project to build a compelling and useful common user interface with UK National Health Service’s (NHS) National Programme for IT to increase clinical adoption and patient safety.

Title: IT and Life Sciences Transforming Healthcare
Speaker: Michael Raymer, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions|Global Marketing Vice President and General Manager of Global Product Strategy

The rising cost of healthcare is becoming an increasing burden on government, employers and consumers. In 2004 the U.S. spent $1.9 trillion on healthcare – $6,280 per person, equivalent to 16 percent of GDP. By 2015, those numbers are expected to rise to $4 trillion and 20 percent of GDP.

In a country with the most advanced medical technology in the world, barely half of Americans get appropriate acute, chronic, or preventive care. This lack of quality is pervasive, and irrespective of age, sex, or economic status. The challenge we face is not just one of providing better care to patients who can pay for it – or those who can’t. What we need is fundamental system change to ensure that medical care is safe and effective, that it is based on clinically proven best practices, and that is focused earlier in the disease process.

Care for patients with chronic conditions is a major driver of U.S. healthcare costs, comprising as much as 83 percent of all healthcare spending. In 2003, the cost of treating chronic illness was $510 billion, with estimates that number will rise to $1.07 trillion by the year 2020. Today, almost half of all Americans – 133 million people – live with a chronic condition. By 2020, as the population ages, this number will increase to 157 million.This mounting burden can only be mitigated by changing how we treat disease, not just what diseases we treat.

If you break healthcare down into four phases – predict, diagnose, inform, and treat – fully 80 percent of U.S. healthcare spending happens in the treat phase. This is much too late in the disease process to have any impact on improving this country’s health status. The earlier we focus on an individual’s health – rather than on a patient’s disease – the more opportunities we will have to reverse these dangerous trends.

GE’s vision of “early health” is a transformative approach, based on the intersection of diagnostics, therapeutics, and information technology. With early health, providers use technology and clinical knowledge to prevent and/or treat chronic diseases in the earliest phases, when health impacts are less severe and effective treatment is less costly.

As a company, GE is uniquely positioned at the convergence of advances in life sciences, diagnostics, and information technology to promote the model of early health. The discussion at this session will focus on how technology can help arrest the rising costs of healthcare.

Title: Unleashing the Value in eHealth
Speaker: Brett Furst, Director Healthcare

Covisint Healthcare Information Exchange: A utility for secure interoperability. Delivering access to and sharing of clinical and administrative data throughout the healthcare continuum to streamline processes, reduce costs, and improve the delivery of healthcare - Covisint’s technology framework enables secure interoperability across healthcare organizations and communities regardless of size, or technical sophistication.

Disparate and competing healthcare organizations, along with regional and state initiatives leverage a stateof- the-art, web-based communication framework to support real-time collaboration, including the automation and streamlining of basic clinical and administrative processes that are generally paper-based transactions today. Providing real-time visibility to critical healthcare information ensures effective decision-making, accurate diagnosis and optimal treatment - improving efficiencies and dramatically reducing costs.

Title: Workflow Automation and Data Analysis from Discovery to Development
Speaker: Keith Glassford, Ph.D., Director Materials Sciences, Accelrys, Inc.

Discovery research has undergone a dramatic change over the last few years. Organizations are now generating vast amounts of disparate data from chemistry, genomics and high throughput screening. This data is often stored in disconnected databases and/or files in a wide variety of formats. Pipeline Pilot is a tool which enables research organizations to integrate and analyze a myriad of data sources.
As the volume and type of data has grown, software companies have responded by producing a variety of point solutions for the different parts of the data analysis process. Pipeline Pilot is a tool that allows you to construct a single integrated data processing procedure that takes data from the beginning to the end of the process in a straightforward manner, building a unified infrastructure that facilitates collaboration and enables researchers to streamline, automate and share data analysis workflows.
Workflows are constructed and captured graphically within the system. They can be deployed through Pipeline Pilot itself, through web based clients or through other applications that are already in place. The interface choice can be determined by the needs of the end user, not by the software.

Title: Creating the Visually Integrated Hospital
Speaker: Jeff Robbins, CEO, LiveData, Inc.

Real-time visual applications close the gap between the work processes of hospital staff and the myriad IT systems and clinical devices, bringing disparate information together in meaningful, context-aware visual displays. Visual applications augment the existing hospital infrastructure, enabling team members to be more aware, respond to exceptions, and make critical handoffs. LiveData will discuss this in the context of its first visual application, LiveData OR-Dashboard, fully operational at Massachusetts General Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

LiveData, OR-Dashboard captures and integrates realtime data from diverse hospital systems, medical devices, and physiological monitors, and presents a complete, visual representation of patient and operation information on a large-screen display, visible from anywhere in the OR. By getting the entire OR team on the same page, OR-Dashboard enhances patient safety through improved team communication and situational awareness.

Underlying this and other visual applications is a proven real-time data integration engine (LiveData’s Visual Data Engine), which serves to unify disparate systems, bringing together  information from different vendors’ applications and data structures.

Title: A Federated Approach to Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Speakers: Dr Paul Denny-Gouldson, Product Manager, IDBS Limited; Rennie Higson - Alliances Director, IDBS Limited

Life science research has the need to realize the value of prior investments in new technologies such as genomics, proteomics and systems biology. In order to realize the value of these assets they must connect and make sense of information across R&D business units. These organizations face significant challenges to this such as therapeutic data silos, critical data residing externally to the organization, and complex and changing data/business rules that don’t fit the traditional data warehousing model. This presentation will use a prototype Electronic Lab Notebook to illustrate how a federated approach to data integration, using K3 middleware, can help life science organizations manage the challenges of data integration in a practical research context.

Title: BodyKom – Intelligent Health IT from Sweden
Speakers: Björn Söderberg, CEO and co-founder of Kiwok; Anders Björlin, Business Architect and co-founder of Kiwok

A new Swedish medical technology innovation launched in 2005 will enable doctors and nurses to remotely access and monitor patients’ health conditions in real time, from the hospital or clinic to anywhere a person is. The system, called BodyKom, works by providing an intelligent communications link between the medical sensors used by a patient through to the monitoring and diagnostic systems used in healthcare processes. The implications for people’s quality of life, healthcare systems and budgets, are potentially enormous.

Title: Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS)
Speakers: Igor Rosette Valencia, CIO/CTO, Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS)

This presentation will discuss the efforts and work that the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) has done in implementing information technology in the delivery of healthcare in Mexico. Topics to be discussed include Electronic Health Records, Hospital Information Systems, IMSS-VISTA, Imaging, the Digital Hospital and plans for future development.

Title:  Cerner Corporation 1979-2030, Architecture Matters
Speaker: Rod Coombs, VP of Solutions Technology, Cerner