Industry Perspectives Abstracts

Mobility Innovation: Enabler or Driver of Healthcare Transformation?
Speaker:Alex Go, Director, Clinical Client Product Management, Digital Health Group Healthcare IT, Intel Corporation

The quintessential mobile-intensive environment, an agile healthcare enterprise is capable of optimizing clinical workflow by freeing up the care team from physical boundaries. We will explore the next frontiers in clinicians’ adoption of technology – the ‘last mile’ barrier to agility, applying key learnings from Intel’s work with end users, stakeholders, healthcare experts, policy makers and technology leaders around the world,

• Global perspective on healthcare IT innovation
• Healthcare Transformation and workflow optimization require mobility
• Clinicians’ adoption of technology is the ‘last-mile’ barrier to the agile healthcare enterprise

Expanding Cerner’s Boundaries
Speaker:Rod Coombs, Vice President Solutions Technology, Cerner Corporation

Cerner Corporation, long a leader in integrated healthcare clinical information systems, offers a brief introduction to the company coupled with a view of current initiatives designed to eliminate errors and reduce expense in the care process. These initiatives represent the next steps in fulfilling Cerner’s mission to place the right tools and the right information in the hands of the right people at the right time to positively impact healthcare.

Leveraging Test Management and Test Automation Tools on FDA Validated Applications
Speakers: Eric Toburen, Director of Life cciences, Genilogix

Wouldn’t you like to reduce costs associated with FDA imposed computer systems validation (CSV) guidelines, and improve test coverage at the same time? Drawing from his experience in the use of automated testing and test management tools in FDA regulated environments, Eric Toburen will discuss the challenges of complying with FDA validation guidelines. Life Sciences companies are already seeing the benifit of deploying these tools, making their validation projects more efficient while reducing compliance risk. Find out how automated testing and test management practices can shorten the CSV lifecycle and improve test coverage. As part of the discussion Eric will introduce a case study developed by the GAMP Special Interest Group on Test Automation entitled: Test Automation in a Pharmaceutical Environment.

Avoiding the Fallacy of Health Information Technology
Speaker:Bruce Greenstein, Senior Director of Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation

Cisco Connected Health
Speaker:Michelle Robertson, Business Development Manager, Healthcare-West Region, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Healthcare is moving to a new vision - one that seamlessly connects the healthcare world to networked resources of information, processes and knowledge in order to reduce costs, increase the access to care, and improve quality of care. At Cisco, that vision is Connected Health. Connected Health creates collaborative relationships among all stakeholders to deliver safe, affordable, accessible health services. Cisco enables a Connected Health community through interoperable technology, processes, and people to provide critical health information at any time from any location.

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Scientific Business Intelligence: Improving productivity, decision making, and research capabilities by leveraging an enterprise-wide, plug-and-play scientific operating platform to unite diverse applications and databases
Speaker:Bill Taylor, Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Development, Accelrys

One of the major challenges currently facing the scientific and clinical research communities is the inability to access, aggregate, and mine scientific data across an enterprise organization. As a result, data remains locked in silos, first causing productivity and decision making to suffer, and ultimately impeding an organization’s research capabilities. By successfully harnessing disparate data sources and software applications, organizations position themselves to apply their data in an intelligent, focused manner, thereby improving productivity, decision making and research capabilities. However, such efficiencies have eluded many scientific and clinical research organizations because traditional business intelligence (BI) technologies cannot handle advanced scientific data processing and analysis. This lack of a readily available BI solution has forced organizations to make due with vendor-specific solutions, drain in-house development resources by building customized solutions, or struggle with sharing data among incompatible point products. Accelrys’ proven history of delivering innovative modeling, simulation and informatics software for life and materials science, as well as its open and standards-based scientific operating platform, positions it to deliver scientifically enabled BI solutions that meet the needs of the scientific and clinical research communities.

TissueMine: The Total Digital Pathology Solution
Speaker:Mohan Uttarwar, President and CEO, BioImagene

This presentation will discuss TissueMine, a total digital pathology solution for research and development This presentation will talk about automated tissue analysis being a valuable tool for scientists to improve accuracy, efficiency and productivity in the study of tissue samples. This presentation will include a discussion of the digitization of tissue slides, computer assisted analysis; tissue image management, archival, and retrieval; and custom report generation.

Virtual Microscopy: A Tipping point in diagnostic pathology
Speaker:Dr. Peter Hamilton, Managing Director, i-Path

This presentation will provide an overview of the emerging revolution in digital pathology and how new tools from i-Path Diagnostics Ltd. are facilitating training, education, research in cancer diagnostics and virtual tissue archiving in biomedical sciences. It will also discuss the enormous opportunities for innovation in the field of digital pathology, the challenges and future prospects and the impact that digital pathology will have on the quality of care.

HIE Case Studies in Partnership: DHIN a Study in Execution; CalRHIO a Study in Planning
Speaker:Rebecca Little, Senior Vice President, Medicity, Inc.

Medicity’s partnership with DHIN and CalRHIO provides two informative case studies in the planning and execution of Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiatives. Financial impetus for creating DHIN was a reduction in result-distribution costs. Therefore, Phase 1 of DHIN implementation focused on result distribution. Hospital systems and LabCorp contributed data. This data is now distributed to users by Web-based portal, EMR integration, and automatic printing and faxing. Phase 2 will add patient-record-inquiry functionality to the network.

Medicity’s approach to HIE building leverages existing technical infrastructure within healthcare organizations and utilizes the Internet for ubiquitous access and reduced technical needs in provider offices. The framework supports the business objectives of healthcare organizations and providers, and the data-management strategy maximizes security, scalability, and availability. Ultimately, the success of an HIE depends on physician adoption. Medicity’s design supports physicians at any level of technology adoption.

CalRHIO aims to create a California-wide Collaborative Care Network (CCN) with a sustainable financial model. Projected to save $9 billion per year, the CCN will be built in two layers. The first will be a statewide “backbone” of data and services that can be queried by users. Available data will include claims history and lab and medication data. Services will include an MPI, record locator service, full administrative payer support, and ePrescribing. The second layer will consist of regional overlays that support “push” reporting from hospitals, labs, transcription services, and other sources. The cost of the system is distributed among those who benefit from it, such as payers, hospitals, and physicians.

Life Sciences Trends & Best Practices for Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency in Office Hardcopy
Speaker:Tab Edwards, Market Development Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Company

A Typical life science company can spend up to $1,400 per-employee-per-year on general office print, copy, and fax TCO.  This session will review the latest hardcopy trends in the life sciences industry as well as share best practices and recommendations on how to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and improve user productivity.  It also reviews how to build the business case for Enterprise Content Management.

The Digital Hospital
Speaker:Baldur Johnsen, Market Development, Hospitals and Health Systems, WW Health and Life Sciences, Hewlett-Packard Company

This presentation will discuss Hewlett-Packard’s Digital Hospital Infrastructure Solution.  The presentation will include the business and healthcare issues that the solution helps address, a solution description, the components of the solution, partners and a case study of how the solution has been deployed.