Industry Perspectives Abstracts

Leveraging Consumerism to Improve Healthcare
Speaker: Rick Ingraham, Global Strategy Manager – Healthcare, SAS

The situation of rising medical costs with less-than-optimal outcomes has become too great of a drain on the US economy. The challenge is to bring patient-centric focus into the entire healthcare culture and not just market messaging. The question is how can both providers and payers shift analysis to drive patient focus and medical quality. A new breed of analytics can be the single-greatest opportunity to drive improvement in all facets of healthcare. Will you insist on new analytics to reshape patient/member focus? The session will specifically address areas in which the “system” is broken, specific areas of analytics that will drive patient-centered analysis to result in improved quality and why every participant within the industry must accept nothing less.

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Health Information Exchange – What it Takes to Succeed
Speaker: Rebecca L. Little, Senior Vice President, HIE Market Development, Medicity
Gina Perez, President, Advances in Management, Inc.

This session will provide a case study of the Delaware Health Information Network--an operational statewide health information exchange. The Delaware Health Information Network is the first state-wide clinical information exchange which has been successfully exchanging data for over 1 year. Participants will receive an overview of the governance, organizational structure, and information technology necessary to develop a successful health information exchange. Additionally, the session will cover methods for multistakeholder strategic planning and consensus building as the basis for system implementation as well as strategies ensuring the project is implemented on time, within budget, in scope, and is sustainable across competing hospitals and national laboratories.

A Single Source of Truth... Bringing People, Data and Workflow Together
Speakers:Tom Herzog, Vice President DeviceWorks

Cerner created the CareAwareTM device connectivity architecture and strategy to make healthcare safer and more efficient. Cerner, recognized world-wide as a leading healthcare information technology (HCIT) supplier, entered into the device connectivity market to help our clients better utilize medical device data and their investment in the medical record. The CareAware architecture leverages Cerner’s HCIT knowledge, coupled with experience in device integration, to improve the quality of patient care, increase productivity and enhance clinical workflow.

Join us to:

• Review the current state of device connectivity, including the impact of the medical record
• Understand the role of CareAware in connecting people, data and workflow
• Discuss the overall evolution and innovation taking place with medical device connectivity

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The use of Digital Pen & Paper to run Clinical Trials
Speaker: Philippe Berna, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder, Kayentis
Guilaume Juge, Managing Director, Kayentis

Digital Pen & Paper technology allows the use of paper forms, as required by Good Clinical Practice and offers a spectrum of tools and functionalities that are well suited to clinical trials: highly intuitive, flexible technology, real-time uploading of data, complete audit trail with full traceability information.

Clinical operations need real time management and precision to deliver the necessary results in the new age of health care delivery. Sophisticated location and association technology can provide the tools to improve operational performance, clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. Automatic entry of data, by simply doing your work, will provide the next level of performance and quality.

Adoption of an Automated Testing Framework in a Regulated Environment
Speaker: Jason Tepfenhardt, Director of Operations, Life Sciences Practice

The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of the approach to introduce and adopt an automated testing framework into an FDA regulated testing environment. This presentation will focus on a phased process driven implementation of automated testing tools to supplement an Organization’s existing manual testing process. The ultimate goal is a Testing Center of Excellence that appropriately utilizes automation in conjunction with manual testing process to provide a more effective, efficient, quality, and compliant testing operation.

Open eHealth Foundation – Making Standards Work!
Speaker: Alexander Ihls, Head of Global Standards Office, Open eHealth Foundation

The introduction of the Open eHealth Foundation will give an overview about the objectives and goals of this nonprofit organization. Starting from the motivations to found such an organization, the actual status of the developments and the future plans are shown.

The Open eHealth Foundation Framework will become the leading standards and community collaboration providing interoperable components and service for increased healthcare IT adoption. The Foundation will provide an application development platform including infrastructure and application components to ensure compatibility between the various health care applications, using a framework and infrastructure based on proven standards to enable health care applications to communicate with each other and to exchange data; to promote the further adoption of technology, in health care; and to make the fruits of its efforts available to the industry under an Open Source license.

The Foundation operates Open Source projects, which provide members and other interested parties with an open, consensus-based, industry forum, through conferences and a formal Project Management Team process, for collaborative work on the development of a common platform and framework.

Data Centre for Healthcare in the Gulf Region; Hurdles & Challenges
Speaker: Fried Oelschlegel, Ph.D. CEC

All National Healthcare Systems in GCC countries are under extreme pressure to transform and modernize. Within the next 15 years the demand for Hospital beds within the GCC will more than double from 68,000 to 162,000 beds. Approximately 650 hospitals are additionally needed. The lack of qualified medical, technical and managerial staffs are the biggest hurdles the countries have to tackle. The level of IT hard – and software installation is far behind compared to western countries. Decision makers distrust medical data, statistical trends and the far-reaching absence of international accredited medical standards, guidelines, pathways etc. The lack of IT specialists and the abilities and interests of the medical staff to use such technical solutions is slowing this transformation. Independent Healthcare Data Centre would be able to take on the complete work of IT Departments of hospitals and help bridge the lack of specialized staff. It would also help hospitals move to self-learning Hospital-IT Systems to steer, control and improve medical quality and safety in diagnostic and treatment by data bank systems. To push the Middle East Healthcare IT-Sector from isolated, stand alone IT – Departments in small hospitals to a global network of outsourced Healthcare Data Centre means moving away from the stone age and into the world of tomorrow – this is the challenge the IT-Industry has to tackle together with the health care providers in GCC countries in a real partnership.

Healthcare IT Value Model
Speaker: Jim Athanasiou

This session will discuss Intel’s Health Care Value Model Approach - and highlight critical success factors through reviews of case studies and examples:

• Health Care Value Model Approach
• Banner Case Study - HIT example
• Saint Claire Case Study - mobility example
• Salford Case Study - mobility example

Effective Ways to Manage your Medical Image Archive
Speaker: Richard Bertuzzi, Iron Mountain, Lisa Dali, Hewlett Packard Company

With the explosive growth in the size and volume of diagnostic images, it is essential that your data be protected from disaster, loss, damage and misuse. Ultimately, this critical information needs to be easily accessible for rapid recovery in the event of a disaster. Furthermore, as storage volumes grow, you may need a cost-effective, reliable alternative to building and maintaining your own image archive. In this session, you will learn ways to proactively plan so your medical images are protected and recoverable. In addition, you will learn steps to free-up staff and resources so you can focus on the mission critical task of delivering patient care.