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Diane Beattie, Integrated Vice President of Health Information Management, CIO, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) & St Joseph’s Health Care, London (SJHC), Ontario, Canada
The industry has made a lot of promises on the benefits of tracking high value assets with RFID. LHSC went live in August, 2008 with a project to track several hundred infusion pumps. This presentation will describe the project, feedback from the clinicians, ROI and lessons learned.
George Rathbun, CEO/Executive Director, CRIX International Association
CRIX International is dedicated to providing a common infrastructure and a suite of services that will accelerate and streamline collaboration. Launching new therapies requires collaboration among drug product sponsors, business partners, research institutions, academia, health care providers, and health authorities.
The CRIX International information exchange offers a collaborative environment for creating, exchanging, and managing clinical research and regulatory product information. CRIX services are delivered through a web-based portal that provides users with a common interface to access services. This holistic approach to service delivery allows for a seamless user experience. The backbone of this portal is a secure, standards-based electronic platform. The platform consists of low-cost, feature-rich solution components and tools that provide business functionality. The platform will allow IT Service Providers to build extensions that meet additional business needs for the CRIX Community.
Chris Nicholson, Director of Strategic Communications, Humana, Inc.
What high-level architecture do you need to truly create personalized communications, specifically focusing on the convergence of health finance? Learn how Humana’s use of solutions such as the SmartSummary, Personal Health Record, and SmartResults illustrate how to accomplish this. Learn about consumer trends and how capitalizing on these trends can drive significant corporate ROI while maintaining member satisfaction.
Ray Rogers, CEO, National Center for Health Care Informatics (NCHCI)
Healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency are compromised because information resides in thousands of disparate data silos. Interoperable health data exchange has become a formidable national challenge for the US healthcare industry. This presentation overviews a pilot project to demonstrate the ability to rapidly develop and deploy health information exchange.
Luiz Arnoldo Haertel, MD, Cardiologist, Clinical Director and Head of Clinical IT, Santa Catarina Hospital in Blumenau, Brazil
Santa Catarina Hospital started the implementation of an integrated IT system in its administrative and assistance processes 10 years ago. The presentation highlights the challenges, opportunities, outcomes, and the utilization scope of the electronic health record and other technologies. The new IT system has completely transformed the hospital. The remarkable outcomes have made Santa Catarina Hospital a landmark health care digitalization reference for Brazil and Latin America.
Sandy Aronson, Executive Director of Information Technology, Harvard Medical School - Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics
Rapidly decreasing sequencing costs continue to drive expanded use of genetics in both research and clinical environments. Expanded use is already creating new challenges for researchers and clinicians that must be solved through enhanced information technology support. These challenges will grow exponentially if predictions of even more dramatic sequencing cost reductions in the coming years hold true. This presentation shows how we see the use of genetics evolving in our environment and the systems we have deployed. And it describes the infrastructure we are building to prepare for the future.
Ted Hagan, Director Service Delivery, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.
The healthcare industry is in the midst of significant change due to:
- Improvements in information technology
- Continued cost management pressure
- Migration from an employer/group model to a more retail-oriented consumer model These dynamics require a sophisticated response from the Information Technology organization.
Professor Harold Thimbleby, PhD, FRSA, FIET, Director of the Future Interaction Technology Lab (FIT Lab), Swansea University, Wales
Human error causes many adverse incidents, particularly in using interactive medical devices like infusion pumps. Infusion pumps are so inherently complex that no amount of training or processes can manage their latent problems. Errors can simply be caused by the design of the devices. This means that you must rigorously evaluate the devices and reduce designed-in errors.
Linda Creps, Executive Director, MCIT, University of Michigan Health System Yuen Chueh Hwang, Director, Information Management Office, Tri-Service General Hospital Marc Holland, Program Director, Health Provider Research, IDC
Across the globe, health authorities are faced with increasing demand for health services, yet have to balance tight budgets. A highly human resource intensive industry, most costs are consumed by the professionals providing care, commonly 60-80 percent of the expenditure.
New hospital design and construction provide a great transformational opportunity for healthcare organizations by optimizing facilities, processes and technology. History shows that it takes organizations a long time to exploit the full transformational potential of technology innovation. The Digital Hospital initiative is aimed at accelerating the organizational impact. During this panel discussion, customers will share their experiences.
Dr. Jack Tuszynski, Allard Research Chair, Division of Experimental Oncology, University of Alberta, Canada
Cancer research seeks to develop drug or treatment regimens that target only cancer cells with minimal damage to healthy tissues. We have designed many new promising compounds that selectively bind to tubulin isoforms that reflect patient-specific mutations in tumor cells. This presentation will discuss the impact of translational research on the conduct of life sciences research. These have a growing influence on current research practices at the University of Alberta, Division of Experimental Oncology. This presentation will explore effective data management and information integration strategies. These are imperative as we begin a massive computational effort to match every target protein with an existing chemical entity.
Dr. Karl A. Stroetmann, PhD, MBA, FRSM, Senior Associate, Empirica Communication & Technology Research
Across the European Union, health policy-makers and healthcare authorities are struggling to reconcile social values with new health service demands. Key concerns about the transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare processes are increasingly addressed by supportive ICT applications. Supplemental or private health insurance is seen as a promising alternative. It can ensure the financial sustainability of healthcare systems and support new models of collaborative care while respecting citizens' demands for more choice and higher quality.
Adam Darkins, MD, MPHM, FRCS Chief Consultant for Care Coordination, Veterans Health Administration
Managing chronic conditions, e.g. diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension, is a growing and potentially overwhelming challenge for health systems worldwide. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides health care services to 5.6 million patients annually. The VA’s challenge, given its particular population profile of patients, is a portent of what other health care systems face.
Use of innovative health information and telehealth technologies in a subset of 35,000 VA patients has reduced admissions to institutional care. It has helped maintain patients independently in their own homes and patients are highly satisfied. While the vision for this approach is relatively easy to enunciate, as always, the devil is in the details.
This presentation focuses on the systems design, clinical re-engineering and discipline that successful implementation of this transformative approach requires. Presentation is not available.
