Health Insurers Innovation Forum

The Health Insurers Innovation Forum is in collaboration with MedicaIQ and showcased the greatest innovations in the global health insurance industry, and tools for consumer driven healthcare and medicine. It also provided a first ever look at the health insurance industry through the lens of the Healthcare technologist and leading global innovators.

HIMSS Middle East 2010 Health Insurers Innovation Forum

Monday, 8 November 2010
Insurance Innovations
0930–1000	Registration and Coffee
1000–1030	Opening Welcome – UAE Ministry of Health and Dubai Health Authority His Excellency Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid The Director General of the Dubai Health Authority
1000–1015	Opening Welcome His Excellency Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, The Director General of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), UAE
1015–1045	Opening Keynote His Excellency Ahmad Bin Humaidan The Director General of Dubai eGovernment, UAE
1045–1100	Session Transition
1100–1130	Implementation of HIT on a Massive Scale: Integrating over 200 Ministry of Health Hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed R Al Yemeni, PhD, Advisor to the Minister of Health and Supervisor of ICT, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1130–1145	Break
1145–1245	Insurance Forum IF1 Overview of the Middle East Health Insurance Industry Trends This session we will do a “Deep dive” and set the stage from a top line prospective of Gulf Health Insurance trends as related to and implemented by Health Insurers. This track will offer the opportunity for attendees to share visions about the future of health care with a discussion offering practical analysis exploring the State-of-Health Insurance. Mr. Fareed Lutfi, Secretary General, Emirates Insurance Association, Dubai Holdings, UAE.
1245–1415	Networking Lunch
1415–1515	Insurance Forum IF2 Roundtable Discussion Featuring Regulators, regional and national leaders exploring topical issues of importance to the insurance industry, with opportunities for questions and interaction. This session should prove to be one of the most dynamic of the conference covering hot topics facing the industry, region and its emerging economies. Dr. Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Al Sharif, Secretary General, Counsel of Cooperative Health Insurance, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Haidar Al Yousuf, Director of Health Funding, Dubai Health Authority (DHA), UAE. Dr. Finn Goldner, Director Health System Financing, Health Authority of Abu Dhabi (HAAD), UAE.
1515–1545	Break
1545–1645
1645-1700	Break
1700–1800	Insurance Forum IF3 Disease Management and Case Management Trends and Tools As case management and disease management programs continue to grow and expand throughout the Middle East, information technology will more than likely play an increasingly important role by giving health consumers, physicians, and health insurers the information they need in real time to provide effective, high quality care and produce cost savings throughout the health care system in the region. This track will explore these issues and their global solution providers. Dr. Saif Al Jaibeji, Medical Director- Care Management Programs, Green Crescent Insurance Company
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Insurance Innovations
0900–0930	Registration and Coffee
0930–1100	Roundtable Discussion Next Generation Patience Portal and integration into Hospital IT structure Dataflows within the hospital are just the first step. As governments, payers and patients demand more efficient and responsive healthcare delivery, how are hospital IT executives to respond? Hear several prominent healthcare leaders present how healthcare organizations are succeeding in both integrating internal technology systems and meeting the societal and governmental demands for a more transparent, innovative and accessible healthcare delivery. C. Martin Harris, MD MBA, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic, USA Philipp Vetter, PhD, Head of Strategy, Health Authority of Abu Dhabi, UAE
1100–1130	Break
1130–1230	Insurance Forum IF4 Fraud & Abuse Prevention – Identification and Prevention This session will give an overview of Fraud and Abuse: what is it, its magnitude and who are the perpetrators of Fraud and Abuse. It will compare Fraud and Abuse in the United States to that in the UAE. Attendees will learn about laws that target Fraud & Abuse. The session will also explore the role of actuaries in helping insurance companies and TPAs use techniques that would prevent it from happening in certain areas and employ Data Mining tools in order to detect fraudulent behavior. Nabila Taha, Chief Actuary, Taha Actuaries
1230–1400	Networking Lunch
1400–1515	Interoperability: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) IHE Success Stories & Critical Success Factors discusses the basis, organization, and impact of IHE and health data standards in providing a foundation for health information exchange, and identifies key strategies for delivering EHR and Patient Care Device Interoperability within, across, and between healthcare enterprises. Elliot Sloane, PhD, Professor and Director of Health Systems Engineering, Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, USA External Data Sharing Applications that Improve Organizational Efficiency and Patient Safety - In light of the 2009 US legislation fueling health information exchanges, this presentation will explore some external data sharing applications in use today that improve organizational efficiency and patient safety. Ethan Fener, Director of Health Information Technology, Partners Harvard Medical International, USA
1515–1545	Break
1545–1645	Insurance Forum IF5 Quality & Performance improvement Philipp Vetter, PhD,Head of Strategy, Health Authority of Abu Dhabi, UAE
1645–1700	Break
1800–1900	Free Time
1900	Reception and Dinner Event
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Insurance Innovations
0830–0900	Registration and Coffee
0900–1000	Keynote: Lessons from the first 10 years of large-scale implementation of Interoperable Healthcare systems in England Since setting up the National Programme for IT in 2003 in England, the NHS has been working on an ambitious programme to implement an e-health strategy to deliver large-scale interoperability for the entire population of nearly 60 million people. Over the last 8 years, many lessons with direct applicability to other large-scale and enterprise-wide implementations have been learned. The lessons fit into five main categories namely: Enterprise Architecture; Commercial, contractual, financial; Programme & Project Management; Technical and Information Assurance; Telecommunications and Baseline Infrastructure. Drawing on unique experience of the presenter, this personal view will focus on equipping the attendee with details of how to achieve successful, scalable, affordable and timely implementations of enterprise-wide e-health. The attendee will be given an understanding of how to commission and achieve projects in 'the right order', ensuring that technical, political and clinical leadership as well as expectations start, and remain aligned. Michael Bainbridge, MD, Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada/ Senior Clinical Architect, ASE Consulting Ltd, UK
1000–1015	Break
1015–1115	Insurance Forum IF6 Claims & Reimbursement Jennifer Nuelle- Dimoulas, Chief Operations Officer, Nexcare AGHS, UAE
1115–1145	Break
1145–1245
1245–1300	Break
1300–1425	Roundtable Panel: Chronic Disease Management/Remote Health Monitoring for the Middle Eastern Countries The Middle East’s social demographic landscape – aging populations and chronic disease, will create demand for healthcare services that will exceed the supply of healthcare providers and hospital beds. How can healthcare organizations extend care outside of the bricks and mortar hospital? Can the care be appropriate and efficacious for patients dealing with chronic disease every day of their lives? Our speakers will demonstrate effective chronic disease management that is not only accepted by the patients, but is key to driving the real quality and results expected by a demanding public. Dr Mark Blatt, MD MBA, Director, Global Healthcare Strategies, Digital Health Group, Intel Corp., USA. Gregory H Dorn, MD MPH, President, First DataBank, USA. Dr Brian Rosenfeld, MD, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Philips Visicu, USA.
1425–1430	Announcement of 2011 and Wrap-Up
1430	Networking Lunch