Health IT Leadership Summit

Opening Welcome

Opening Keynote

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

Leadership Summit Session LS1

Change Management, Governance and Gaining Agreement
Success as a CIO isn’t always dependent on deploying the latest technology, but on the cornerstones of governance structures and change management.  Two leading CIOs will share their formulas for deploying technology with human factors in mind.

CHONG Yoke Sin, PhD CPHIMS, CEO, Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), Singapore.

Leadership Summit Session LS2

Transparency Exposed:  The unanticipated organizational impact of Health IT
Health IT reduces costs, saves lives and makes healthcare more efficient.  It also generates data about organizational performance that management has not been presented with previously.  What is a CIO to do with key performance indicators that may show widely varying levels of patient outcomes, lengths of stay and cost? Can this information be used to generate a constructive feed-back loop in the organization?

Antoine Geissbuhler, MD, Director, Division of eHealth and Telemedicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

Abdullah Sulaiman Al Amro, Chief Executive Officer, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

LS Focus Group FG1

eHealth

Using Tele-health care delivery models across the patient continuum
Tele-health is the only solution that effectively provides the three pillars of healthcare: Greatest Access, Highest Quality and Lowest Cost. Understand how an integrated tele-health strategy can leverage your care providers and meet the needs of your patients in the hospital and at home.

Brian Rosenfeld, MD, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Philips-VISICU, USA

Sponsor: Philips

LS Focus Group FG2
IT Strategy and Innovations

How the Cloud and Mobile Computing are changing the Healthcare ICT landscape
Healthcare workers are mobile. They need relevant information delivered to them at the point of care to both improve care delivery and help contain costs. Hear about how SaaS, IaaS and the cloud are rapidly emerging as ideal ways to configure HIT infrastructures to provide extensible on demand services to mobile worker. 

Moderator: Mark Blatt, MD MBA, Director, Global Healthcare Strategies, Intel Digital Health Group, USA

Sponsor: Intel

Leadership Summit Session LS3

Arabic Language Health Information: A Portal from the Hospital to the Patient?

With the hospital website becoming the public face of many healthcare institutions, how should hospitals seek to attract and inform patients with relevant and trustworthy health information? Especially with health-related queries rising to the top of internet search lists, and patients demanding more involvement in their care decisions. How does the CIO respond and what are the implications of sourcing, developing and publishing health information in one or more languages. Learn about the Health on the Net Patient Portal in Switzerland and the plans for the Middle East’s first major Arabic Language Patient Portal.

Antoine Geissbuhler, MD, Director, Division of eHealth and Telemedicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

Roundtable Discussion: Next Generation Patient 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 Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic, USA.

LS Focus Group FG3
Health IT & Standards Adoption

Operationalizing Clinical and National Standards: Making Success Endemic
National governments and medical societies are increasingly defining and implementing standards for clinical quality, safety and performance.  HIT is fundamental for achieving standards through workflow, documentation and reporting.  We will review keys to success with exemplary case studies for operationalizing standards, achieving continuous improvement in quality and financial viability.

Moderator: Steven H. Shaha, MEd MA PhD DBA, Principal Outcomes Consultant, Allscripts, USA

Sponsor: Allscripts

LS Focus Group FG4

eHealth /Connected Health

Improving healthcare with e-health record integration and exchange
Current healthcare IT models embrace coordinated systems that support patients with real-time consolidation of e-health records. While information technology can assist in the delivery of safer, higher quality, more cost-effective services to the community, systems must be adaptable and truly integrated.  

Stan Capp, PhD, Regional Director, Asia Pacific, Middle East & India, InterSystems, USA

LS Focus Group FG5

Clinical Leadership & Governance

Maximizing CPOE and Achieving Standardized Care through CDS and Order Set adoption
Discussion will focus on the key drivers for purchasing electronic orders sets and the keys to successful integration and physician adoption.

Erik Johnson, Director of Product Marketing – ProVation Order Sets, Wolters Kluwer Health, USA

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

Leadership Summit Session LS4

US Healthcare Reform, IT Incentives and the Definition of Meaningful Use

Ms Wise will provide an overview of the efforts underway in the United States to reform healthcare, drive information technology adoption, and improve the safety and quality of care provided to patients. EHR adoption incentives being offered to hospitals and eligible providers will be discussed. Meaningful use will be defined and key components necessary for meaningful use will be outlined.

Patricia B Wise, RN MS MA FHIMSS, Vice President, HIS, HIMSS, USA

Leadership Summit Session LS5

EMR Vendor selection: Integrating the end game into the earliest stages of vendor consideration
Selecting a clinical EMR is one of the single most expensive and risky decisions a CIO will make.  This session will provide a check-list of critical considerations in the process of interviewing vendors.  Keys to success include laying out the plan for implementation, adoption by establishing key benchmarks for success well before the contract is signed.

Robyn Cook, RN MBA, Senior Project Manager, Clinical Information Systems, Information Management Department, Sidra Medical & Research Center, Qatar.

Leadership Summit LS6

EMR Support in an increasingly Complex World

As hospitals continue to mature along the HIMSS EMR Adoption curve, many hospitals have found that post-implementation activities can be more expensive and complex than originally planned. The reasons for this unexpected finding are complex and include the challenges attributable to meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse group of physicians and other allied stakeholders as well as the challenges that are more directly attributable to system enhancements, optimization activities, and upgrades.

Kip Webb, MD, MPH, Managing Partner, Accenture Provider Clinical Solution, USA

LS Focus Group FG6

IT Strategy and Innovations

Importing Invention: How to Bring the Latest Innovations from Across the World to your Hospital Steps

In this session, we will discuss the latest innovations in Healthcare IT, and how CIOs in the region can bring these breakthroughs to the Middle East. Examples of disruptive technology in the Middle East – including past successes and failures - will feed discussion with current and former CIOs around the world. Attendees will achieve an understanding of the latest technologies available, and how they can pioneer the successful “importing” of these systems in their hospitals.

Matthew Mueller, Head of Professional Services & Technology, E3 Corporation, UAE

Sponsor: E3 Corporation

Leadership Summit Session  LS7

Is the CIO enough? Building internal alliances to drive successful HIT Adoption
Succeeding as a CIO is more than assembling the right vendors and persuasive data points.  IT leaders are reaching out to leading clinicians and other key stakeholders to act as allies in driving change. Learn how CIOs are engaging key stakeholders and turning the IT department into a center for anticipating and integrating customer needs thereby successfully transforming the organization.|
Robert Pickton, CIO, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), UAE.

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO): the new role in Healthcare management
CMIO is a new role that is not well understood, nor recognized in some cases. It's time to highlight the importance and the need of CMIO in healthcare management. The presentation will cover the following related areas: CMIO Role and Qualification, Medical informatics body, CMIO Challenges, CMIO and CIO, Current state in Saudi, CMIO resources, Expectations and future needs.
Osama Al-Swailem, MD MA, Chief Medical Information Officer and Director, Medical & Clinical Informatics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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.

Care coordination beyond the hospital: what does it take?
Optimally managing chronic disease requires providers to care for citizens beyond the hospital. Care coordination requires a carefully thought out infrastructure that allow information to be shared by multiple providers in diverse settings. The infrastructure needed for this coordination should be a national program based on clear policies and accepted standards.
Mark Blatt, MD MBA, Director, Global Healthcare Strategies, Intel Digital Health Group, USA.

Chronic Disease Management and Health Maintenance across the Continuum of Care
Evidenced-based pathways enable clinicians, hospitals, and government stakeholders to coordinate the patient’s journey from chronic home-based care to primary and acute care. Since 1996, Zynx Health has helped optimize patient care across all settings through localized evidence-based clinical decision support, including order sets, rules, care plans, and disease management templates.
Gregory H Dorn, MD MPH, President, First Databank, USA

Transitioning care from the hospital to the home
Chronically ill patients require a coordinated care model that covers the entire patient continuum. Understand how the Hospital-2-Home model provides the most effective use of resources and the safest environment for your providers to transition care and then maintain a stable healthy patient at home.
Brian Rosenfeld, MD, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Philips-VISICU, USA.