Health IT Management Tracks

Opening Welcome

Opening Keynote

His Excellency Ahmad Bin Humaidan

The Director General of Dubai eGovernment, UAE

Implementation of HIT on a Massive Scale: Integrating over 200 Ministry of Health Hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Industry Solution IS1
Clinical Leadership & Governance

Utilizing Evidence-Based Order Sets to Standardize Care and Implement CPOE at Sheikh Khalifah Medical City
Sheikh Khalifah Medical City (SKMC) will share its experiences and strategies for developing and implementing evidence-based practice within an aggressive 6-month timeline to meet its CPOE go-live date in December 2009. This presentation will include discussion around project planning, organizational transformation, physician engagement, and adoption strategies, as well as critical factors for success and lessons learned.

Sulaiman H Sulaiman, Chief Information Officer, Sheik Khalifa Medical Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Sponsor: ZynxHealth

HIT Management Session ED2

Communications

The Impact of Enterprise Reporting on the Health Enterprise Decision-Making Process

This session will describe the impact of successfully implementing Enterprise Reporting on the decision-making process within our Health Enterprise, and to demonstrate the major achievements and accomplishments that the Enterprise Reporting has reached within our healthcare organization, after 4 years of its start date.

Fadwa AL-Bawardi, BS MS, Project Leader - Enterprise Reporting Services Section, Information Technology Affairs, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Industry Solution IS2
eHealth/Connected Health

Successful adoption of electronic prescribing at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital will share its e-prescribing success story including how it harnessed the power of electronic clinical decision support to reduce medication errors across this complex care environment.  The presentation will outline strategies for clinician engagement, implementation, roll-out, alert management and reporting.

India Hardy, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Support (Acting) & Lead Pharmacist-ePrescribing, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, UK

Sponsor: First DataBank

HIT Management Session ED3
Interoperability

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Overview – Changing the way healthcare connects with standards

This session describes the value proposition and role of the international Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) standards for achieving secure and reliable interoperability of health information exchange among health providers in national, regional, and global market economies.

A key goal of this presentation is understanding how international IHE working committees establish the business case for development of interoperable systems that quality care and competitive advantages.

In addition, this presentation will describe how the international IHE Patient Care Device Domain activities are allowing harmonization of telemedicine, eHealth, remote home healthcare, and related innovations that improve productivity, healthcare quality, and point-of-care/moment-of-care personalization.

Elliot Sloane, PhD, Professor and Director of Health Systems Engineering, Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, USA.

Charles Parisot, Manager, Interoperability Standards and Testing, GE Healthcare, France

Moderator: Dr Hani Abdulsattar Shaker, MD CCC-SLP, Medical Speech & Swallowing Disorders Physician, Deputy General for Planning and Development/ Director-General of Health Affairs in Makkah Region/ Health Informatics Consultant in Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

HIT Management Session ED4

IT Strategy and Innovations

Integration of Medical Equipment Data with HIS "New approach in reducing the cost"
Establishing regular report system on medical equipment usage and integrating it with the hospital information system (HIS), to get accurate and timely information on the status of Medical Equipment.

Omar Mushref Radwan, Academic Director of Biomedical Engineering Department, Capitals Institute of Health Sciences, Jeddah – KSA, Saudi Arabia.

Industry Solution IS3

eHealth /Connected Health

30 Connected eHospitals In 24 Months, A Saudi Case Study

The Saudi Ministry of Health has decided in 2008 to automate 30 of its hospitals distributed geographically across the kingdom. Health Insights with its Saudi partner, Al-Khaleej Computers and Electronic Equipment have successfully implemented and deployed the MedicaPlus solution across the 30 hospitals including a unified EMR and centralized KPIs reporting in a record 24 months.

Moderator: Nasser Shehata, BSc, Chief Executive Officer, Health Insights, Egypt.

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.

Phillip Vetter, PhD, Head of Strategy, Health Authority of Abu Dhabi, UAE.

HIT Management ED5
IT Strategy and Innovations

Making IT Work in a Greenfield Setting Session
This presentation will review the myriad challenges and successes of a Greenfield project in financially fluctuant times in the Middle East.  It will describe how a disruptive technologic and regulatory innovation was implemented to catalyze a healthcare cultural transformation.

Manish Kohli, MD MPH MBA, Director, Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI), UAE.

Andrew Jeon, MD MBA, President and CEO, Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI), 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

HIT Management Session ED6
eHealth

Use of Mobile Device in Health Care Setting
The trend for clinician use of web enabled wireless handheld devices is becoming increasingly common in hospitals and wards. Handheld computer is enhancing how clinicians dispense care. This session will present the scope of using mobile device in the health care setting, the shortcomings and will identify major corner stones in defining the strategy of using the mobile devices.

Samir Hassan Sawli, PhD, Senior Business Analyst, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar Foundation, Qatar.

Sponsor: E3 Corporation

Industry Solution IS4

eHealth

Saving lives and saving money for critical care patients
Tele-ICU Programs have enabled health systems to leverage scarce intensivist resources across large numbers of hospital intensive care units, disaster situations and wide geographies- saving thousands of lives and millions of dollars. Understand the success factors for bringing this unique care model to your health system.

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

Sponsor: Philips

HIT Management ED7
Connected Health

Outcomes Improvements through EHR-enabled Inter-disciplinary Capabilities
This presentation will illustrate through FOUR clinically and statistically compelling examples how inter-disciplinary information technology (IT) improved clinical, cost and efficiency-related bed-side outcomes at our community hospital.

Steven H. Shaha, MEd MA PhD DBA, Principal Outcomes Consultant, University of Utah, USA.

Industry Solution IS5
IT Strategy and Innovations

Secure Mobile Computing and Worldwide Mobile Point of Care Success Stories
Healthcare workers are mobile; this creates concerns about connectivity and data security. Learn about technologies that can help with mobile data protection while preserving the flexibility to work both on line and offline in Point of Care settings and how to measure their impact. Hear about Mobile Point of Care (MPOC) success stories from the Middle East and round the world.

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

Sponsor: Intel

HIT Management Session ED8
Health IT and Standards Adoption

Overview on selecting & acquiring PACS_RIS systems
In the past few years, there has been continuous growth in clinical implementation of PACS to reduce costs and improve patient care, a trend that is expected to continue. However, PACS is complex and costly to acquire, maintain repair and replace. To select a system that best meets their requirements, purchasers of PACS_RIS packages need to be aware of the key characteristics and differing features of the various products. Before the PACS_RIS systems are acquired, the Hospital should identify & train a PACS team according to the size of the institution in a phased manner.

Walid Rafeh, MBA, PACS & RIS Administrator, AUBMC, Lebanon.

HIT Management Session ED9
Connected Health

Beyond HIS replacement: Transforming DHA (Dubai Health Authority) with a next-generation EMR
Dubai Health Authority is implementing a next-generation EMR integrated in the regional eHealth environment. This presentation will describe the solutions to challenges faced in project definition, EMR planning and procurement are discussed in the context of the region’s specific requirements.

Dr Thomas Koch, PhD, Managing Partner, Birkholz und Partner - Medical Systems and Information Technology Consultants, Germany.

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, Intel Digital Health Group, USA.

Gregory H Dorn, MD MPH, President, First Databank, USA

Dr Brian Rosenfeld, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Philips Visicu, USA.