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Health IT Conference

MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011

HIMSS MIDDLE EAST 2011 CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION - DAY 1

8:00

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

8.30

H.E. Dr. Bandar Abdulmohsen Al Knawy - President
President, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences General Supervisor, Royal Clinics

9:00

OPENING KEYNOTE
Implementation of HIT on a Massive Scale: The First 100 Days of the Saudi National eHealth Programme
Mohammed R Al Yemeni, PhD, Advisor to the Minister of Health and Supervisor of ICT, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

9:45

SESSION TRANSITION

 

HIMSS Conference (HC)

HIMSS Training and Workshop (TR)

Industry Solution Session/Focus Groups

Industry Solution Session/Focus Groups

10:00

HC1: Interoperability that Works: Integrating the Hospital Enterprise
IHE is enabling data exchange every day. Find out how to select vendors using IHE and how these practical IHE profiles to build interoperable health exchange Charles Parisot

TR1: Introduction to ICD-10 AM

10:45 Exhibition
Hall Open

BREAK

11:15

HC2: Business Intelligence: Establishing Key Performance Indicators to effectively harness warehoused electronic health information
Hamad Al-Daig, CIO, King Faisal Speciality and Research Hospital and Bryan Bergeron

TR2: A Tour of IHE Usage Profiles and the Application HIT Systems and Hospital Settings

 

12:00

LUNCH AND DEDICATED EXHIBITION TIME

13:30

HC3-Proven Large Scale Implementation:
Robert Kolodner, US National Coordinator, Health Information Technology (retired), The US Veterans Administration, US Veterans Administration, CIO (retired)

TR3: Intermediate ICD-10AM

 

14:15

SESSION TRANSITION

14:30

French National Health IT Program as a practical use of Integrating the Hospital Enterprise

 

15:15

End of Day

15:30-
19.30

CPHIMS Review Course

19:30

Reception/Dinner



TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011

HIMSS MIDDLE EAST 2011 CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION - DAY 2

8:00

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

8:30

Regional and National Co-Operating in the Achievement of Shared Health Information Technology Infrastructure, Richard Alvarez, Canada Health Infoway

9:30

SESSION TRANSITION

HIMSS Conference (HC)

HIMSS Training and Workshop (TR)

Industry Solution Session/Focus Groups

Industry Solution Session/Focus Groups

9:45 Exhibition Hall Open

HC5: Cost Recovery and IT Systems: Financially sustainable healthcare systems require effective IT Systems to process claims effectively. Find out how hospitals in the regions are responding to these challenges
Sulaiman Hadi Sulaiman, SKMC

TR 5: HIMSS Training and Workshop

10:30

BREAK

11:00

HC6: HIMSS Conference Session HC3: 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.

Michael Bainbridge, MD, Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada/ Senior Clinical Architect, ASE Consulting Ltd, UK

TR 6: HIMSS Training and Workshop

11:45

LUNCH AND DEDICATED EXHIBITION TIME

13:00

CLOSING PLENARY: effective mHealth, Dr. Abdullah Al-Amro, CEO, King Fahd Medical City

14:30

End of Day

15:00- 19:00

CPHIMS Review Course