Earn 3.75 CPD credits at the Conference from the Dubai Health Authority.
| DAY 1 - 11 December 2013 | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Exhibition Opens | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Emirates Ballroom 2 Official Welcome: His Excellency Engineer Essa Al Haj Al Maidoor, Director-General, Dubai Health Authority (DHA), United Arab Emirates |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 | Break | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Regional Roundtable: Reaching beyond the Hospital: Regional Strategic Plans Invited Participating Organizations: UAE MOH, Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim Al Omary, Head of Section, Information Technology Department, Dubai Health Authority, Ali Mohamed Al Ali, IT Manager, Health Authority Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, George Yacoub, Acting Group Chief Information Officer, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company- SEHA, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
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| 10:30 - 11:15 |
The Social Impact of eHealth. Dr. Mohammed R Al Yemeni, PhD, Deputy Minister for Planning & Health Economics, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | Breakout Sessions | |
| Track 1 Emirates Ballroom 2 | Track 2 Emirates Ballroom 4 | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Big Data driving change in Healthcare: Harnessing massive amounts of data to drive delivery system change. Dr. Lawrence Garber, Medical Director for Informatics, Reliant Medical Group, Atrius Health, USA
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Industry Solution Session Population Health - The Future of Healthcare The market today is filled with suppliers promising a better tomorrow if you only use "their" information system and most organizations are hearing this message. The real question is, is that all there is to making people healthier? Is it simply making sick patients better and faster at lower costs? In order to move the meter against the chronic diseases that affect our region, something more must be done. We will discuss the future of healthcare and the components needed to manage a population's health. Michael Pomerance, Vice President and Managing Director, Cerner Middle East and Africa 
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| 12:15 - 13:15 | Networking Lunch | |
| 13:15 - 14:00 |
Connecting the Hospital to the Patient: Patient Portals and Mobile KFSHRC is one of the first hospitals in the GCC to offer a full patient portal that supports patient connections back from the hospital. Dr. Osama will present on the evolution and implementation of the patient portal and how it is improving clinical connections to their patients. Dr. Osama Alswailem, MD, MA, Director, Medical and Clinical Informatics Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Industry Solution Session The HIT Semantic Highway as the New Virtual Commerce This presentation will show how the IMO terminology platform supports capturing true clinical intent at the point-of-care, is the terminology foundation for longitudinal care record architectures, supports Natural Language Processing (NLP) and enables Local Terminology Management by our clients - all capabilities that provide a platform for innovation and will become an integral part of clinical documentation thereby enhancing the applications offered by our vendor partners. Regis Charlot, President and Chief Technology Officer, IMO - Intelligent Medical Objects, USA 
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Session Transition | |
| 14:15 - 15:00 |
Enabling Healthcare in Out-Patient Settings and The Patient Centered Medical Home of the Future. The Hospital is the most expensive healthcare setting. This session describes how SEHA integrated IT into Out-Patient facilities and is planning to bring Healthcare into the community. Dr. Greg Raglow, Abu Dhabi Health Services Co, SEHA, Group Health Informatics Director, United Arab Emirates
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Industry Solution Session Unlocking technology's potential to build healthcare system for future Join Accenture for an interactive discussion about how healthcare organizations have leveraged IT to create more efficient healthcare delivery system that improves collaboration between doctors, patients and health care providers. Dr. Majid Altuwaijri, Managing Director and Middle East Health Lead, Accenture, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Networking Break | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Closing Session: Fully aligning the continuum of Care and Global Best Practice in Telehealth This presentation will challenge the status quo and suggest we need to rethink how we reconfigure and deliver future health services. It will look at the role that technology has played to date and what role it may play in the future. Donna Henderson, Service Development Manager, NHS24/Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare, Scotland, UK
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Industry Solution Session Panel Discussion with Local Experts Discussing Strategies and Successes in Implementing Speech Recognition Take this opportunity to learn more about the experiences of local institutions in successfully implementing speech recognition to improve healthcare quality, costs and efficiency. Moderator: Dr Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), USA Panelists:
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| DAY 2 - 12 December 2013 | ||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 08:00 - 14:30 | Exhibition Opens | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Emirates Ballroom 2 Introduction to Game changing technology and care practice demonstrations. This plenary session introduces the first ever rapid fire series of innovative healthcare practices and mHealth Innovations. Registered delegates from healthcare and governmental organizations will evaluate each demonstration and the highest ranked application will receive the HIMSS Middle East Healthcare Innovation Award. As part of the series, participating Organizations have 10 minutes to demonstration why their service is going to be a game changer for healthcare stakeholders in the Middle East. |
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| 09:20 - 09:30 | Demonstration 1: Can mobile health save a life? Mobile devices are a fundamental component of everyday life, but can they actually save your life and prevent expensive hospitalizations? Learn how diabetics can combat their condition with simple mobile apps. Sam Noble, Smart Care, Norway |
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| 09:30 - 09:40 | Evaluation of demonstration 1 | |
| 09:40 - 09:50 | Demonstration 2: BEAT.MS Demonstrated Live! A mobile healthcare app for multiple sclerosis patients, caregivers and doctors. A unique app which allows doctors and patients to create health records, save MRI scans, track symptoms and have pop-up reminders to take medicine. Kirsten Campbell-Morris, Managing Partner & Creative Director, Leading Brands |
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| 09:50 - 10:00 | Evaluation of demonstration 2 | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Demonstration 3: Beating Hospital Infections Infection Control Electronic Solution was implemented to reduce healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) like MRSA through prompt notifications, effective reporting's and efficient integrations. A comparison study was conducted to screen for MRSA upon admission which has improved the detection rate by 18.6% post implementation. Khaled Mohammed Alnafee, Clinical Applications Specialist, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center |
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| 10:10 - 10:20 | Evaluation of demonstration 3 | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Demonstration 4: Population Health Manage the health of populations, a patient, a family, a community at a time. Deirdre Stewart, Chief Nursing Officer, Director, Cerner Corporation |
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| 10:30 - 10:40 | Evaluation of demonstration 4 | |
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Demonstration 5: Data Analytics on an iPad The UAE Ministry of Health has deployed an analytics solution which has "liberated" our data and made it into effective, interactive, attractive information for all levels within an organization. We can annotate it, email it, share it, discuss it, and compare it. This means we can really USE it. |
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| 10:50 - 11:00 | Evaluation of demonstration 5 | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Demonstration 6: Satellite Enabled Mobile Electronic Medical Records Healthcare delivery cannot be confined to a hospital, the EMR has to be mobile to serve doctors on house calls or in disasters. See how the MOH has linked its EMR to satellite to enable healthcare anywhere. UAE Ministry of Health |
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| 11:10 - 11:20 | Evaluation of demonstration 6 | |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | Demonstration 7: AviCenna Ambulance Information System (AIS) enables the instant examination, analysis and preparation patients while transferring them to the facility within the crucial time in the given ambulance. AIS allows monitoring of the vital signs and other medical information (through direct integration with medical devices within the ambulance) of the patient realtime and online from the facility while the patient is being transferred. AIS aids the ambulance personnel to find the nearest hospital and the transfer of the patient's medical information in a timely manner. Mr. Andonis Filippidis, CEO, DataSel Information Systems |
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| 11:30 - 11:40 | Evaluation of demonstration 7 | |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Demonstration 8: E-Referral System The Ministry of Health of Oman's eReferral system re-engineered and enhanced the user experience of the entire referral process. Now the communication eliminated all manual processes, thus men-in-the-middle that ensured the fasted transmission of information. It allows clinicians to enter into a dialogue for any clarification and adding information. Some patients testified that s/he received the confirmed appointments from the referred institute against a request placed during visit to the referring institution before leaving it. Fahad Fajmahal, Project Lead, DGIT, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman | |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Evaluation of demonstration 8 | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Demonstration 9: Connect for Coordination of Care, Learn how HIE can enable collaboration and coordination between care professionals through secure, intuitive tools for referral management, messaging, and transitions of care. Heather Hallet, Director of Product Solutions, Aetna | |
| 12:10 - 12:20 | Evaluation of demonstration 9 | |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | Demonstration 10: Capturing True Clinical Intent To Improve Patient Care Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) has developed an innovative approach to improving the integration of medical terminologies into Electronic Health Records systems by providing current mapping to all standard nomenclatures and providing a common linkage across all electronic patient records, regardless of the standard needed for that particular data set. Regis Charlot, President and CEO, IMO |
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| 12:30 - 12:40 | Evaluation of demonstration 10 | |
| 12:40 - 12:50 | Demonstration 11: Speech Recognition and the Electronic Medical Record Capture the complete patient story quickly and accurately. Accelerate the adoption of the EMR by speech-enabling it. Put the patient back at the center of care. Dr. Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), Nuance, USA |
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| 12:50 - 13:00 | Final Web Portal Evaluations and Networking Break | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Award Ceremony: HIMSS Middle East Healthcare Innovations Award | |
| 13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch | |