Featuring a Dynamic Educational Programme
The conference portion of HIMSS AsiaPac07 will engage participants in thought-provoking discussions, collaborative exchanges and interactive sessions on market dynamics, EHR/EMR/EPR applications, emerging technologies, clinical leadership and eHealth innovations. Leading these forums are keynote speakers, visionaries and thought-leaders from Asia Pacific’s most well-respected hospitals, universities, associations, government/policy and health ministries.
Education Sessions
Track: Clinical Leadership and Governance
Location: Sophia
By identifying health indicators from both the national and local levels, learn what original data should be collected from more than 50,000 health information sectors throughout China and how their data will be reported on the web by the end of the year 2007.
ES 004: Defining Chinese National Health Indicators: A Minimum Set
Time: 10:15-11:15 AMLocation: Sophia
| Presented by: | ||
 Professor Yong-yong XUProfessorFaculty of Prevention Medicine, Fourth Military Medical UniversityPeoples Republic of China | ||
Track: EHR / EMR / EPR
Location: Olivia
The three District Health Boards serving a population of 1.4 million in the Auckland region have collaborated to set up a joint clinical repository for results of laboratory and other investigations. Critical success factors have been found to be system performance, reliability, and the provision of effective audit of access.
ES 005: TestSafe: The Auckland Regional Clinical Information Repository
Time: 10:15-11:15 AMLocation: Olivia
| Presented by: | ||
| D Ross BOSWELLMBChB PhD FRACP FRCPAClinical Director of ITCounties-Manukau District Health BoardNew Zealand | ||
Track: Innovation and Emerging Technologies
Location: Moor Morrison
A telemedical system linked ten countries that, since 2003, performed over 80 international teleconferences including live demonstrations of surgery and interactive multi-station teleconferences.
ES 006: Remote Medical Education using Academic Network in Asia-Pacific
Time: 10:15-11:15 AMLocation: Moor Morrison
| Presented by: | ||
 Shuji SHIMIZUMD, PhDChairman, Medical Working Group of Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)Department of Endoscopic Diagnostics and Therapeutics Kyushu University Faculty of MedicineJapan | ||
Track: Clinical Leadership and Governance
Location: Orchard
This session will identify common principles among the types and topics of healthcare IT standards highlighting perspectives from developing interoperable eHealth and electronic health record systems.
ES 007: Standards Session
Time: 10:15-11:15 AMLocation: Orchard
| Presented by: | ||
 Dr. Yun Sik KWAKVisiting Professor of Medical InformaticsKyungpook National University School of Medicine, DaeguKorea | ||
Track: Innovation and Emerging Technologies
Location: Bras Basah B
Robot Suit HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is one of the realisations and accomplishments of the Cybernoid Project. Cybernoids are the enhanced human-machine-information hybrid systems based on Cybernics technologies.
ES 009: Leading Edge of Cybernics: Robot Suit HAL
Time: 11:30-12:30Location: Bras Basah B
| Presented by: | ||
| Professor Yoshiyuki SANKAIPresidentCyberdyne IncProfessor Graduate School of System & Information Engineering University of TsukkubaJapan | ||
Track: IT Strategy and Health Services Management
Location: Sophia
Learn about the ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) project and other activities of IT promotion by the Japan Medical Association to support the universal coverage of health insurance system in the IT era.
ES 010: Approaches to Healthcare IT by the Japan Medical Association
Time: 11:30-12:30Location: Sophia
| Presented by: | ||
 Mr. Tomoaki UENOSenior ResearcherJapan Medical Association Research InstituteJapan | ||
Track: eHealth
Location: Olivia
Systems for public health and medical surveillance are effectively being used in China. These systems will be discussed in the context of identification, contact tracing, epidemiological investigation, and reporting from township to national level and back again.
ES 011: Infectious Disease Surveillance and Management: New Approaches
Time: 11:30-12:30Location: Olivia
| Presented by: | ||
| Prof Tao JIANGDeputy Director, National Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information ServiceChinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionPeoples Republic of China |  Mr LOW Yew JernMinistry of HealthSingapore | |
Track: EHR / EMR / EPR
Location: Moor-Morrison
The contextual insight of the clinician's perception and adaptation of information communication technology through the implementation of a scanned digital medical record at a tertiary hospital in Australia.
ES 012: Clinicians' Perceptions of Digital Medical Records: An Australian Case Study
Time: 11:30-12:30Location: Moor-Morrison
| Presented by: | ||
 Dr. Kwang Chien YEEMBBS, B Med SciSITCRC, School of Information Systems, University of TasmaniaAustralia |  Mr. Chris SHOWELLB App SciDept of Health and Human Services, TasmaniaAustralia | |
Track: Clinical Leadership and Governance
Location: Orchard
This session will identify principles among the types and topics of healthcare IT standards highlighting perspectives from common terminology coding systems for semantic interoperability to support eHealth and electronic health record systems.This session will identify common principals among the types and topics of healthcare IT standards highlighting perspectives from different standards developers.
ES 013: Standards Session
Time: 11:30-12:30Location: Orchard
| Presented by: | ||
 Prof Michio KimuraMS, MD, PhDProfessor of RadiologyHamamatsu Medical UniversityChairHL7Japan | ||
Track: Clinical Leadership and Governance
Location: Bras Basah B
Electronic medical records have facilitated bringing together past visit details. However they have only in a limited way improved the ability of healthcare professionals to generate health plans for their clients based on evidence-based medicine and taking into consideration current conditions, recent laboratory results and ongoing drug treatments.
ES 015: Create Health Plans, Not Health Records
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Bras Basah B
| Presented by: | ||
 Professor Dr Jai MOHANFRCP (Lon), FAMMProfessor of Health Informatics & PaediatricsInternational Medical UniversityMalaysia | ||
Track: eHealth
Location: Sophia
e-Health case studies in Asia Pacific highlighting key progress, challenges and lessons learned. The implications and impact of e-Health will be described from political, economic, social, technology, ethical and legal perspectives. Strategic recommendations relevant to Developing Countries will be discussed.
ES 016: Towards an Equitable, Safe and Quality Healthcare: Roles and Values of e-Health in Developing Countries
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Sophia
| Presented by: | ||
 Dr HM GohSecretaryMalaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA)Chair, WG2 (HI for Developing Countries)Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI)Strategic Planning Task ForceInternational Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)Malaysia | ||
Track: EHR / EMR / EPR
Location: Olivia
The development of health data standards may not translate into implemented interoperability. This presentation outlines Singapore's pragmatic but creative approach which enabled EMR sharing across the healthcare eco-system over the past two years and innovations to move to the next level.
ES 017: EMRX - Singapore's National EMR Sharing Implementation Experience
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Olivia
| Presented by: | ||
 Peter LEEMHAAssistant Director, Clinical QualityMinistry of HealthSingapore |  Peter TANAssistant Director, e-HealthMinistry of HealthSingapore | |
Track: eHealth
Location: Moor-Morrison
Deploying RFID can bring out a patient safety environment and reap many benefits with medical care. Results from research interviews with five hospitals and the critical issues around RFID deployment will be discussed.
ES 018: The Critical Issues about Deploying RFID in Healthcare
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Moor-Morrison
| Presented by: | ||
| C.H. Frank KUOMSProject Manger/ PhD studentTaipei Wan-Fang Hospital/ Department of Information Management, National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan | Fendy GAOMS, MBAManaging ConsultantIBM Taiwan CorporationTaiwan | Yeali S. SUNPhDProfessor, Director of departmentDepartment of Information Management, National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan |
Track: IT Strategy and Health Services Management
Location: Orchard
True accessibility: healthcare information technology initiatives that enable access to the over 600 million - and growing - worldwide consumers with disabilities.
ES 019: Crossing the Health Information Technology Divide to Successful Consumer Participation
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Orchard
| Presented by: | ||
| Lloyd TRIBLEYMD, PhD, RN, MS CAIT ATACPAccessible Information Technology ConsultantSponsorsFL, USA | ||
