Educational Programme
The conference portion of HIMSS AsiaPac09 will engage participants in thought-provoking discussions, collaborative exchanges and interactive sessions on EHR/EMR/EPR applications, emerging technologies, clinical leadership, eHealth innovations and market dynamics. Leading these forums are keynote speakers, visionaries and thought-leaders from Asia Pacific’s best hospitals, universities, associations, government/policy and health ministries.
Education Sessions
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TL 14: Patient-Centered Informatics: Integrating the Personal Health Record with Online Lifestyle and Disease Management Programming click to read more
Time: 09:00
Location: Plenary Hall
Health-related behaviors, such as poor diet, cigarette smoking, and lack of physical activity, contribute to over 50% of morbidity and mortality. To date, most Personal Health Records (PHR) provide information largely related to the medical record (e.g., cholesterol number). While such data can better inform a patient, it is generally insufficient to motivate improvement in health related behaviors (e.g., diet). Linking PHR data with effective online Lifestyle Management Programs (LMP) provides an integrated approach to both informing and assisting the patient in modifying health-related behaviors. In this Thought Leader session, the rationale and a demonstration of PHR-LMP integration is presented.
Location: Plenary Hall
| Presented by: | ||
| Victor J StrecherPhD, MPHProfessor and Director, Center for Health Communications ResearchUniversity of Michigan Schools of Public Health and MedicineUSA | ||
Track: eHealth
ES 15: Using Teleprimary Care to Monitor Immunization in Sarikei Health Clinic click to read more
Time: 09:00
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
TelePrimaryCare is a very effective system that enables staff to easily access real time child health data to monitor and audit their immunisation programme and take remedial action where necessary.
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
| Presented by: | ||
| Boon Foo LAIMBBS, MRCPCHPaediatric Clinical SpecialistHospital SibuMalaysia | ||
Track: EHR / EMR / EPR / PHR
ES 16: Towards Singapore's National Electronic Health Record - The Fundamentals click to read more
Time: 09:00
Location: Conference Hall 1
The panel will discuss Singapore's approach in three key areas clinician engagement and strategy, architecture and standards, and data governance - in order to realize its vision of a national electronic health record by 2010.
Location: Conference Hall 1
| Presented by: | ||
| Dr Walter LIMMBBSMedical Informatics OfficerMinistry of Health HoldingsSingapore | Mr Lawrence TANLLB (Hons), MSc (IT), CIPP/G, CISSPSenior Consultant, Data PrivacyMinistry of Health HoldingsSingapore | Mr David ROWLANDSBEc (Hons), GDBA, FACHI, AFACHSEManaging DirectorDirekt Consulting Pty LtdAustralia |
Track: IT Strategy and Innovation
ES 17: Interconnection or Unification - Which Solution Tackles Healthcare Fundamental Problems click to read more
Time: 09:00
Location: Conference Hall 3
Unifying, rather just interconnecting, heterogeneous healthcare information systems at data level may be the only way to truly share healthcare information. This presentation explores fundamental problems we are facing, demonstrates how a disruptive technology really resolves or weakens these puzzling problems in a typical large hospital in China.
Location: Conference Hall 3
| Presented by: | ||
| Qirun NIUMSCIO2nd Affiliate Hospital, Zhongshan UniversityChina | ||
TL 18: Becoming a World Leader in E-Health click to read more
Time: 10:15
Location: Plenary Hall
In this session, Debbie explores how New Zealand has become a world leader in e-health. She discusses the strategies, initiatives and standards used to underpin this, and explains how New Zealand achieved sector collaboration.
Location: Plenary Hall
| Presented by: | ||
| Deborah CHINChief Executive OfficerStandards New ZealandNew Zealand | ||
Track: eHealth
ES 19: A Clinical Perspective on Standardizing the Electronic Health Record. click to read more
Time: 10:15
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
The proliferation of standards in Health IT has both helped and hindered the progress of information system uptake in health jurisdictions around the world, especially in the clinical domain. What really needs to be standardized from a clinical perspective? Some real examples using openEHR are used to illustrate this approach.
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
| Presented by: | ||
| Dr Hugh S LESLIEMDClinical DirectorOcean InformaticsAustralia | ||
Track: EHR / EMR / EPR / PHR
ES 20: Mobility in Healthcare - Opportunities and Challenges click to read more
Time: 10:15
Location: Conference Hall 1
Mobile technology can be deployed in multiple care settings; it enables our physicians to stay connected, information is available at point of care, and services can go beyond the hospital walls. It also introduces new challenges such as changes in operational processes and technology limitations.
Location: Conference Hall 1
| Presented by: | ||
| Khai Leng HOMBA, BScGroup DirectorIntegrated Health Information Systems Pte LtdSingapore | ||
Track: IT Strategy and Innovation
ES 21: Collaboration Technology: A Case Study of Order Set Standardization click to read more
Time: 10:15
Location: Conference Hall 3
This presentation discusses web 2.0 collaboration technologies and how they can be applied in the healthcare context to achieve rapid consensus and buy-in from clinicians engaged in order set and care standardization.
Location: Conference Hall 3
| Presented by: | ||
| Timothy MCNAMARAMD, MPHChief Medical Officer AND Medical DirectorHealthGate Data Corp. AND University of Kansas Medical CenterUSA | ||
TL 22: How is Malaysia Managing the Interoperability Challenges? click to read more
Time: 11:30
Location: Plenary Hall
The health facilities from public and private sectors in Malaysia have been investing in information systems. Initially, the interoperability solutions were centered on the integration between applications within a facility.
For the past two years, the health informatics industry in Malaysia witnessed the concerted effort between the public and private sectors to solve the integration at the national level.
What were the integration requirements identified? What were the challenges? How did the interoperability solutions being managed? Will it be successful? These are some of the questions and answers that the speaker will share with the audience base on his experience and observation from the industry.
Location: Plenary Hall
| Presented by: | ||
| Azrin MOHD ZUBIRHealth Informatics ConsultantMeridian Project Management Sdn. BhdMalaysia | ||
For the past two years, the health informatics industry in Malaysia witnessed the concerted effort between the public and private sectors to solve the integration at the national level.
What were the integration requirements identified? What were the challenges? How did the interoperability solutions being managed? Will it be successful? These are some of the questions and answers that the speaker will share with the audience base on his experience and observation from the industry.
Track: The Business Case for Sustainable IT
ES 23: Community Information Centre:Channel for e-Health in Bangladesh click to read more
Time: 11:30
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
Community Information center is a shared data access point for the rural people which creates access to information including the health form internet and through other available media for the people.This has a significant impact on the livlihood change of the people.
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
| Presented by: | ||
| Sultanur REZAAdditional General Manager & Haed of CICGrameenphone LtdBangladesh | ||
Track: Communications - Connecting for Care
ES 24: IT-enabled Business Process Re-engineering in Out-Patient Services click to read more
Time: 11:30
Location: Conference Hall 1
Outpatient service is always one of the busiest service in hospitals. The service development and patient volume have led to many problems. This review concluded the achievements through Business Process Re-engineering by a multi-disciplinary team approach with results that streamlining patient logistics, improving space utilization and reducing manpower requirement.
Location: Conference Hall 1
| Presented by: | ||
| Dr Chi-keung Steve CHANBA, MSc, ADHSM, DBASenior Hospital ManagerKwong Wah Hospital / TWGHs Wong Tai Sin Hospital, Hospital AuthorityHong Kong | ||
Track: Clinical Leadership and Governance
ES 25: Can IT Really Help Fix the Issues of Healthcare? click to read more
Time: 11:30
Location: Conference Hall 3
Technology promises the ability to help with many of the issues of healthcare in the 21st century. This presentation looks at how information will have an increasing effect on the provision of healthcare and the improvement of health outcomes.
Location: Conference Hall 3
| Presented by: | ||
| Mark PARRISHMB ChB, MRCGP, FRACGP, MHA, FRACMAPhysician ExecutiveMicrosoftAustralia | ||
K 26: Conference Keynote: Communication in Clinical Organisations click to read more
Time: 14:00
Location: Plenary Hall
The focus of most clinical communication research and training has for many years been on the clinician-patient relationship. Only recently has the focus begun to shift to recognise the crucial role of communication within and between clinical teams, and within clinical organizations, for effective organisational performance, and for safe clinical practice. Communication failures have been identified at the root causes of more than 60% of the sentinel events reported to the US Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. If we look beyond the raw numbers, the clinical communication space is interruption-driven, has poor communication systems and poor practices. Communication patterns and their implications for safety have thus become a significant issue in for all health care professionals. Other professional communities with a strong safety culture, such as the airline industry, have identified the nexus between system safety and effective team communication, and have developed clear communication protocols and practices as a result. While much still remains to be learnt about clinical team communication in the clinical teams, we now have a sufficiently clear model of the typical challenges faced by clinicians.
Location: Plenary Hall
| Presented by: | ||
| Professor Enrico CoieraDirector, Centre for Health InformaticsUniversity of New South WalesAustralia | ||
TL 27: Challenges and Opportunities in Hospital Digitization from a Healthcare Provider's Perspective click to read more
Time: 15:30
Location: Plenary Hall
It is known to most healthcare providers that systems, processes and standardizations are useful in improving the efficiency of operations. Customer satisfaction is very much dependent on how fast and how well, in a transparent manner, one can address their needs. The business growth and financial performance is strongly linked to customer satisfaction. But decision-makers go through unbelievable amount of uncertainty in deciding the way that they have to proceed with the digitization and automation of processes in a hospital. The session is indented to trigger thoughts based on the practical experience of a healthcare provider, who runs one of the largest network of hospitals in India.
Location: Plenary Hall
| Presented by: | ||
| R BASILB.Sc.Engg, M.Tech Managing Director and Chief Executive OfficerManipal Health Systems Pvt. LtdIndia | ||
Track: The Business Case for Sustainable IT
ES 28: Adopting Sustainable IT in Strained Health Economies of Emerging Nations click to read more
Time: 15:30
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
As we witness the emergence of stupendous economic growth of Asian countries, health statistics have not changed as dramatic as the other industries. The author attempts to bring forth attractive health IT models for adoption and financial sustenance to bring about better health outcomes in emerging nations.
Location: Meeting Room 304/305
| Presented by: | ||
| Dr Tilak KOLAChief Medical OfficeriSOFT- An IBA Health Group CompanyMalaysia | ||
Track: Standards
ES 29: Introduction to HL7 V2.5 click to read more
Time: 15:30
Location: Conference Hall 1
In order to support the consumer focused care and continuity of care and patient safety, Electronic Health Record system (EHRS) and Personal Health Informatics have increasingly become essential technology in healthcare. The interoperability of health information technology is key to establish an integrated and connected health information systems with an effective EHR. HL7 standards play the key role in developing interoperable health information systems. This session will briefly introduce a messaging standard, HL7 V2.5.
Location: Conference Hall 1
| Presented by: | ||
| Yun Sik KWAKMD, PhDChairHL7 KoreaKorea | ||
Track: Clinical Leadership and Governance
ES 30: What Your Board Should Know about Quality and Patient Safety click to read more
Time: 15:30
Location: Conference Hall 3
The presentation aims to show that Board of Directors and Ministries of Health can play a leading role in improving the quality and safety of the care, treatment and services provided at their organizations. Case studies and examples will be shown to illustrate.
Location: Conference Hall 3
| Presented by: | ||
| Paul CHANGMD, MPH, CPHQManaging Director, Asia PacificJoint Commission InternationalSingapore | ||
