Nursing Informatics Symposium
Revolutionizing Nursing: Technology as an Enabler
Austria Center Vienna
22 October, 2007
10:00 to 17:00
This Nursing Informatics Symposium will provide a unique opportunity for nursing leaders, nursing practitioners and nursing informatics professionals to examine the pivotal role of information and information technology in today’s ever-changing healthcare environment. The symposium will consider information and information technology needs for effective nursing leadership, and innovative approaches to enhance nursing practice and improve patient outcomes. The symposium will also allow participants to consider any implications for their own working environments (through facilitated round-table discussions in German and English).
The symposium will conclude with a combined panel discussion in which panelists from the three symposia (Leadership, Physician and Nursing Informatics) will consider wider organisational approaches to quality improvement. A software demonstration designed to showcase quality tools for the nursing professionals will also be featured as part of this symposium
Programme Outline
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Registration and Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Welcome and Opening Comments: Effective Nursing Leadership Needs Effective Health IT Provided in German with a summary in English Dr Christine Schaubmayr Chief Nursing Manager Innsbruck University Hospital Effective working of the care management (Nursing Leadership) requires a complete and current IT based care (nursing) documentation. A study has shown that better data can be won by using IT based care (nursing) documentation than by using traditional paper written care (nursing) documentation. |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Workforce, Workload and Workflow: Innovative Approaches to Enhance Nursing Processes Professor Ursula Huebner Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences Healthcare Computing and Quantitative Methods University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Patient Safety is a Risky Business: Driving Forward the Quality Agenda Cornelia M. Ruland, RN, PhD Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center & University Oslo, Norway Improving Shared Decision Making (SDM), patient-provider communication and incorporating patients’ illness experiences and preferences into patient care are important aspects of patient safety. Without eliciting patients’ perspectives of their health problems and preferences for care, crucial information for safe clinical decision making is missing. To obtain this information is particularly important for cancer patients who face multiple and severe symptoms and problems. This information is often not obtained or communicated effectively, which puts patients at risk for suboptimal symptom management and treatment. |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Lunch |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Enabling change at a local level Facilitated round table discussions in German and English Professor Ursula Huebner Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences Healthcare Computing and Quantitative Methods Marion J. Ball, Ed.D. IBM Research / Fellow, Center for Healthcare Management Professor and Emerita Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Artificial Intelligence Based Monitoring of Hospital Acquired Infections in Adult Intensive Care Patients Demonstration Professor Dr. Klaus-Peter Adlassnig Professor of Medical Informatics Medical University of Vienna Prof. Walter Koller Chief Infection Control Officer Vienna General Hospital Dr. Alexander Blacky Clinical Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology Medical University of Vienna Nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infections (NIs) are a frequent complication affecting hospitalized patients. The growing availability of computerized patient records in hospitals allows automated identification and extended monitoring of signs of NIs. For doing this, a fuzzy- and knowledge-based system to identify and monitor NIs at intensive care units (ICUs) according to the European Surveillance System HELICS (NI definitions derived from CDC criteria) was developed and put into operation at the Vienna General Hospital. |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Comprehensive Organizational Approaches to Quality Improvement Using Technology Combined Panel Discussion - Leadership, Physician and Nursing Informatics Panelists Dr C. Martin Harris, CIO and Chairman of IT The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Rosemary Kennedy, RN, Director of Global Informatics Solutions, Siemens Medical Solutions Pr Philippe KOLH, MD, PhD Professor, Chief Information Officer, University Hospital of Liege, BELGIUM Uwe POETTGEN, CIO Asklepios Clinics, Asklepios Kliniken, Germany Facilitated by: Balazs Szathmary, Nicholas Hardiker, and Bjorn Bergh |
| Moderator | Marion Ball |
| Target Audience: | The Nursing Informatics Symposium is aimed at nursing leaders, nursing practitioners and nursing informatics professionals from across Europe. A goal for the education program is to provide practically-based topics, case studies reflecting current practice, areas of opportunity or increased communication/collaboration to empower nurses and positively impact patient care. |
| Planning Committee: | Marion Ball IBM Research / Fellow, Center for Healthcare Management Professor and Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Nicholas Hardiker RN PhD Senior Research Fellow Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery & Collaborative Research Audrey Dickerson Manager, Standard Initiatives ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics, Secretary US TAG for ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics, Administrator HIMSS |
