Educational Programme
Now in its second year, The World of Health IT 2007 Conference & Exhibition is designed to connect leading health information and communication technology experts from Europe and beyond. The event consists of educational sessions, vendor exhibitions, interoperability demonstrations, exchange of experiences and networking sessions, and other professional development opportunities.
Education Sessions
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall K
Health Metrics Network aims to bring the power of ICT to local decision-makers. More than 60 countries are engaged in implementation of the HMN framework and are contributing to an emerging common health information system for country decision-making.
ES 3: Designing & Implementing a Country Health Information System
Time: 10:30-11:30Location: Hall K
| Presented by: | ||
| David LubinskiChief Technology OfficerHealth Metrics Network/WHOSwitzerland | ||
Track: eHealth Implementation: From Plans to Action
Location: Hall G
Language: French
An alternative patient identification procedure to the French project of personal medical records is proposed. It would permit a contribution to public healthcare and research and be interoperable in Europe.
ES 4: Making the French Health Identification Number Interoperable in Europe
Time: 10:30-11:30Location: Hall G
Language: French
| Presented by: | ||
| Prof. Catherine QuantinProfCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de DijonFrance | ||
Track: Patient Safety
Location: Hall H
The incorrect use of pharmaceuticals is a major issue in healthcare, compromising patient safety and adding unnecessary cost. By preventing adverse pharmaceutical events, healthcare costs can be drastically reduced. Learn how mobile decision support solutions are used to address this problem in Swedish healthcare.
ES 5: Mobile Decision-making Support for Safer Medicine Use in Healthcare
Time: 10:30-11:30Location: Hall H
| Presented by: | ||
| Per ManellMSc, Reg. PharmacistDirectorThe Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry Sweden | Magnus FagerholmMSc Licensed PharmacistCo-founderPharmtechSweden | Lena Furmark LöfgrenMSc RNGovernment Solutions ManagerMicrosoft SwedenSweden |
Track: eHealth Implemetation: From Plans to Action
Location: Hall I
Language: Spanish
The presentation will review the EHR project developed in the Balearic Isalnds from conception to implementation. The project allows any helath professional from any hospital, primary care center or emergency care center access to a patient's resumed information record. Four key components to this EHR project include: EMPI, Clinical Portal, Critical Care Record and Security.
ES 6: The Electronic Health Record in the Balearic Islands
Time: 10:30-11:30Location: Hall I
Language: Spanish
| Presented by: | ||
| Dr. Luis AlegreMDClinical DirectorHealthcare Department of the Baleric GovernmentSpain | ||
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall K
In daily business, information technology is seen mainly as a cost factor. The "KABEG" - the Hospital Management Association of Carinthia - will show that the value added by IT can be shown and managed. A properly elaborated and implemented IT strategy makes the transformation of IT to new structures and new organizations possible.
ES 8: IT as a Source of Competitive Advantage for Healthcare Companies
Time: 13:30-14:30Location: Hall K
| Presented by: | ||
| Rainer HarpfDIKABEG ManagementAustria | Herwig WetzlingerDIKABEG LKH KlagenfurtAustria | |
Track: eHealth Implementation: From Plans to Action
Location: Hall G
A national-level strategic approach towards improving healthcare in Slovenia by means of ICT is described, followed by the description of results and open issues after one year of implementation of the strategy.
ES 9: Slovenia & its eHealth 2010 Strategy: One Year Later
Time: 13:30-14:30Location: Hall G
| Presented by: | ||
| Drago KodeleBScMinistry of Health of the Republic of SloveniaSlovenia | Matic MegličUPPINTSlovenia | |
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall H
Following the initial health care reform in the early 1990s, Hungary collected enormous amounts of information on all hospital and outpatient cases. In spite of data quality problems, this database is of very high value, since the monolithic health insurance system guaranteed a relative high stability of the data. The ongoing dispute and current health insurance reform plans talk about a pluralistic health insurance system.
ES 10: Adapting National Health Information System to an ongoing health care and health insurance reform
Time: 13:30-14:30Location: Hall H
| Presented by: | ||
| György SurjánMDHead of Dept. of InformaticsNational Institute for Strategic Health ResearchHungary | ||
Track: Integrated Care
Location: Hall I
The session will describe the IHE process to develop and test integration profiles based on healthcare use cases. Current national implementations will illustrate how this can be used to realize successful user-driven projects.
ES 11: IHE-Europe - Use Case Based Approach to eHealth Interoperability
Time: 13:30-14:30Location: Hall I
| Presented by: | ||
| Charile Parisot | Peter KüneckeCo-Chair IHE-EuropeSiemens Medical Solutions | Dr Alexander SchannerIHE-Austria, Program Manager, ELGA Arbeitsgemeinschaft Elektronische Gesundheitsakte |
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall K
The requirements for healthcare IT are shifting and traditional HIS are not able to meet them. This presentation shows how business process modeling works for the healthcare industry, and how innovative technology and process improvements can bring the quality of care up, and the cost down.
ES 13: Benefits of a Business Process Management System in Healthcare IT
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Hall K
| Presented by: | ||
| Dr. Harald EderMDCMIOKlinikum Kreuzschwestern Austria | Dr. Michael HaumannMDBusiness ManagerSiemens Medical SolutionsGermany | |
Track: Patient Safety
Location: Hall G
This presentation focuses on the real-time computerization of prescribing, clinical pharmacy activities and medicines administration. It looks at the integration of clinical decision support and includes statistics showing the reduction of clinical risk. The effect of electronic prescribing and decision support on potential adverse drug events is examined.
ES 14: The Impact of Clinical Decision Support Associated with Electronic Prescribing
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Hall G
| Presented by: | ||
| Andrew BarkerMRPharmSClinical Director - Pharmacy & Medicines Management Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals, NHS Foundation TrustUK | ||
Track: eHealth Implemetation: From Plans to Action
Location: Hall H
eHealth implies many stakeholders and offers countless challenges. Attend this session to discover the healthcare IT industry perspective, priorities and focus, and how industry can contribute to the growth of the European eHealth market.
Session Offered By COCIR
ES 15: eHealth Challenges and the Contribution of the Healthcare IT Industry
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Hall H
| Presented by: |
Eric Maurincomme Chairman of the Healthcare IT CommitteeCOCIRVice President Agfa HealthCare Kees Smedema Chairman of the eHealth Industry Stakeholders Group Senior Director Business DevelopmentPhilips Medical Systems Brad Lund Global Healthcare Standards Architect Intel Dr. Karl-Jürgen Schmitt Director Public Relations & Health Policy Siemens Medical Solutions |
Session Offered By COCIR
Track: Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Delivery
Location: Hall I
In the highly complex environment of the operating theater, three different applications of RFID technology were piloted in combination with each other. People, supplies and blood products were monitored throughout their journey around the OR. Enough data was gathered to provide credibility for a positive business case.
ES 16: Visibility of People, Materials and Blood Products with RFID
Time: 14:45-15:45Location: Hall I
| Presented by: | ||
| Robert A. StegweePhDPrincipal Consultant Healthcare ITCapgemini NederlandThe Netherlands | ||
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall K
In 2005 the Salzburger Landeskliniken decided to renew its IS infrastructure to establish a fully integrated HIS/RIS/PACS as a basis for development of medical process re-engineering and integration with the primary sector of healthcare. The presentation provides an insight into the decision-making process and the implementation of the IS.
ES 18: Implementation of a Fully Integrated HIS/RIS/PACS in a University Hospital
Time: 16:00-17:00Location: Hall K
| Presented by: | ||
| Markus SchwarzPhD, MBAAdministrative Director, Institute of Public HealthParacelsus Medical UniversityAustria | Erik VossiusDIAdministrative DirectorSalzburger LandesklinikenAustria | |
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall G
ES 19: Shared Services for Back Office Processes in Portuguese Healthcare
Time: 16:00-17:00Location: Hall G
| Presented by: | ||
| Pedroso de Lima | ||
Track:
Location: Hall H
Panelists provide an industrial view on the challenges, experiences, strategies and vision in the benefits of eHealth adoption.
ES 20: Strategies and Visions of Industry Leaders
Time: 16:00-17:00Location: Hall H
| Presented by: | ||
| Petra WilsonDirector Public Sector Health Care Internet Business SolutionsCisco | Jean-Francois PenciolelliBusiness Development Director for Healthcare in EMEAOracle | Felix SimacMD, MBADirector, EU RelationsInterComponent Ware AGGermany |
Track: Integrating IT Leadership to Improve Healthcare Delivery and Performance
Location: Hall I
Findings of a study on leadership and governance in European healthcare organizations and how these impact the value that information technology brings to an organization. Based on interviews with CEOs and CIOs, the study explored the roles and responsibilities of leaders to ensure the success of IT.
ES 21: European Healthcare IT Management and Governance Practices
Time: 16:00-17:00Location: Hall I
| Presented by: | ||
| Dave GaretsFHIMSSPresident & CEOHIMSS Analytics, LLCUSA | Pascal DetemmermanPartnerLeader HealthSwitzerland | Eric MaurincommeVice President, eHealthAgfa HealthCareBelgium |
WHO is a co-sponsor of the education programme
Language Information
The World of Health IT Conference has been designed for and by the healthcare IT Community in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All sessions will be offered in English. Some sessions will be offered in French, German and Spanish.
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