Leadership Symposium
Articulating the Vision
From Strategy to IT Integration
Austria Center Vienna
22 October, 2007
10:00 to 17:00
The Leadership Symposium will focus on the solutions-driven approaches to implementing strategic systems and ensuring clarity of the benefits to all stakeholders of the healthcare organization. The CIO faces the challenge of articulating the information technology components of the strategic plan.
The programme will encompass effective leadership and implementation strategies within the context of organisational change and innovation through the adoption of IT.
At the closing portion of the symposium, a combined session provides interactive dialogue between IT Leaders, Physicians and Nursing professionals to advance the team approach and discuss challenges and solutions from each perspective. A software demonstration designed to showcase quality tools for the CIO and technology professionals will also be featured as part of this symposium.
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Co-Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna
Programme Outline
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Registration and Coffee/Tea |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Welcome and Opening Comments: IT Leadership, Health Professionals and the Management of Hospitals - Aligning IT vision with the Healthcare Strategic Plan Pr Philippe KOLH, MD, PhD Professor, Chief Information Officer University Hospital of Liege, BELGIUM |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Creating, Prioritizing and Implementing the IT Strategy and Metrics Dave Garets President and CEO HIMSS Analytics Dr Eric Maurincomme Vice President e-Health Agfa HealthCare |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Coffee Break |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Vision of IT and eHealth in 5 years - IT Bridges Citizen Centered Care from Hospital to Homecare: A Look at the Future Nationally, Internationally and Locally Pr Philippe KOLH, MD, PhD Professor, CIO, University Hospital of Liege, BELGIUM JOAN Marques Faner, CIO, Son Dureta University Hospital, Illes Balears, Spain Baldur Johnsen, Healthcare Market Development, Worldwide Health and Life Sciences, Hewlett-Packard International Sarl, Switzerland (Former CIO, Landspitali University Hospital) Uwe POETTGEN, CIO, Asklepios Clinics, Asklepios Kliniken, Germany Discussion facilitated by John Aird |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Lunch |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Telemedicine – Homecare: Taking IT to Where the Patient is |
| 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 |
| Target Audience: | This Symposium has been designed for senior IT managers, executives, leaders and decision-makers in hospital and other care delivery settings. |
| Moderator | Ms Veronique Lessens |
| Committee Members: | Ms Veronique Lessens Market Research Analyst Agfa Healthcare Prof Dr Bjorn Bergh CIO, Heidelberg Germany Mr Johh Aird Director of IM&T University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust UK |
