Pre-conference Symposia

Monday, 22 October

Three targeted symposia are planned for Monday from 10:00 – 17:00. They will address healthcare IT leadership, physician’s IT, and nursing informatics. A separate fee is required to attend the symposia.

Leadership Symposium

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.

Leadership Symposium Speakers include:

Dr Eric Maurincomme
Vice President,
e-Health, Agfa HealthCare
Uwe POETTGEN, CIO, Asklepios Clinics, Asklepios Kliniken Germany
Pr Philippe KOLH, MD, PhD Professor, Chief Information Officer, University Hospital of Liège
JOAN Marques Faner, CIO, Son Dureta University Hospital

 

Physicians IT Symposium

The Physicians Symposium will address IT as a foundation for innovation, expansion of care delivery and clinical empowerment. This dynamic symposium will focus on the physician as leader in IT integration and access to clinical data and systems to ensure improved decision-making, care processes and the changing physician/patient relationship.  Through interactive dialogue, physicians will have the opportunity to discuss ways in which they can balance technology and patient care and ensure physician’s requirements in IT projects.

Physician Symposium Speakers include:
Cornelia M. Ruland, RN, PhD Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center & University of Oslo, Norway Univ. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mallinger Vice Rector of Studies Medical University of Vienna

 

Nursing Informatics Symposium

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).

Venue Sponsors:

The Medical University of Vienna

The primary mission of the Medical University of Vienna–autonomous since 1 January 2004–is to serve research and education in the broadest sense. It seeks advances in medical science to cure and relieve the symptoms of illness, maintain health, and foster social prosperity in a thriving environment.

Building on its research programs, educational facilities, and curricula, the Medical University of Vienna responds to the ever-changing needs of state and society.  In addition to the central principle of equal opportunity for its faculty and students, the University dedicates itself equally to acknowledging and fostering individual achievement.

By virtue of its cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna, the new General Hospital of Vienna (opened in 1994 and operated by the City of Vienna) functions as a university, a medical center, and Austria’s largest medical research facility. The City nursing staff, personnel for medical-technical services, 2,000 University physicians, state-of-the-art equipment and the commitment of medical specialists in all fields enable immediate integration of the most promising results of international and internal research into patient care.

Approximately 94,000 inpatients are admitted and 35,000 operations conducted annually in the 33 University departments. Each year 440,000 individuals receive outpatient care. The various University departments record a total of 1.5 million patient contacts annually.