09.00 Driving efficiency in healthcare

09.40 The essential must-haves for healthcare Informatics: Discovering the long-term benefits of future healthcare provision in Asia

• Identifying road blocks which need to be overcome in order to pave the right tracks for health IT innovation
• What are the key infrastructure and technology aspects that need to be in place?
• How will innovative informatics models help attain essential long-term benefits?

Dr. Cheng Chee Leong
DD Clinical Transformation Services Department
Ministry of Health Singapore

10.20 The role of IT in transforming hospital quality to meet new challenges

• Drivers of hospital accreditation - regional consumer behaviour shift and implications for healthcare providers
• The BCH experience in delivering quality care and measuring up to accreditation criteria through IT innovations
• Designing a winning process to realise a digital hospital delivering patient-centered care

Dr. Nipit Piravej
Chief Corporate Officer
Bangkok Chain Hospitals

データの提供、管理、セキュリティ

11.40 Adopting health informatics to improve patient safety and security

• Making accurate medical decisions and preventing medical errors through effective use of health informatics
• Management of patient safety and risks - assessment, evaluation and communication
• Developing effective processes for data transmission to enhance patient safety
• Assuring effective management and secure collection to ensure minimum patient data loss

Nasriah Zakaria
Lecturer, School of Computer Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia

12.20 Maintaining the Security of Your Health Data and the Privacy of Your Patients in an Open and Collaborative Environment Understanding and Managing both Real and Perceived Risks

• Moving from a tightly controlled and regulated healthcare environment to a more open, dynamic information space, thus encouraging data sharing
• Allowing and encouraging patients and providers to create a useful, information-rich personal health record, understand its benefits and utilise PHR content in a secure, trusted manner
• Securing your data through IT-based safeguards, staff training and common sense, and ensuring widespread continued compliance with privacy and security measures
• Reassuring patients that their privacy is protected – and maintaining that trust

Pekka Ruotsalainen
Research Professor
National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL),
Adjunct Professor
University of Tampere

14.00 India’s efforts for standardisation in health informatics

• Reviewing the need for a standard health information system across the country that targets the requirements of diverse groups
• How the Department of Information Technology (DIT) undertook the initiative for defining the framework for an Information Technology Infrastructure for Healthcare (ITIH) in India and proposing Standards for Telemedicine
• Suggested framework to cover billing formats, clinical standards, data elements, health identifiers, minimum data set, legal framework and messaging standards, with a primary aim to define an acceptable Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Baljit Singh Bedi
Advisor, Health Informatics, Centre for Development for Advanced Computing, (CDAC),Soc.
Ministry of Communication & IT(MCIT)
Govt.of India, and, President Elect, Telemedicine Society of India(TSI), Indian Assoc. for Medical Informatics

14.40 Data security and business continuity planning for healthcare institutions

• Disaster risk trends in Asia and the Pacific.
• Ensuring critical business continuity of healthcare facilities for government, national security and health reasons
• Overview of government policies and business strategies for data security and business continuity

Jorge Martinez Navarette
Economic Affairs Officer
United Nations ESCAP

EMR管理システムの効果的な導入

16.00 Electronic record implementation across the region: challenges and opportunities

• Effective implementation of EMR systems – improving the quality of your health services
• Clinical record standardization at group, national and regional level
• The role of clinicians in implementing electronic medical records
• The need for and benefits of a regional EMR network
• Achieving interoperability of data sharing between departments and hospitals

Jiraporn Laothamatas
Executive Director
AIMC

16.40 Effective and sustainable data governance

• Using data quality management and operational analytics to improve resource management
• Establishing a data governance framework
• Improving an organisation through a clinical data governance approach

Chris Bain
Director, Health Informatics
Alfred Health

17.20 Close of conference stream A

09.00 Health IT Specialist Certification in Japan - Roadmaps for Health IT

• Enabling effective faculty development for IT specialisation
• Implementing certification test systems
• Stimulating standardization activities across medical information areas

Prof. Michio Kimura
Professor of Radiology
Hamamatsu Medical University, Japan

09.40 Determining best practices to engage physicians and their role in driving innovation

• How to get the physician’s buy-in on clinical information technology
• What are the physician’s primary drivers and concerns for successful selection of technology?
• Keeping the physician engaged for a smooth implementation process
• Using EMR to keep the physician productive whilst delivering better diagnoses
• Teaching your staff to embrace innovations in health informatics

D.P.Saraswat
Chief Executive officer
Action Healthcare

10.20 Electronic record implementation across the region: challenges and opportunities

• Effective implementation of EMR systems – improving the quality of your health services
• Clinical record standardization at group, national and regional level
• The role of clinicians in implementing electronic medical records
• The need for and benefits of a regional EMR network
• Achieving interoperability of data sharing between departments and hospitals

Neena Pahuja
Chief Information Officer
Max Healthcare Institute,India

11.40 Improving Healthcare in Rural Areas: Information And Communications Technology Solutions For Least Developed Countries

• An overview of cost-effective applications of information and communications technology, useful to health policy - and decision-makers in least developed, landlocked, and small island countries in Asia and the Pacific
• How applications contribute to (a) the expansion of the primary health-care force and enriching the skills level, (b) upgrading and broadening medical infrastructure and logistics, (c) providing affordable access to drugs and medical supplies, and (c) enhancing data collection and analysis of health trends
• Exploring innovative uses of mobile devices, Geographic Information Systems, space-based sensors and other tools for applications

Jorge Martinez Navarette
Economic Affairs Officer
United Nations ESCAP

12.20 Innovative Models in Telemedicine And EHealth in a Developing Country

• eHealth and telemedicine offer significant benefits to developing countries by providing greater access especially to the underserved
• Trust networks are fundamental to telehealth technology is important but the social networks determine success or failure
• Adopting free and/or open source software so that developing countries can fast track integration by introducing eHealth and telemedicine concepts as early as the undergraduate level, without being burdened by high cost of licensing

Dr. Portia Marcelo
MPH Director
National Telehealth Center

12.20 Telemedicine – how this technology is transforming rural healthcare in India

• Examining the various telemedicine processes which will allow you to understand the best strategy for your healthcare
• Increasing the productivity of your health professionals by reducing unnecessary travel time
• Disaster management – how a portable telemedicine system is ideal for disaster relief

Dr. S.B. Gogia
President
Society of Administration of Telemedicine and Healthcare Informatics, India

14.00 Translating data into business intelligence

• Integrated information and care management: governance models and business cases
• Inter-departmental data integration to facilitate management team’s decision making process
• Hospital group-level system integration challenges
• Best practices in structured data analysis empowered by technology

Dr. Karanvir Singh
Head of Medical Informatics
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

14.40 Enabling E-Health through a fully integrated interoperability approach

• Reviewing the integration plans between the private and public sector health providers in Dubai
• Integrating standards and integration plans for the emirate
• Collecting and effectively managing health information

Dr. Mohammad Al Redha
Acting Director Health Data & Information Analysis Department – Health Policy & Strategy Sector
Dubai Healthcare Authority, UAE

生産性と効率の向上

16.00 Increasing productivity in hospitals using IT

• Streamlining hospital operations through effective information management
• Translating data into business intelligence
• The role of IT in transforming hospital quality to meet new challenges
• Determining best practices to engage physicians and their role in driving innovation
• Adopting health informatics to improve patient safety and security

RD Thulasiraj
Director of IT and Systems
Aravind Eye Care Hospital

16.40 Talent nurturing in healthcare informatics to drive innovation

• Perspectives in justifying the ROI of education investment in healthcare informatics for the government and hospital CEOs
• Incorporating healthcare informatics into mainstream medical education program - how can government play a more active role in creating IT leadership in healthcare
• Standardising / defining rules in information governance, email and Internet policy, computing, clinical terms
• How can vendors play a strategic partner’s role by facilitating staff skill upgrades?

Sameer Mehta
Chief Operating Officer, Dr Mehta Hospitals
and Director Mehta Children’s Hospital

17.20 Close of conference stream B