Registration to the exam does not guarantee that you are eligible to take the exam. You must meet the eligibility criteria. 

Eligibility Criteria Eligibility standards are designed to include those experienced in healthcare information and management systems, but exclude others. 

To participate in the CPHIMS examination, a candidate must qualify under one of the following options.

•Baccalaureate degree plus five (5) years of associated information and management systems experience*, three (3) of those years in healthcare. 

•Graduate degree plus three (3) years of associated information and management systems experience*, two (2) of those years in healthcare.

 

MOHH will be discussing our Health IT Transformation Journey that combines various innovations to bring about new smartness.  MOHH will also share about the Health IT Masterplan, as we continue to transform the delivery of healthcare and support the Smart Health vision of Singapore. 

Health technology is changing more rapidly than than at any point in history. At the same time, countries worldwide no matter how their healthcare systems are structured, are struggling with basic issues of healthcare affordability. New technology has the opportunity to change this: making healthcare more affordable through innovation and better ways to ensure that we buy the most health for every dollar spent. ‘Amazon' for Synthetic Biology, Open Automated Surgical Systems, Quantified Self, NanoTech, Health Fusion & Convergence, Health-driven Neurology Interfaces and Biohacking will be just a few of the things that this talk will cover. Where will health technology and HCIT be in 2025 and what are the big trends that will completely re-define the delivery of healthcare as we know it today?

The Smart Nation platform provides seamless connectivity and facilitates data sharing for organisations, individuals and the environment. Many new technologies have been riding on this to deliver disruptive solutions to bring about transformation of various sectors, like transport, education, retail and of course, healthcare. There are now many opportunities to improve healthcare delivery, leading to more efficient hospital operations and enhanced personal wellbeing, among many other things. This also enables the paradigm shift from episodic, reactive healthcare to pre-emptive, preventive health.

On 13 October 2014, UnitingCare Health (UCH) successfully launched a new 96-bed fully integrated digital hospital in Australia. St Stephen’s Hospital Hervey Bay (SSHB) became the country’s first hospital to achieve Stage 6 certification by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) for its Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system that includes 29 applications, 20 devices, five clinical interfaces and 13 business interfaces. Through a Health and Hospitals Fund (HHF) grant in 2011, the Australian Federal Government provided $47 million funding for the $96 million project, including $21 million for the eHealth component. Early on, expected benefits were developed to guide the project scope and design. Work redesign teams consisting of doctors and staff from across UCH carried out the design development with a focus on clinical transformation. The leadership, extensive planning, transformational change management and unique collaboration with vendor Cerner Corporation allowed the hospital to open on-time and on-budget. Richard Royle, Executive Director for UnitingCare Health, will share the journey taken to co-create this state of the art digital hospital along with key learnings from the project. He will also present the benefits realization process being undertaken by UCH in collaboration with Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and the Wesley St Andrews Research Institute (WSARI).

The availability of objective data collection tools (such as wearables devices and connected objects which are now being embedded in workplaces) is allowing unprecedented access to analytics regarding the interaction of workplace contexts and people in high demands jobs such as in healthcare. Previously unquantified factors of risk and turnover (including fatigue and stress leading to potential burnout and errors) are now made available for analysis. As such, it allows healthcare systems and healthcare training structures (medical schools etc) to integrate such data to the objective management and training of highly sought after professionals. These new modalities of management will reduce the leading contributors to turnover and diminishing attractiveness of such professions due to their very demanding and stressful quality of life. 

Detalytics contributes to a data-driven system of human capital management by bringing objective data to the forefront of human management.

Worldwide, health & human services systems are facing serious challenges that threaten their efficacy & economic sustainability. Existing systems of care, wellness & support must convene with technology, data & expertise to help people live healthier & more productive lives.

 

By utilising a vast amount of data from a variety of sources–clinical, genomic, behavioural & social–we now have the ability to unlock insights for a holistic view of an individual. With analytics, this data can help drive more informed decisions. To achieve optimal outcomes at the point of impact, cognitive systems can help create new knowledge ecosystems.

Future technology can be regarded as technology intermingled with humanity and intelligence. The presentation will cover the following:

• Reducing Medical Error
• Integration of Data
• User friendly interface
• Enforced by Genomic Interpretation
• Equipped with good Semantic Infrastructure

 

Over the next decade it is expected that there will be an explosion of medical information.  The diseases that beset us are increasingly going to be defined molecularly; this information will be vast and will change rapidly.  Further, our understanding of ourselves and our health will increasingly be based on the knowledge of our own genetic constitution and will result in being better able to prevent diseases, manage conditions and treat illnesses.  Having a robust, learning, cognitive computing decision support system that organizes patient data, collects and curates the relevant medical literature, and provides expert treatment recommendations will be critical in meeting the challenge to deliver the highest quality treatment in the molecular age.  

At the present time Japan has several issues of community care. This project developed a digital-enabled infrastructure of community care for enhancing inter-professional work. The authors interviewed healthcare providers and official care givers about the usability of the system and inter-professional work. It is hoped the data will show the future direction of inter-professional work on community care.

This panel discussion will bring together speakers from Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, India and Dubai and will have representatives from the Government, Developer and Hospital to share their views on "Designing a Smart City and a Smart Healthcare System".

The current landscape with respect to use of analytics with insights is fragmented in packages and artefacts, which is not shared beyond certain silos (departments, institutions, clusters). The strategy for analytics is to promote the data driven culture and increase analytics capabilities and collaborations across the healthcare clusters. Analytics can drive the vision of achieving operational transformation, such as assisting in problem solving or enabling faster, consistent and more efficient routine business-as-usual decisions.

Japan is a super aiging society that grows more than 25% of the population proportion of over 65-year-old; the aging rate is the highest in Asia. Therefore, medical care for elderly population is one of the most critical social issues in Japan. To tackle this situation, I am running 3 clinics with 30 medical doctors who provide home medical care for more than 800 patients. Now we utilize ICT systems optimized for home medical care. In addition, we built an information cooperation system, Team Care SaaS, which enable us to share the information among medical doctors, nurses, care coordinators, and families. From the experience of the disaster relief activities in Japan after the earthquake in 2011, I am working to build a platform to fulfill the needs of aging population in medical, nursing care and daily lives.

In Singapore, the population ratio of over 65 years old is 10% in 2013, and expected that it will grow more than 20% in 2030, in just 17 years from now. The home care demand would be rapidly increasing, but the supply system is not completed yet. With my home care expertise accumulated in Japan, I have established "Tetsuyu Home Care" in April 2015. Through the care assessment for the patient, we can create a custom-made care plan, and coordinate the various care services for our patients. In addition, we aim to give relieve and comprehensive home care for our patients, providing regular nurse visits, nursing care training to Caregiver, corresponding at the time of sudden change 24/7's condition, remote medical service of specialists, and cooperation with allied health. To support the home care, we have developed "Tetsuyu Home Care Connect" which is an ICT system that connects the care team, patients and their families. The operation has already started and this time, I would like to introduce our activity.

Tan Tock Seng Hospital launched Healthcare Intelligence (HI) - an enterprise level business intelligence system that translates data from clinical and administration-related databases into meaningful information.  Through HI, users across TTSH can access one-day-late structured data across various source systems, and report accurate up-to-date cross-domain information.  Users can also be enabled in being more productive, so that limited resources could be spent on higher value-added data analysis and follow up actions.

The use of IT in the healthcare has become indispensable to hospital operations and delivery of care to patients. System failures or their non-availabilities are risks for patient safety. Greater assurance of business operations stability and continuity are desired. This requires the implementation of a more reliable and resilient IT cloud platform that is capable of providing better data protection, high resiliency and quick delivery of IT services when they needed.

Telehealth has been proven effective by numerous pilots in reducing healthcare cost and hospitalizations. However, few telehealth programs have delivered on its promise beyond pilot to achieve the scale required for a broader population. What are the challenges healthcare providers, patients, payers have experienced?  And what are the key lessons learnt for telehealth to deliver on its promises?

Christoph Westerteicher, a pioneer and leader in telehealth from as early as its inception, will share the top lessons learnt from developing managing large telehealth programs of thousands of patients, seamlessly integrating people, process, and technology.

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Clinical documentation is personal experience for which a clinician chronicles a patients findings and expresses his thought processes for diagnosis, investigation  and management. The anti-thesis of this freedom of expression can be found in the myriad of templates where cold pull down menus and check boxes line our electronic documentation for semantic precision. The electronic documentation system must be flexible, usable, allow reuse of secondary data, create reminders, allow for quick review of previous records, reduce transitions between screens for orders and problem lists, allow trending of data points and allow embedding of pictures and scanned images and still allow free hand annotation. I share 10 lessons in implementing this system in a large tertiary academic medical centre. 

HIV enters the body and penetrates into the immune CD4 white blood. The type of CD4 cells that HIV destroys most are Th17, in addition to Th1 and Th9.

LIV capsule stimulate Th17 activities by five folds, Th1 and Th9 by 2 folds in 15 days, killing the virus by increasing the cytotoxic T-cells activities.

LIV capsule has been clinically and scientifically proven to rapidly increase patients’ CD4 count and eliminates the HIV virus by increasing the activities of Th1, Th9 and Th17. It helps to remedy opportunistic infection symptoms by boosting the patients’ immune systems and reducing the side effects of antiretroviral drugs thus improving the quality of life of HIV patients, enabling them to live normal lives.

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the disorder of blood vessels in the retina of diabetic patients. It is the top cause of blindness among working-age adults in Singapore, causing a total of 600 people to be totally blind & 17,500 to be visually impaired. About 30% of 600,000 diabetic patients (180,000) in Singapore have DR and only 30,000 have been diagnosed. There is a need to improve the screening process especially with the upward diabetic trend. A new process is necessary so that more patients with DR can be screened early, for early treatment. This presentation covers a new DR screening process that overcomes the limitations of the current screening process. It highlights what these limitations are and describes how IT is used as an enabler to overcome these limitations and transform the DR screening process, making it faster, better and cheaper.  It highlights key system components and discusses the strategy that enables the successful implementation.

The Telecare Porgramme implemented at 9 polyclinics in 2013 at the National Healthcare Polyclinics (NHGP), is a home monitoring programme involving patients with stable diabetes mellitus (D), hypertension (H) or dyslipidaemia (L) with the Care Manager (nurse trained in chronic disease management) as the main care coordinator. The regular readings facilitate Teleconsultations with the Care Managers, enabling them to remotely monitor patients at home and assist them in chronic disease management. Patients are empowered to better manage their conditions, maintain good clinical outcomes and reduce the number of clinic visits. 

The Integrated Building is a collaboration between Changi General Hospital and St Andrew’s Community Hospital, to provide both acute and community hospital beds in an age-friendly and conducive healing environment, to optimise recovery and facilitate independent living.  With the change in the model of care to meet the challenges of aging, new technologies were trialed and implemented to improve patient experience, patient safety and staff efficiency. Together with Integrated Health Information System (IHIS), CGH worked to implement new IT capabilities to enable seamless information flow and enhance patient service and experience.  

The Victorian Human Services Directory (HSD) is a unique repository of Human and Health Services (together with health practitioners).  The range of services includes General Practitioners, Hospitals, Housing, Meals on Wheels, Allied Health, etc.  It has over 30,000 health practitioners, including the State’s 7,700 General Practitioners, 1,050 pharmacies, and 11,500 organisations. Information held includes opening hours, contact details, facilities, national health identifiers, websites, and more. It provides seamless access to accurate and current quality data; a rich set of information which can be accessed via numerous methods such as smartphones, web portals, web services and widgets. Stakeholders come from the public and private sector including Call-Centres (Nurse on Call), Hospital and Community Health organisations, Not for Profit organisations, Emergency Services and health consumers.  Its success is based on the breadth and depth of information held on Human and Health Services, and the accuracy and currency, which is trusted by all its consumers. The success has led the HSD to being adopted on a national basis (as the National Health Services Director, NHSD) in July 2012; supported by the Federal Government, States and Territories.  It is now the cornerstone of E-Health across Australia as the National Health Services Directory with 300,000 services, the National Health Provider Directory (300,000 healthcare professionals) and the National Telehealth Directory.  Information is also used for a Health Planning Tool, so that informed evidence based policies, funding and service planning can be undertaken.

The presentation will share JurongHealth’s Medical Devices Integration Journey - how it started and how it was implemented at Jurong Medical Centre and Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, from both the clinician’s and IT’s perspective, touching on their experience, challenges faced, learnings and future plans.

This session will provide a one-year update on the Continuity of Care Maturity Model (CCMM), initially launched at HIMSS14. The CCMM, comprising eight stages, is a global model that addresses the importance of interoperability, information exchange, care coordination, patient engagement and analytics with the ultimate goal of holistic individual and population health management. 

In this session, attendees will be updated on:

1.       The eight stages of the model and how it can drive transformation in individual and regional health systems globally

2.       The roles of the three stakeholder groups associated with the model which include governance leaders, clinical leaders, and information technology leaders.

3.       How the model demonstrates the effective use of IT with care coordination, patient/consumer engagement, information exchange, interoperability, analytics and the overall management of the health of individuals and populations

4.       An overview of pilot programs implemented with the goal of optimizing outcomes for health system and patients 

As the field of medicine rapidly super-specializes, diagnostic technology has proliferated into a dizzying array of options with their own special reports. Find out how an academic health system reduced the turnaround time for its tertiary hospital services and wrangled hundreds of disparate data outputs from multiple vendors into a single online view with the Specialist Results System (SRS). SRS begins with test acquisition, handles reporting and approvals, and allows staff to view results when ready, enabling timely diagnosis and treatment.

Social Media is increasingly being used by healthcare providers as well as consumers to communicate, research and make health decisions. However, there are significant professional, medical and legal risks associated with implementing Social Media in Healthcare.  This session outlines the issues and provides some pointers to mitigate the risks.

The Nursing Home IT Enablement Program (NHELP) is a national program that helps nursing homes in adopting IT to improve operational efficiency. Agency of Integrated Care (AIC) and Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) have started the implementation of a common NHELP IT system for the nursing homes progressively. This presentation will share on the experience of implementing NHELP IT system at the pioneer nursing home, Singapore Christian Home; and the benefits the system brings to the nursing home.

Smartphones have enhanced the field of clinical photography, going beyond limitations of traditional clinical practice. But how do we address issues of privacy, without stifling the development of health information technology? 

The presentation titled “Smart Healthcare” will cover the challenges and issues faced by healthcare administrations in Singapore and other nations globally in transforming healthcare provision from an illness triggered scenario to a holistic and seamless person-centric healthcare provision for better health outcomes.  This is possible by connecting information in the hospital, clinics, home for useful exchange of data to facilitate smarter health and healthcare for persons across any setting.  This presentation will share the experience and learnings in the provision of these solutions.”

Hal Wolf examines global healthcare systems challenges, the need to integrate their organizational services within the Medical Model and then to integrate the patients personal Health Model to create a full Eco-System. From hospitals and clinics to mobile devices and genomics, proactive personalized care is being driven by the use of data and information services. No longer contained in the walls of facilities, healthcare is rapidly maturing in its management of citizens and patients. But is it maturing fast enough?

The biggest role and responsibility of the CIO today is to make sense of all this craziness in our industry. It really is not about the technology anymore. It's about trying to help organizations transform in the area of healthcare.

Telehealth strategies have largely been developed in response to improving access to healthcare in remote areas. In Singapore, where access is readily available, the challenge is to improve the quality of care and to show cost effectiveness in delivering these solutions.  As the cost of  telehealth   is  bourn by the patient, the correct  patient  subtype (acute vs chronic disease) , duration (short term vs long term, office hours vs 24/7) , value proposition (better access , convenience) and medical subversion policies needs to be aligned for programme success.  The composition of these telehealth teams  (existing  staff  vs  a dedicated telehealth concierge)  would also need to be assessed as patient familiarity , staff fatigue and review of medical protocols and pathways would need to be considered. Lastly, we need to assess if  telehealth  can improve the model of selfcare through intelligent self help portals which guides users through the healthcare system and provides choice and value at the same time.

The barriers to interoperability are pervasive and complex. Well defined and sufficiently constrained transport standards are alone insufficient. For nearly 30 years, HL7 has produced the world's most widely-used healthcare interoperability specifications, which have progressed toward interoperability. With the introduction of HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), we are moving closer to realizing that goal. 

Background: United Family Healthcare (UFH) is an international-standard, multicultural, multi-language healthcare organization in Asia providing comprehensive, integrated healthcare services. UFH was the first and remains China’s largest foreign-invested healthcare provider. After 17 years in China, UFH has established itself in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuxi, Tianjin, Mongolia, and Qingdao as the provider of choice for those who seek best in personalized healthcare. Together with 16 satellite clinics and medical centers UFH comprise China’s unique network of Joint Commission International (JCI) quality-accredited facilities. An integrated electronic medical record (EMR) system was implemented in the flagship Beijing hospital in 2014.

Objective: The objective of this case study is to share implementation experiences, challenges and lessons learnt, in order to inform clinical adoption and future implementation within UFH and to share learning with other organisations.

Methods and Results: The implementation was conducted across business, clinical, technical and governance dimensions.

The HIMSS Health IT Value Suite is a robust library of value-focused, evidence-based examples framed by HIMSS multifaceted Health IT. Value STEPS™.

The presentation will:

- Describe the HIMSS HIT Value Suite 

- Identify the Health IT Value STEPS and Subtypes 

- Examine the link between HIT technology and quality outcomes

A look at how healthcare is transforming around the globe and how communications is a key enabler of this change.

Streamlined communications result in operational excellence and positive patient outcomes with reduced liability and costs.

• Simplify the point-of-care
• Enable SMART Healthcare
• Improve staff productivity
• Enhance patient experience
• Sustainable investment strategy
• Customer references / Case Studies in APAC

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This presentation will give an update on the Philippine Health Information Exchange (PHIE) for improved healthcare outcomes. The presentation will cover the challengers of today's health system and provide solutions to achieve the goals, and hurdle the challenges of Universal Health Care.

The pursuit of operational excellence to deliver a “patient first” experience led home-grown healthcare group KPJ Healthcare Berhad to embrace cloud computing to transform its business.

With a base 25 hospitals across Malaysia, KPJ has set its sights on adding 8 new medical centers over the next five years. KPJ Healthcare also operates medical facilities in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand as well as an aged care centre in Australia. 

Today, 12 KPJ hospitals has access to a World Class infrastructure that enables the healthcare group to deliver a "patient first" experience.

This cloud journey has been a fulfilling one for KPJ as it is now focused on delivering quality customers services instead of being bogged down by the maintaining of ICT services delivery.

The mantra of “patient first” delivered through “caring cloud”.

Full benefits of electronic health records only accrue with the implementation of effective retrieval and reuse of clinical information. In analytics SNOMED CT acts as a reference terminology for comparisons and aggregation of data from the entire health care process.

Clinical engagement and technology uptake in healthcare can be a very time consuming and arduous exercise in navigation to achieve common outcomes for both clinicians and technologists alike. This presentation draws on Datacom Healthcare’s experience of the Australasian healthcare environment and provides insights and thought leadership on new approaches to creating better patient outcomes through closer collaboration and understanding of care and operational needs. The integration of evidence based medicine, evidence based technology, and evidence based design will be explored, illustrated with practical examples.

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Few would argue against the use of robust evidence to support health care practice. Over its 25-year history, evidence-based practice appears to have been beneficial both to individuals and to populations. However, critics of evidence-based practice have raised a number of concerns – evidence overload, rules-orientation, de-personalisation, etc.  In this presentation, Nick Hardiker will explore how health information technology might support evidence-based practice.  He will explain how health information technology can address some of the concerns about evidence-based practice while highlighting some of the unintended consequences of its introduction.

The domain of Population Health is becoming increasingly prominent as countries face the coming twin challenges of ageing populations and increasing chronic disease load, and rising medical capabilities and healthcare costs. Far from being a simple panacea to all our ills however, it demands a new approach to thinking about even familiar things like data and IT systems. Where once it was possible to "gather user specifications” and construct fairly stand-alone systems, the care of the person in the community demands a hitherto-unseen level of networking, collaboration and governance. This presentation discusses some of our onrushing complexities and challenges, and proposes some approaches to thinking differently.

Future Healthspaces will be computer intensive workplaces. Examples will be given of the ergonomic design for such Healthspaces that support healthcare provider well-being and facilitate error free workflow.

This lecture aims to answer one overarching question: What do we need to ensure successful Healthcare IT projects? EMR implementations are challenging, difficult and fraught with failures. Yet, there is no question about the advantages of successfully adopted clinical IT systems for better patient care. The smart strategy is to keep eyes and minds wide open for uncommon insights and learnings to make sure projects go as planned.

Ms Watson will discuss a Patient's Perspective of the Future of Healthcare. She will address the consumer perspectives based on her own recovery experience and fitness wearables as well as Quantified Research.

Seats are limited. First come first serve basis. This is applicable to healthcare providers working in hospital setting, non-for-profit associations, academics, government agencies). Not applicable to vendors/consultants/solutions providers.

FHIR combines the best features of HL7 standards with the latest web technologies to make interoperable heathcare applications dramatically simpler, easier and faster to develop. For applications based on earlier HL7 standards, FHIR offers a cost-effective evolutionary path. FHIR solutions are built from a set of modular components called "Resources".

These resources can easily be assembled into working systems  that solve real world clinical and administrative problems at a fraction of the price of existing alternatives. FHIR is suitable for use in a wide variety of contexts - mobile phone apps, cloud communications, EHR-based data sharing, server communication in large institutional healthcare providers and much more.