HIMSS Middle East UAE eHealth Week 2016
 

  

HIMSS Conference @ UAE eHealth Week 2016 - Dubai

Dates: 31 October - 1 November

Venue: Mohammed Bin Rashid University Of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Healthcare City (View map here)

Monday, 31/10/2016
08:00 - 16:00Dubai Health Authority and Dubai Healthcare City Host UAE eHealth Week
08:00 - 09:00Registration and Coffee
08:00 - 09:00VIP 'Discover America' Breakfast Dialogue (By Invitation Only)
08:00 - 15:30Exhibition Hall Opens
09:00 - 09:05Opening Ceremony
09:05 - 09:10Opening Welcome [More Info]
His Excellency Humaid Mohammed Obaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the Board and Director-General , Dubai Health Authority, UAE
H. Stephen Lieber, CEO & President, HIMSS
09:10 - 09:15DHA EMRAM Awards
09:15 - 09:45Visit to the Exhibition Hall
09:45 - 09:55Executive Spotlight [More Info]
Dr. Robert Cothren, Executive Director, California Association of Health Information Exchanges, USA
09:55 - 10:05Executive Spotlight [More Info]
Dr. Sang Il Kim, Deputy Director, eHealth Suisse, Swiss Coordination Office for eHealth, Switzerland
10:05 - 10:15Executive Spotlight [More Info]
Jürgen Brandstätter, Member; Co-Chair, IHE International Board; IHE Global Deployment Coordination Committee; CodeWerk Software Services and Development GmbH, Austria
10:15 - 10:35How Sweden Improved Patients Involvement and Self Service with eHealth [More Info]
Johan Eltes, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Inera AB/Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Sweden

Since 2003, Sweden has directed patients first point of contact to a national health Advice Line - 1177. It is supported by a web portal of quality assured searchable advise. Since 2006, a platform for form based information exchange between patients and all Swedish care providers was introduced as part of 1177. It supports semi-automated "off-line" person-to-person communication though structured forms. The next step was to introduce 100% digitalized self-service for patients. These services offload the health care personel from manual registration tasks and improves the service to the patients. As an example, 1177 provides a national e-service that gives patients all over Sweden the possibility to manage their on appointments with primary care across the country. It is also possible for the patient to access the electronic health records from the majority of the EHR systems and healthcare providers of Sweden online in real-time. The appointment service was launched in 2011. It has had a linear increase in patient transactions since 2012, starting at 25 000 per year with a current rate of 1,2 million per year. The current development is focused on tele medicine services (a national platform for remote treatment programs), the ability for the patient to share EHR data with health services like Apple Health and a national architecture for personal connected health (home monitoring). The presentation gives an overview of the services and share some lessons learned.

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10:35 - 10:55The Swedish Experience of e-Prescriptions and Future Development of Digital Services [More Info]
Dr. Bodil Lidstrom, PhD, Lic.Pharmacist, Swedish eHealth Agency, Sweden

Sixteen years ago, Sweden implemented a national system for the management of electronic prescriptions. Today, the system is an integral part of the health care system and the amount of e-prescriptions are 98%. E-prescriptions are easy to use, reduce errors, and increase both patient safety and efficiency. The Swedish eHealth Agency, a government agency under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, is responsible for the operations and management of the system and related services. The agency, its role and responsibilities, creates enhanced information exchange within health care. The presentation will focus on the road towards a national system for e-prescriptions and the importance of all aspects of interoperability; legal, organizational, semantic and technical.

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10:55 - 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:35Sustainable Business Models for HIE and the Potential Role of Public Private Partnerships [More Info]
Dr. Robert Cothren, Executive Director, California Association of Health Information Exchanges, USA
11:35 - 11:55The Swiss National EHR - Finding the Right Way [More Info]
Dr. Sang Il Kim, Deputy Director, eHealth Suisse, Swiss Coordination Office for eHealth, Switzerland

Building a national electronic patient record for all Swiss citizens is much more than a technical IT-project. It means a cultural change of all stakeholders in the healthcare domain. This speech gives an overview about the specific challenges in Switzerland like federated and heterogenous care delivery and how the IT architecture reflects that using international standards like HL7 and IHE. Also it will show the complex approach to involve all actors over years to finally come to a legal framework and a prioritization of usecases and processes to be supported. The current status of the national project and the future plans like integrating mHealth are presented as well.

11:55 - 12:15More than a Technical Standard: IHE as framework for HIE [More Info]
Jürgen Brandstätter, Member; Co-Chair, IHE International Board; IHE Global Deployment Coordination Committee; CodeWerk Software Services and Development GmbH, Austria

A technical framework for HIE, using IHE Profiles.

Health Information Exchange systems are often offered as an “out-of-the” box solution by suppliers, but are they really sustainable? Scaling of such solutions is always limited at some point, whether it’s due to political, strategical or financial reasons, mostly already at the own organizational boundaries but usually latest at province- or country-level. To further and further connect healthcare facilities across organizations, regions and even countries a more “neutral” path must be entered – and this must be done at the very beginning of each project!

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is the right answer if you plan to establish a sustainable Health Information Exchange which is not limited by any boundaries. With its standards-based profiling of use-cases and vendor-neutrality it’s the most promising approach to finally connect the world.

This session summarizes the experiences of various national or regional projects which successfully set up an IHE based Health Information Exchange and explains how IHE profiles divide the use-cases of an HIE into small interoperable building blocks to reach an unachieved degree of vendor-independence. And it also shows an important result of those projects, namely that the benefit of IHE goes far beyond the technical layer as its philosophy stimulates cooperation on organizational, strategical and political levels as well.
12:15 - 13:15Networking Lunch
13:15 - 14:00UAE Health Information Exchange Roundtable [More Info]
Dr. Osama El-Hassan, Head of eHealth, Dubai Health Authority, UAE
Ali Mohamed Al Ali, Director of Information Technology, Health Authority Abu Dhabi, UAE
Mubaraka Ibrahim, Director, Health Information Systems Department, Ministry of Health & Prevention, UAE
Ahmed Aljneibi, Acting Group Chief Information Officer, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, SEHA, UAE
Ali Juma AlAjme, Information Technology Department Director, Ministry of Health & Prevention, UAE
14:00 - 14:30Role of Telcos in Delivering HIE Solutions [More Info]
Daniel Amir Raduan, Head of Digital Health, Etisalat, UAE

Strategies in main telcos are focused in transforming the companies to a digital enterprises aiming at provide end-to-end solutions in certain verticals as healthcare. What is the role of telcos in the health market? What value does the telco provide to health information networks? What kind of services will telcos deliver in the future?

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14:30 - 14:45Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:30HIE Tutorials: Certification of Health Information Exchanges and Health Information Service Providers [More Info]
Dr. Robert Cothren, Executive Director, California Association of Health Information Exchanges, USA

15:30 - 16:00Big Data in Healthcare: Promise and Potential in Healthcare Transformation [More Info]
Ann F. Chenoweth MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, President-Elect, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), USA
Deborah Green, EVP/Chief Innovation & Global Services Officer, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), USA


This presentation defines and describes Big Data and while conveying its complexities, relates its essentials for healthcare. Given future possibilities for big data in healthcare transformation, organizations do not have to wait for big data technologies to pursue and optimize analytics. Organizations can additionally lay the groundwork now for integrating big data into intelligence efforts to support strategy, care improvement and change efforts. This presentation concludes with perspectives on changing and emerging roles essential for ensuring integrity and reliability of data, information, and analytics.

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16:00 - 17:00HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award Reception (By Invitation Only)

Tuesday, 01/11/2016
08:00 - 15:30Dubai Health Authority and Dubai Healthcare City Host UAE eHealth Week
08:00 - 09:00Business Sweden Breakfast Dialogue (By Invitation Only) [More Info]

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08:30 - 09:00Registration and Coffee
8:30 - 15:30Exhibition Hall Opens
09:00 - 09:10Opening Welcome
09:10 - 09:30Dubai Health Strategy 2021 [More Info]
Dr. Mazin Gadir, Senior Specialist, The Executive Office for Organizational Transformation, Dubai Health Authority, UAE
09:30 - 10:15Public Health System Transformation: The Digitization of Millions of Patient Records [More Info]
Ginu John, Director, Epic Project-Training, NYC Health + Hospitals, USA
Edward Marx, Interim Chief Information Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals, Executive Vice President, The Advisory Board Company, USA
Pamela Saechow, Senior Assistant Vice President, Epic Implementation, NYC Health + Hospitals, USA

One of the largest cities in the world, New York is home to 8.5 million people. A diverse population made up of immigrants from around the world, the city is an eclectic mix of religions, language and cultures. With a focus on public health, the city embarked on a complex journey to digitize the records of all the citizens who utilize its public healthcare system. The ambitious project to modernize the largest public health system in the Americas began in 2014 and remains on time and budget. The complexities of this undertaking are enormous. Challenges related to financing, leadership and governance are common but executives outlined a bold vision that keeps the project on track. Listen as the project leaders share the foundational principles and lessons learned that have enabled the successful digitization of patient records in a diverse public healthcare system.

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10:15 - 10:35Engaging Patients: The UAE Ministry of Health Experience [More Info]
Mubaraka Ibrahim, Director, Health Information Systems Department, Ministry of Health & Prevention, UAE
10:35 - 11:00The Future of Patient Portals [More Info]
Dr. Ali Sanousi, Executive Chief Medical Information Officer, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
11:00 - 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:35The Ministry's Achievement in IT Services [More Info]
Ali Juma AlAjme, Information Technology Department Director, Ministry of Health & Prevention, UAE
11:35 - 12:10EMR Successes and the Next Phase of Healthcare Transformation [More Info]
Ahmed Aljneibi, Acting Group Chief Information Officer, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, SEHA, UAE
Mubaraka Ibrahim, Director, Health Information Systems Department, Ministry of Health & Prevention, UAE
Moderator: Michael Schelper, Chief Operating Officer, Cerner Middle East & Africa

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12:10 - 12:35Real Time Wireless Fetal Monitoring [More Info]
Marco van Elst, Chief Executive Officer, Telenatal, Netherlands
12:35 - 13:00Connected Hospital to Connected Patient [More Info]
Paul Marriott, Integration Manager, Sidra Medical & Research Center, Qatar
13:00 - 14:00Networking Lunch
14:00 - 15:00Panel Discussion: Patient Engagement Revolution [More Info]
Mubaraka Ibrahim, Director, Health Information Systems Department, Ministry of Health & Prevention, UAE
Amani Al Jasmi, Director of Information Technology, Dubai Health Authority, UAE
Dr. Ali Sanousi, Executive Chief Medical Information Officer, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
Marco van Elst, Chief Executive Officer, Telenatal, Netherlands
Dr. Bassam Mahboub, Consultant and Head of Pulmonary Medicine Unit, Rashid Hospital, UAE

HIMSS Conference @ UAE eHealth Week 2016 - Abu Dhabi

Dates: 2 November 2016

Venue: Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Level P2, Ballroom (View map here)

Wednesday 02/11/2016
08:00 - 09:00Registration and Coffee
08:00 - 14:30Exhibition Hall Opens
09:00 - 09:05Opening Welcome [More Info]
H. Stephen Lieber, CEO & President, HIMSS
09:05 - 09:15Welcome Address by Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi [More Info]
Abdulla Abdul Aziz Al Shamsi, Chief Administrative Officer, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. C. Martin Harris MD, MBA, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Gareth Sherlock, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE
09:15 - 09:20Welcome Remark [More Info]
Ethan Goldrich, Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy Abu Dhabi, UAE
09:20 - 09:30HIMSS EMRAM Awards Presentation
09:30 - 10:00Hospital of the Future [More Info]
Gareth Sherlock, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. C. Martin Harris MD, MBA, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic, USA
10:00 - 10:30Innovation in Hospital Communication [More Info]
Tom Stafford, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Halifax Health, USA
10:30 - 11:00Improved Outcomes with Mobility [More Info]
Manaj Menon, Head of Clinical Integration, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
11:00 - 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45From Mobilizing Applications to mHealth [More Info]
Dharmendra Sushilkumar Ghai, Head of Clinical Transformation Technology Systems, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
11:45 - 12:15Cloud Hosting in Healthcare [More Info]
Vinil Menon, Chief Technology Officer, CitiusTech, India
12:15 - 12:45Evolving Threats & Trends: The UAE and Healthcare Industry View [More Info]
Dr. Tamer Aboualy, Chief Technology Officer, IBM MEA
12:45 - 13:45Networking Lunch
13:45 - 14:00Registration for Hospital Tour [More Info]
14:00 - 15:00Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Hospital Tour
15:30 - 16:30HIMSS Analytics Survey and EMRAM Workshop [More Info]
Ali Mohamed Al Ali, Director of Information Technology, Health Authority Abu Dhabi, UAE
H. Stephen Lieber, CEO & President, HIMSS