eHealth Week/WoHIT Industry Focus Groups

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Wednesday 11 May
Industry Focus Group
Location: SYMA Centre
 
11.30 - 12.30
Hall B, Ground Level, Room B1

11.30 - 12.30
Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

12.30 - 13.30
Hall B, Ground Level, B2

13.30 - 14.30
Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room
14.45 - 15.45
Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room
Thursday 12 May
 Focus Group
 Location: SYMA Centre
 
09:00 - 10.00
Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room
13.30 - 14.30
Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

 

Intel Focus Group: How Cloud and the Health IT Landscape can Enable Better Care Co-ordination

Wednesday 11 May

11:30 - 12:30
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Ground Level, Room B1

The Cloud is rapidly developing as an alternative way to deliver computing power to the Enterprise. At the same time the service demands on Enterprise Healthcare Institutions are also growing. More patients need access to healthcare; quality needs to improve and costs need to be constrained.
Can services delivered out of the cloud give Enterprises Healthcare Organizations the flexibility and costs advantages they need to meet growing clinical demands? Can this be done safely? What decisions do Organizations have to consider now?
Hear what you can do now to start computing securely out of the cloud and across the Healthcare continuum.

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Oracle Focus Group: Addressing Interoperability Challenges – Health Information Exchange Best Practices

Wednesday 11 May

11:30-12:30
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

Attend our Focus Group. Learn how to develop an interoperable healthcare technology infrastructure to aggregate patient information into a comprehensive data repository delivering single best views of information in near real time. Also hear case studies extracted from an international community of health information exchange leaders

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Agfa Focus Group: Addressing Interoperability Challenges - Health Information Exchange Best Practices

Wednesday 11 May

12:30-13:30
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Ground Level, B2

Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. h. c. Dirk Pickuth ,Arztlicher Direktor - Chefarzt des Instituts fur Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie. Caritasklinik St. Theresia Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universitat des Saarlandes Rheinsytrasse 2 D - 66113 Saarbrucken Medical Director -Chief physician at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Caritas Hospital St. Theresia Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of the Saarland.

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IBM Research Focus Group: Personalised Medicine: The Role of Analytics

Wednesday 11 May

13:30-14:30
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

Management of information is critical to supporting the goal of patient-centered care. New care modalities and robust analytics tools are necessary to provide actionable information to each of the participants in health care.
Speaker: Marty Kohn, MS, MD, FACEP, FACPE Associate Director, Healthcare Analytics

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CSC Focus Group: Austrian Central Patient Management Application: 2011 Design of European Governmental eHealth Programs

Wednesday 11 May

14:45-15:45
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

Visit our Focus Group to learn more about the Austrian Master Patient Index as a central component of the Austrian Electronic Health Record (ELGA) from our client speaker Dr. Thomas Hladschik (ITSV - IT-Services of the Austrian Social Security). Following that, Dr. Harald Deutsch (CSC Healthcare EMEA) will extend the view from Austria to wider Europe by discussing success factors for Governmental eHealth programs in the EU. After the presentations, join us for an informal gathering and talks with our experts about your local eHealth challenges and experiences. We look forward to meeting with you!

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Microsoft Focus Group:

Thursday 12 May

09:00-10:00
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

Dr. Bill Crounse leads an executive discussion sharing his insights and perspective on global trends and IT solutions impacting the delivery of health information and medical services around the world both on premise and in the cloud. Discussion topics include: Data Aggregation and Analytics, Personal Health Records, Caregiver Collaboration and Clinical BI.
Speaker: Microsoft’s Senior Director for Worldwide Health, Bill Crounse, MD

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Thomson Reuters Micromedex Focus Group: Patient Surveillance: Identifying and Managing At-Risk Patients in Real Time

Thursday 12 May

13:30-14:30
SYMA Centre, Hall B, Level 1, Innsbruck Room

This session presents a new clinical dashboard designed to assist clinicians in identifying and managing at risk patients by combining patient data and evidence-based clinical knowledge as well as profiling patient populations using real-time clinical surveillance. In addition to the presentation and demonstration there will be an interactive session offering the opportunity to engage with Thomson Reuters in discussions around how we create the unbiased peer reviewed evidenced based content for the Micromedex products and the new clinical surveillance tools.

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