Speaker Presentations

Monday, 21 November
09.30 - 10.15 Introduction to HUG

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler, Division of eHealth and Telemedicine, HUG (pdf)

Prof. Christian Lovis, Division of Medical Information Sciences, HUG, Switzerland (pdf)
10.20 - 12.00 Hospital Tour - Infrastructure and Governance (pdf)
13.00 - 14.15 Session: “IT and Innovation in Healthcare”
  1. Telemedicine: The Next Generation of Virtual Healthcare (pdf)
    Prof. Bruno Gridelli, MD, Professor of Surgery, Director ISMETT, Palermo, Italy
  2. Innovation, Technology and Business-Project Incubation in the Barcelona Medical Association (pdf)
    Dr. Luis Pareras, MD, MBA, Manager of the Innovation, Technology and Business-Project Incubation Area at the Barcelona Medical Association, Spain
  3. Innovation from the Perspective of the UK National QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity, Prevention) Programme (pdf)
    Tad Matus, South East Coast Strategic Health Authority, UK
14.15 - 15.15 Thought Leadership Plenary Session - Gold Sponsor
Cloud, Mobility and the Health IT Landscape
(pdf)
Mark Blatt, MD, Worldwide Medical Director, Intel Corporation
15.45 - 17.15 Session: "Building New Hospitals"
  1. Building 7 New Hospitals in Madrid: A 3 Year Review from an IT and a Global Point of View (pdf)
    Francisco Garcia Lombardia, Manager of Innovation Programs and IT Strategic Project of Madrid Region, Spain
  2. Integration of New Private Hospitals in Public EMRs, IT aspects, Comparison with Public Strategies (pdf)
    José Manuel Pacho, Financial Officer for IT. Regional Health Service, Madrid, Spain
  3. The Impact of New Infrastructure on Medical Care Processes
  4. Henning Schneider, Head of Medical IT Processes, University Medical Centre Hamburg, Germany
Tuesday, 22 November
08.25 - 08.55 How the First European Hospital Achieved Stage 7 (video)
Dr. Peter Gocke, CIO, University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
09.00 - 10.30

Session: "Beyond EMRs: Decision Support Tools, Private Clouds, Semantic Search of EHRs"

  1. Semantic Search of EHRs - Creation of Data Warehouses and Clinical Registries (ppt)
    Prof. Xavier Pastor, MD, CMIO, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Decision Support Tools in Clinical Practice (pdf)
    Dr. Ilkka Kunnamo, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, EBM Guidelines & EBMeDS at Duodecim, Finland
  3. The NHS Private Cloud Infrastructure Project (pdf)
    Dr. Zafar Chaudry, MD, MSc, MBA. CIO Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation trust, UK
12.30 - 14.15 Session: "EMR Migration: Ensuring Data Persistency and Interoperability – Experience from the Nordic Countries"
  1. Management Challenges: "Big Bang" Change of Electronic Health Records in a Hospital System (pdf)
    Dr. Peder Jest, MD, CMO,Director, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
  2. Process Support via EMR Migration: a Case Study of an Ongoing Project (pdf)
    Jari Renko, Master of Science EE, CIO at Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) Finland
  3. Strategic Planning Towards a Regional EHR in Norway (pdf)
    Dr. Hans Nielsen Hauge,MD, CMIO Helse Sor-Ost, Norway
  4. Deployment of EMR in the County Council of Uppsala, Sweden (pdf)
    Dr. Anders Bjorklind, MD, PhD, CMIO at County Council of Uppsala, Sweden
15.15 - 16.15 Session: “Costing / ROI of EMR”

Fiction and Facts: Socio Economic and Financial Benefits and Cost of EHR Systems (pdf)

Karl A. Stroetmann, Senior Research Fellow, Empirica, Germany


HIMSS Analytics ROI Examples (pdf)

John P. Hoyt, FACHE, FHIMSS Executive Vice President, HIMSS Analytics, USA
16.15 - 17.00 Closing Keynote

Daring to be Different
Dr. Peter Curry, Consultant Anaesthesist and Clinical Lead for eHealth, NHS Fife, Scotland