HIMSS Summit

Programme

Session Matrix

Wednesday, 29 September 2010
18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
Thursday, 30 September 2010
08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Coffee
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome: Bjoern Bergh, co-chair, European HIT Leadership Summit
09:45 - 10:45 Keynote
Benchmarking HIT Adoption in European Healthcare Organisations

Uwe Buddrus
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Focus Groups
12:15 - 13:30 Networking Lunch: European Health IT Society Introduction, Bjoern Bergh, Jan-Eric Slot
13:30 - 14:30
Moderator: Kari Harno, Chairman of the European Governing Council, HIMSS Europe

Mobility in the Hospital Enterprise Patient Monitoring, Assets Tracking and Vital Signs Monitoring. Wireless technologies have modernised nearly every segment of society, but are they appropriate, secure and sufficiently reliable for healthcare settings? Better yet, for those who have deployed, how is mobility in the hospital driving ROI?

Arve Olav Solumsmo, St Olavs Hospital, Norway
Measuring the Performance of Healthcare Organisations: Is it just about the Money? Cost-savings from HIT deployment is indeed an expectation by the CEO. However, can HIT executives claim more wide-ranging, less tangible benefits? Can we claim patient satisfaction, happier staff and better healthcare out-comes as a big step towards complete transformation? How can CXOs make the case for cost savings as just the first big accomplishment?

Tommaso Piazza, CIO, ISMETT/UPMC, Italy

14:30 - 15:30 Focus Groups
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00
Moderator: Jan-Eric Slot, Directeur ICT, Academisch Medisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Why eHealth Portals and Community Information Exchange? Full HIT integration within the hospital is a huge challenge in itself. But now external stakeholders are demanding that hospitals and hospital networks simultaneously cut costs and plug-in to numerous outside information exchanges and portals. Can we connect without breaking the bank?

Dr Michael Bainbridge, Clinical Architect and Visiting Fellow University of Victoria, United Kingdom

Jari Renko, Director of Information Systems,  CIO , Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa , Finland

HIT and Emerging Legal Issues Increasing technological convergence in healthcare settings is blurring the lines between traditional medical devices and pure information technology applications and hardware. Our panellists will discuss emerging regulatory and legal challenges and seek to examine, when does a PC become a medical device? Will convergence signal a new era of government regulation in HIT?

Moderator: Björn Bergh, Director of Information Technology and Medical Engineering, University Hospital Heidelberg, Center of Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Germany

Petra Wilson, Director, Connected Health, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems
18:30 – 19:30 Evening Reception
Friday, 1 October 2010
09:00 - 09:30 Social Networking: Sharing Medical Knowledge
Manuel Pérez Vallina, Gregorio Marañon University General Hospital, Spain
09:30 - 10:00 Efficiency Analysis of EMRs
Göran Hernell, IT Director, Kronobergs County Council
10:00 - 10:30 tba
Jean-Jacques Romatet, General Manager, University Hospital, Toulouse, France
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 Succeeding as a Senior Health IT Executive
Tightening budgets coupled with increased demands for value are creating a hazardous environment for the careers of IT professionals.  The speakers in this session will share their lessons learned on how to navigate the economic, political and professional risks and thrive during adversity.

Moderator: Björn Bergh, Director of Information Technology and Medical Engineering, University Hospital Heidelberg, Center of Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Germany

Patrice Degoulet, CIO, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, France Dolors Gonzalez i Cuyas, ICS Institut Catala de la Salut, Spain

13:15 - 17:00 Golf Outing/Guided Rome Tours