HIMSS mHealth Symposium

10:00 – 11:00

Opening Plenary:
Wireless Health By The Numbers
Moderator/Speaker:
Brian Dolan, Mobilehealthnews
Speaker:
Rick Valencia, GM and VP, Qualcomm Life

Unlike many health IT initiatives, no coaxing is required to drive adoption of smartphones and tablets among healthcare professionals. Mobile devices have also quickly become an important platform for patient engagement. This overview of mobile health will highlight mHealth’s drivers and current adoption levels as well as a discussion of the major trends set to shape mobile health services in the year ahead.

11:00 – 12:00

Going Mobile:
No Longer an Option, but an Expectation
Join Intel Corporation’s healthcare team in an innovative discussion with key customers and healthcare leaders focusing on why “Mobile” is critical technology for global healthcare, how it enables better care co-ordination and can therefore help reduce costs, improve quality and broaden access. Learn about key successes from your colleagues and learn how they used Mobile technology to transform clinical workflows, delight customers and improved ROI and raised quality standards.
Presented by:

12:00 – 12:45

Lunch
Sponsored by:

12:45 – 13:45

THE EPITAL – A Disruptive Pathway to the Future Healthcare Sector

Søren Vingtoft, MD, Ass. Prof., University of Copenhagen
Anders Skovbo Christensen, Civ.ing. PhD, University of Copenhagen
Klaus Phanareth, MD., PhD., Ass. Prof., University of Copenhagen
Lars Kayser, MD., PhD., As. Prof., University of Copenhagen

The EPITAL is a declaration of service transforming health care sector by means of disruptive innovation to establish: Patient empowerment, one point of contact for citizens to healthcare by means of a call and coordination center, reorganized health services, coordinated health care based on digitalization, telemedical health services and patient centricity. The first EPITAL has been established in Copenhagen in a controlled environment and includes general practitioners and health providers in the municipalities. eHealth tools for cross sectorial planning and coordination, disease condition measurement and interpretation, video conference are being tested and evaluated.

13:45 – 14:45

mHealth, an Enabler for Health Care of the Future

Moderator:
Marc Lange, Secretary General, EHTEL
Speakers:
Astrid Grøttland, NST, Norway
Mira Pakanen, EKSOTE, Finland
George E. Dafoulas, MD, e-Trikala SA, Greece

Although mobile devices are already integrated in telehealth solutions, we still need to make better use of mHealth services in their role as strategic enablers for the transformation of health care delivery. Tablet PCs and smartphones offer a unique potential for activating patients in improving their health and thus support prevention and a healthy lifestyle. The RENEWING HeALTH project will present three case studies from across Europe, highlighting the synergies of health coaching combined with a mobile technology platform, empowering patients with chronic conditions.

14:45 – 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:00

Smartphone Applications
Moderator:
Denise Silber, founder Doctors 2.0 & You
Speakers:
Mr David Doherty, Co-Founder, 3G Doctor
Jorge Juan Fernández, Director E-Health & Health 2.0, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona)

This interactive session about SmartPhone applications for health offers three learning opportunities, beginning with an overview of health and medicine mobile apps, the leading segment of an exploding category, by moderator Denise Silber, founder of the Doctors 2.0^TM & You, international conferences in Paris. The overview will be followed by two case studies, the use of mobile apps at the pediatric Hospital San Juan de Dios (Barcelona) under the guidance of our speaker, Jorge Juan Fernandez and the case of smartphone distance consultation by physicians of patients they have never met, presented by speaker, David Doherty founder of 3GDoctor (UK/Ireland). Audience participation will be highly encouraged!

16:00 – 17:00

Closing Keynote:
m+u+e+t = true
Steinar Pedersen, Owner, Tromø Telemedicine Consult
The mHealth, the uHealth, the eHealth, the telemedicine, the teleHealth, the homecare, the smart-house technology are all moving in the direction of one common system. The same technology will be used everywhere. The users of the systems are moving in all directions on the globe. To exploit this business opportunity will not depend on the business partner’s technology, but will depend on the business partner’s ability to cooperate, to create an ecosystem which will meet the citizen’s and health care system’s need.