Programme
With the convergence of the largest and most complete European audience yet, WoHIT 2010 will offer a compelling programme addressing the practical perspectives of major stakeholder groups, including end-users, hospital CIOs practitioners and patients
Panel discussions, debates, high level presentations and actual case studies will aim to generate evidence of eHealth contribution to healthcare delivery. The speakers will share their experience on successful implementations, new trends and challenges in the eHealth sector.
The keynote addresses and debates animated by a Master of Ceremonies, will be more interactive than ever and address current eHealth topics.
Sessions
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PL1: Welcome Address click to read more
Time: 09:00 Location: CCIB
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| Pablo RiveroGeneral DirectorMinistry of Health and Social PolicySpain | Marina GeliRegional Minister of HealthGeneralitat de CatalunyaSpain | Kari HarnoChairman of the European Governing CouncilHIMSS Europe |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PL2: Welcome and Keynote address: The EU eHealth Agenda click to read more
Time: 09:45 Location: CCIB
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| Pablo RiveroGeneral DirectorMinistry of Health and Social PolicySpain | Zoran StancicDeputy Director - General, DG INFSOEuropean CommissionBelgium | |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PL3: eHealth: The Right Information, in the Right Place, at the Right Time click to read more
Time: 10:15 Location: CCIB
Healthcare is forced to deliver better care to increase of life expectancy as well as of quality of life. This goal faces a lot of challenges beginning by the real nature of diseases and the lack a full formalization of medical knowledge, until the problems derived from ageing, environmental influences and improper ways of life. The players in this game have to fight against such difficulties. It's the moment to seriously consider if eHealth helps to overcome the problems that each actor faces in everyday activity in an pervasive computing era which just born.
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Prof Antoine GeissbuehlerMD, FACMIProfessor and Chairman - Division of Medical Informatics Geneva University HospitalsSwitzerland Alex JadadChief Innovator and Founder Centre for Global eHealth InnovationCanada Bernat SoriaProfessorCABIMER, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative MedicineSpain Libby MorrisM B ChB, MRCGPGeneral PracticionerNational Health Service Scotland United Kingdom |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PS1: eHealth Governance click to read more
Time: 11:30 Location: CCIB
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Zoran StancicDeputy Director -General, DG INFSOEuropean CommissionBelgium Karin JohanssonState Secretary Swedish Ministry of HealthSweden Joan GuanyabensChief Executive OfficerCatalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research, Government of CataloniaSpain Esther Gil-ZorzoInternational Projects Manager 2010, EU Presidency & Innovation in CDM, Quality Agency of the National Health System Ministry of Health & Social Policy, Spain Clemens Martin Auer Director General Ministry of Health and Social PolicyAustria |
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Track: eHealth Addressing Global Challenges Through Local Actions
PS2: How can ICT Help Fight Pandemics? click to read more
Time: 11:30 Location: CCIB
This session aims to show specific programs finalized or still ongoing developed to control outbreaks arising in countries belonging to Africa (preferment in Maghreb or sub-Saharan Africa), Latin-America or Europe (preferment Mediterranean or Eastern European countries). The role of ICTs - especially wireless communication, clinical data registries and geographical information systems (GIS) - in providing valid indicators of serious disease endemics or epidemics and SPECIALLY be useful to make a forecast allowing to take decissions to apply in practice. The approaches can be very heterogeneous but equally helpful for fighting against diseases, improve or prevent them.
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Antonio PlasenciaGeneralitat de CatalunyaSpain Luis KunSenior Research Professor of Homeland Security IRM College of the National Defense UniversityUSA Francisco I Bastos Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em SaúdeFundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil Raoul KamadjeuCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)USA |
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Track: eHealth Works - Here is Evidence
PS3: Health Services at a Distance - Succesful Business Models click to read more
Time: 11:30 Location: CCIB
This session will showcase concrete evidence and lessons learned from actual and sustainable tele-homecare and tele-monitoring services. It will provide both a conceptual framework to develop and analyse TeleHealth business cases and learning from successful ventures. As a result, you will gain a better understanding of the problems and challenges, but also of the business opportunities provided by a results-oriented approach to health services at a distance.
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Prof Antoine GeissbuehlerMD, FACMIProfessor and Chairman - Division of Medical Informatics Geneva University HospitalsSwitzerland Paul AtkinTelehealth NurseUniversity Hospital HullUnited Kingdom DrBernado Valdivieso MartinezDirector of PlanningValencia Health Department LA FESpain Karl StroetmannSenior Research FellowEmpirica Communication & Technology ResearchGermany |
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Track: eHealth Market - Present and Prospect
PS4: Enabling Clinical Research through Effective Use of Patient Data click to read more
Time: 11:30 Location: CCIB
The increasing availability of easily retrievable, digitised patient data offers new opportunities to researches, scientists and specialised industry (e.g. pharmaceutical industry). What are the real benefits and challenges of the use healthcare databases that contain health and/or genetic information? Can the secrecy and integrity of patient data be guarded? And is patient data fit for reuse? Do we need new rules of the game?
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Jos DevliesMedical Director EuroRecBelgium Richard PerkinsPresidenteClinical Forum Prof Pekka RuotsalainenResearch Professor National Institute for Health and WelfareFinland Tanguy Van OverstraetenPartner, Global Head of Privacy and Data ProtectionLinklaters LLPBelgium |
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Track: eHealth User Platform
PS5: The Patient's and Consumers Perspective click to read more
Time: 11:30 Location: CCIB
Consumers and Patients are offered more freedom and choices when seeking health education and health services in Europe. They can use new eHealth services when in need of healthcare in another member state. Cross-border eHealth services are high on the political agenda. Can the aims of patient empowerment and person centred care be achieved? What is the reality of patient choice and how is this reflected in the political processes on the EU level? How will the rulings of the European Court of Justice influence the use of healthcare in Europe?
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Dr Stephan SchugMD MPHChief Medical OfficerEHTEL Belgium Nicola BedlingtonExecutive DirectorEuropean Patients' Forum Albert JovellDirector General Fundació Biblioteca Josep Laporte Artur FurtadoProject and Policy Officer European Commission Belgium |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PS6: Is Sustainability of Healthcare Possible without eHealth? click to read more
Time: 14:00 Location: CCIB
This session is aimed to discuss how the adoption of ehealth in healthcare policies and organizations can help into keep a sustainable healthcare system maintaining the standards of quality. It is a amatter of fact that pervasive computing is penetrating in healthcare, and the Healthcare business is betting for a high increase in ICT expenditures. But it's a challenge if eHealth can drive or facilitate the adequate reengineering to make the HC system mores sustainable. eHealth is a just at its beginning as a bussines. Therefore it's of interest to do research and analysis of success or defeat stories as well as the proposals of the apporpiate or new business models.
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David McDaid Sarah MuttitCIOMinistry of HealthSingapore Karl StroetmannSenior FellowEmpiricaGermany Misha KayManagerGlobal Obeservatory for eHealth WHOSwitzerland Juan Carlos Di LuccaPresidente de la Asociación Argentina de Informática Médica |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PS7: When Does Telemedecine Deliver? click to read more
Time: 14:00 Location: CCIB
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Luis DonosoEuropean Society of Radiology Pedro SerranoQuality AgencyRegional Health Minister of Canary islandsSpain Peter SchwarzUniversity of DresdenGermany Claudio DarioVeneto RegionItaly Giancarlo RuscittiRegional Secretary, Health and Social ServiceVeneto RegionItaly Benny EklundCounty Council of UppsalaSweden |
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Track: eHealth Works - Here is Evidence
PS8: Consumer - Patient oriented eHealth Products and Services click to read more
Time: 14:00 Location: CCIB
Without question, the internet is the leading patient destination for health information. But are patient portals the next logical steps for patient empowerment? Additionally, what are the tangible benefits for both healthcare providers and patients to use portals?
This session will demonstrate how healthcare delivery organisations can utilise eHealth solutions to involve the patient and deliver new customer oriented services.
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Glenn Kenneth BruunChief Innovation and Strategy officerCSAM Health ASNorway Chris FlimSecretary of the BoardNederlandse Vereniging voor eHealth / Dutch Association of eHealthThe Netherlands Sissel JorManager Research and Patients ServicesOslo University HospitalNorway Stefan WildExternal Affairs DirectorMSD SwitzerlandSwitzerland |
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Track: eHealth Market - Present and Prospect
PS9: Integration: The Good, the Bad and the Heroic click to read more
Time: 14:00 Location: CCIB
Several large national and local attempts have been made to streamline health care by integrating electronic health and patient record systems. Some attempts have been successes, some have been failures and the outcome of some bold projects is yet to be seen.
The session summarises experiences of some well known projects.
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Markku ÄärimaaAdjunct Professor of Surgery - Former President of the CPMECPME Finland Jonathan CameronProgramme ManagerNational Health Service ScotlandUnited Kingdom Roberto ZuffadaProject ManagerRegione LombardiaItaly Anne KallioHead of DevelopmentMinistry of Health and WelfareFinland |
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Track: eHealth User Platform
PS10: IT Solutions to Support Quality of Care: Improving Decisions and Learning at the Point of Care click to read more
Time: 14:00 Location: CCIB
This session explores the strategic roles information technologies and health informatics can play in aiding health professionals and hospital decision makers in their practices and continuing professional development (CPD) towards safe, quality and efficient healthcare delivery. It will stimulate knowledge exchange amongst policy makers, health organisation administrators and health professional leaders by focusing on concrete ways to implement CPD concepts into practice towards health system improvement.
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Karl StroetmannSenior Research FellowEmpirica Communication & Technology ResearchGermany Prof Antoine GeissbuehlerMD, FACMIProfessor and Chairman - Division of Medical Informatics Geneva University HospitalsSwitzerland Mike WatsonMedical Director National Health Service ScotlandUnited Kingdom Prof Kendall HoMD FRCPCDirector UBC Faculty of MedicineCanada |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PL4: Patient Information and Interaction: Healthcare 2.0 in Practice click to read more
Time: 15:30 Location: CCIB
Information for the patient is becoming an important part of the therapeutic prescription. This fact must be taken very seriously, because the high risk of a misuse of the global information about health available in Internet without quality control. The idea is to introduce the concept of Information prescription by a high level expert on it.
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| Neil BaconFounderiWantGreatCare.org | Nick FahyHead of Unit, DG SANCO European Commission | |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PL5: EU-US Cooperation on eHealth: Addressing Common Challenges click to read more
Time: 16:00 Location: CCIB
This session is oriented to show effective collaborations between the EU and USA Administrations in the matter of Healthcare. The presence of high level representatives of the two Areas (Governments) offers a quality mark and interest to that session. It's intended to review a brief overview of the shared success stories, and go in depth in the actual and near future areas of collaboration with the positive aspects as well also the difficulties.
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Pablo RiveroGeneral DirectorMinistry of Health and Social PolicySpain Ilias IakovidisDeputy Head of Unit DG INFSOEuropean Commission Belgium Charles FriedmanDeputy National CoordinatorHealth Information Technology USA Kevin M. FickenscherEuropean/American Business CouncilUSA |
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Track: eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery
PS11: Embedding eHealth into New Professional Curricula click to read more
Time: 17:15 Location: CCIB
eHealth is being accepted more and more by the healthcare providers. However eHealth has still a very low presence in the undergraduate curricula in Health Sciences. The efforts done from scientific and HC professional associations and also Universities crash with official recognition by Education Ministers. There is a clear need to review in deep the curricula of Health Sciences Studies to include eHealth as a transversal discipline and fight for an official recognition and accreditation, including professional positions in the health policies. Meanwhile, because eHealth is becoming a substantial part of healthcare, it is necessary to organize plans for training and capacitating the HC professionals who face the implementation of eHealth in their daily work.
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Michael WilksCPMEStanding Committee of European Doctors John MantasProfessor of Health Informatics, Health Informatics LabUniversity of AthensGreece Di MillenHead of Informatics DevelopmentDep. Of Health Informatics - Policy and PlanningUnited Kingdom Christian LovisHead, Clinical Information System UnitUniversity of GenevaSwitzerland |
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Track: eHealth Addressing Global Challenges Through Local Actions
PS12: Ageing - a Global Challenge click to read more
Time: 17:15 Location: CCIB
Ageing is a global challenge with a high impact in developed countries. There is a sum of conditions that difficults the autonomy of the person and his/her wellbeing: chronic diseases, handicaps, physicial limitations, etc. In order to prevent and assists the citizens in such scenario eHealth has a role in the near future. Specific interoperable computerized platforms, integrated with healthcare clinical record are tools with a lot of possibilites to help in this challenge.
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Josep-M. RocaHospital clinic Alain FrancoProfessor of Geriatic, Medicine and GerontologyNice School of Medicine and University HospitalFrance Adolfo MuñozInstituto de Salud Carlos IIISpain Maria HägglundDepartment of Learning, Informatics, Management and EthicsKarolinska InstitutetSweden |
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Track: eHealth Works - Here is Evidence
PS13: Wireless Mobility in Hospitals, it Works!! click to read more
Time: 17:15 Location: CCIB
Wireless technologies and applications are becoming available and implemented into a variety of hospitals and healthcare settings. Wireless technologies are supporting everything from logistic functions, clinical data processing, better care settings and patient safety. There are now proof that available wireless technology really gives true value and benefits to healthcare settings, and this session will give you insight into both available and implemented solutions as well as the benefits it gives. This session will draw upon different examples of implemented wireless technologies and the benefit it gives.
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Glenn Kenneth BruunChief Innovation and Strategy officerCSAM Health ASNorway Jan Røberg-LarsenSenior Key Account ManagerTelenorNorway Stein VaalerMD, PhDDeputy Managing DirectorAkershus University HospitalNorway Dean WestcottVice PresidentACCA United Kingdom Navin BediEmergency DepartmentNottingham University Hospital United Kingdom |
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Track: eHealth Market - Present and Prospect
PS14: Do we need a unique identifier to avoid defragmentation of the eHealth market? click to read more
Time: 17:15 Location: CCIB
To identify persons, organisations and even infra-structure components. Health-ID Management is a fundamental prerequisite. Correct identification is crucial to avoid errors and make the right decisions. Today, many systems have with legacy unique identification practices and the move to a new identification system is often difficult. To be useful Health-IDs must be unique, trustworthy and interoperable. The session will highlight the most important initiatives and projects to support cross-border healthcare and Europe wide interoperability of eHealth services.
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Laurent DebenedettiHead of International RelationsASIP SantéFrance Michiel SprengerSenior Adviser IT and InnovationThe Netherlands' National IT Institute for Healthcare (Nictiz)The Netherlands Andreas GrodeHead of Technology & InnovationGematikGermany Mariane CiminoInternational RelationshipsASIP-SantéFrance |
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Track: eHealth User Platform
PS15: Decision support for end-users: is it really working? click to read more
Time: 17:15 Location: CCIB
The exponential growth in medical knowledge requires increasingly smart healthcare process support, monitoring and alerts as well as clinical decision support. Patient and process data, medical knowledge and clinical experience need to be understandable by computers, allow them to interact with each other as well as with caretakers. There is a need to build a comprehensive "info-structure". This session will focus on knowledge and process modelling, natural language processing, ontologies, archetypes, detailed clinical modelling as promising tools to increase semantic interoperability.
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Jos DevliesMedical Director EuroRecBelgium Silviu BragaR&D Director Medicognos SABelgium Blackford MiddletonMD,MPH,MSc.Corporate Director, Clinical Informatics Research and DevelopmentPartners HealthcareUSA Matthias LeuVice PresidentCompuGROUP Holding AGGermany |
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