| Wednesday, 31 May 2017 | ||
 07:30 - 08:30 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 08:30 - 08:40 | Welcome Address [More Info] Jeremy Bonfini, Executive Vice President, HIMSS International | |
| 08:40 - 09:15 | EMRAM Awards Presentation | |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Keynote: HIT 3.0 - Welcome to the HIT Revolution [More Info] Steve Lieber, CEO & President, HIMSS Russell Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, CEO & President, CHIME
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| 09:45 - 10:15 | Dedicated Exhibition Hall Time | |
| 10:15 - 12:00 | Australian Digital Health Strategies | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Australian Digital Health Agency - The Digital Health Strategy [More Info] Tim Kelsey, CEO, Australian Digital Health Agency, Australia (Invited) Better use of data and technology can help people live healthier, happier and more productive lives. Digital health can make a real difference to people’s health by giving them greater control and better access to information. Tasked with improving health outcomes for Australians through the delivery of digital healthcare systems and the national digital health strategy for Australia, the Australian Digital Health Agency is responsible for all national digital health services and systems, with a focus on engagement, innovation and clinical quality and safety. | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | eHealth Strategy for NSW Health [More Info] Dr. Zoran Bolevich, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Information Officer, eHealth NSW, Australia
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| 10:45 - 11:00 | Department of Health & Human Services Victoria: Digitising Health [More Info] Andrew M. Saunders, Health CIO, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria, Australia Digitising health has been developed as the roadmap for Victorian health services and health program areas within the Department of Health and Human Services to enable health reform initiatives realise person-centred health. In particular, Digitising health identifies the basis for investment in health information and related technologies to ensure it is aligned with the desired outcome of a person-centred system where the individual is at the centre of improved health and wellbeing outcomes. | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Digital Health Strategic Vision for Queensland 2026 [More Info] Dr. Richard Ashby AM, Chief Executive, eHealth Queensland, Australia The Digital Health Strategic Vision for Queensland 2026 is eHealth Queensland's vision for system-wide digital solutions, services and digital innovation. The digital vision builds on the strategic investment priorities outlined in the eHealth Investment Strategy to enable world class hospitals and facilities. The goal is a personalized and integrated health system across all providers, both public and private, working together to make Queenslanders among the healthiest people in the world. | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Panel Discussion: Aligning Federal and State Wide eHealth Efforts [More Info] Andrew M. Saunders, Health CIO, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria, Australia Dr. Richard Ashby AM, Chief Executive, eHealth Queensland, Australia Dr. Zoran Bolevich, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Information Officer, eHealth NSW, Australia Moderator: Tim Kelsey, CEO, Australian Digital Health Agency, Australia (Invited) | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Exceptional Experiences for Those We Serve and Those Who Serve With Us [More Info] Dr. Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and Regional CIO, Ascension Health Information Services, USA Ascension Information Services is one of the largest healthcare information technology services organizations in the US. Dr. Stettheimer will share the approach Ascension’s IS organization takes to support rapid and reliable clinical decision-making, improve efficiency and care transitions, foster information sharing across the continuum of care, and make knowledge and data actionable to improve patient outcomes. A key focus will be how culture and leadership attributes contribute to achieving the transformation goals. | |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | Networking Lunch | |
| 14:15 - 17:20 | CIO & IT Executive Leadership | Clinical Informatics |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | The Changing Role of CIOs and HIT Leaders [More Info] Russell Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, CEO & President, CHIME Dr. Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and Regional CIO, Ascension Health Information Services, USA In the light of accelerating change in both the technology and the practice of healthcare, what does the role of the HIT leader look like? The future trends regarding digital patient experience, increasing cloud capabilities, new telemedicine and medical devices, predictive modeling, patient empowerment and a host of other process and technological changes demand fresh leadership approaches to achieving a new future state vision while continuing to keep the focus on patients. The session will explore the difference between change management and change leadership and how HIT leaders can adapt their focus and skills as they continue to successfully lead the process of transforming healthcare. | Sundhed.dk - The Danish eHealth Portal: A Denmark Case Study [More Info] Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO, sundhed.dk - The Danish eHealth Portal, Denmark Sundhed.dk is the unified Danish eHealth Portal and it enables patients and healthcare professionals to find information and communicate. It is unique in bringing the entire Danish health care sector together on the Internet and providing an accessible setting for citizens and healthcare professionals to meet and efficiently exchange information. Since its launch in 2003, sundhed.dk provides several functionalities such as quality assured health information, access to medical records and medication, and an overview of the Danish healthcare system. Sundhed.dk creates linkages between existing data sources, opens up data sets to new user groups, and facilitates communication between healthcare providers and citizens. The portal sees 1.4 million unique visitors per month out of a population of approx. 5.6 million and is a powerful back-end integration platform including data from 120 existing sources. |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Panel Discussion: Patient Portals and Health Records - Empowering Consumers and Providers [More Info] Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO, sundhed.dk - The Danish eHealth Portal, Denmark Associate Professor Meredith Makeham, Chief Medical Adviser, Australia Digital Health Agency, Australia Will Smart, Chief Information Officer, NHS England, UK Moderator: John Daniels, Global Vice President, HIMSS Analytics This panel discussion will cover strategies to achieving a successful and secure nation-wide patient portal for optimal delivery of care. | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Approach to Change Leadership [More Info] Dr. Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and Regional CIO, Ascension Health Information Services, USA In the fast-paced, non-stop change environment of HIT, it’s important that leaders know how to create initiatives for success and avoid the pitfalls that contribute to the high failure rate of transformational programs. One of the most used and effective processes is John Kotter’s 8 Step framework. Healthcare CIOs and HIT leaders have used the 8 Step principles to both establish new projects and to solve problems along the way. The 8 Steps can be used to keep projects moving forward and to adjust plans as needed to achieve goals and keep key stakeholders engaged throughout. Tim Stettheimer will discuss the principles and how to apply them to achieve an effective change framework for significant healthcare transformation. | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Dedicated Exhibition Hall Time | |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Large Scale Healthcare Transformation: Change Leadership [More Info] Russell Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, CEO & President, CHIME Dr. Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and Regional CIO, Ascension Health Information Services, USA Dr. Richard Ashby AM, Chief Executive, eHealth Queensland, Australia Andrew M. Saunders, Health CIO, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria, Australia This session will continue the Change Leadership discussion, focusing on the people side of change. Dr. Richard Ashby and Andrew Saunders will discuss their experiences leading transformation initiatives, factors contributing to success and ways to overcome challenges. The session will include a wide-ranging group discussion on the key transformational initiatives that Australian HIT leaders are addressing. This will include new areas of focus to continue developing their role as members of the executive team in charting the next phase of the healthcare transformation journey. | Technology-Enabled Medication Management, the Closed Loop Way [More Info] John H. Daniels, Global Vice President, HIMSS Analytics Technology-enabled medication management has proven to reduce medication errors significantly around the world. However, the adoption of this capability globally has been slow. This session will present a review of the technology-enabled closed-loop medication administration processes as defined by the international HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) Criteria. |
| 16:45 - 16:50 | Session Transition | |
| 16:50 - 17:20 | CHCIO Pathway [More Info] Earl Blessing CHCIO, PMP, Program Director, Monash Health, Australia Dr. Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and Regional CIO, Ascension Health Information Services, USA Russell Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, CEO & President, CHIME In this short session Russ Branzell, Tim Stettheimer and Earl Blessing will review CHIME’s Certified Healthcare CIO program. This interactive session will review the program, how it was developed, the essential competencies it includes and the value of obtaining certification. | Future Healthcare Models - Western HealthLinks: An Integrated Care Program to Support High Risk Patients [More Info] Jason Plant, Director, Western HealthLinks, Western Health, Australia Challenging the majority of health services around Australia is the continuing population growth in an environment of declining beds per capita. This is especially the case for Western Health (WH) which has experienced the highest growth in Victoria, with this growth predicted to remain a challenge over the coming decades. Other demographic factors providing a challenge for WH is the low rate of private health insurance, significant socio-economic disadvantage and the high incidence of chronic illness and complex issues. These challenges are evident with a high readmission rate for patients with chronic illness with one in four patients readmitting to WH within 30 days from discharge. Partnering with the Victorian Department
of Health and Human Services, WH has developed a model of integrated care to
support high risk patients across the system. An essential component of this is
the Informatics elements of the Western Health “Health Links” program and this presentation will present the WH findings from the "Health Links" program. |
| Thursday, 1 June 2017 | ||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration & Coffee | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Keynote: A Digital NHS - From Vision to Reality [More Info] Will Smart, Chief Information Officer, NHS England, UK | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Keynote: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know About Healthcare Information Security [More Info] Russell Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, CEO & President, CHIME HIT leaders are consistently tasked with simultaneously keeping up with the state of cybersecurity in healthcare, developing and implementing plans for their organizations and educating their organizations and Board members about the impact of cybersecurity on IT plans and practices. Russ Branzell will cover the current healthcare cybersecurity landscape including the next generation of secure healthcare, the unprecedented risk and current cyberthreats, the top 5 risks in healthcare, current cyber risk initiatives, the cost of security and the work yet to be done. | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Dedicated Exhibition Hall Time | |
| 11:00 - 16:30 | Health Information Technology | Clinical Informatics |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Building a Greenfield and Fully Integrated Hospital - First EMRAM Stage 7 in Asean and Australasia [More Info] Adj. A/Prof. Gamaliel Tan, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Head of Orthopaedics, JurongHealth Services, Singapore Singapore's newest public hospitals, the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) and 400-bed Jurong Community Hospital (JCH), are the country's first integrated healthcare development of an acute and community hospital, designed and built together from ground up as a single project, to complement each other to deliver hassle-free and patient-centered care. Centered around the needs of the patients and their caregivers, the twinning concept of NTFGH and JCH aims to streamline the patient's journey and set a new benchmark with its patient-centered design. Pioneering several firsts, including its achievement of the HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7, first in ASEAN and Australasia, this design saw many innovations that made a different to patient care, comfort, safety and convenience along with new systems and streamlined processes to transform the delivery of care not just within the hospital, but between the two hospitals as well as beyond the walls of the hospitals, working with partners in the whole care continuum. | Novel Data Analytics to Measure Low Value Care: A Necessary Precondition to Action [More Info] Prof. Adam Elshaug, Professor of Health Policy, Co-Director and Head of Value in Health Care Division, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Australia Professor Elshaug has pioneered methods for measuring the prevalence (including costs and characteristics) of low-value care in administrative data sets. This includes individual episodes of low value care measurable up at the national and state level all the way down to the level of individual doctors and hospitals. The potential for these insights will be explored using a host of change management levers, all of which must start with the most appropriate way to convey this data to stakeholders (doctors, hospitals, payers and patients). |
| 11:30 - 11:35 | Session Transition | |
| 11:35 - 12:05 | Open EMRs - Is There an Alternative to a Single Vendor EMR? [More Info] Dr. Robin Mann, National Chief of Innovation, Calvary Health Care, Australia The single vendor EMR has become the standard for digital hospitals, but they have limitations and may not be well suited for multi-organisational health and care systems. By contrast, those technologies that have disrupted banking, transport and shopping have the potential to integrate care, enable innovation and even avoid the need for EMRs altogether. As a not for profit that runs hospitals, community and aged care services across six States and Territories, Calvary is well placed to use modern approaches to informatics and innovation, driving workflow and delivering outstanding personal care. | Engaging and Bringing Value to Clinicians and Consumers [More Info] Dr. John Lambert, Chief Clinical Information Officer, eHealth NSW, Australia Dr. Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and Regional CIO, Ascension Health Information Services, USA The CCIO's role is to engage clinicians in the process of setting eHealth strategies, planning and delivery of eHealth clinical solutions, and bolster the organization's clinical informatics capability. In order to deliver meaningful innovation and enhancements to digital solutions for clinicians, the Office of CCIO engages with over 140, 000 clinicians, staff and contractors to ensure they're guided by their ideas, experiences and expectations. In this session, hear from Dr. John Lambert and Dr. Tim Stettheimer on their diverse experiences on engaging clinicians and driving successful innovations to improve patient care in their respective organizations. |
| 12:05 - 12:35 | IHE - The Foundation of the Austrian National eHealth Infrastructure ELGA [More Info] Jürgen Brandstätter, Member, IHE International Board, Co-Chair, IHE Europe, Austria In the year 2006, Austria decided to establish a nation-wide eHealth infrastructure (ELGA) which shall connect every healthcare facility and professional in the country. Since 2015 being in rollout and operational, the platform serves for sharing of clinical documents and medication information of the Austrian citizens. With the intention to take the huge effort of connecting everyone just once only, ELGA will be the "one" platform for all future eHealth applications in the country. Being in the heart of European Union, it was important from the beginning to aim for maximum international standardization to exchange information with the other European states. Large scale European projects supported this move-together and identified IHE as the international standard to rely on. The global initiative “Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)” introduced a methodology, which is use-case driven and adopts base standards to make Healthcare IT systems interoperable in a far easier way. This methodology, accepted as an ISO standard, has incorporated the tight collaboration of users and vendors as main principle and maintains a strict vendor-neutrality policy to assure openness and sustainability. This session explains the IHE organization and methodology and introduces the Austrian eHealth infrastructure ELGA as one successful implementation example, summarizing the outcomes and benefits from a strategic perspective. | |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Cybersecurity Challenges and Trends for the Australian Healthcare Industry [More Info] John Ellis, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant, Andgiet Security, Former Chief Strategist, Cybersecurity, Akamai Technologies Asia Pac & Japan, Singapore The rapid pace of technology innovation and adoption continues to create many opportunities for the Australian healthcare industry, yet it also presents a number of inherent cybersecurity challenges. This session will examine some of the new technology trends impacting the Australian healthcare industry, their cybersecurity implications and approaches to managing their associated risk. | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Panel Discussion: Achieving Robust Cybersecurity in a Real World Hospital Environment [More Info] John Ellis, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant, Andgiet Security, Former Chief Strategist, Cybersecurity, Akamai Technologies Asia Pac & Japan, Singapore Will Smart, Chief Information Officer, NHS England, UK Russel Withers, Executive Director - Information & Performance, Chief Information Officer, Western Health, Australia Moderator: Russell Branzell, Chief Executive Officer & President, CHIME This session will explore a range of cybersecurity program components and practices. Key concepts will include building an organizational culture that promotes security as part of everyone’s responsibilities, defining IT and non-IT security assessments and best practices for overall management and controls. Moderator Russ Branzell and panelists Tim Stettheimer, Russel Withers, John Ellis and Will Smart will discuss strategies for building and retaining security staff talent and expertise as well as the tools and processes needed to effectively respond to threats and breaches. Discussion will include best practices for organizational and IT governance, accountability and oversight responsibilities including the intersection of good governance practices with compliance. | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Dedicated Exhibition Hall Time | |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | CEOs' Perspectives: Global Trends and What's Next in Healthcare? [More Info] Russell Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, CEO & President, CHIME Morten Elbæk Petersen, CEO, sundhed.dk - The Danish eHealth Portal, Denmark Dr. Richard Ashby AM, Chief Executive, eHealth Queensland, Australia Moderator: Steve Lieber, CEO & President, HIMSS Digital transformation is revolutionizing every industry, especially healthcare in significant ways. From telemedicine, IoT to artificial intelligence, it is predicted that the digital revolution can save $300 billion in our industry. Given the rapid technology advancement, it is essential for healthcare professionals and providers to stay on top of trends. In this session, hear from esteemed CEOs on their experiences and opinions on some of the global healthcare trends affecting leaders, clinicians, consumers and the way technology is going to shape the healthcare ecosystem for our future generations. | |
| 16:45 - 16:50 | Closing Address [More Info] Adj. A/Prof. Gamaliel Tan, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Head of Orthopaedics, JurongHealth Services, Singapore | |
