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Tuesday 31/03/2015
08:00 - 09:00Registration and Coffee
09:00 - 09:45Ministerial Visit to the Exhibition Floor (By Invitation Only)
09:45 - 15:30Exhibition Open
09:45 - 09:50Qur'an Kareem and Opening Ceremony
09:50 - 10:00PL0: Welcome Address
++ His Excellency Ahmed bin Aqeel Al - Khatib, the Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
10:00 - 11:00PL1: Roundtable: Common Opportunities and Challenges to Implement Electronic Medical Records in KSA
+ His Excellency Saad bin Othman Al - Qasabi, The Governor of Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
+ Dr. Yacoub bin Yousef Al - Mazrou, Secretary-General, Saudi Council of Health Services, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
+ Dr. Abdullah A. Al Wehaibi, Advisor to the Minister of Health and the General Supervisor of ICT, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Michael Bainbridge, Adjunct Professor Clinical Informatics University of Victoria British Columbia, Canada, Clinical Architect and Director ASE Consulting Australia Pty. Ltd., Australia
Trevor Hodge, Executive Vice President , Canada Health Infoway, Canada
(Moderator) H. Stephen Lieber CAE, President & Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

This round table will discuss the common opportunities and challenges to implement Electronic Medical Records
11:00 - 11:30PL2: MOH eHealth
+ Dr. Abdullah A. Al Wehaibi, Advisor to the Minister of Health and the General Supervisor of ICT, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Moderator) H. Stephen Lieber CAE, President & Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

This presentation will give an update on the eHealth Services by the Ministry of Health
11:30 - 11:40Session Transition
11:40 - 12:20PL3: Moving towards Stage 6 in the KSA
Amar Hijazi, Consultant and Director of Information Technology, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Osama Abdulrahman Alswailem MA, Chief Information Officer, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Assistant Professor, Al-Faisal University College of Medicine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Moderator) Eng. Basim Al-Rashed, IT & Communication Director, Security Forces Hospital

King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital and King Fasial Specialist Hospital and Research Center will discuss the adaptation of international EMR solutions to the Saudi Market.  The audience will be invited to participate in a discussion on how Stage 6 can be achieved elsewhere in the Kingdom
12:20 - 12:30Session Transition
12:30 - 13:00PL4: PMO Status of eHealth
Eng. Ahmed AlHedaithy, General Supervisor of ICT Assistant, Director, E-Health Project Management Office, ICT, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Moderator) Dr. Maher Al Dukheil, A/Director of Information Technology (IT), Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City

The MOH has established the eHealth PMO which was built utilizing the PMI standards and best practices. This PMO through a qualified team is responsible to support and manage all projects entailed in the eHealth Strategy. The presentation will update on the PMO status of eHealth.

13:00 - 13:10Session Transition
13:10 - 13:45PL5: A Blueprint for Healthcare Data Infrastructure
Prof. Sir Alex Markham DSc, FRCP, FRCPath, Director of Research and Professor of Medicine, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

The importance of data to the future of global healthcare is difficult to overestimate. From the information continuity provided by the integrated electronic health record, through to the opportunities presented by increasingly tractable and accessible "omic" data. Collaborative approaches between governments, clinical institutions, the academic community and private industry should focus on realising this potential, developing new models of care and patient pathways, improving population health, introducing vital new education components and a creating platform for research and innovation. The countries of the GCC are well positioned to embrace this data challenge, to exploit this new opportunity and to lead the world in the healthcare data architecture of the 21st century.

IS2: Delivering Next Generation of Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA) Today
Lars Wettergren, Vice President, Global Partners Sales,, Sectra Medical Imagining Solutions


As healthcare processes become more patient centric and oriented toward clinical pathways, rather than focused on specific disciplines or departments, a comprehensive image management strategy across many healthcare providers is needed. Such a strategy not only increases access to medical documents and images, it also reduces life-cycle cost due to reduced storage and operational costs. In this session we will describe the major components in the Sectra VNA and Enterprise Image Management Suite and how that provides a secure and cost-efficient storage as well as a single point of access to and efficient means for sharing all patient data without compromising patient integrity.

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13:15 - 14:15Visit to the Exhibition
14:15 - 15:30Lunch and Exhibition
15:00 - 17:00The National BIG Picture: Telemedical Imaging, The Vision for Patient Services (Open to all)
Monief Mohamed Eid, National PACS Program Director, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Health, KSA

A transformational project is underway—a national project for PACS.  This special, limited workshop will convene hospital leaders, clinicians and physician champions.

Join Ministry of Health leadership to understand the project overview, the role interoperability will play for exchanging images, the project management approach as well as training and CM.

It’s a unique opportunity, space is very limited and you MUST be registered to attend.


Wednesday 01/04/2015
08:30 - 09:00Registration and Coffee
08:30 - 16:00Exhibition Open
09:00 - 10:00PL6: Google Glass: Is it to become a standard in the operating room?
Dr. Rafael J. Grossmann FACS, General Trauma, Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon, Google Glass Explorer, Telemedicine and mHealth Innovator, USA
(Moderator) Dr. Osama Abdulrahman Alswailem MA, Chief Information Officer, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Assistant Professor, Al-Faisal University College of Medicine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Healthcare is in trouble. There are many elements to sustain that statement, including but not limited to inefficiency, cost, inadequate and unacceptable outcomes, poor data handling, etc. If it were any other industry, I would have already shot down; but healthcare is obviously important, it is "Too Big to Fail".

Technology develops exponentially, improving continuously, to bring us faster, smaller and less expensive devices. The smart use of this technology, the IDEA behind the use of the technology, has the potential to revolutionize the way we provide and teach healthcare.
I propose that wearable devices, like Google Glass, could revolutionize this field. It represents "The Natural Evolution" of the computer platform, allowing us, humans, to interact with the digital realm in a more intuitive, unobtrusive, efficient and less distracting manner.

As a seasoned surgeon and "Google Glass Explorer", having performed the first ever documented surgical procedure with Google Glass, I would like to present my vision of how this technology can radically reshape the way we handle digital data in healthcare and medical education, disrupting and re-creating a system that is already broken.
10:00 - 10:45PL7: Canadian and Australian Perspectives on eHealth Transformation
Dr. Michael Bainbridge, Adjunct Professor Clinical Informatics University of Victoria British Columbia, Canada, Clinical Architect and Director ASE Consulting Australia Pty. Ltd., Australia
Trevor Hodge, Executive Vice President , Canada Health Infoway, Canada
(Moderator) Dr. Osama Abdulrahman Alswailem MA, Chief Information Officer, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Assistant Professor, Al-Faisal University College of Medicine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This is a joint presentation which will showcase the National Health System in Australia and Canada.

10:45 - 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00PL8: Virtual Care: Wired to Save Lives
Dr. Donald J. Kosiak MBA, FACEP, CPE, eCARE Executive Medical Director , Avera Health, USA
(Moderator) Dr. Bandar Al-Haqbani, President, Saudi Association of Health Informatics

The presentation will set out the following objectives:

1.       Define the role telemedicine plays in the care of acute care patients.

2.       Discuss the differences between direct to consumer and business to business telemedicine services.

3.       Examine existing successful telemedicine platforms and discuss how they might serve your current patients and medical partners.

4.       Assess and consider future applications of telemedicine in your clinical practice from a medical and financial point of view.

PL8A: Our journey to selecting a world class Electronic Health Record in Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH)
Dr. Tamara J. Sunbul, Clinical Informatics, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH)

This presentation will outline the journey Saudi Aramco Medical Services began and JHAH continued, seeking selection of a best in class Electronic Health Record. It will detail the system selection process and outline the innovative approaches we adopted seeking the systems that would meet the multifaceted needs of caregivers and patients at JHAH. This presentation will also examine the lesson learned and accomplishments achieved.
12:00 - 12:45PL9: Change Management, can Senior executives not just survive, but thrive and delight end users of technology? If so, tell us how?
Russell P. Branzell FCHIME, CHCIO, President & Chief Executive Officer , College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME), USA
(Moderator) Dr Khalid Alodhaibi MBA, PhD, Executive Director of Health Informatics and Chief Information Office, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Change Management, can Senior executives not just survive, but thrive and delight end users of technology?  If so, tell us how? 
12:45 - 13:15Visit to the Exhibition
13:15 - 16:00Lunch and Exhibition
14:00 - 16:00National HIS Overview
Mansour Saad Al-Swaidan, General Supervisor of ICT Assistant, National HIS Program Director, Ministry of Health, KSA

The following points will be discussed during the HIS overview:

1-  The MOH strategy

2-       HIS benefits

3-       Discuss HIS vendors

4-       Challenges & Obstacles

5-       HIS implementation requirements(Hospital readiness, resources, hardware, DC)


The session is held in Boardroom 2