HIMSS Middle East- Health IT Leadership Summit

L = Location

Session Matrix

Sunday, 15 November

18:30 - 20:00

Opening Reception - L Al Bandar Hotel, Sablah Garden

Monday, 16 November

08:00 - 09:00

Registration and Coffee - L Al Bandar Hotel, Meeting Room Level

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome: H. Stephen Lieber, President and CEO, HIMSS

09:15 - 09:30

Welcome Address: Mohammed bin Hassan bin Ali, Health Undersecretary for Planning Affairs, Oman Ministry of Health

09:30 - 10:00

Summit Co-Chairs Welcome, Hamad A. Al-Daig and Abdul Rahman A.S. Al-Tauqi

10:00 - 11:15

Roundtable Discussion:
Structuring the CIO Role to Drive Effective Change
CoPresenters: C. Martin Harris, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic, USA, Dave Garets, President and CEO, HIMSS Analytics, USA and Dr. Mohammed Alyemeni, Counsel and Supervisor of Information and Communication Technology, Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

L Al Barr Jissah Ballroom C

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:45

Focus Group 1

Zynx Health

Defining proven strategies that measurably improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care
Zynx Health, the leader in evidence-based clinical decision support, is interested in discussing the future of healthcare IT as it relates to evidence-based clinical practice. Zynx Health will facilitate a focus group on evidence-based healthcare uncovering your strategies and plans to drive clinical evidence to the point of care.

L Qurayat Room

Focus Group 2

Evosys

Costing and Performance Management for Healthcare with 1. Costing and Performance Management for HealthCare. 2. PRM (Patient Resource Management) for a improved Quality of Health.

L Sidab Room

Focus Group 3

E3

Health Transformation – Healthcare Intelligence: Measurable, Cost Conscious and Clinically Effective Healthcare

L Qalhat Room

12:45 - 14:00

Networking Lunch - L Ballroom Terrace

14:00-15:15

Pay for Performance. Bringing about Quality Outcomes through Payment Incentives. With healthcare costs on a seemingly endless march upward, Pay for Performance and DRGs are going from debate into full implementation. This session will examine systemwide implications of P4P and DRGs and the added data collection requirements for both IT leadership and providers.
Session Leader: Hamad Al-Daig, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
CoPresenters: Dr. Bryan Bergeron, MD, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, USA and Dave Harris, Partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, USA

L Al Barr Jissah Ballroom C

15:15 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 17:00

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise: A critical contributor to interoperability World-wide. IHE is a global initiative that brings together over 300 stakeholder organisations throughout healthcare, to improve HIT interoperability. This presentation will cover the standards adoption and testing processes used by IHE and highlight some of its standards-based profile specifications that address information exchange for a broad range of workflows.
Session Leader: Anthony McCourt, Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology, Qatar
Presenter: Charles Parisot, Manager, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, Europe

L Al Barr Jissah Ballroom C

17:00 - 18:00

Focus Group 4

Epic

The Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM): Roadmap Toward a Paperless Hospital
This focus group outlines each stage of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model and highlights the benefits of sequencing your technology implementation against a standard roadmap. You’ll gain insight on what to look for when selecting your EMR as well as insights on the interplay of technology, human resources and implementation methodology required to achieve a paperless environment.

L Qurayat Room

Focus Group 5

E3

Implementation in the Middle East:
From Design to Reality
(as painlessly as possible)

L Sidab Room

19:30 - 22:00

Evening Reception and Dinner Event - L Al Bandar, Beach Area

Tuesday, 17 November

09:00 - 09:30

Coffee - L Al Bandar Hotel, Meeting Room Level

09:30 - 10:30

Managing Change for Outcomes. Based on 20 years experience leading change management in healthcare, the presenter provides ten critical success factors for change. Emphasis is on software implementation but principles apply to all change efforts.
Session Leader: Dr. Manish Kohli, Director of Information Technology, Dubai Healthcare City, UAE
Presenter: Claire McCarthy, Director, Change Management, Kaiser Permanente, USA

L Al Barr Jissah Ballroom C

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15

Major Insurance Implementations: Technology as a Key Component and the Lessons Learned: Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Around the World. This session presents three case studies on overall implementation of major insurance systems. A special focus in the session is on overall system technological architecture and implications for the Hospital CIO.
Session Leader: Ahmed Aldammas, Director, Information Technology, Council of Cooperative Health Insurance, Saudi Arabia
CoPresenters: Dr. Phillip Vetter, Head of Strategy, Health Authority Abu Dhabi, UAE and Kenneth Seymens, Managing Partner, Medica IQ, USA

L Al Barr Jissah Ballroom C

12:15-13:30

Networking Lunch - L Ballroom Terrace

13:30 - 14:30

Closing Keynote: A Roadmap for EMR Adoption
Presenter: Dave Garets, President and CEO, HIMSS Analytics, USA

14:30 - 15:00

Closing Remarks and 2010 Announcements

15:30 - 18:30

Oman Tour - L depart Al Bandar lobby