eHealth Forum 2006 - Building a Healthy Tomorrow Using IT

(For Workshop Participants) Shuttle bus pick-up locations and time :

• The Metropark - 08:40
• Park Lane Hotel - 08:50
• The Charterhouse - 09:00
• Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A) - 09:00

(For Hospital Visit Participants) Shuttle bus pick-up locations and time :

• The Metropark - 08:25
• Park Lane Hotel - 08:35
• The Charterhouse- 08:45
• Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A) - 08:45
• Tseung Kwan O MTR Station (Exit B1) - 09:25
• Departs from TKO Hospital - 11:30
  
• Arrives at HKAM - 12:00
  

Shuttle bus pick-up locations and time :

• The Metropark - 11:00
• Park Lane Hotel - 11:10
• The Charterhouse - 11:20
• Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A) - 11:30
  

"Deployment, Access and Infrastructural Preparation of an ICT Response to the Outbreak of Human Transmission Avian Influenza"
Speaker: Mr Earl MARDLE , Chairman of Jury, Stockholm Challenge 2006; Principal, KeyNet Consultancy, Australia

Shuttle bus, leaving at 19:00, drop-off locations :

• Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A)
  
• The Metropark, Park Lane Hotel, The Charterhouse

Parallel Session A
"Electronic Health Records"
Venue: Pao Yue Kong Auditorium, G/F

"Realizing the benefits of eHealth in the Hospital Authority"
Speaker: Dr Ngai Tseung CHEUNG , Executive Manager (Health Informatics), Hospital Authority

"Towards an Equitable & Quality Healthcare: Malaysian e-Health & Health Informatics Experience"
Speaker: Dr Hsien Ming GOH, Secretary, Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA); Secretary, Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informaticss (APAMI); Strategic Planning Task Force, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)

Parallel Session B
"Public Health Informatics (1)"
Venue: Lim Por Yen Lecture Theatre, G/F

"Digital Ring-Fence: A Novel GIS-based Approach to Contain Emerging Infectious Diseases"
Speaker: Prof Kwok Chan LUN , Immediate Past President, International Medical Informatics Association; Professor and Director, Program in Biomedical Sciences & Chinese Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

"Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control Using IT"
Speaker: Dr Kwok Tim CHAN , Senior Medical Officer (Communicable Disease Information System), Surveillance and Epidemiology Branch Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health

"The New World of Health Work"
Speaker: Mr Neil JORDAN , Worldwide Exec Director Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Corporation

Parallel Session C
"Security and Clinical Process Optimization"
Venue: James Kung Meeting Room

"Clinical Process Optimizing using Electronic Medical Records"
Speaker: Mr. Israel ARMSTRONG , Strategist, Cerner Corporation

"Information Security Issues in Clinical Sensitive Data - A Computer Science Perspective"
Speaker: Dr Lucas CK HUI , Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU Honorary Director, Center for Information Security & Cryptography

Shuttle bus, pick-up locations and time :

• The Metropark -08:10
• Park Lane Hotel - 08:20
• The Charterhouse - 08:30
• Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A) - 08:30

Plenary Sessions
Venue: Pao Yue Kong Auditorium & Lim Por Yen Lecture Theatre, G/F

"Introduction of Disease Surveillance System in China"
Speaker: Prof Shuigao JIN , Chief Scientist, Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information Service, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, China

"eHealth Innovation with Intel"
Speaker: Dr Ron RIBITZKY, Senior Healthcare Strategist, Global Healthcare Strategy Team - Digital Health Group, Intel Semiconductor Ltd

"The United States HIT Journey"
Speaker: Ms Charlene UNDERWOOD , Director of Government and Industry Affairs, Siemens Medical Solutions

"Practical Uses of HL7 RIM - Meeting Real-life Healthcare Challenges"

Speaker: Mr George LAMARIS, Solutions Director, Health Sciences Industry Business Unit, Oracle Corporation Asia Pacific Division

Coffee Break

Parallel Session D
"eHealth Framework"
Venue: Pao Yue Kong Auditorium, G/F

"Healthcare and Information Work"
Speaker: Mr Lok CHEUNG, Solution Manager, Microsoft Hong Kong Ltd

"Socio-Medical Benefits of Electronic Health Information and the Related Future Applications of Health Care Data"
Speaker: Mr Vincent W. WONG , Chairman and CEO, Health Unified

"A Connected Health Framework for Disease Management"

Speaker: Mr Vincent LIM , Practice Leader, Asia Pacific Healthcare Vertical, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Parallel Session E
"Standards in Health Informatics"
Venue: Lim Por Yen Lecture Theatre, G/F

"Standards in Health Informatics Interoperability"
Speaker: Prof Yun Sik KWAK , President, Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics

"Global Standards Co-operation - a Key to Interoperable eHealth Systems for Disease Surveillance and Continuity of Care"

Speaker: Prof Yun Sik KWAK , President, Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics

"Health Information Standards in Hong Kong"
Speaker: Dr Chun Por WONG , Chairman, Task Force on Data Sharing and Standardization, eHealth Consortium, Hong Kong

Parallel Session F
"Advanced Technology"
Venue: Function Room, 2/F

"Enhancing Care Through Technology Bumrungrad International Transforms Healthcare Delivery with an Integrated Information System on Intel Architecture"
Speaker: Mr Steven YEO Joo Wah, Director, Asia Policy and Standards, Digital Health Group, Intel Technology Asia

"RFID Technologies in Neonatal Care"
Speaker: Mrs. Susie TANG, Sr. Solutions Architect
Intel China Ltd

"Mobile Healthcare with Wireless Digital Pen and Paper"
Speaker Ms Carole BIRD , Managing Partners, BIMOBI Ltd (Hong Kong)

Parallel Session G
"Informatics in the Private Sector"
Venue: Pao Yue Kong Auditorium, G/F

"Towards a New Culutral Revolution - a 360 Assessment of Computer Penetration in Private Medicine"
Speakers: Dr Janice JOHNSTON, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, University of Hong Kong

"Medical Information Exchange Between Private Hospitals and Private Clinics in Hong Kong - the YingZheng Project"
Speaker: Dr Chung Ping HO , Chairman, Information Technology Committee, Hong Kong Medical Association

"Towards e-banking for Health : A Real-time On-line Input System for Comprehensive, Accurate and Calculable Data for Health"
Speaker: Dr Eric WC TANG, Private Medical Practitioner , Inventor of System ; and, Mr Ken KY LEE, Research Collaborator

Parallel Session H
"PACS"
Venue: Lim Por Yen Lecture Theatre, G/F

"The Role Of Image-Based Diagnosis and Treatment In eHealth"
Speaker: Professor H.K. (Bernie) HUANG , DSc, FRCR (Hon), Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA; Chair Professor of Medical Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"The Role of a DICOM-based Radiotherapy Information System in eHealth"
Speaker: Dr Maria YY LAW , Associate Professor of Radiation Therapy, Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

"How Fault Tolerant technology functions on Medical Operation?"
Speaker: Mr Samuel LEUNG , Medical Physicist, Pamela Youde Nethersole Easter Hospital

Parallel Session I
"Public Health Informatics (2)"
Venue: Function Room, 2/F

"Use of ICTs for Training and Support to Long-term Improvement of Epidemics Detection and Response"
Speaker: Mrs Anouk BERGER , Technical Officer, WHO Lyon Office for National Epidemic Preparedness and Response

"Model P. : An Innovative Experience Based e-Decision Making Tool in Health"
Speaker: Dr V. Thouvenot , Scientist - International Health Regulation, Monitoring & Evaluation Systems,
WHO Lyon Office for National Epidemic Preparedness and Response

"Public Health Standards Based IT Practice in Canada and the US Applied to Disease Surveillance and Management in Asia"
Speaker: Mr Michael POPOVICH , President/CEO, Scientific Technologies Corporation

"What is Wrong with Us? Barriers to Learning from the SARS Experience"
Speakers: Dr Regis CABRAL , ICT - LEAP, Applied Physics and Electronics, Umea University, Sweden

Shuttle bus, leaving at 17:45, drop-off locations :

• Admiralty MTR Station (Exit A)
• The Metropark, Park Lane Hotel, The Charterhouse

Parallel Session J
"Overseas Case Studies"
Venue: Pao Yue Kong Auditorium, G/F

"Paradigm - Technology and the Future of Defence and Veterans' Affairs Health Services Capability and Capacity"
Speaker: Mr Phil JOHNSON , e-Health Business Development Manager, Centre of Military and Veterans' Health and Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, Australia

"The Application of Business Process Management in the Acute Healthcare Setting"
Speaker: Mr Ray HESS  , Vice President, Information Management, Chester County Hospital

"Deploying IT to Address the Issue Regarding Aging Population"
Speaker: Ms Nuala MacDERMOTT , Partner, PA Consulting

Parallel Session K
"eHealth Applications (1)"
Venue: Lim Por Yen Lecture Theatre, G/F

"The Use of IT in Traditional Chinese Medicine"
Speaker: Dr Pak Kwan HUI , Consultant Pathologist, Kwong Wah Hospital

"The Evolution of Clinical Information Systems: A Global Perspsective"
Speaker: Mr Kerry STRATTON , Managing Director, Healthcare, Intersystems

"A Unifying Environment for Data-Dependent Healthcare Software"
Speaker: Mr Gary MORGAN , CEO, e-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia

Parallel Session L
 "eHealth Applications (2)"

Venue: Function Room, 2/F

"Application of ICT in Population and Family Planning Program in China: A Brief Review and Further Perspective"

Speaker: Prof XIAO Shaobo , Beijing Institute of Technology; Senior Consultant, China Population and development Research Center; Former Director-General, Development of Science and Technology, National Population and Family Planning Commission, Beijing, China

"New Strategy for Japanese EHR Project"

Speaker: Dr Ken TOYODA , President, HCI Inc.; Director, Japan Association for Medical Informatics

"Wireless Differentiates eRmote Home Care"

Speaker: Dr CHIH Lin I , VP and RD Director, Communications Technologies Group, Hong Kong Applied Science & Technologies Research Institute Company Limited

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