Lynn Harold Vogel, CIO, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Krishna Sankhavaram, Director, Research Information Systems & Technology Development, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center One of the most significant challenges facing healthcare today is how to handle the genomic data explosion. Ironically, this volume of data is only now and slowly making its way into clinical practice. This challenge is already apparent in cancer care where “personalized medicine” is having a significant impact on patient outcomes. M. D. Anderson’s IT division is developing a unique tool to easily access, integrate and analyze genomic and clinical data. The program is backed by partnerships with researchers, clinicians, and a strategic relationship with HP. M.D. Anderson’s IT organization is leveraging HP’s expertise in bioinformatics and SOA-based platform design and project management. They are developing a platform and approach that is extensible both to:

• Fit other applications supporting translational research initiatives
• Facilitate the integration of genomic data into the clinical workflow

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Martin Peuker, Deputy CIO, University Hospital Charité Berlin Martin Züenkeler, University Hospital Charité Berlin Innovative clinical management is a key initiative in sustaining a leadership role. The development of a novel semantic web-based IT-platform for the Charité clinic center in Berlin, Germany is a current example. This presentation discusses how multi-dimensional information flow ensures quality in patient and healthcare management. It shows how these are also critical success factors for efficient cost management. .

Javeed Siddiqui, MD, MPH, Associate Medical Director, Center for Health & Technology, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Immurologic Diseases. This presentation describes California's historic opportunity to use technology in healthcare reform efforts. These efforts are facilitated by a new State bond supporting telemedicine and the implementation of the California Telehealth Network. The transformation relies on technology, such as telemedicine, to address disparities in healthcare and meet the needs of underserved communities.

Dr. Nick Beard, Principal, The Wilfred Group, Clinical Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University The potential of IT to transform healthcare is often taken for granted. IT works in other industries, so it must be able to help healthcare organizations too. The research to support this view is to date surprisingly sparse. This talk will present prior and new research on IT and value in healthcare. It will cover strategies for maximizing opportunities for value creation, drawing on state-of-the-art economic research from industries outside healthcare.

Robert Maguire, Senior Director of Technology and Application Services (TAS), Merck Research Laboratories The breath-taking pace of IT innovation from technology vendors and academic innovators creates a world of opportunity. These opportunities both inspire and mandate IT professionals to reinvent themselves continuously. IT professionals are expected to quickly assess, understand, and adopt new languages, hardware, technologies, and methodologies. IT professionals in the pharmaceutical industry face an acute challenge. They must understand and track the equally fast pace of change in the discovery sciences. The industry relies on this to deliver novel therapies to reduce suffering. When the need to understand Genomics, Biology, Chemistry, and Laboratory Procedures are added to the list, it can become overwhelming. This presentation explores how creating a culture of continuous learning can help to overcome this challenge. By striving to improve on past performance an organization can become resilient and overcome the problems that it faces.

Dr. Lily Chiu, Cluster Chief Executive, Hong Kong Hospital Authority In 2003, a novel, highly-infectious, deadly coronavirus hit HK and many parts of the world. Sharing this devastating SARS experience in HK can offer possible strategies to prepare for future possible pandemics. Dr Lily Chiu led the Princess Margaret Hospital to fight this fierce battle at the peak of the SARS outbreak. Over 1000 patients were admitted and eventually, 585 were confirmed to have SARS.

Marc Holland, Program Director, Health Provider Research, IDC Many hospitals look to a Digital Hospital strategy to improve quality, gain efficiencies, and provide a competitive edge. This presentation will discuss recent healthcare market trends and challenges and the impacts of implementing a Digital Hospital. Topics to be covered will include:

• Benefits associated with the healthcare industry’s migration to the digital hospital
• Paradigm gains in care quality and operational efficiency that result from the attainment of the digital hospital model
• Process redesign elements to be considered
• The importance of having a strong strategic view and technology partner as hospitals begin this effort

Capt. (Sel) Michael Weiner, Chief Medical Officer, Defense Health Information Management System The Military Health System’s (MHS) EHR, AHLTA, is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive information management (IM) systems. To date, AHLTA captures more detailed, computable clinical data in the outpatient setting than any other organization in the world. AHLTA captures a staggering 112,000 additional patient encounters daily. The military’s medical community uses multiple systems to document care provided to Service members at home and on the battlefield. That information is used by military commanders as a decision-making tool. Data is also shared with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for follow-up care of our wounded service members. This presentation will:

• Highlight the numerous product lines that comprise the military’s EHR to include AHLTA
• Explain how these varied products are employed in a broad range of healthcare delivery settings to include the battlefield
• Discuss how the Department of Defense leverages business intelligence to enhance HER and improve management and sharing of patient data worldwide

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John-Guy Park, Infrastructure Processes & Tools - Domain Program Leader, Sanofi-Aventis Since the merger of Sanofi-Synthelabo with Aventis in 2005, Sanofi-Aventis R&D has driven an in-depth ITIL transformation. It launched a four-year roadmap of structuring initiatives targeting rationalization, harmonization, and industrialization of core IT processes. The most critical and urgent one was the implementation of HP OpenView Service Desk. Today, after three years of intense utilization, the IT organization has grown in maturity for incident, problem and change management. IT also addresses the evolving needs of the pharmaceutical business and preserves compliancy with GxP, 21CFR11, SOX, and Data Privacy. Next steps? Universal CMDB.

Chris Longhurst, M.D., M.S. Medical Director, Clinical Informatics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine Eric Widen, Clinical Transformation Director at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital At Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, we took an evidence-based approach to implementing the electronic medical record. In this talk, we will:

• Review the best-practice dashboard we adopted to guide our highly successful clinical transformation
• Share our post go-live metrics spanning the IOM dimensions of quality, safety, operational, financial, and satisfaction data
• Cover ongoing efforts to manage clinical resources using CPOE

Greg Feltmate, CIO - VP IMIS, Vancouver Coastal Health, Canada Bob Brown, Executive Director, IMIS, Technology Services, Vancouver Coastal Health, Canada Health care virtualization projects face special challenges stemming from user/vendor resistance to application idiosyncrasies. Vancouver Coastal Health, faced with space and power constraints, teamed with HP to successfully virtualize 85 percent of its clinical/corporate servers. (These included Eclipsys SCM, McKesson, Misys, CoPath, GoldCare, and Procura.) The presentation will include technology infrastructure deployed, charge back model, and lessons learned.

Michael N. Liebman, PhD, President/Managing Director, Strategic Medicine, Inc. A critical component for patient management in disease is understanding the complex relationship between:

• the differences amongst individuals
• the disease as an evolving biological process

Clinical decision support must address the interaction of these complexities. Addressing this complexity requires analytic and experimental/clinical measurements. Measurements must span the biology, current medical practice, patient history (family/cultural/lifestyle/environment), laboratory details of sample, and data acquisition. Both the generation/acquisition of this data and its analytics will be presented.