Europe´s healthcare elite assemble for the HIMSS CIO Summit. Follow the events of the CIO Summit held from November 20 - 22th in Geneva, Switzerland. The HealthTech Wire Team is onsite and will bring you the updates and news as the events unfold. More information is available in HIMSS GoDirect channel on HealthTech Wire.
+++ 9:30 Uhr | Using paper no longer meets the requirements of today's hospital +++
This is the reason Dr Peter Gocke gave for adopting a virtually paperless environment, in a recent interview with HealthTech Wire. Dr Gocke, Head of IT at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), which picked up the top award at the HIMSS Analytics Awards Dinner earlier this evening, says that a “two-speed” system using both paper and digital documentation introduced new perils because of the uncertainty over whether information was still hidden on paper somewhere. To solve this problem, UKE chose the modular, web-based platform of Siemens Soarian, as it fulfilled the greatest number of their requirements, he says. All clinical information is now available within one system and it also provides security, mobile access and flexibility, to accommodate the differing needs and wishes of clinicians. What made him happy, he remarked, was that patients reacted “absolutely positively” to the changes. Patients noticed doctors were familiar with their details immediately and felt reassured and well cared for.
Dr Gocke will give a presentation on how UKE achieved EMRAM Stage 7, with Thomas J Miller from Siemens Healthcare, tomorrow morning (Tuesday) at 8:15 am.
+++ 8:30 pm | Four European hospitals presented with HIMSS Analytics EMRAM awards +++
Four European hospitals that have achieved the highest levels of EMR adoption were presented with awards for their efforts at the Warwick Hotel in Geneva earlier this evening. The most outstanding of the four is the University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, which earlier this year became the first European hospital to achieve Stage 7 – the top rating on the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. The other three hospitals, Azienda ULSS 18 Rovigo (Local Healthcare Authority), Italy, Hospital Clinic I Provincial de Barcelona, Spain and Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland achieved Stage 6 – the second highest rating on the scale.
+++ 4:15 pm | Patient mobility between treatment centres creates a problem with information sharing +++
The Spanish healthcare system provides services to its citizens using a mix of different management models and collaboration with private hospitals, but this causes inefficiencies, rising costs and lower quality of care. José Manuel Pacho, Financial Officer for IT. Regional Health Service, Madrid, Spain explains how the problem can be solved by the use of IT systems that enable a unique patient ID with standardisation and centralisation of records and processes. Patient demographic and clinical information can now be shared between health centres.
+++ 2:00 pm | The greatest challenge is to spread innovation +++
Organisational and clinical resistance to change is a major barrier to innovation, says Tad Matus, CIO of the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority, UK. After the failure of the single solution policy of the National Programme for IT in England, there is a move to interoperability and integration, and a focus on process instead of the electronic record. Financial constraints in the NHS are now driving organisations to smarter working and sharing of innovations, he says.
+++ 1:30 pm | What is special about eHealth for entrepreneurs? +++
Dr. Luis Pareras, Manager of the Innovation, Technology and Business-Project Incubation Area at the Barcelona Medical Association posed this question in his presentation on Innovation, Technology and Business-Project Incubation. In eHealth, he says, expensive resources can serve thousands of users, so the marginal cost is close to zero. For entrepreneurs, healthcare is all about scale, finding ways to attract the most users for centralised resources and spreading costs over larger demand as technology gets more capable. It is essential to know the healthcare value chain and all the areas of innovation. New business models are coming into the market place and distorting the traditional healthcare value chain between the producers, payers and providers. Retail healthcare, personalised medicine and consumer-driven healthcare are new models that are disrupting the chain.
+++ 1:00 pm | It´s time for telemedicine +++
There is increasing scientific evidence of the benefits of telemedicine, says Prof. Bruno Gridelli, MD, Professor of Surgery, Director ISMETT, Palermo, Italy. With the addition of provider shortages, cost pressures and government support, it is time to adopt it more widely. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is using telemedicine in pathology, pediatric ICU, stroke treatment, e-visits for patients, a virtual exam room and remote patient monitoring, among other disciplines and has been providing telepathology services to ISMETT and other medical establishments overseas for more than a decade.
+++ Pre-Summit | Yesterday +++
+++ 6:00 pm | Guests and speakers break the ice +++
At an informal reception in the Warwick Hotel sponsored by IBM, guests and speakers were invited to wind down after their journey to Geneva and get to know each other over a few drinks.
+++ 4:00 pm | The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit opens with the Intel Workshop on supporting care beyond the hospital +++
The workshop examined the ICT infrastructure needed to provide collaborative workflows and care co-ordination between the inpatient and outpatient care settings. On the expert panel were Mark Blatt, Worldwide Medical Director, Intel Corporation, USA and Dalia Idar, head of the Clinical Computerization Department at Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel. The panel looked at programmes that allow citizens to be cared for in lower-cost ambulatory settings outside the hospital.
###
Source: HealthTech Wire
