Description:
This opening Keynote session places the relationship of clinical engineering and information technology in the perspective of the hospital as an integral organization. In many institutions, there exists an imaginary firewall at the CE-IT interface relative to responsibility, authority, understanding, and comfort. In the real world, the complexities of tomorrow's connectivity and the demands of interoperability will blow away such concepts, replacing them with a new paradigm, based on collaboration.

Speaker Information:
Kenneth Maddock, BSEET
Corporate Director of Biomedical Technology Services, Baylor Healthcare System

Objectives:

• Explore the differences and complementing strengths of the two professions in creating a seamless thread from the patient to the electronic health record.
• Confront the stereotypes that poor communication has created and which persist to an extent today
• Examine the structure-independent requirements on CIOs and CE Directors to achieve a productive relationship.

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
209 C

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Description:
This session will present a solution that was developed and has been in operation at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital to collect medical data from legacy medical devices. . The system provides for wireless, device-agnostic, networked "edge" devices which "learn" how to connect legacy medical devices to different clinical systems through the scan of 2D barcodes.

Speaker Information:
Nathaniel Sims, MD
Clinician, teacher, cardiac anesthesiologist and medical advisor/ Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School
Michael Dempsey, BSEE
Investigator at CIMIT, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital

Objectives:

• Review the current state of exemplary projects or commercial products that attempt to meet the needs expressed above.
• Learn about the use of EDA's as network edge devices to collect medical data
• Discover the benefits realized from the deployment of such a system focusing around four areas: safety and quality, service excellence, enterprise operations and financial performance
• Review data on a new HIBCC standard for 2-D barcodes that allows for the identification of drugs, devices, patients and people

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Description:
The healthcare enterprise is becoming more integrated as more and more devices interconnect with each other, bringing patient information closer to the caregiver. Making such integration successful is a work of multidisciplinary teams of clinical engineering, Information Technology, Nursing, Physicians and other healthcare professionals. This session will present case studies illustrating diverse enterprise integration of devices.

Speaker Information:
Gary Buss
Systems Designer, RTKL Associates, Inc

Objectives:

• Explore the different type of diverse integrations
• Examine practical approaches to diverse device integrations
• Learn the necessary project management methodologies for successful
  integrations
  
• Review what to do and what not to do during enterprise integrations
• Learn how to develop successful multidisciplinary teams and identify roles for team members during enterprise integrations
  

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Description:
'Plug and Play' is a term used interchangeably with 'interoperability' and 'integration' and all suggest a future where medical devices and healthcare information systems can communicate without requiring unique interface designs. This session will (attempt to) demystify the idea of Plug and Play and interoperability by examining the promises and limitations of these new technologies describing current standards efforts, and suggesting new responsibilities of healthcare systems as Plug and Play devices emerge.

Speaker Information:
Todd Cooper
President, Breakthrough Solutions, Inc
Jack Harrington
Senior Director, Integrated Solutions, Philips Medical Systems

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Description:
This session explores the current and future challenges of ownership, management, scalability, and security in the wireless spectrum. This moderated roundtable presents the concerns of the healthcare provider, medical device manufacturer, and infrastructure vendor as the need for bandwidth multiplies.

Speaker Information:
Rick Hampton, BME
Wireless Communications Manager, Partners Healthcare System
Michael Fraai, MS, CCE
Director, Biomedical Engineering, Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Objectives:

• Determine the best practices of clinical engineering and IT in the management of the current wireless landscape
• Examine emerging trends in wireless technologies and predict their usefulness in the healthcare enterprise
• Develop a management, security, and scalability roadmap to mitigate risk due to the changing RF environment

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Description:
The continuing emphasis on outpatient care and the growing capabilities of emergency care during transport are putting increasing numbers of medical devices in the home, the ambulance, and other non clinical settings. Information from these devices is needed by physicians and will eventually become part of the electronic health record. This session addresses the issues and complexities associated with patient data generated "while the patient is out."

Speaker Information:
Michael Robkin
Principal Enterprise Architect, Kaiser Permanente Information Technology/Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

Objectives:

• Explore the various real life scenarios where outpatients generate data that belongs in the Medical Record
• Consider the capabilities of emergency care during transport and the two way transmission of patient data
• Examine challenges of bringing outpatient and transport based patient information into the hospital, such as data integrity, network security, and time sensitivity

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Description:
Over the last half century, futurists have prognosticated on how technology would transform medical care. Based on the technologies that will mature in the next decade and a half, this closing session will examine the opportunities for improved care, the challenges of managing the technology, and the responsibilities of CIOs and CE Directors to assess impact and integrate these transformations across the enterprise.

Speaker Information:
John Hansmann, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Urban South Region Manager of Management Engineering, Intermountain Healthcare

Objectives:

• Explore the various opportunities to capture and integrate patient originating data, such as the home, in transport, in the acute care setting, and in chronic disease states
• Consider the effects of automated data collection from patients in reduction of errors, time, and costs, and the opportunities for improved public health management
• Develop an appreciation of the complexities associated and implications on operations with this vision

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Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Room:
303C

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