Global E-Health Forum 2011 News

11 - 13 October 2011, Hamburg, Germany.
Dr. Stephanie Carretero, Researcher, Polibienestar Research Centre (University of Valencia) will lecture on "Personalized Healthcare for Dependent Elderly People Affected by a Cardiovascular or Osteoarticular Disease - A Research Project in Valencia". The main objective of this project is to offer personalized healthcare by the design of a new system to improve the control and self-management of chronic diseases and the autonomy of dependent elderly with cardiovascular or osteoarticular disease. The system will include a portable device for the control and communication of the health status and localization of the patient and a domotic system with movement detector.

As patient-centered care initiatives are adopted as part of the care process the need for a personalized health record (PHR) becomes increasingly important. In order to increase both adoption and use of PHRs, William Rudman, Ph.D. RHIA, Executive Director, AHIMA Foundation and Vice President of Education and Workforce Development, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) will focus in his presentation on the need to integrate various m-health technologies. He will propose the use of cell and smart phone technologies to create an interactive PHR to improve care processes for those with chronic illnesses as a first step. So, e. g. if clinical values are abnormal, i.e., HA1c or glucose, a direct message would be forwarded to the provider who would either send message on how to lower the glucose or set up an appointment. This would also allow the provider and patient to track clinical levels over time. The use of m-technologies would grant the patient freedom to enter or receive data and information without being tied to a particular place.

Richard C. Alvarez, President and CEO of Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), will present an overview of lessons learned in leading Canada's national e-health agenda. Mr. Alvarez contends that the focus of such an endeavour centres on managing change. For Infoway, this entails a number of activities including: defining the key business issues, establishing a sense of urgency, forming a powerful leadership coalition and creating a vision and communicating it broadly. In support of this, he will provide background on Canada's health information and communications (ICT) initiative, its progress over the past decade, and its desired future state in relation to clinicians, governments and the public.

Registration
Register by August 30 for a conference fee of Euro 599 incl. VAT. The fee includes the admission to all conference sessions, lunches, coffee breaks and the evening reception on October 11, 2011.

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