MORNING

A1

The virtual naked patient: privacy, security and confidentiality in the information age

Fleur Fisher MD. Independent Consultant in Ethics and Healthcare Practice; Director of Healthcare-Ethics (UK)

Intermediates

A2

Information interventions to improve quality and control cost in health care

Janet M. Corrigan PhD MBA. Director, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies. (USA)

Beginners & Intermediates

A3

Evidence-based telehealth technologies to support chronic care

E Andrew Balas MD PhD. Weil Distinguished Professor and Director, Center For Health Care Quality and European Union Center, University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)

Beginners & Intermediates

A4

Gems or garbage: how might family doctors assess the quality of medical information on the Internet?

Michael Kidd MD. Professor and Head, Department of General Practice, University of Sydney (Australia)

Beginners & Intermediates

A5

Measuring the health of a nation

Richard C. Alvarez President and CEO, Canadian Institute for Health Information (Canada)

Intermediates

A6

Evaluation in health informatics

Heather Heathfield PhD Consultant, IT Perspectives Ltd (UK); Derek Felton Managing Consultant, Secta Group (UK); Susan Clamp Director, Clinical Information Science Unit, University of Leeds (UK)

Beginners

A7

The nature of data in the electronic patient record: The promise and deceit of observational databases

Johan van der Lei MD PhD. Associate Professor, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (The Netherlands); Miriam Sturkenboom PhD. Assistant Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Intermediates

A8

Information technologies for the education of health professionals

Joseph W Hales PhD. Assistant Professor, Health Management and Informatics and Director of Health Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)

Beginners & Intermediates

A9

Clinical decision support systems today and tomorrow’s state of the art

Neill Jones MD. Nick Booth MD. Pete Johnson MD. Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle, University of Newcastle (UK); Samson Tu Senior Research Scientist, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine (USA)

Intermediates

A10

Medical concept representation: from classification to understanding

Christopher G Chute MD DrPH. Professor and Head, Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic (USA)

Beginners

AFTERNOON

B1

Organisational readiness for clinical information technologies: culture, change management and evaluation

Bonnie Kaplan PhD. Lecturer, Yale School of Medicine, Center for Medical Informatics; Senior Scientist, Boston University, Medical Information Systems Unit; President, Kaplan Associates (USA)

Beginners & Intermediates

B2

Electronic communication of clinical data: an introduction to HL7

Klaus D Veil Research Fellow, University of Ballarat; Chair, HL7 Australia; International representative, HL7 Board member, AHML Board of Management (Australia)

Beginners

B3

Improving user acceptance of health telematics systems: what are the technological and human issues related to user friendliness?

Ilias Iakovidis PhD. Scientific Officer, European Commission. Information Society Programme - Applications relating to Health (Greece); Constantine Stephanidis Professor, Human Computer Interaction and Assistive Technology Laboratory at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (Greece)

Beginners

B4

A national approach to health informatics in primary care

Sam Heard MD. Director of the General Practice Education and Research Unit, NT Clinical School, Flinders University (Australia); Michael Kidd MD Professor and Head, Department of General Practice, University of Sydney (Australia)

Intermediates

B5

Improving information management for clinical governance in primary care: lessons from implementing the UK coronary heart disease national service framework

Nicola T Ellis PhD. Clinical Governance Research Fellow, Oldham East Primary Care Group; Research Fellow, University of Newcastle (UK); Sheila Teasdale MMedSci. PRIMIS Service Director, University of Nottingham/NHS Information Authority (UK); Cheryl Cowley BSc SRN SCM RN DN. Project Lead for HIP for CHD (UK)

Beginners

B6

A medical multilingual lexicon for international co-operation

Robert Baud PhD. Vice-Director, Medical Informatics Division, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (Switzerland)

Intermediates

B7

Nursing and informatics in long term care facilities: using knowledge discovery to improve outcomes

Patricia A Abbott PhD RNC. University of Maryland School of Nursing (USA)

Beginners

B8

International standardisation to share pharmaceutical information – efforts of ICH (International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use)

Mihoko Okada PhD. Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare (Japan); Robert E. Hizer Information Advisor in Clinical and Regulatory Systems, Eli Lilly and Company (USA); Esteban Gonzalez Juarros Principal Administrator at the Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics unit of the European Commission (Belgium); Karel de Neef  European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) (UK)

Beginners

B9

Electronic patient records on smart cards

Attila Naszlady MD DSc. President and Professor, Polyclinic of Hospitaller of St John of God in Budapest; Vice President (EU) International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (Hungary)

Beginners & Intermediates

B10

Standardisation, structure and exchange of information in primary care: the aim of clinical coding

Marc Jamoulle MD. General Practitioner "Collectif de Santé de Gilly-Haies", Researcher in primary health care, Member and co-founder of "Médecine de Famille et Soins Primaires (ESP/ULB)" (Belgium); Nick Booth MD. Centre Director, Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK); Robert Bernstein MD. Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Head: Medical Informatics Research Group, Co-Chairman and founding member of the Institute for Primary Care Informatics (Canada)

Intermediates

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