Are you struggling to share patient information across Healthcare?

At Connecting Healthcare you will hear about real implementations from others who have succeeded in making real progress in electronic health record design, delivery and maintenance.

With recent changes of important decision makers across the country, interest in finally addressing this issue is at an all-time high. With three years of success in this area, this year’s conference will focus on delivering real life industry success stories.

Hear what overseas countries such as the UK and Denmark are doing with health information and learn from their mistakes and successes. Learn from their implementation stories and hear their advice on managing with what you have.

Why should you attend Connecting Healthcare?

This conference will help you overcome issues associated with electronic health records and patient information and specifically help you to:

• Overcome interoperability issues between different healthcare providers
• Gain access to patient information in real time
• Ensure high data quality and reliability

Confirmed speakers at Connecting Healthcare already include:

International Perspectives:

Professor Michael Thick Chief Clinical Officer NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, UK	Otto Larsen Chief Executive Officer, Connected Digital Health NATIONAL HEALTH BOARD, DENMARK

Australian Perspectives:

Peter Fleming, Chief Executive Officer, NEHTA Andrew George-Gamlyn, Deputy CEO, ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL Mark Jackson, Executive GM - Business Solutions and Operations, MEDICARE AUSTRALIA Michael Strachan, Programme Manager, her, MATER HEALTH SERVICES (BRISBANE) Jacqui Burford, Programme Manager, eHR & SUPI, Healthelink Programme, NSW HEALTH, HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES Dr Tony Hobbs,GP Obstetrician, COOTAMUNDRA IN THE NSW RIVERINA DISTRICT, Chair, NATIONAL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE STRATEGY – EXTERNAL REFERENCE GROUP Angela Ryan, CIS Manager, Intensive Care Services, ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL Prof Isabelle Ellis, Former President, COUNCIL OF REMOTE AREA NURSES OF AUSTRALIA (CRANA) Claire Pierce, Director, Health Information Services, SOUTHERN HEALTH VICTORIA

Dr Chris Barnett, GP, KING STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE Fran Cocksworth, Head of Product Management Delivery – Retail Banking, ST GEORGE BANK Ava Wong, Manager, Health Information Services, RAMSAY HEALTH Michael Edwards, Chief Executive Officer, & Adam Ryder, IM/IT Healthelink Officer, NEPEAN DIVISION OF GENERAL PRACTICE Gary Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, & David Hansen, Research Leader, eHealth Research Centre, CSIRO Ian Landreth, Chief Executive Officer, SUNSHINE COAST DIVISION OF GENERAL PRACTICE Andrew Dalley, Chief Executive Officer, ILLAWARRA DIVISION OF GENERAL PRACTICE Dr John Caska, GP & Janelle Ward, Ward Clark, BRISBANE WATERS PRIVATE HOSPITAL Liesel Wett, Chief Executive Officer, AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRACTICE NETWORK Dr John Davis, Clinical Director, CLINICAL SOLUTIONS

Are you worried about ensuring high patient data quality and its reliability?

Why is accurate information so hard to ensure? In most health services, patient information input is totally reliant on data entry. If this information is not complete or inaccurate in any way, the flow-on-effect months later can be disastrous.

Learn about the cutting edge strategies being implemented overseas and within Australia to overcome data quality challenges, increase your reliability and enhance the care your organisation gives to patients.

Would you like to gain access to patient information in REAL TIME?

This is no doubt that real time health information access is a key frustration among health information professionals. Having unannounced patients turning up needing urgent attention with life or death situations can end in disaster without the right information at the right time.

Hear from the leaders and CEO/CIOs of Hospitals & Health Care Providers on how they are delivering on these key measurables.

Who will you meet at this conference?

The Connecting Healthcare 2009 Conference has been developed and designed for:

Health Information Professionals CIOs Health Information Technology Health Information Services Healthcare Informatics Health Care Analysts Clinical information Managers

Medical Records Managers Health Strategy and Integration Information Architects Heads of IT ICT professionals (information, communications, technology) Records Managers Document Managers

BONUS: Exclusive CEO Innovation “Green Room”!

BONUS: Exclusive CEO/CIO Innovation “Green Room”! This conference will feature an INVITATION ONLY exclusive “Green Room” where only key decision makers with CEO/CIO status will be allowed access, to participate in a frank and open discussion about the key issues facing their health service in relation to eHealth. Why is this different from the conference? How does it work? Extended in length and run on a separate day, these highly interactive and engaging roundtable discussions provide you with a new environment, where together with the Connecting Healthcare speaking faculty and pre-qualified Health Information leaders you can brainstorm solutions to your latest and most critical challenges. What does a “Green Room” Roundtable session look like? A practitioner’s challenge kick-starts the discussion Highly interactive group brainstorming follows Tailored outcomes providing you with the solutions you are seeking Important! Pre-Qualified Participants Only If you believe your level of practitioner experience in this field means you should be part of these discussions, make sure you indicate when registering that you want to be considered to be included in this exclusive room. N.B There are limited places available in the Green Room and invitations will only be accepted on a “first-come-first served” basis. Network with other chiefs and formulate actionable solutions to take back to your own organisations! Places are strictly limited, so don’t miss out on your opportunity to participate in this exclusive setting.

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time.

Lead Partner	Association Partner	Partners
Lunch Partner	Exhibitor

[ Register Now] · [ Next: Conference Day One: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 ]