AMBIS Annual Lecture - 20 Feb 2009

"Health IT Initiatives in the U.S."
by
Dr Charles Friedman
Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
US Dept of Health and Human Services

Date: Friday, 20 February 2009
Time: 6.30 – 7.30 pm
Place: PostGraduate Medical Institute (PGMI), SGH
Attendance is free. No registration needed.

About the Speaker:

Charles (Chuck) Friedman, PhD. is the Deputy National Coordinator in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to serving as "second in command" for the office, he is specifically responsible for strategic and operational planning, communications functions, & programs relating to clinical decision support, and international activities.

Prior to joining ONC, Dr. Friedman was Associate Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. In this capacity, he directed the Center for Research Informatics and Information Technology, and functioned as the Institute's Chief Information Officer. Dr. Friedman first joined NIH in 2003, in the role of Senior Scholar at the National Library of Medicine.

From 1996 to 2003, Dr. Friedman was Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh where he established a health sciences-wide Center for Biomedical Informatics. He also served as Chief Information Officer for the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences.

Dr. Friedman obtained bachelors and masters degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also received a PhD in education from the University of North Carolina (UNC). His research has focused on how to build information and knowledge resources that benefit clinicians, biomedical researchers, and health professional students, and how to study the effects of these resources. Dr. Friedman has authored or co-authored over 150 articles in scientific journals, and has written a well-known textbook. He is a past president of the ACMI and was Chair of the 2005 Annual AMIA Symposium. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

HIMSS Asiapac Conference 2009 - Health IT in Asia

Happening from 24-27 Feb 2009 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, HIMSS AsiaPac09 is organised by theHealthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a not-for-profit and non-governmental, international healthcare membership organisation.

HIMSS AsiaPac09 promises to be a place for intensive knowledge exchange where the best minds gather, and a platform for unlimited networking opportunities as leaders from healthcare, government and IT converge.

Discounts for all AMBIS members and biomedical informatics students! Just quote "AMBIS" in your registration form. Register with Ms Wendy Tan - email wtan@himss.org

Featured Speakers

	Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr. Haji Mohd. Ismail Bin Merican Director-General, Ministry of Health, Malaysia Read More >>		Enrico Coiera   Director, Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales Read More >>
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Who Should Attend?

This event is designed for YOU!

The exhibition and conference is designed by and for healthcare professionals involved in the everyday application, management and advancement of healthcare IT. Meet the movers and shakers of the industry at this premier event:

• Clinicians, doctors, nursing and allied health professionals
• CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, healthcare administrators, directors and managers
• Ministry officials of national governments
• Health authority representatives and policy-makers
• IT systems and services professionals
• Informatics specialists
• R&D and project managers
• Academicians and students
• Consultants, vendors and professional services firms

More details here: http://www.himssasiapac.org/index.aspx

Strategic Healthcare Marketing & Management '09

Conference & Workshop Details:

12-14 jan 2009
Sheraton Towers, Singapore

More information here

AMBIS Annual Lecture Slides by Prof Jack Li

AMBIS Annual Lecture 2008:
"Building a National Infrastructure for the Future of e-Health"

AMBIS has the privilege of inviting Professor Jack Li, President of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) to give our AMBIS Annual Lecture this year.

Download Slides

HL7 Workshop (9 Jul 2008)

Workshop Outline

1. Introduction to

• HL7 & HL7 Version 3
  
• HL7 EHR-S Functional Model
• HL7 PHR-S Functional Model
• HL7 Clinical Document Architecture
• HL7 Continuity of Care Document

2. HL7 for Decision Makers

3. HL7 for Project Managers

4. Intermediate HL7 (Version 3)

Registration Information

Cost:

$180 (HealthCom Conference Participant)

$300 (Non-Conference Participant)

AMBIS members have an additional 20% discount!

Location:

Biopolis, Matrix Building

30 Biopolis Street

Singapore 138671

Registration URL:

http://www.healthcom2008.org/t4.html

AMBIS Annual Lecture & Annual General Meeting (8 Jul 2008)

AMBIS has the privilege of inviting Professor Jack Li, President of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) to give our AMBIS Annual Lecture this year.

AMBIS Annual Lecture:
"Building a National Infrastructure for the Future of e-Health"

We will also be holding our Annual General Meeting following the Lecture.

Date: 8th July 2008 (Tue)
Time: 6:45pm-9:30pm
Venue: NUS Guild House @ Kent Ridge Park

Members: free
Non-Members: $15 (students), $30 (individuals)

Do mark down this date & RSVP to mailambis@gmail.com.

HL7 Singapore Launch (27 Jun 2008)

Invitation to the

Health Level Seven (Singapore)

Launch Event

June 27, 2008 | MOH Auditorium

New technologies are being introduced in hospitals and other healthcare organizations at an ever-increasing rate. Many of these innovations have the potential to interact synergistically if they can be integrated effectively. The need for interoperability between health IT systems has attracted great attention particularly in the recent years as we move closer to the dream of patient-centric care that spans the healthcare continuum.

Standards facilitate information exchange and are a critical foundation to enable interoperability of health IT solutions. HL7 plays a pivotal role as it specifies a number of standards, guidelines and methodologies by which various health IT systems can interact with one another. These standards and guidelines enable information to be shared and processed in a uniform and consistent manner. In addition, HL7 as an organization provides a mature place in which users, purchasers and suppliers can build consensus on health IT systems interoperability and the means to achieve standardisation.

You are invited to the official launch of the HL7 Singapore affiliate on June 27, 2008 at the MOH Auditorium (Level 2, College of Medicine Building). The launch agenda and registration instructions are as follows:

8:30am Registration
9:00am Address by Chairman, HL7 Singapore
9:10am Towards a National Interoperable EHR
by Dr Sarah Christine Muttitt, CIO (MOH Holdings)
9:40am Health Level 7: Building Towards A Global Future
by Dr Charles Jaffe, CEO (HL7 Inc)
10:10am Launch of HL7 Singapore
10:20am Break / Membership Recruitment
10:45am HL7 Global Standards: Demystified!

by Mr Gora Datta, Chairman & CEO (Cal2Cal & HL7 Ambassador)
12:30pm End

This Launch Event is open to all clinicians, healthcare & IT professionals who are involved in planning & driving healthcare IT initiatives. If interested, please register by using this form or emailing events@hl7.org.sg by the 24th June 2008.

For more information, please refer to the HL7 Singapore website.