Innovations in Healthcare Management and Informatics

Date of event: 9-10 February 2010
Venue of event: Orchard Hotel, Singapore
URL: http://www.healthcareinformaticsasia.com/

Summary:

Innovations in Healthcare Management & Informatics

With a bigger demand and pressure on healthcare providers, no doubt innovation and advancement in informatics and infrastructure are imminent. This is the only event which will deliver the “blue-ocean” healthcare concepts and management innovations to advance patient safety, healthcare benefits as well as guarantee RIO and efficiencies across various hospital departments.

It is important to understand the unique characteristics and stages of development in the Asia Pacific region. Each country has its unique set of challenges and advantages when it comes to healthcare informatics and management. Development in infrastructure, investment in latest technology and innovative strategies should be part of every healthcare providers agenda.

Real case studies and key themes to be debated at the conference include:

• Applying new models of healthcare
• Managing costs and improving efficiencies
• Improving patient safety and patient care
• Telemedicine and remote consultation to achieve rural outreach
• Latest technology innovations for healthcare providers
• Prioritising departmental needs: Oncology, cardiology, neurology, paediatrics, urology etc.

AMBIS Annual General Meeting - 28 Aug 2009

Notice is hereby given that the AMBIS Annual General Meeting will be held on

Date: 28 August 2009 (Friday)

Time: 6.30am – 9.30pm

Venue: NUS Eusoff Hall. Seminar Room at Level 4

10 Kent Ridge Drive (S) 119242

The programme for the AGM is as follows:

630-7pm: Registration
7- 8 pm: Dinner + networking
8-815pm: AMBIS Annual Report by the President

815-830pm: Treasurer's report
830-930pm: Elections for Exco 09/10
930pm: End


Please register and confirm your attendance by email to the Secretary, Dr Tan Yung Ming– mailambis@gmail.com

We would also like to invite members to submit their nomination for the Elections of the AMBIS Executive committee 2009/2010.

To submit nominees, fill in the information below and email the Secretary as above.

Email title: AMBIS Exco Nominee

Details of Nominee:

Name
Organisation
Job title
Brief description of candidate (why you think he or she should be elected)

We look forward to seeing you at the AGM.

AMBIS Exco 08/09

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.