About the Speakers & Topic Abstracts
A/Prof James Yip
Dr James Yip graduated from the Medical Faculty, National University of Singapore in 1991, and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore since 2001. He trained in Adult Cardiology at the National University Hospital in Singapore from 1995-2001, and was a clinical fellow at Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults 2001 to 2002. He is currently Senior Consultant Cardiologist and the director of the National University Heart Centre Singapore, Adult Congenital Heart Programme. He developed the Cardiology Information System which is in use in 3 public hospitals in Singapore. This project was a merit prize winner for the best use of IT in the public sector at the National Infocomm Awards 2004. He is also the recipient of the Friend of IT award of the Singapore Computer Society 2005. He currently serves as the Chairman of the MIT Committee and is the Chief Medical Information Officer of the National University Hospital. He is Chairman of the CPOE and Medication Safety Steering committee of the Singapore National Electronic Health Record Project. He has interests in using IT to improve the delivery of care for patients for patients in the area of anticoagulation , critical results routing and decision support systems.
Keynote Lecture:
Patient Care Using Mobile Technologies
Mobile health applications have the potential of enhancing work efficiency and improving communications and right siting of care, thus improving patient care and service quality. In the hospitals, it is mainly used for communication and coordinating simple and complex care, as a reference for clinicians to seek out clinical facts and for quick reference to the patients EMR. In the home setting, it is ideal for remote monitoring of high risk patients or patients with chronic disease who would benefit from the right siting of care. In the community, where access to healthcare is difficult due to long distances, telemedicine and tele education are ideal to bring specialist care to the patients door step.
A/Prof Low Cheng Ooi
An orthopaedics surgeon by training, Dr Low Cheng Ooi belongs to the generation of clinicians who handled the very first PCs in the final year of medical school. He was fascinated to discover that he could input clinical data into a rudimentary database on his PC to analyse trends and results without using punch cards and huge mainframes.
Being the chairman of the SingHealth’s Electronic Medical Records Steering Committee, he is also an advocate of the various medical informatics initiatives and spends extra hours to help fellow clinicians understand and use the new applications.
Dr Low sees the need to have full time medical informatics professionals. In ensuring good outcomes for their patients today, clinicians are now increasingly dependent on their computers and tablets as much as their stethoscopes and surgical knives.
Being the chairman of the SingHealth’s Electronic Medical Records Steering Committee, he is also an advocate of the various medical informatics initiatives and spends extra hours to help fellow clinicians understand and use the new applications.
Dr Low sees the need to have full time medical informatics professionals. In ensuring good outcomes for their patients today, clinicians are now increasingly dependent on their computers and tablets as much as their stethoscopes and surgical knives.
Keynote Lecture:
Impact of National Electronic Health Record on the Hospital’s EMR
Dr Adam Chee
Dr. Adam CHEE is the Founder and Chief Advocacy Officer of binaryHealthCare, a social enterprise that serves to “Bridge the eHealth Divide” by empowering stakeholders on effective adoption of Health IT as an enabler for “better patient care at lower cost”.
Bringing 10 years of experience in strategy & operations, technology & workflow advisory, implementation & adoption of eHealth technologies across Asia Pacific, Adam had a successful career in the IT industry before venturing into Health Informatics in 2002 where he worked broadly across the healthcare ecosystem including the primary care sector, private and public tertiary hospitals, government agencies and NGOs across the globe.
Topic: Advancements in Medical Imaging Informatics - Dealing with Big Data
The increasing demands for medical imaging services coupled with rapid advances in modality technology and an inability for medical schools to produce sufficient specialists (e.g. radiologist, cardiologist) has accelerated the adoption of medical imaging informatics in numerous clinical discipline (e.g. Pathology, Hybrid Imaging etc).
In return, the acceleration of PACS resulted in a tsunami of huge medical imaging data sets, rendering healthcare facilities helpless in attempts to manage the storage, search, retrieval and more importantly, the sharing of these medical images across the care continuum.
This lecture will examine the basic guidelines in how to select or future-proof your clinical PACS investment to handle Cloud technology, Big Data and enable Analytics (the science of finding the unknown) for medical imaging, to aid in provision of patient care as well as research.
Dr Jay Kola
Jay Kola is medical informatician who over the last decade worked for the national programmes in the UK and Singapore, helping with the development and implementation of terminology standards (with a special focus on SNOMED CT). He is currently the Chair of the SNOMED CT Implementation Special Interest Group and ex-member of the Implementation & Innovation Committee at IHTSDO (the organisation that owns SNOMED CT). He has a first degree in Medicine and a Masters in Bioinformatics. He is passionate about addressing the complex challenges in the adoption and implementation of clinical information systems. He has also been programming in Java for over 7 years and has created software that demonstrates sophisticated data analytics and data entry using SNOMED CT.
Topic: What is SNOMED? Revealing the Mystery and More…
SNOMED CT is considered the most comprehensive and advanced medical terminology in the world. It has been adopted as the national reference terminology by 18 countries world over, including Singapore. While many countries continue to use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) for morbidity and mortality coding, SNOMED CT provides a lot more advanced features out of the box. These features form the building blocks for healthcare providers and countries looking to build sophisticated electronic health care services, integrating patient care across the care continuum.
However, for many healthcare providers, SNOMED CT appears to be a 'mystery', wrapped inside the word 'standard'. This talk will uncover some of these mysteries and help attendees understand the rationale behind SNOMED CT's mysteries and complexities. The talk will cover some of the basics of SNOMED CT and why it is relevant, whether you are a physician practising in a hospital or a research scientist involved in 'omics' research. The talk also covers some advanced features like SNOMED CT's underlying logic that enables sophisticated data analytics, the ability to capture rich clinical information using post-coordination, etc.
Dr Tan Yung Ming
Dr Tan Yung Ming is a medical doctor by training with diverse involvements in the informatics domain. He currently practices in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital while working with the medical informatics team. He is the current vice-president of the Association for Medical & Bio-Informatics Singapore (AMBIS), and a founding exco member of HL7 Singapore. He also teaches medical informatics part-time in UniSIM. His work interests include clinical process redesign, UI and usability engineering.
Topic EMR User Satisfaction Research –Tips to keep clinicians happy.
Drawing from research done in KTPH, IHIS, and from around the world, learn about the various system factors that impact on clinician user satisfaction. Find out which aspects of CPOE frustrate and delight clinical users on the ground, and discover ways to reduce user resistance.
Dr Ling Zheng Jye
Dr Ling Zheng Jye is a medical officer who improves EMRs because he cares for his fellow junior doctors. He enjoys killing bugs and poor design with his practical approach. He has worked on the discharge summary structure for hospital and NEHR, and implemented a SAF cardiac screening protocol via the SAF EMR.
Topic: Designing EMRs for doctors: don't make them think!
Features are continually being added to our EMRs in response to doctors' requests. By designing for specific user types, we can increase acceptance and user satisfaction. This talk will cover the perspectives of junior doctors - a major user of our EMRs - and how to design for them!
