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HINZ 2005 Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Hon Annette King, Minister of Health
Opening Address
Please refer to Annette's official website.
Lloyd McKenzie, IBM
The Canadian EHR
Canada is in the midst of a series of strategic initiatives to enable inter-operable jurisdictional electronic health records. Canada Health Infoway, as coordinator of the initiative, has identified HL7 version 3 as a fundamental part of the standardization required to enable the EHR. Lloyd will discuss some of the reasons for selecting HL7 version 3 as a central component of the initiative, and will describe some of the approaches taken by Canadian projects in managing the design, development and implementation of HL7 v3 artifacts.
Brin Thiedeman , Oracle
Brin Thiedeman has more than twenty fives experience in the information systems and technology industry. Having joined Oracle in December 2002, Brin now occupies the role of Healthcare Business Development Asia Pacific. For the previous ten years he worked in the healthcare sector in Australia and thereby accumulated a wealth of experience and knowledge in many aspects of healthcare information management. Example of his work has included: Development of information system as well as information management strategies with complementary systems and information architectures for hospitals as well as networks of Area or Regional healthcare service providers. Development of healthcare information standards covering primary care (general practice), hospital-based care, ambulatory (clinic-based) care, emergency care, palliative care, community-based care and, coordinated care. Development of the first version of the National Health and Wellbeing Information Model for Australia, a consolidation of all of the other information standards work. Brin has also contributed to some of the foundations for today's eHealth strategies and policies. For example he led the development of a standard for a Universal Patient Identifier (to be implemented in the State of New South Wales (Australia)). He is also a member of a Standards Australia Committee, contributing towards ongoing development of information standards for Electronic Health Records. Brin is regularly called upon to provide opinion and advice to matters of healthcare information systems strategies to healthcare professionals and administrators at senior levels and is also invited sit on appropriate expert panels and reference groups. He is a regular guest lecturer in Health Informatics on the Master Of Health Science degree course run by the University of Sydney. Brin graduated in Physics at the University of Birmingham and he has post-graduate level education from the University of London.
James T. Case M.S., D.V.M., Ph.D. Professor, Clinical Diagnostic Informatics, California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System University of California, Davis
National Disease Surveillance and Response: The United States National Animal Health Laboratory Network
Recent events such as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak in the United Kingdom, Avian Influenza in Asia and the detection of a single case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or "Mad Cow Disease") in the US have heightened awareness of government officials of the need for a comprehensive surveillance system for animal health that would allow rapid detection and immediate response to an animal health emergency, either naturally occurring or maliciously introduced. Historically, disease surveillance has been performed on a disease specific basis. Since 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians and the Cooperative State, Research, Education and Extension Service have been developing a national network of laboratories to provide the capability and capacity to respond to these types of events. The network is being designed to allow for the near-real time transmission of field level and laboratory data using HL7 messaging and terminology standards including LOINC and SNOMED. This presentation will describe the NAHLN architecture and the specific implementation of HL7 that will allow for immediate detection of aberrant health events and rapid communication to the proper authorities. The current status and future integration of this network with other health related networks in the US will also be described.
Ross Bosswell, Clinical Director of IT at Middlemore Hospital
Clinicians and Repositories: Horses and Water?
Electronic systems can replace paper in the distribution, presentation and acknowledgement of laboratory reports, and they can be designed to be intrinsically safer than paper systems. The problem remains of persuading clinicians to use these electronic systems effectively to ensure that significant results do not fall between the cracks.
Ross Boswell is Clinical Director of IT at Middlemore Hospital, where he practices as chemical pathologist and general physician. He has long-standing interests and involvement in bioinformatics and medical informatics. Ross is also currently Chairman of the Board of Censors and of the Chemical Pathology Advisory Committee of the RCPA, and is Chairman of the NZMA.
The Nursing Experience
For nursing, it is the best of times and the worst of times. Worldwide, there are more nurses and midwives with more training, more applicants for nursing and midwifery education and a growing trend toward creating national-level nursing structures. However, staff shortages, unstable employment, underemployment, nurse migration problems, inadequate career development, low salaries and poor (or worsening) working conditions often counter any positive gains. Increasingly, nursing leaders worldwide accept that only a holistic, multidimensional approach will address the problems in nursing and, by extension, begin to address globalized healthcare itself. The first step in this approach is to embrace information technology as a solution to the many challenges the profession and the industry now face. This presentation will explore the nursing experience in terms of practice perception versus practice reality. It will examine technology's role in bridging that gap, from educating new nurses and easing the strain of the nursing shortage, to helping practicing nurses improve the safety and ensure the rights of patients. Finally, it will explain how information technology – and nursing's acceptance of it – will play a key role in the evolution and elevation of the profession, and, by default the whole world of healthcare.
Roy L. Simpson joined Cerner Corporation in February 2000. Mr. Simpson is responsible for strategic sales and planning for the patient care enterprise as well as industry relations related to Cerner's professional nurse practice. Also, Simpson is a board member of First Hand Foundation which is the philanthropic foundation of Cerner Associates supporting the financial aspects of children's healthcare globally. Mr. Simpson has more than 30 years of experience in nursing informatics and executive administration. He was a pioneer in the development and funding of the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS).
Mr. Simpson serves on the Board of Trustees for Excelsior College, as adjunct faculty at Vanderbilt University and the University of Kansas Medical Center. Prior to joining Cerner, Mr. Simpson spent more than 13 years with McKesson HBOC and 14 years with Hospital Corporation of America.
Mr. Simpson holds elected fellow status within the American Academy of Nursing, New York Academy of Medicine, and the National Academies of Practice. Mr. Simpson also sits on the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee for the National League for Nursing (NLN). In 2005, Mr. Simpson was elected and will serve as Chair of the Expert Panel on Nursing Informatics for the American Academy of Nursing. Mr. Simpson is contributing editor for three professional journals, culminating in his publishing over 600 articles on nursing informatics.
Neil Jordan - Worldwide Head of Health and Human Services, Microsoft Corporation
Outcomes-focused IT projects within the NHS
Neil is Microsoft's global lead for strategy setting and customer and partner engagement in H&HS; setting direction for the company and working with teams in the local regions as Microsoft and its partners continue to provide technology, solutions and value to its customers in the Healthcare market. He joined Microsoft 5 years ago working in the UK in the Telecoms market and followed his passion back to Healthcare by taking the reigns as the head of the UK Healthcare team three years ago at the start of the ambitions NHS National Programme for IT, leading that team until he moved to Seattle in June of this year.
Neil, started his career in Healthcare many years ago through an after-school job building patient record systems for a local Cardiology department in his home town of Bristol in England. Between then and now he gained a BA and MA from Trinity College Cambridge in Biological Anthropology and then worked a 7 year stint with Lotus and then IBM software before joining Microsoft.
Charlie McCay, HL7 UK
HL7 in the UK: HL7UK and NPfIT
The National Program for IT is a 10 year program to build an information infrastructure to improve patient care in England. HL7v3 was chosen to deliver the messaging requirements, with the National Program working as an early adopter developing message specifications where needed. This talk will be in two parts. Firstly a look at HL7 from the perspective of NPfIT, and then a discussion of how HL7v3 and NPfIT have affected other healthcare interoperability projects in the UK. There will be discussion of the issues encountered in some of these projects, and solutions adopted. Charlie will also cover how the HL7UK affiliate is adapting to support successful adoption of HL7 specifications.
Papaarangi Reid, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Facilitating Equality in Healthcare
Dr Papaarangi Reid is Director of the Eru Pomare Ma-ori Research Centre/ Te Ropu Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pomare, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington. Dr Reid (Te Rarawa) is a specialist in public health medicine. Her research interests include the analysis and monitoring of disparities between Ma-ori and non-Ma-ori citizens of Aotearoa/New Zealand, the construction of ethnicity and indigeneity in the social determinants of health, and the options for progressing equity.
Andrew Pullman, University of Auckland
NZ Creating the Virtual Human
Andrew Pullan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, and a senior member of the Bioengineering Institute, both at the University of Auckland. Andrew also has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University in the US. He has held visiting fellowships at a number of locations, including Oxford University, Duke University, The University of Utah and The University of California.
Andrew currently holds a James Cook Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of NZ, widely regarded as New Zealand's most prestigious science and technology award. He leads research programs focusing on the electrical activity of the heart and the gastrointestinal system and has successfully obtained funding from a variety of local and international organisations to continue this research. He has recently authored a book entitled Mathematically Modelling the Electrical Activity of the Heart.
Mike Rilstone, Ministry of Health
Ministry Of Health - Group Manager of the New Zealand Health Information Service
