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Conference Tutorials Program

TUTORIAL PROGRAM  Sunday 10th August - Tutorials: 0930 - 1230

T1 Informatics Education
Moderators: Evelyn Hovenga, Judi Walker, Jeff Soar, Chris Mount and Irene Krauss.
Informatics Educators are invited to attend. Moderators will discuss the future plans for informatics education within Australia.

T2 Data Warehousing. NSW Health
A review of the NSW Corporate Data Warehouse: Information Abyss or Instrument of Change? Presenters: NSW Health; Brendan Ludvigsen, Robert Haddad, Maureen Frances and Jeffrey Crompton. The presentations (4) will review the technical, social and organisational issues relating to the design, development, implementation and operational establishment of the NSW Health's corporate data warehouse - the "Health Information Exchange". It will assess the success of the project in terms of user acceptance and organisational integration.
 

T3 Open E.H.R. - clinical and technical.
Presenters: Sam Heard, Peter Schloeffel, Thomas Beale and Andrew Goodchild. Clinical overview: openEHR from a clinical perspective, with particular attention to standards and the two level modelling approach. The tutorial will explore the benefits and difficulties of this approach and describe why the work is potentially important to patients, clinicians and health service managers. Technical overview: Description of the openEHR reference model with reference to the requirements and design principles that has been developed over a ten-year period. Australian implementation will be described sharing the knowledge gained.

T4 Decision support
Presenters: Ken Harvey, Bryn Lewis, Vitali Sintchenko and Malcolm Pradhan. Full information will be available later on the conference web site.

T5 Backup wizardry.
Presenter: Horst Herb. A variety of backup devices and media will be explained with an emphasis on reliability, long-term compatibility and cost of operation. I will introduce participants into techniques that allow unattended automatised backups onto a variety of media as well as remote backups via phone lines or the Internet. Strategies to safely reduce bandwidth need and data transfer to a minimum will be outlined. Presentation learning outcomes:
  • What backup media should be used for what purpose and why
  • How to implement a fully automatised backup strategy for a medical practice

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Open Source

Presenter: David Guest. Open Source developments
will be explained followed by general discussions.


T6 GP Coding Jury
Presenters: Peter MacIsaac, Peter Scott, Don Walker, Rosemary Roberts, and Helena Britt. Members of the Coding Jury will present background information General Practice coding and classification information and give currency to tasks at hand.

T7 GP success stories.
Presenters: GPCG and Divisional General Practice representatives Tutorial content information TBA in the conference on-site program.

T8 Quality of care versus cost reduction Leveraging an interoperability framework to solve the healthcareparadox
Presenter: Dr Michael Higgins, USA.
Presentation learning outcomes:
  • An understanding of the fundamentals of interoperability frameworks for healthcare information systems.
  • An understanding of the implications (strategy, benefits, issues) of interoperability frameworks to the delivery of healthcare services.

1230 – 1400 Luncheon served in the Solutions Hall - Exhibition

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