13th International Health Records Congress

Workshop and Site Visit Information

Evolving the medical record service to support an electronic patient record (EPR)

Elizabeth Moss Senior Business Specialist, Health Insurance Commission

Anne Marie Hardy Clinical Applications Support Unit Manager, New Children’s Hospital

Designed to help HIMs to start understanding how to manage a patients record, comprising both paper and electronic data, as a whole. The workshop will also discuss how to move current service provision to support electronic patient data initiatives such as the patient identification and the enterprise patient master index; and help desk support.

Implementation of Universal Patient Identifiers in an Integrated Health Care Environment

Alby Creevey and Cherie Reilly Software Technologies Corporation

This Workshop will involve interactive discussion on the issues surrounding unique identifiers

EHRs in Practice

Dr. Ria Follett, Stephen Lynch, Christophe Chort IBA Technologies Ltd

* IBA's vision for the future of EHRs
* A case study in EHR - Singapore Defence's Paperless Environment
* Demonstrate clinical data/new consultation system to show how it interacts with EHRs
* Security of shared EHRs (VPNs, Med-Safe)
* Brief overview of company
* Q & A

The Clinical Coders’ Society of Australia (CCSA)

Two workshops each following the same format.   Participants will be sent a Masterclass workbook.  This workbook is to be completed prior to the workshop, and answers will be discussed at the workshop. Particpants will have a chnce to interact with an experienced panel of coders, discussing coding and sequencin choices for each case study in the workbook. A CCSA Board Member will facilitate each session.
Sponsorship of these sessions kindly provided by The Coding Company, Sydney, Australia.

Health Informatics - "Warm ware" and Decision Support

Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)

Health Information Specialists are increasingly called upon to inform and support executive business decisions. This workshop will explore some of the available IT tools, and how they may best be used to assist HIMs in this role.

Keith J Sours Senior Director for Business Development, SPSS

Health care faces an explosion of data arising from clinical, administrative, commercial and scientific activities. Data mining offers a new approach to data analysis which can be used alongside more traditional methods. It uses techniques which "learn" patterns in data, and can generate decision or prediction models, based on historical data, The workshop will explore these possibilities and include several real life examples of data mining at work in the health industry. A glimpse of the future meeting the present.

Nadinia A Davis Assistant Professor of Health Information Management, Kean University, USA

There are many barriers to the effective management of time, yet we are all striving to fit more and more into each 24 hours. This workshop will identify these barriers, look at new and creative techniques for analysing the impact of ineffective time management on ourselves and our coworkers, and develop strategies to overcome these difficulties. A must for people managing busy staff, juggling work and study, or just plain exhausted!

Julie Warnock Consultant Organisational Psychologist

Are you the right person for your job - or, for that matter, your profession! These will be the questions posed as an organisational psychologist reports on and discusses the results of her research into the vocational types found in our line of work. A fascinating snapshot of our profession, and useful for career review and planning.

Please note this workshop has been replaced by two alternatives as listed below.  Please contact the IFHRO Secreatriat to indicate which workshop you would prefer.

Jane Spring, Ian Gillies, David Woodcock and Steve Damiani  Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute

It is intended that this be an interactive session drawing on the experiences of staff at Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute and those of the audience. Up for discussion will be ideas regarding what end users want and the various technologies available which can provide differing degrees of computerisation. We would like to highlight an innovative low cost alternative, illustrate its use plus the valuable additions to this solution. Decision making and justifications will be discussed along with factors involved in costing, testing and implementing the selected IT solution.

Heather Maddern  Women's and Children's Healthcare Network

Clinicians are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about accessing and entering patient information electronically at the point of care to enhance care delivery.
However an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is not a replica of the paper based record and the introduction of an EPR into the clinical environment requires extensive consultation, careful planning and often considerable work practice change. The workshop will address some of the issues encountered during the introduction of a web browser of patient information at the Women's and Children's Health Service.
Questions that will be discussed will include:
* "How to convince clinicians that sharing of passwords is not good practice?"
* "How to encourage electronic sign off of test results when it hasn't been a practice on paper?"
* "How is sharing of information different when it is available in electronic format?" and,
* "Who should have access to what information?"
The workshop will provide insight into how clinicians regard an EPR and some of the pitfalls to avoid when considering such implementation at your workplace.