13th International Health Records Congress

SPONSORED BY: PICKFORDS RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGERS

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY 2 OCT | TUESDAY 3 OCT | WEDNESDAY 4 OCT | THURSDAY 5 OCT | FRIDAY 6 OCT

PLENARY SESSIONS
Health Information Management - What's in store? | International Perspectives on Current Issues | Utilising Health Information | A World of Possibilities: Coding, Confidentiality and Careers | "Take Away" Food for Thought
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Health Informatics and Health Information (1) | Health Informatics and Health Information (2) | Into the new Millennium | Information, Information Technology and The Net | Classification and Costing Systems | Health Information and Primary Care | Coder Education | Data Quality | Coding Quality | Electronic Medical Records | HIM Education (1) | HIM Education (2) | | Data Management | Diverse Roles/Issues in Health Information Management | Coder Workforce | Quality Improvement and Consumer Issues | Contemporary Management Issues | HIM Competencies - Open Forum
SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER 2000
9.00 - 16.00 IFHRO GRAND COUNCIL MEETING-
Melbourne Convention Centre
Open to all delegates
MONDAY 2 OCTOBER 2000

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8.00 - 16.00 REGISTRATION -
Melbourne Convention Centre
9.00 - 12.00 IFHRO GRAND COUNCIL MEETING-
Melbourne Convention Centre
Open to all delegates
9.00 - 12.00 SITE VISITS: Site visits will include a range of public, private and community health services, as well as health information management related businesses and educational institutions
Pickfords Record and Information Managers
Royal Childrens Hospital (RCH)
The Royal Women's Hospital (RWH)
The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH)
La Trobe University
10.00 - 12.30 WORKSHOPS: Masterclass for Coders
Clinical Coders' Society of Australia
Sponsored by:
The Coding Company
Evolving the Medical Record Service to support an Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
Elizabeth Moss - Senior Business Specialist, Health Insurance Commission and Anne Marie Hardy - Manager, Clinical Application Support Unit, New Children's Hospital - Australia
Implementing a Unique Person Identifier in an Integrated Health Care Environment
Alby Creevey and Cherie Reilly - Software Technologies Corporation (STC) - Australia
EHRs in practice
Dr. Ria Follett, Stephen Lynch, Christophe Chort - IBA Technologies - Australia
14.00 - 15.00 WELCOME & OPENING Welcome to Melbourne!
Josephine Raw, Convenor, Congress Organising Committee
Coordinator, Health Information Management, Women's and Children's Healthcare Network - Australia
Formal opening of Congress
The Hon. Bronwyn Pike, MP
(Minister for Housing and Aged Care Victoria, Representing the Premier, The Hon. Steve Bracks)
IFHRO - Yesterday and Today
Phyllis J. Watson, AM. - Australia
Welcome from the President
Vicki Tichbourne - President, IFHRO - Canada

15.00 - 15.30

AFTERNOON TEA AND TRADE DISPLAY LAUNCH
Joy Smith, President - HIMAA and Pickfords Record and Information Managers

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15.30 - 17.00 OPENING PLENARY SESSION:
Health Information Management - What's in store? The changing role of health information in the delivery of health services
Chris Brook - Director, Acute Health Division, Department of Human Services, Victoria - Australia
Questions and Discussion
The Role of Health Information Managers in the next Millennium
Carolyn Kay - Education Director, Canadian Health Record Association - Canada
Questions and Discussion
17.00 - 19.00 WELCOME RECEPTION
You Yangs Exhibition and Atrium Area
SPONSORED BY:
GRUNDIG DICTATION MACHINES
TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2000

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7.00 - 9.00 INTERNATIONAL BREAKFAST
Otway 1 and 2
- Melbourne Convention Centre
8.00 - 16.00 REGISTRATION -
Melbourne Convention Centre
9.00 - 10.30 MORNING PLENARY SESSION:
International Perspectives on Current Issues The Role of Health Informatics in the Management of Health Information
Enrico Coeira - Foundation Chair of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Director for Centre for Health Informatics, University of NSW - Australia
Will the Internet revolutionise medical record keeping?
Jean Clark - Director, Health Information Services, CareAlliance Health Services - USA
Keeping the classification current: International processes for updating ICD-10-AM
Rosemary Roberts - Director, National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) and Sue Walker - Associate Director, NCCH - Australia
Questions and discussion
10.30 - 11.00 MORNING TEA, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY

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11.00 - 12.30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A: Health Informatics and Health Information (1) Session to be conducted by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) on behalf of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
B Into the new Millennium The EPR Dream - Making Clinical Information Systems Work
Anne Marie Hardy - Manager, Clinical application Support Unit, New Children's Hospital - Australia
A Global Village for Health Information Management
Temitope Solanke Medical Services Division - Nigeria
The skills of Medical Record Professionals needed in the 21st Century in China
Yalan Li - Lecturer, Public Health Bureau of Chongwen District - China
Questions and discussion
C: Information, Information Technology and The Net iSOFT Product Launch
Health Records on the Internet
Brian Faust - Director, Health Information Managment, Summerlin hospital Medical Centre - USA
Modern Communication
Ulli Hoffmann  - German Association of Medical Documentalists - Germany
Selecting the Right Technology: How a "Gift Horse" can turn into a "Millstone"
Doug Golley - Director, Information Service, Flinders Medical Centre - Australia
Questions and discussion
D: Classification and Costing Systems The Australian Way: A report on the development, implementation and maintenance of ICD-10-AM
Karen Peasley - Education Manager, NCCH - Australia
Getting the most from ICD-10-AM: Relational Databases, Clinical Terminology and Thesauri
Donna Truran - Research Officer, NCCH - Australia
Uncovering better practice through Clinical Costing at three Victorian rural hospitals
Simon Rush - Product Specialist, Allegiance Systems - Australia
Questions and discussion
12.30 - 14.00 LUNCH, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY

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14.00 - 15.30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A: Health Informatics and Health Information (2) Session to be conducted by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) on behalf of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
B: Health Information and Primary Care An analysis of national general practice clinical information on upper gastrointestinal complaints and patient management
Zoe Kelly - Health Information Manager, Family Medicine Research Centre - Australia
The Family Records of Community Healthcare in Beijing, China
Liu Aimin - President, Association of Medical Record Management - China
An Olympic Experience
Jennine Freshwater  - Health Information Management Student, The University of Sydney - Australia
HIMs in divisions of General Practice
Halina Baczyk - Quality Coordinator, Dandenong District Division of GP - Australia
Questions and discussion
C: Coder Education Congratulations! You have passed the coding course...
Andrea Groom  - Coding Educator, Monash Medical Centre - Australia
Nature and Nurture: Producing good Coders
Beth Reid - Chair, School of Health Information Management, The University of Sydney - Australia
Clinical Coding in Singapore - A New Frontier
Peter Lee - Senior Officer, Ministry of Health - Singapore
Coding for 10 Years and still asking questions!
Kylie Holcombe - Health Information Manager, St Vincents Hospital (Public) - Australia
Questions and discussion
D: Data Quality Related Factors associated to the Quality of Caesarian section performance in Harapan Kita Maternity Hospital in Jakarta
Gemala Hatta - President of PORMIKI - Indonesia
A Study on the factors related to the quality of medical records - focused on physicians commitment
Joon Hong - Director, Medical Record Department, Severance Hospital - Korea
Medical Data Processing in the SAP R/3 Environment
Markus Loos - Medical Data Administrator, Department of Urology, University of Berlin - Germany
A New Paradigm for a New Millennium: Patient participation in medical record documentation
Barbara Odom-Wesley  - Consultant, MEDPRO Consulting Services, Instructor, Texas Women's University - USA
Questions and discussion
15.30 - 16.00 AFTERNOON TEA, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY

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16.00 - 17.15 PANEL DISCUSSION:
Is there a future for Health Information Managers? Chair: Cathy Balding, Director, Decision and Quality Support Unit, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital - Australia
17.30 - 18.30 HIMAA Annual General Meeting
WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2000

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8.00 - 16.00 REGISTRATION -
Melbourne Convention Centre
9.00 - 10.30 MORNING PLENARY SESSION:
Utilising Health Information Slowing the Roll of the Dice: Using information to reduce the impact of chance in health care
Beth Reid - Chair School of Health Information Management, The University of Sydney - Australia
Standarising Clinical Data for the Record in the new Millennium: Going for the Gold
Kathy Brouch - Chair Regulatory/Legislative Task Force for the Society for Clinical Coding - USA
Questions and discussion
10.30 - 11.00 MORNING TEA, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY

SPONSORED BY: NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CLASSIFICATION IN HEALTH (NCCH)
LAUNCH OF PICQ

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11.00 - 12.30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A: Coding Quality Evolution of the Coding Mechanism at Hong Kong Public Hospitals
Vicky Fung - Health Information Manager, Hospital Authority - Hong Kong
PICQ and ACBA: Fuelling the acceleration towards quality
Irene Kearsey - Senior Quality Officer, NCCH and Lai-Mun Balnave - Senior Consultant, Laeta Pty Ltd - Australia
Two Years of Audits of Admitted Patient Data - Including ICD-10-AM Codes
Joanne McLachlan - Senior Health Information Manager, Acute Health, Victorian Department of Human Services -  Australia
Analysis of the Influence of two coding procedures of ICD-9 on coding quality
Junjun Ye - China-Japan Friendship Hospital - China
Questions and discussion
B Electronic Medical Records Centura Software Asia Pacific
Product Launch
Case Studies on how an EMR has improved patient care at Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne
Jane Spring - Manager, Patient Record Information Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute - Australia
The Status of the Computer-based Patient Record in the USA
Carol Lewis - Health Record Consultant - USA
Oman towards electronic medical records
Goverdhan Das Mogli - Medical Records Advisor, Ministry of Health - Sultanate of Oman
Questions and discussion
C: HIM Education (1) HIM Education in the US: Curriculums and Competencies, 2000 and beyond
Margaret Skurka - President, Americal Health Information Management Association - USA
Subject Trends in Health Information Management: A comparison between articles indexed in Hospital and Health Administration Index and Iranian Masters Theses 1995 -1998
Fatemeh Sabokrooh - School of Management and Medical Information Science - Iran
Health Information Services in South Asia - A Real Challenge into the Next Millennium
Abdul Rehman Sayani - Manager, Medical Records Department, The Aga Khan University Hospital - Pakistan
IT Education in the Computer Age
Angelika Lange  - Lecturer, School of Health Information Management, The University of Sydney - Australia
Questions and discussion
12.30 - 14.00 LUNCH & LUNCHTIME SEMINARS
(A) STUDENT ISSUES
(B) MEET THE EXPERT.
TRADE EXHIBITION AND POSTER DISPLAY

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14.00 - 15.30 AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION:
A World of Possibilities: Coding, Confidentialty and Careers Scenarios for the future of Coding: Report of the AHIMA's Task Force
Linda Kloss - Executive Vice President, American Health Information Management Association - USA
Ethical issues surrounding the impact of the Human Genome Project on Health Information Management
Kerin Robinson - Coordinator, Bachelor of Health Information Management, La Trobe University, Victoria - Australia
Are you the right person for the Job? - Vocational Types and the HIM Profession
Julie Warnock - Organisational Psychologist - Australia
Questions and discussion
15.30 - 16.00 AFTERNOON TEA, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY

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16.00 - 17.30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A: Diverse Roles / Issues in Health Information Management Wearing an audit hat in an operational environment
Nadinia Davis - Assistant Professor of Health Information Management, Kean University - USA
The ever changing role of an HIM in a specialist hospital
Kim Wheeler - Business and Contracted Support Services Manager, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital - Australia
Climb every mountain...
Jennie Shepheard - Consultant, Shepheard Health Management Consultants - Australia
Questions and discussion
B: Data Management Physician Documentation Guidelines, Reimbursement and Compliance Activities
Margaret Skurka - President, Americal Health Information Management Association - USA
Planning a Health Information Management Model in support of the HSDP (Health Services Delivery Program) for Auckland Healthcare
Linda Fletcher - Patient Information Management Advisor, Auckland Healthcare - New Zealand
How to promote data flow and linkage in the ICD Classification environment
Akiko Kasama - Associate Researcher - Japan
Effect of Causes of Death Query Action - An Australian Study
Maryann Wood - Australian Bureau of Statistics - Australia
Questions and discussion
C: Coder Workforce Gold, Silver or Bronze? How would your Coders Finish?
Adam Bennett - Honours Student, School of Health Information Management, The University of Sydney - Australia
Restructuring the Clinical Coder Work-force to meet the Challenges of Today's Coding Environment
Sallyanne Wissmann - Clinical Coding Advisor, Auckland Healthcare - New Zealand
Establishment of the Clinical Coders' Society of Australia (CCSA): meeting the needs of clinical coders in Australia
Joan Knights - Coding Development Officer, St John of God Healthcare, Subiaco - Australia
Introduction of ICD-10 in China since 1996
Dr Hong Wu, Member of WHO Collaborating Centre for Classification of Diseases - China
Questions and discussion
D: Quality Improvement and Consumer Issues From a computer based record to a comprehensive quality management system (according to ISO 9001)
Angelika Haendel - Medical Documentalist and Quality Manager, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Germany
International Accreditation for Healthcare Organisations
Jean Clark - Director, Health Information Services, CareAlliance Health Services - USA
A Model for addressing ethical considerations in quality improvment activities
Cathy Balding - Director, Decision Support and Quality Unit, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital - Australia
Questions and discussion
19.00 - late CONGRESS GALA DINNER
Venue: Melbourne Convention Centre
 
THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 2000

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8.00 - 16.00 REGISTRATION -
Melbourne Convention Centre
9.00 - 10.30 HYPOTHETICAL: Into the next Millennium - A New World Record:
Fact, Fiction or Mission Impossible?
Chair: Cathy Balding, Director, Decision and Quality Support Unit, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital - Australia
10.30 - 11.00 MORNING TEA, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY
11.00 - 12.30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A: Contemporary Management Issues Managing our Human Resources: Spirituality in the Workplace
Joanne Valerius - Director, Health Information Programs and Coding Specialist Programs, College of Saint Catherine - USA
The Multi-Cultural Workplace: From the Jungle to the Desert
Leanne Holmes - Medical Record Manager, Kin Fahd Armed Forces Hospital - Saudi Arabia
Building Bridges to the Future through Professional Mentoring
Linda Kloss - Executive Vic President, American Health Information Management Association - USA
Into the Next Millennium - But who cares?
Cameron Barnes - Manatger, Health Information Services, Royal Children's Hospital - Australia
Questions and discussion
B: HIM Education (2) Developments in Education in Health Information Management in SE Asia
Sue Walker - Associate Director, NCCH - Australia
Health Information Management Education in South East Asia - The Human Perspective
Jennifer Nicol - Lecturer, Health Information Mangement, Queensland University of Technology - Australia
The Adjustment of the Teaching Plan of HIM Speciality in Secondary Health Schools of Shandong Province in China
Liu Aimin - President, Association of Medical Record Management - China
HIM Education in New Zealand - A Postgraduate Diploma for 2002!
Linda Fletcher - Patient Information Management Advisor, Auckland Healthcare - New Zealand
Questions and discussion
C: Health Information in the Electronic Age Using Electronic Forms for exception based reporting of nursing practice
Joan Edgecumbe - Nurse Consultant and Executive Officer, Health Informatics Society of Australia - Australia
Computerisation of Primary Care in the United Kingdom: Disparity between provision and use
Krish Thiru - St Georges Hospital Medical School - UK
European situation of the medical data routinely collected and their use for health monitoring: Euro-med-data presentation of first results
Myriam Desmet - University of Brussells, Belgium
Electronic communication of clinical information - an introduction to HL7
Klaus Veil - Chair, HL7 Australia - Australia
Questions and discussion
D: Open Forum HIM Competencies - Open Forum
HIMAA Education Committee

Update and discussion on the development of Australian 'Competencies for Entry-Level Health Information Managers'
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH, TRADE AND POSTER DISPLAY

SPONSORED BY: TOWER TECHNOLOGY

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13.30 - 14.45 AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION:
"Take Away" Food for Thought HIM and Privacy, Ethics & Consumerism
John Snowdon - Partner, Philips Fox - Australia
Sandra Hacker - Psychiatrist, Member National Health Information Management Advisory Counsel - Australia
Mary Draper - Manager, Effectiveness Unit, Acute Health Division, Victorian Department of Human Services -  Australia
14.45 - 16.00 CONGRESS CLOSING CEREMONY

FAREWELL TO MELBOURNE

2004 IFHRO CONGRESS HOST COUNTRY - INVITATION TO ATTEND THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL HEALTH RECORDS CONGRESS

FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2000

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8.00 - 10.00 REGISTRATION -
Melbourne Convention Centre
EDUCATORS FORUM -
Melbourne Convention Centre - Otway 1
Closed Session: by invitation only
Phyllis J. Watson, AM - Australia
9.30 - 12.00 WORKSHOPS: Health Informatics
"Warmware" & Decision Support

Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)
Data mining and evidence based care
Keith Sours - Senior Director, SPSS Australasia - Australia
Time Management
The 36 hour day and other fantasies

Nadinia Davis - Assistant Professor of Health Information Management, Kean University - USA
HIM Career Paths
Vocational Types and the HIM Profession

Julie Warnock - Organisational Psychologist - Australia
13.00 - 15.30 WORKSHOPS: The EPR: Changing the way clinicians think and work!
Heather Maddern - Women's and Children's Health - Australia
WORKSHOP/LIVE DEMONSTRATION: Could i implement an EPR within a year on a  limited budget?
Jane Spring, David Woodcock, Ian Gillies and Steven Damiani - Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute - Australia
13.00 - 16.00 SITE VISITS: Pickfords Record and Information Managers