Okanagan Technology Symposium 2003
Health Care Transformation through Collaboration
National Conference & Exposition
June 2-3, 2003
The Grand Okanagan Hotel/Resort, Kelowna, B.C.

Agenda

Monday, June 02, 2003
7:30 a.m.	Registration and Trade Show open
8:30 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.	Welcome: Dr. John Weisbeck, MLA
8:40 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.	Opening Remarks:Hon. Sindi Hawkins, Minister of Health Planning, Province of B.C.
8:55 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.	Keynote Address Dr. Les Vertesi, Medical Director, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, B.C. and author of "Broken Promises: Why Canadian Medicare is in Trouble and what can be done to save it."
9:25 a.m. - 10:10 p.m.	Feature Address: Electronic Health Record An architecture and solution set for the creation of an EHR, including critical success factors, product overviews and case studies of successful implementations. Fujitsu Consulting: David Ulis, VP Management Consulting & Healthcare Solutions Practice Leader Initiate Systems: Mark Edelstein, VP Sales Park City Solutions: Ann Scales, VP Sales
10:10 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
10:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.	Feature Address: Oracle Dr. Thomas Jones, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Clinical Information Standards: Creating Systems for an Integrated Health Care Community
11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.	Educational point of view: BCIT - Lisa Meginbir, Program Head, Health Information Systems Technology: "Health Informatics Collaboratory" BCNet - Tim Devlin: "The Optical Regional Advanced Network and CA*net4"
11:30 p.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Feature Address: Accenture Dr. Patricia O'Brien, Global Provider Managing Partner
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Business Case Studies: SAP - Randy Schwindt, Account Executive, BC public sector Fujitsu Consulting Clinidata - Laurie Poole, Director of Professional and Quality Services: "Public-private partnerships in the delivery of telehealth services" Nortel - Shabana Muhajir, Senior Manager: wireless applications for point-of-care access to medical records and information
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Federal/Provincial/Territorial Collaboration Dr. Larry Ohlhauser, founding Board member, Canada Health Infoway; President and CEO, HSI Healthcare Solutions & Innovations
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Feature Address:Electronic Health Records � The New Health IT Agenda Trevor Hodge, Sierra Systems Group Sarah Graham, Orion Systems International
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Feature Address: InfoLynk Consulting Tim Lynch: "Interface Relationships in Healthcare"
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Conference Trade Show
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.	Reception for Conference Delegates
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.	Gala Dinner (at hotel) Keynote Address: Honourable Sindi Hawkins, Minister of Health Planning, Province of British Columbia

Tuesday, June 03, 2003
8:30 - 8:40 a.m.	Opening Remarks: Honourable Sandy Santori, Minister of Management Services, BC
8:40 - 9:00 a.m.	Keynote Address: Tamara Vrooman, Deputy Minister, Strategic Initiatives & Corporate Services, Ministries of Health Planning and Health Services, B.C.
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Feature Address: IBM Canada Ltd. Barry Burk, General Manager, Healthcare Industry
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Front Line Collaboration Experiences Dr. Allan Brookstone, general practitioner Dr. Kendall Ho, Chair, Continuing Medical Education, UBC Faculty of Medicine Gerri Rintoul, nursing representative
10:30 - 10:50 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:05 a.m.	Genomics in BC: The convergence of biology and IT in life sciences
11:05 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.	Business Case Studies (5 x 15 minutes) Telus - Gary Wilson, Director, Government Relations & Aboriginal Affairs: "Health Care Solutions Through Collaboration" Bell - Gary Hawkings, Director, BCE Emergis Total Care - Iain McLean, General Manager & VP Rogers AT&T; Wireless - Michael van der Lee, Vice President General Manager, BC Region: three B.C. case studies
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.	Inter-Provincial/Territorial - What's working? Western Health Info Collaborative leaders: Shelley Lipon, Saskatchewan John Schinbein, British Columbia Linda Miller, Alberta
2:40 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.	Feature Address: UBC Dr. John Cairns, Dean of Medicine - "Expansion of BC's Medical School and a Distributed Model: Meeting Provincial Needs"
3:10 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:25 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Private/Public Collaboration - Case Studies BC Academic Health Council - Dr. George Eisler BC Cancer Agency - Don Hinklemann PathNet - Lindsay Allan, General Manager TBA
4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.	Summary: Honourable Colin Hansen, Minister of Health Services, Province of British Columbia
4:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks: Dr. John Weisbeck, Conference Chairman

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