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About the Course and
Workshop
The rising costs of health care and the need
to improve quality care have driven the widespread adoption
of health information technology by governments and health
care providers in the private and public sectors. The
operational transformation process has also generated a
demand for a new generation of IT workforce that will be
required to have sufficient domain knowledge to understand
how IT can be applied to all areas of healthcare operations
in an enterprise-wide setting. In order for IT
professionals to stay competitive and relevant in a new
healthcare work environment, IT skills alone are not enough.
The IT professional working in a healthcare setting today
would be required to understand basic and recent advances in
computer and info-communications technology in health and
medicine. How are hospitals exploiting health
information systems and tools to deliver cost-effective and
efficient care? How can HIT help care providers to
deliver better and safer patient care? How are
patients benefiting from better quality of care through IT
innovations? How do we comprehend quality measures and
standards from the use of these tools? Most
importantly, how do we measure the impact of these
initiatives have on patient health, outcomes and cost?
The
Course (from Tuesday, 12 August to Thursday, 14 August
2008) will enable participants to acquire health IT domain
knowledge to fulfill the following educational objectives:
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know
and appreciate
the multiple facets of health information technology
applications
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learn
and understand the key issues and challenges in HIT
deployment in healthcare
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discover
the many career opportunities offered by HIT in
healthcare and healthcare-related industries
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network
with Health IT interest groups and resources at the
local, regional and international levels
For
more, see Course Program
The
Workshop (on Friday, 15 August 2008) is to provide a
forum for participants to interact with experts in the
implementation of IT systems in healthcare and to share
experience in organizational initiatives in health IT
transformation.
The
Workshop will focus on the following organizational
initiatives in health IT transformation:
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leadership and strategic planning
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business and financial management
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process engineering and improvement
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roadmap for health IT transformation and implementation
For
more, see Workshop Program
Participants who take the 3-day Course and then go onto the
final 1-day Workshop will particularly benefit from
knowledge acquired from the Course to better
appreciate the issues and challenges in the formulation of
the roadmap for organizational health IT
transformation to be discussed at the Workshop.
Site
visits - the 1-day Workshop will culminate in site
visits to view live demos of healthcare IT systems
implemented at Changi General Hospital. Led by
Professor Low Cheng Ooi, CGH Chief Medical Officer and his
team of clinical and IT specialists, the demos will feature
an exciting range of state-of-the-art patient care and
management systems at CGH.
For more, see Site Visit Demos
Who Should Attend this Course
and Workshop
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IT professionals working or interest in
working in the healthcare ecosystem
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Clinical,
medical, nursing and other healthcare-related
professionals interested in Health IT applications
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IT industry business
leaders and managers marketing IT systems and solutions
in healthcare
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Senior administrators and policy makers
involved in organizational transformation initiatives in
Health IT
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Research scientists working on
healthcare-related projects
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Individuals interested in career
opportunities in health information technology
Course and Workshop
Faculty
For this
exciting event, Gateway Consulting has spared no effort to
bring together an excellent team of international and
national faculty, all of whom with impeccable track record
and industry experience in health information technology.
For
more, see Faculty
Endorsement by
IDA's
Techno-Strategists Program (TSP)
This
Course is endorsed by the Infocomm Development Authority of
Singapore (IDA) under its Techno-Strategists
Programme (TSP). To check out how the TSP benefits you
or your sponsor, see About TSP
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