Program

Session 4: Patient Compliance Monitoring

16:15  "Revolutionizing the Patient Experience through ECM Supported Compliance"
Dr Allan Wilson, President, Information Mediary, Canada

• Identifying new advances in 'smart' packaging that have resulted in Electronic Compliance Monitoring (ECM) Technology
• Discussing how ECM has made it possible to cost-effectively record patient compliance data
• Examining how EC enables the building of a pharmaceutical brand

Session 5: Panel Discussion Chaired by Dr Peter Harrop

16:45  An interactive discussion with industry experts on the following issues:

• The benefits for the healthcare industry are clear, but what are the challenges to supplying this industry?
• What are the applications and benefits that hospitals and pharmaceuticals seek when adopting new technology?
• How are the FDA and government recommendations driving adoption?

Panel
Keith Strier, Deloitte Consulting
Allan Wilson, Information Mediary
Liz Churchill, Matrics
Rob Whewell, PA Consulting

17:30  Drinks reception and exhibition

19:00  Meet the Experts dinner, Waterfront Restaurant, Pier 7, The Embarcadero

Day Two
Friday June 11
Chaired by Peter Wakim, Nokia

08:00  Refreshments and exhibition

08:30  "Improve processes and applications in healthcare with a Nokia cell phone"
Peter Wakim, Nokia, USA

• Nokia cell phone with an RFID tag reader
• Example applications in other industries
• Potential for the technology in healthcare

Session 6: Tracking People and Assets

08:45  "TACMED-CS: Testing RFID patient tracking during Operation Iraqi Freedom"
LT David Everhart, Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, USA

• Fleet Hospital: System Overview
• Fleet Hospital Three: Mission Overview
• TACMED-CS: System History and Concept of Operation
• RFID Testing: Analysis, Results, and Lessons Learned

09:15  "Electronic wristbands for infant protection"
Danny Hall, Doctors Hospital of Dallas, USA

• Why do it? Current trends and legislation
• The 3 W's
• Implementation: Can you afford NOT to do it
• Credibility and acceptance

09:45  "How RFID was deployed in a Taiwan hospital to contain the deadly SARS virus"
Stephen Lambright, VP of Marketing, Savi Technology, USA

• Personnel wear an RFID tag
• How the same kind of solution can provide real-time visibility not only of personnel, but also of all types of healthcare and hospital equipment from defibrillators to wheelchairs
• In addition, this same technology solution is being deployed within the global supply chain

10:15  Refreshments and exhibition

10:45  "Location-Aware Capacity Management for Hospitals"
Dr Tim Stettheimer, Vice President and CIO, St Vincent's Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Dr Gary York, CEO and President, Awarix, Inc., USA

• Healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to improve operational efficiency
• Tracking the location of patients, staff, and equipment is central to managing the patient throughput process.  Providing real time information on the location and status of critical resources allows hospitals to increase revenues, improve efficiency, and increase patient and staff satisfaction
• Using standards-based, off-the-shelf location technology based on WiFi and RFID yields the greatest benefit at the lowest cost
• The Smart Hospital of the future will integrate location with key clinical applications to provide clinicians and administrators with the right information at the right time, and the right place

Session 7: Sensors for Diagnostics

11:15  "Immobilized molecular beacons : New sensors for diagnostics and smart materials" 
Dr Ben Miller, Rochester University, USA

• An explosion of newly available genetic information is providing us with the tools we need to target sensors specifically to harmful bacteria and viruses (pathogens)
• New sensors types are needed that provide sensitive and selective pathogen identification, without user intervention
• We have used immobilized molecular beacons to detect a type of bacteria responsible for a large proportion of hospital-acquired infections
• With further development, sensors of this type may be suitable for incorporation into a variety of consumer goods, including packaging

11:45  "Track and Trace for Blood Products"
Eitan Avni, Director of Business Development, KSW Microtec, USA

• Blood traceability via RFID and temperature sensor
• Data system model
• Blood bank process model

12.15  Lunch and exhibition

Session 8: RFID Now and in the Future

14:00  "The benefits of Smarter Patient and Product Identification - What is Real and What is Next?"
Kelly Stark, Marketing Manager for RFID Smart Labels, Texas Instruments RFid Systems, USA
Dr Robert Corkern, Emergent Health, USA

• Real-world healthcare and supply chain case studies
• Business benefits of RFID for product authentication, diversion prevention, and patient care and safety
• Driving factors in the shift to RFID technology as an alternative to bar codes
• What is the next wave of RFID healthcare applications?

14:45  "Intelligent pharmaceutical packaging"
Stina Ehrensvard, Marketing Director, Cypak, Sweden
Tom Grinnan, Vice President, Business Development, Healthcare Packaging, MeadWestvaco, USA

• New RFID technology enabling user interaction, time-tagging of events and secure data transfer over the Net
• Intelligent pharmaceutical packaging to enhance quality and IT automation in clinical trials and healthcare
• PIN-on-Card for secure information access and audit trail of healthcare personnel
• Case studies in Swedish healthcare

15:30  Refreshments and exhibition

16:00  "Making the connection: Using RFID in fluid connectors to ensure and verify usage at the point of connection"
Rick Garber, Colder Products, USA

• Miniature, close range RFID interrogators are integrated into medical equipment, with RFID tags integrated into mating fluid lines 
• Information stored on tags can be used for 
  - Machine calibration
  - Prevention of disposable item re-use
  - Verification of therapy provided
  - Tracking of connections
• Multiple identification technologies are considered to meet a broad range of needs

• Sensors are combined with tags and connectors to broaden utility