dbMotion would like to invite you to a live webinar: The Impact of Sharing Integrated Patient Data at Regional Implementations Around the World with William A. Fera, MD, Vice President of Medical Technologies and Medical Director of Interoperability at UPMC and Joel Diamond, MD, partner in Handelsman Family Practice, adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh and Chief Medical Officer  (CMO), dbMotion.

Monday, June 14, 2010

12:00 PM -1:00 PM (EDT)

The benefits of sharing integrated patient data are more important now than ever.  Around the world in Israel, in Brussels and in Pittsburgh, patients and caregivers are realizing these benefits on a daily basis.

Since 1999, Clalit Health Services, one of the world’s largest healthcare organizations located in Israel, has been delivering coordinated, comprehensive care across the continuum. They are seeing faster and more accurate diagnoses, shortened care cycles and increased quality and efficiency of care. For IRIS, located in the Brussels region of Belgium, its vision of connected healthcare, which is to enable secure, integrated access to the increasing amount of information generated and stored in diverse systems, is playing a critical role as a model for heath information exchange across the EU. And at UPMC (The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)—an integrated delivery system of 20 academic, community and specialty hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and 2,700 employed physicians—their enterprise-wide approach to patient-centric connected medicine is revolutionizing the delivery of care by enabling access to integrated patient data without the added burden of increased data fatigue, without the need to replace legacy data systems and without worry about gaps in transitions of care.

Dr. Bill Fera, Vice President of Medical Technologies and Medical Director of Interoperability UPMC and Dr. Joel Diamond, partner in Handelsman Family Practice, adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh and Chief Medical Officer at dbMotion, will discuss what these healthcare systems, and what  Manitoba's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Health Information Access Layer (HIAL) (currently in the final stages of implementation) all have in common. Each is using dbMotion’s interoperability platform—which is compliant with Canada Health Infoway's blueprint—as a foundation for truly connected medicine.

“The end result will be a healthcare system that instantly delivers the information health providers need in order to make informed care decisions. This will lead to increased patient safety, cost savings and efficiencies.”
Richard Alvarez
President & CEO
Canada Health Infoway

Key take-aways:

• Learn about the numerous benefits of a sustainable healthcare system that shares complete and accurate integrated patient data, available when and where it is needed
• Understand  how the dbMotion™ Solution matches Infoway’s requirements for robust, interoperable products and outcomes
• Discover steps you can take toward meeting Canadian citizens’ healthcare priorities through interoperability*

^{* New Infoway Directions – Resulting from Budget 2009 – Canada Infoway; ITAC Health Meeting – June 4, 2009 (1.2MB PDF)} 

(If you are interested but the time is not suitable, please register and we will send you the recording after the webinar.)

Speaker Biographies:

William A. Fera, MD, UPMC   
Dr. Fera has provided over a decade of clinical and information technology leadership within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and has been instrumental in redefining the model of healthcare through state-of-the-art information technologies to produce exceptional clinical outcomes. Dr. Fera serves as the Vice President of Medical Technologies; Medical Director Interoperability, UPMC. UPMC is the largest integrated health care and finance delivery system in Pennsylvania and one of the leading nonprofit medical centers in the country.

In his current role, Dr. Fera leads the interoperability initiative at UPMC as well as efforts to identify and develop UPMC intellectual property and associated internally developed solutions for commercial opportunities. Under Dr. Fera’s leadership, these emerging technologies have a direct impact on patient safety and care delivery, underscoring the UPMC mission of providing outstanding patient care.

Joel Diamond, MD, dbMotion
Dr. Joel Diamond, dbMotion's Chief Medical Officer, has extensive clinical and technology experience. He formerly served as CMIO and chairman of the Physician Advisory Board at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital, where he helped achieve 100 percent adoption of CPOE in a community hospital. This is one of the first such successes in the United States.

In addition, Dr. Diamond is president of Associates In Technology, a professional services firm that assists healthcare organizations with clinical information technology. A wide range of clients included physician organizations, state medical societies and IT vendors including Misys Healthcare. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and a fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Diamond is an active partner at Handelsman Family Practice in Pittsburgh, PA. in addition to his position with dbMotion.