eHealth Sri Lanka 2010 offers a platform for presentation of innovations in eHealth applications from all over the world. It also provides a foundation for eHealth development in Sri Lanka as the country enters a new era of development and growth. ‘Towards IT enabled Health Care’ being this year’s theme, The conference plans in bringing together stake holders in the Health Care, Professionals in IT and the decision makers to one forum to make a significant impact in the quality of Sri Lanka’s truly unique health care system has become a reality.
Dates: 15-16 October 2010
Theme: Towards IT enabled Health Care
Venue: Waters Edge, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka
Conference Tracks:
- Public Health Informatics
- eEducation in Medicine
- Law in Health Informatics
- IT for Efficient Health Administration
- Clinical Informatics
Programme:
Day 1:
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08.30am |
Registration & Inauguration |
Registration desk |
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09.30am |
Welcome Address |
Dr. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka |
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09.40am |
Address by Chief Guest |
Hon. Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Health, Sri Lanka |
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09.50am |
Address by Guest of Honor |
Hon. Prof. Tissa Vitharana Minister of Technology and Research, Sri Lanka. |
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10.00am |
Address by Director PGIM |
Prof. Rezvi Sherrif Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo |
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10.10am |
Awarding of Medals to Past Presidents |
Prof. Jayantha Weerasinghe President elect, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka |
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10.20am |
Vote of Thanks |
Dr. Saminda M. Dharmaratne Chairman, Chief Organizing Committee, eHealth Sri Lanka 2010. |
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10.30am |
Tea |
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11.00am |
Symposium on eHealth Policy |
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Chairperson with Opening Remarks |
Dr. T.R.C. Ruberu Secretary, Ministry of Health |
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Way forward for e-Health in Sri Lanka(Keynote) |
Mr. Reshan Devapura COO, Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka |
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Towards an eHealth Policy in Sri Lanka |
Dr. S.R.U Wimalaratne Director Information, Ministry of Health |
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Open Standards and Interoperability in Health IT |
Dr. Molly Cheah President, Open Source Health Care Alliance – Malaysia |
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Measuring Business Value of ICT in Healthcare |
Mr. Ashok Chandavarkar Healthcare Industry Manager – Asia Pacific at Intel Corporation, India |
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Summing Up by Co-Chairperson |
Dr. Wimal Jayantha Deputy Director General (Planning), Ministry of Health |
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01.00pm |
Lunch |
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02.00pm |
Symposium on IT for Health Administration |
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Chairperson |
Dr. Ajith Mendis Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health |
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Keynote Speaker |
Dr. Sunil Senanayake Regional Adviser,Health Situation Assessment, WHO, New Delhi |
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Invited Talk |
Dr. Senaka Rajapakshe , Head, Dept of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty of Colombo University. |
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eIMMR: The Future of Health Statistics in Sri Lanka |
Dr. N.C.Kariyawasam (Free Paper ) |
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National Thalassaemia eRegistry : Using IT for effective health resource management |
Dr.Abusayeef Hanifa (Free Paper ) |
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03.30pm |
Tea |
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04.00pm |
Symposium on eHealth in the Private Sector |
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Chairperson |
Dr. Vajira H W Dissanayaka Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo |
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Invited Talk |
Prof. Lal G. Chandrasena Director / General Manager, Nawaloka Hospitals PLC |
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It in Healthcare – A way forward |
Mr. Linus Jeganathan Director Finance, Hemas Hospitals PVT Ltd |
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State of the art mobile eHealth research and development – A Sri Lankan perspective |
Dr. Lilantha Samaranayake Senior Scientist, Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (Pvt) Ltd |
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Clinical Informatics |
Dr. A.Thanga Prabhu Clinical Director – GE Healthcare IT, India |
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05.30pm |
Close of Day 1 |
Day 2:
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08:00am |
Registration |
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08:30am |
Symposium on Clinical Informatics |
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Chairperson |
Dr. Terrence Gamini de silva Deputy Director General (Medical Services), Ministry of Health |
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Keynote Talk |
Prof. Artur W. Dubrawski Director of the Auton Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
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Challenges of Electronic Health Records Implementation |
Dr. Mogli Goverdhan Das Sr. Consultant eHealth Management, HEARTCOM INC. Ohio, USA. |
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Technology Transfer with Telemedicine |
Prof. Jayantha Weerasinghe Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya |
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Emergent mHealth interventions in delivering health services |
Mr. Jaikishan Rajaraman – Senior Director, Asia-Pacific, GSM |
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eClinics Integration Techniques to Clinical Information Systems Moving into a National Network |
Ms.Dinusha Vathsalan (Free Paper) |
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Computerized out-patient records in Lankan Hospital |
Dr.Denham Pole (Free Paper) |
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10:30am |
Tea |
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11:00am |
Symposium on Public Health Informatics |
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Chairperson |
Dr. Palitha Mahipala Additional Secretary (Medical Services),Ministry of Health |
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Role of the central ministry in supporting decentralized health information systems(Keynote) |
Prof. Sundeep Sahay Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. |
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The role of information in Maternal and child Health Policy Making – History and way forward. |
Dr. Chithramalee de Silva, Consultant Community Physician, Family Health Bureau, Ministry of Health |
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Public Health Surveillance & ICT- International perspective |
Dr. Nihal Abeysinghe –Focal point, New vaccines Introduction Immunization and Vaccine Development unit , South East Asia WHO |
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Public Health Surveillance & ICT- Local perspective |
Dr. Risintha Premaratne Consultant Epidemiologist, Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health |
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Public Health Info Management Sys at MOH level |
Dr.E.S.S.Rodrigo (Free Paper) |
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An ICT solution for issues in communicable disease surveillance in Sri Lanka |
Mr.W.M.A.S.B. Wickramasinghe (Free Paper) |
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T-Cube Web Tool for rapid detection of disease outbreaks in India and Sri Lanka |
Mr.Chamindu Weerasnghe (Free Paper) |
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01:00pm |
Lunch |
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02:00pm |
Symposium on IT for Medical Education |
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Chairperson |
Prof. Rezvi Sherrif Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo |
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Harnessing the IT factor in Medical Education (Keynote) |
Prof. Erle Lim Chuen Hian – Associate Professor, National University Health System, National University of Singapore |
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Reaching the public through computer based media |
Dr. Sarath Amunugama Director, Health Education Bureau, Ministry of Health |
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Development and delivery of CME online : challenges for the future |
Prof. Nandani de Silva – Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka |
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Perception of an Online Post Graduate Course in Family Medicine in Sri Lanka |
Dr.Ediriweera De Silva (Free Paper) |
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03.30pm |
Tea |
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04:00pm |
Symposium on Special Topics |
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Chairperson |
Dr. Shiromi Arunathileka, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, University of Colombo |
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Intricacies of on-line publishing |
Dr. B.J.C. Perera Editor – in Chief, Sri Lanka Journal of Biomedical Informatics. |
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Clinical Bioinformatics |
Dr. Vajira H W Dissanayaka Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo |
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HealthService24 Case Study – Improving healthcare with mobile health |
Yvonne Chou Customer Principal, South East Asia & Oceanic |
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05:15pm |
Closing Ceremony (Awards & Summing Up) |
Dr. Vajira H W Dissanayaka – President, HISSL |
Keynote Speakers
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Mr. Reshan Devapura CEO, Information Communication |
Reshan Dewapura holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and a Masters in Project Management from the George Washington University, U.S.A. He has been in the ICT industry for the past 22 years with over 16 years experience in driving large, complex ICT programs and projects. He is also a Board Director at Sri Lanka CERT and the LK Domain Registry. “Way forward for e-Health in Sri Lanka” |
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Mr. Artur W. Dubrawski Director of the Auton Lab |
“I am interested in intelligent systems that work, are useful, and make economic sense, and in finding ways to effectively build and deploy them. My work is driven by real-world applications, currently in the areas of public health, food safety, nuclear safety and health of equipment. It involves researching new machine learning algorithms and data structures to facilitate probabilistic modeling, predictive analysis, interactive exploration, and understanding of data.” |
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Prof. Sundeep Sahay Department of Informatics,
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“There may be a paradox which needs to be unraveled as we work towards supporting the national health reform agenda of decentralization of health information systems to support local action. The paradox is in understanding what role the central ministry should play in this regard. Because historically the role of the central ministry has been of “seeing like a state” which goes towards a centralist agenda of surveillance and control which runs contrary to the aim of decentralization and strengthening of local action. In this talk, based on experiences from India, we discuss what role the centre should play and what not in supporting the agenda of decentralization of health information systems.” “Role of the central ministry in supporting decentralized health information systems” |
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Prof. Erle Lim Chuen Hian National University Health System
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“Escalating healthcare costs worldwide have produced a significant movement of patients into ambulatory care, and the consequent dearth of clinical teaching material. This deficiency has likewise prompted the creation of ambulatory teaching clinics and the use of standardized patients and simulators. In the last few decades, educators have utilized digital technology, for instance, digitally recorded heart and breath sounds, and digitized video vignettes, in medical education. In this talk, we examine the use of IT as an aid to effective teaching and assessment in medical education” “Harnessing the IT factor in Medical Education” |
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Dr. Sunil Senanayake Regional Adviser,
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“IT in Health Management” |
