The Elderly: Carefree & Cared for at home
by Marcel Hendriks, Key Account Manager Healthcare Segment, UPC Business

This presentation presents you with an insight in the developments of ICT & Care for the Elderly in The Netherlands.

2 case studies will show you in which way individual patients and the Elderly, all remaining at their home addresses, profit from the Remote Care which becomes more and more available.

Making sense of unstructured data in the medical world
by Dirk Van Hyfte, Senior Advisor for Biomedical Informatics, InterSystems

More than 95% of the data in healthcare is unstructured. Is it possible to exploit this treasure in an intelligent and automated way? Using two examples from the real–world practice the presentation will show that this is feasible today.

• The first example is about patient profiling in the mental health arena.
• The second example is about automated medical coding. (Smart ICD9 matching)

“It’s work Jim, but not as you know it” — the workplace of the future
by Kristof De Clercq, Senior Business Development Manager EMEAR Cisco

The workplace of the future, accelerate and simplify introduction of consumer type of collaboration tools within the enterprise. Differentiate through the level of interactive services you provide to customers and co–workers.

THEME A: Sustainability of the healthcare system thanks to eHealth

• Xavier Brenez, CEO MLOZ

Since the 1980s, sustainability has been a major concern in environmental policy. The current economic situation and the Euro crisis raise the issue of the sustainability of our public policies in general. Health care policy is no exception to this, given the steadily growth of expenditures which is constantly higher than economic growth.

Given the emergence of new needs due to the surge of chronic diseases, ageing and advances in medical technologies, the question arises whether and how these needs can be met with constrained resources.
Information technology offers new ways to share information, make better decisions and improve administrative efficiency. This can hopefully improve the performance of health care systems but is certainly not a sufficient condition. Sustainability of health care systems requires first of all a long term vision, a strong political commitment, a buy–in from key stakeholders on the objectives that are being pursued, and aligned financial objectives to support changes. 

THEME B: Elderly people and technology

• Experience as a geriatrician
  by Dr. Jean-Pierre Baeyens, geriatrician from Oostende (CURRICULUM VITAE)
  
  
• Elderly people and advanced technology
  by Bernard Pauwels, General Manager In-Ham

THEME C: Mobile Health

• The VINCA Project - Lessons learnt
  by Luc Nicolas, eHealth expert, SPF Santé Publique
  
  
• Monster Anatomy
  by Dr. Matthias Louis & Nicolas Labonne - CHU Nancy