Workshop Objectives
This workshop will help you to gain insights into the coming mHealth field from a top mHealth expert. For the hospital and healthcare provider, this workshop provides an indepth analysis of mHealth applications. For the telecommunications industry professional, this workshop offers insights how the mHealth market will develop as well as detailed industry forecasts. All Asian telecommunications and HIT companies should attend this workshop. For healthcare strategy planners, this workshop will equip you with the essential vision to increase the quality of care and implement new mHealth systems in your country.

Workshop Outline

• What is mHealth? How is mHealth different from eHealth?
• What is the difference between Telemedicine and mHealth?
• Analysis of eHealth: Where have EHR systems been successful?
• What is the mHealth prediction for various countries?
• How New Communication Systems will Change Healthcare
  - Patient-Provider Communication
  - Leapfrogging HIT with mHealth
• Home Monitoring
  - Health 2.0: Patients to Patients and People to People
  - Personalized healthcare in Asia: Competitiveness and trends
  - Analyzing participatory health: Why is this a new paradigm?
• Clinician resources on the handheld device
  - Analysis of the 5,000 phone apps for healthcare
  - Potential for the Asian market
  - Real-world examples of today’s use of apps by doctors and nurses
• Deciding on your mHealth strategy – Practical Guidelines

About Your Workshop Leader

C. Peter Waegemann
Vice President – Development, mHealth Initiative

Peter is an authority on EHR and mHealth systems as well as trends shaping the world of wireless health mobility. A respected analyst, consultant, commentator, author and keynote speaker in professional health organizations, his views have influenced strategies and shaped initiatives for HIT, mobile computing and wireless industry leaders worldwide. In 2007, Peter was cited as one of 20 outstanding people in the United States who make healthcare better (HealthLeaders). Peter has authored several books and over 200 articles.

Workshop Objectives
This workshop will give the audience a perspective of the opportunities and expectations on mHealth, from various stakeholders in the healthcare eco-system. Workshop leaders will discuss views from providers, payers as well as public health management. mHealth applications in preventive care and disease management will be utilized to illustrate opportunities available.

Workshop Outline
Key opportunities for mHealth deployments across healthcare stakeholders:-

• Healthcare provider – mobile technologies for enhancing customer service & care delivery
• Healthcare CXOs – Opportunities on various models for mHealth
• Practitioners, clinics and care providers:-
  - mHealth solutions for new services
  - Extending their care plans to new set of patients
  - Monitor patients progress and rehabilitation activities
• Public health authorities:-
  - References and potential solution models for public health surveillance
  - Monitoring rural/remote healthcare programs for efficient and effective public health engagement
• Showcase – Demonstration of an mHealth application
  (To be confirmed)

About Your Workshop Leader


Ashvani Srivastava
Chief Executive Officer, HealthHiway, India

Ashvani is the Chief Executive Officer of HealthHiway, an initiative towards building a National Health Data Network that enables collaboration between the players in the healthcare ecosystem, to share, transact and access clinical and administrative information, for enhanced patient care. HealthHiway is the first to offer SaaS in Healthcare, and now connects over 500+ healthcare providers, multiple TPA/payer systems and over 7500 Doctor Practices. His role in building the Health IT network involves evangelizing, socialization and promoting the opportunities for adoption of IT in healthcare and in his current role, he works closely with the industry associations, government, international communities and business leaders in healthcare, in India, South East Asia, Middle East and UK. Prior to this position, Ashvani was the President of Strategic Initiatives for Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited and is an active member within various Health IT industry groups across India and South-East Asia.

Featuring updates from:
Sagar Paul , GM and Business Head, ASEAN , Mindtree Limited
Nigel Hilliard , Sales Manager, Canada & International, Diversinet Corp
Colin Quek, COO, Farrer Park Hospital

Workshop Objectives
New forms of communication, access to information, and a highly mobile population are changing patients, and the diseases that most providers need to understand. The challenge for healthcare educators is to empower healthcare practitioners to navigate, evaluate, select, and synthesize information to support real-time, evidenced-based practice. This will only be accomplished by a combination of three factors. Not only do we need an innovative curriculum that leverages the latest mobile technologies, but educators must model new ways to access information, and apply it in the clinical setting.

Workshop Outline

• Using Mobile Technology to Transform Healthcare Curriculum
• Mobile Technology in the Healthcare setting: Getting Your Staff Onboard
• Applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Smartphone for
• Clinical Practice

About Your Workshop Leader

Dr Renee P. McLeod,
Dean, School of Nursing & Health Professions, Brandman University, part of the Chapman University System, USA

Dr McLeod is a recognized expert in the area of handheld point of action technology to advance interdisciplinary education of health care professionals and to support evidence-based practice. Dr McLeod has been a pediatric nurse practitioner for over 30 years, and maintains an active practice in San Diego. Prior to joining Brandman, she served as the Director of the Office of Transformational Technologies and Organizations and Director of Graduate Education and Advanced Practice Programs in the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation at Arizona State University.