Patient Safety & Quality Role of governance Transparency in today's globalised healthcare world has impressed governance with the necessity of becoming increasingly accountable for patient safety by introducing quality standards and methods in order to retain a competitive edge and attract market share. Yosef D Dlugacz, Senior Vice President and Chief, Clinical Quality Education and Research, Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, USA

Transparency in Healthcare
Seeing is believing

R Carter Pate, Global and US Managing Partner, Health Industries and Government Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute, USA
Sandy Lutz, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute, USA

McHealthcare
Delivering consumer-driven healthcare

John Leifer, President, CBIZ The Leifer Group, USA
David Grazman, Vice President, CBIZ The Leifer Group, USA

What can the Operating Room Learn from the Cockpit?

Richard C Karl, Surgical Oncologist and Chairman, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, USA

Communication Challenges and Opportunities During Handoffs

Richard M Frankel, Professor, Medicine and Geriatrics, Senior Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Orit Karnieli-Miller, Postdoctoral fellow Indiana School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, USA
Amber Welsh, Patient Safety fellow Roudebush VAMC, USA

NICE
Making the best use of healthcare resources

Andrew Dillon, Chief Executive, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), UK

Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents
The Israeli experience

Sharon Einav-Bromiker, Lecturer, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel
William P Schecter, Professor, Clinical Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Surgical Skills Simulation
Effect on quality and safety

Patrick Cregan, Surgeon, Co-Chair, Sydney West Area Health Service Surgical Network
and Chair, NSW Department of Health Surgical Services Taskforce, Australia

Surgical PACS
Design and implementation

Heinz U Lemke, Research Professor, Radiology, University of Leipzig, Germany

Digital Radiography
Efficiency with automated system movements

Michel Claudon, Professor and Chief, Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital,
University of Nancy, France
Luc Guillaume
Thomas Joris
Bernd Weber
Damien Mandry
Laurent Kammacher

Advances in Breast Imaging
Impact in Asia Pacific

Frost & Sullivan, Singapore

Small is Beautiful
Nanotechnology for medical devices

Jörg Vienken, Professor, BioSciences, Fresenius Medical Care, Germany

Healthcare Design
The need for consumer-driven research

Nicholas J Watkins, Director, Research, Cannon Design, USA

Commoditising Healthcare IT
The next wave

Werner van Huffel, Health and Social Services Industry Strategist, Regional Public Sector Group, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Singapore

Applying Path Innovation
Seeking revolutionary HIT

Barry P Chaiken, Associate Chief Medical Officer, BearingPoint and Fellow of HIMSS, USA

Broadband Medical Network in Asia Pacific

Naoki Nakashima, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, Kyushu University Hospital, Japan
Shuji Shimizu, Chairman, Medical Working Group of Asia-Pacific Advanced Network and Associate Professor, Department of Endoscopic Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Kyushu University Hospital, Japan
Koji Okamura, Associate Professor, Computing and Communications Center, Kyushu University Hospital, Japan

EMR in a Large Healthcare Organisation
Development and implementation

Yong Oock Kim, Professor, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Director, EMR committee, Yonsei University Healthcare System, Korea

RFID in Healthcare
Enabling patient safety

Remko van der Togt, Consultant, Geodan Mobile Solutions, The Netherlands