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HIMSS 2009

HIMSS 2009

HIMSS 2009 Welcome

Cisco is proud to be a Diamond sponsor of HIMSS 09. We look forward to showing you how Cisco Healthcare solutions can help you to reduce costs, improve clinician productivity, and deliver better care.

In today’s economy, it is more important than ever for hospitals to reduce costs. At the same time, we need to improve productivity with streamlined workflows and secure access to critical information throughout the patient care process. The ultimate goal is to deliver better care along with an exceptional experience for the patient and hospital staff.

Cisco offers the healthcare solutions you need to help your hospital to reduce costs, improve productivity, and deliver better care.

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Show Date and Location
Conference: April 5–8, 2009
Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois

Exhibit Hall Hours
Sunday, April 5 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Monday, April 6 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 7 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 8 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.



Hear Cisco Healthcare Experts at Pavilion Product Sessions:

How Mobile Collaboration Transforms Patient Care Delivery
Sunday, April 5, 2009, 2:15–3 p.m.
Wireless and Mobility, booth 8263

Mobile collaboration enables clinicians and staff to communicate easily, be more productive, and offer a better patient experience for your patients. Learn how unified communications and a choice of new Cisco certified Wi-Fi or dual-mode devices and tablet PCs enables healthcare workers to stay connected to resources, applications, and information to enhance patient care.

Speaker:

Martine Velkeniers
Mobility Solutions Marketing Manager, Cisco


Transforming Healthcare with Telepresence
Monday April 6, 2009, 3:15-4pm
Wireless and Mobility, booth 5859

Healthcare professionals can collaborate instantaneously to transform patient care. Combining the AT&T Telepresence Solution with diagnostic devices, remote clinics can simulate a live “face-to-face” visit. Scale scarce resources and conduct remote training. This session will highlight how AT&T Telepresence Solution can transform how we deliver and experience healthcare.

Speakers:

Nick Augustinos
Global Healthcare Solutions Sr. Director, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group

Sean Carroll
Director Telepresence and Collaboration Services, AT&T


Enhancing Clinical Workflow Through the Use of Wireless IP Telephony
Monday April 6, 2009, 4:15–5 p.m.
New Solutions, booth 1280

This session will review the new Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G and its value in healthcare. It’s much more than a phone. It can integrate with medical devices, healthcare applications, EMR, bed management and tracking, laboratory, and nurse call systems.

By combining telephony into the workflow, hospitals have realized cost savings, improved quality of care, and nursing satisfaction.

Speaker:

Erik Petersen
Global Healthcare Solutions Manager, Cisco


Delivering Medical Data Anywhere, Any Time
Tuesday April 7, 2009, 4:15–5 p.m.
New Solutions, booth 1280

Wide area networks (WANs) have always been challenged to provide the kind of bullet-proof security with rapid and easy-to-expand access both to people and data that healthcare requires. Learn about these new designs, along with system and service advancements that have a dramatic effect on present-day healthcare WAN security and performance.

Speaker:

Tere Bracco
Senior Manager, Network Systems, Cisco



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Solution Demonstrations

Cisco Booth 3903 (click here for map)

Attend Cisco’s interactive theater presentation to see how Cisco healthcare solutions can help you reduce costs, improve clinician productivity, and deliver better care.

Hear our trusted partners speak about their interoperable solutions that further extend the Cisco solutions. Visit the demo stations to see firsthand how Cisco Healthcare solutions can help your hospital reduce costs and succeed in a challenging economy.

Demonstrations to include:

Cisco TelePresence
Experience a live Cisco TelePresence session and learn how this revolutionary new technology offers healthcare providers a new way to communicate and collaborate at a reduced cost, unbounded by distance or location. In partnership with AT&T, Cisco will be conducting live Cisco TelePresence 3000 demonstrations throughout the show.

Biomedical Device Connectivity
See how the Cisco Biomedical Network Admission Control (NAC) solution can help healthcare organizations to use a single, unified, and converged IP network that supports IT, biomedical (patient monitors, infusion pumps, and so on), and guest devices.

Mobility
Cisco Mobility Solutions provide access to the clinical applications at the point of care and reduce transcription errors by using bar codes and RFID scanners to verify patient identity, medication dosage, and administering nurse. See how Cisco WebEx Meeting Center plus Cisco Unified MeetingPlace enhances the conferencing experience.

Nurse Connect
Cisco Nurse Connect integrates nurse call systems with the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G to enhance communications between the patient and care provider. Includes video alerts, an extension of Nurse Connect that takes “snapshots” the instant a nurse call button is pushed or another alert/alarm is generated for display on the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G.

Location-Aware Monitoring
Cisco Context-Aware Temperature Monitoring triggers an alert each time the temperature reported by a tag is higher or lower than the defined threshold or inside outside the defined range. Cisco Context-Aware Asset Tracking on the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G enables quick, easy location of equipment, personnel, and patients.

triPRACTIX
triPRACTIX will demonstrate its EXTENSION software, which delivers the workflow capabilities of an interface engine, clinical mobility products, and messaging services all combined in one solution

Connected Imaging
Integrate advanced communication and collaboration capabilities into imaging workflows to optimize storage, access, and collaborative use of medical images.

NeTeam
NeTeam will demonstrate NiCON, a suite of software products that use your Cisco infrastructure to enhance your internal and external communications and to use your Cisco phones to increase the accuracy of your location-based services.

Allscripts
Cisco and Allscripts will demonstrate Allscripts MyWay, an integrated healthcare solution covering electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and claims management, providing everything you need to keep your practice operating at peak efficiency.



Meet with Cisco

Contact your Cisco account manager to schedule a VIP guided booth tour, a Cisco TelePresence demonstration, or a private meeting with a Cisco healthcare solutions representative.

The following Cisco Healthcare specialists are available to discuss how to best use Cisco solutions in your environment to improve patient care:

  • Kathy English, Cisco Healthcare Solutions
  • Mike Gibbs, FNP, Healthcare Practice Manager
  • Hal Gilreath, Medical Imaging Solutions
  • Frank Grant, Senior Director of Healthcare Solution Sales
  • Tapan Mehta, Healthcare Security Solutions
  • Erik Petersen, Clinical Workflow Solutions
  • Cassie Roach, Director of Advanced Services/Healthcare
  • Danny Sands, MD, Director of Medical Informatics


Cisco/HIMSS Community for Connected Health Summit

Sunday, April 5, 2009
8 a.m.–noon
Hyatt McCormick Place, adjacent to the McCormick Place Convention Center

Join us for the second annual Community for Connected Health Summit. This meeting brings together the power of healthcare innovators and Cisco experts into a single forum of networking, education, and best practice sharing unlike any other.

Agenda at a Glance
8–9 a.m.
Registration, continental breakfast, and Networking

9–10 a.m.
Topic: Emerging Trends in Healthcare Services 2009
Speaker: Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, Global Lead of Cisco's Healthcare Practice

10:15–11:15 a.m.
Topic: How Advances in Science, Medicine, and Technology Will Lead to a Personalized Healthcare System
Speaker: Carey Kriz, noted author of The Patient Will See You Now

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Topic: Healthcare IT Trends and Glimmers
Speaker: Dave Garets, FHIMSS, President and CEO, HIMSS Analytics/Executive VP, HIMSS

View the full agenda and register now.