Event Title
"Information Technologies for Smarter Healthcare" (CME credit ***will not*** be available for this lecture)

Abstract
In countries around the world, the delivery of effective, affordable and safe healthcare is a topic of great current focus. Information technology has much to offer in enabling the transformation of healthcare delivery, but has been slow in adoption and effectiveness compared to other domains. In this presentation we will discuss the open standards based infrastructure being deployed to enable creation of longitudinal patient datasets and describe how advanced analytics can improve the delivery of healthcare and the outcomes of clinical care. Our viewpoint is from the perspective of a large information technology research organization. Our insights are based on the results of research pilot projects with healthcare and medical research institutions and clearly demonstrate the value of these technologies in the transformation of care delivery. Our approach to infrastructure is based on Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles and Open Source projects such as the Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework and Open Health Tools. We have used these technologies to demonstrate functional Health Information Exchanges in several projects in the US, the Middle East and China. Our approach to advanced analytics relies on the incorporation and analysis of unstructured and streaming data types in addition to static structured information. These technologies have been applied to a range of projects in clinical domains such as oncology, cardiology and neonatology. We will give examples of the use of these technologies in pilot projects with healthcare providers. Finally, we will outline and attempt to address the open challenges in the successful use of information technology as an enabler for the transformation of healthcare delivery. We will consider issues related to information at the point of care, as well as the use of social networking tools to augment the healthcare experience.