Thursday | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | RTS1 Track

SESSION TITLE

Enabling Health Care Transformation through Integration of Clinical Intelligence, Rule Management and Process Management

SPEAKER(s):

Sharon Wang Sr. Scientist IBM

Michael Boroch Business Strategy Lead IBM

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: All

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: Novice, Familiar

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

This session presents the architecture design of a Clinical Decision Intelligence system which supports clinical intelligence collection, management and implementation under the Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) framework. The system helps transform healthcare into an On Demand business through integration of clinical analytics, knowledge management and decision support. What you will learn:

• How to design and build a health care clinical decision intelligence system
• Application of evidence and rule management technology to support evidence based medicine
• How to integrate clinical rule management with electronic medical records and decision support to provide personalized medical care



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Sharon Wang, Ph.D. is the lead architect for IBM’s Clinical Decision Intelligence (CDI) Solution, and is responsible for the design and development of a clinical rule management and decision support system. Prior to CDI, Dr. Wang was responsible for developing and implementing data integration strategy for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Her interests in biomedical informatics are data integration, knowledge management and process optimization. She joined IBM in 1997 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Wang is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Michael Boroch is the Business Lead for IBM’s Clinical Decision Intelligence (CDI) Solution. CDI creates scalable and secure IT infrastructures to provide knowledge-based decision tools to physicians at the appropriate time so they can make optimal diagnostic and prognostic decisions to deliver the high quality, personalized care. Prior to CDI, he was a founding business team member of IBM’s WebFountain, and was responsible for launching proprietary full-web mining infrastructure and tools. Prior to IBM, Mr. Boroch has held management positions in the healthcare industry for companies like Johnson & Johnson and LifeMark, and has had entrepreneurial experience in starting several companies.