Conference Programme
Day 01: 15/09/2010
| Time | Title | Person | Post |
| 8:30 | Registration | ||
| Inauguration | |||
| 9:30 | Welcome Address | Dr. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake | President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka |
| Address by Chief Guest | Mr. Maithripala Sirisena | Hon. Minister of Health | |
| Address by Guest of Honour | Prof. Tissa Vitharana | Hon. Minister of Technology and Research | |
| Address by Director PGIM | Prof. Rezvi Sherrif | Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo | |
| Awarding of Medals to Past Presidents | Prof. Jayantha Weerasinghe | President Elect, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka | |
| Vote of Thanks | Dr. Saminda M. Dharmaratne | Chairman, Chief Organizing Committee, eHealth Sri Lanka 2010. | |
| 10:30 | Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Symposium on eHealth Policy | ||
| Chairperson with Opening Remarks | Dr. T.R.C. Ruberu | Secretary, Ministry of Health. | |
| Way forward for e-Health in Sri Lanka(Keynote) | Mr. Reshan Devapura | COO / Director, Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka | |
| Towards an eHealth Policy in Sri Lanka | Dr. S.R.U Wimalaratne | Director Information, Ministry of Health | |
| Open Standards and Interoperability in Health IT | Dr. Molly Cheah | President, Open Source Health Care Alliance - Malaysia | |
| Measuring Business Value of ICT in Healthcare | Mr. Ashok Chandavarkar | Healthcare Industry Manager - Asia Pacific at Intel Corporation | |
| Summing Up by Co-Chairperson | Dr. Wimal Jayantha | Deputy Director General (Planning), Ministry of Health | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Symposium on IT for Health Administration | ||
| Chairpersons | Dr. U.A. Mendis | Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health | |
| Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya | Director - ICTA | ||
| IT for Health Administration | Dr. Sunil Senanayake | Regional Adviser,Health Situation and Trend Assessment,WHO/SEARO, New Delhi | |
| IT and Evidence-Based Decision | Dr. Senaka Rajapakshe | Head, Dept of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty of Colombo University. | |
| eIMMR: The Future of Health Statistics in Sri Lanka | Dr. N.C. Kariyawasam | ||
| 15:30 | Tea | ||
| 16:00 | Symposium on eHealth in the Private Sector | ||
| Chairperson | Dr. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake | President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka | |
| eHealth in the private sector: A Sri Lankan Perspective | Prof. Lal G. Chandrasena | Director / General Manager, Nawaloka Hospitals PLC | |
| IT in Healthcare - A Way Forward | Mr. Linus Jeganathan | Director Finance, Hemas Hospitals PVT Ltd | |
| State of the art mobile e-health research and development - A Sri Lankan perspective | Dr. Lilantha Samaranayake | Senior Scientist, Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (Pvt) Ltd | |
| Clinical Informatics | Dr. A. Thanga Prabhu | Clinical Director - GE Healthcare IT, India | |
| Close to your heart from a distance | Dr. Sumithra Tissera | Medical Director, Family Planing Association of Sri Lanka | |
| Close | |||
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Day 02:16/09/2010
| Time | Title | Person | Post |
| 8:00 | Registration | ||
| 8:30 | Symposium on Clinical Informatics | ||
| Chairpersons | Dr. Terrence Gamini de Silva | Deputy Director General (Medical Services), Ministry of Health | |
| Mr. Wasantha Deshapriya | Director - ICTA | ||
| Detection of Informative Disjunctive Patterns in Support of Clinical Informatics | Prof. Artur W. Dubrawski | Director of the Auton Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA | |
| Challenges of Electronic Health Records Implementation | Dr. Mogli Goverdhan Das | Sr. Consultant eHealth Management, HEARTCOM INC. Ohio, USA. | |
| Technology Transfer with Telemedicine | Prof. Jayantha Weerasinghe | Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya | |
| Emergent M-Health interventions in delivering health services | Mr. Jaikishan Rajaraman | Senior Director, Asia-Pacific, GSM | |
| eClinics Integration Techniques to Clinical Information Systems Moving into a National Network | Free Paper | ||
| Computerized out-patient records in Sri Lankan Hospital | Free Paper | ||
| 10:30 | Tea | ||
| 11:00 | Symposium on Public Health Informatics | ||
| Chairpersons | Dr. Palitha Mahipala | Additional Secretary (Medical Services), Ministry of Health | |
| Mr. Sanjaya Karunasena | CTO - ICTA | ||
| Role of central ministry in supporting decentralized health information systems(Keynote) | Prof. Sundeep Sahay | Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. | |
| The role of information in Maternal and child Health Policy Making - History and way forward. | Dr. Chithramalee de Silva | Consultant Community Physician, Family Health Bureau, Ministry of Health | |
| Public Health Surveillance & ICT- International perspective | Dr. Nihal Abeysinghe | Focal point: New Vaccines Introduction, Immunization & Vaccine Development Unit, South-East Asia Regional Office, WHO | |
| Public Health Surveillance & ICT- Local perspective | Dr. Risintha Premaratne | Consultant Epidemiologist, Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health | |
| Public Health Information Management System at MOH Level | Free Paper | ||
| An ICT solution for issues in communicable disease surveillance in Sri Lanka | Free Paper | ||
| T-Cube Web Tool for rapid detection of disease outbreaks in India and Sri Lanka | Free Paper | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Symposium on IT for Medical Education | ||
| Chairperson | Prof. Rezvi Sherrif | Director, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine | |
| Harnessing the IT factor in Medical Education (Keynote) | Prof. Erle Lim Chuen Hian | Assoc Professor, National University Health System, National University of Singapore | |
| Reaching the public through computer based media | Dr. Sarath Amunugama | Director, Health Education Bureau, Ministry of Health | |
| Development and delivery of CME online : challenges for the future | Prof. Nandani de Silva | Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka | |
| Perception of an Online Post Graduate Course in Family Medicine in Sri Lanka | Free Paper | ||
| 15:30 | Tea | ||
| 16:00 | Symposium on Special Topics | ||
| Chairperson | Dr. Shiromi Arunathileka | Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo School of Computing. | |
| Intricacies of on-line publishing | Dr. B.J.C. Perera | Editor - in Chief, Sri Lanka Journal of Biomedical Informatics. | |
| Clinical Bio Informatics | Dr. Vajira H W Dissanayake | Senior Lecturer,Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo | |
| HealthService24 Case Study - Improving healthcare with mobile health | Ms. Yvonne Chou | Customer Principal, South East Asia & Oceanic, Ericsson (Pvt) Ltd, Singapore | |
| 17:30 | Closing Ceremony (Awards & Summing Up) | Dr. Vajira H W Dissanayake | President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka |
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