Visit to Himss16 in Vegas

Just returned for Himss16 and a lot of experiences and new contacts richer. What a week and what a town Las Vegas are. 

Our purpose of visiting Himss16 was to engage in dialogue with vendors that have equipment and IT software solutions that will help New OUH achieve the goals that are set for the construction project. At the moment in the construction project, we are focusing on two major areas within equipment and IT. They are:

1. The future patient room and Operation room and new equipment in those premises
2. Clinical logistics, service logistics and booking including the ambitious use of a RTLS platform (se paper for more information).

Our focus area was therefore not typical clinical systems like electronic healthcare records and other clinical systems like PACS. We needed to broaden our horizon and learn from the frontrunners of our field - Himss16 was essential in achieving that goal.

New Odense University Hospital will engage in Call for Vendors in 2016/17 and forward until the new building/hospital is ready for use in 2022. The visit to Himss16 was designed to inspire our project team and create knowledge for further dialogue and/or create input to requirements for further purchase.

We were looking for innovative solutions that can change and/or effect the care delivered within the hospital. It could be vendors that have products like:

• New digital beds
• Healthcare Robots
• RFID based systems
• Supply chain management systems
• Unit dose medication robots
• New ways of accessing EHR data
• New mobile equipment as radiology equipment
• New ways (apps maybe) of using our RTLS platform – beyond just finding equipment and clinicians
• IT systems within the clinical logistics, service logistics and booking area and solutions that connects the three.

We got a lot of help form  Invest in Denmark and ended with 15 booked meetings and a lot of informal ones as well. We will use our new inspiration in our enterprise architecture work and hopefully be ready to meet you all again - at least when we make the big call for software and digital solutions for the New Hospital.

Thank you Rebecca and Michael from Invest in Denmark - you were great.

I even got to speak at the following events:

• Invest in Denmark, Foreign ministry round table session with American vendors (50 participants)
• Nordic delegation on “New Technologies for data collection and usage” (150 participant from the Nordic countries)
• Belgium delegation, keynote speak on “Have we forgot the enterprise? Health IT is also about logistics” (60 participants