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Barcoding for Patient Safety (Motorola)

Medication errors can happen at various points in the medication administration process. Barcoded medication administration reduces errors, reduces the costs associated with errors, and allows for more rapid and accurate documentation. Similar benefits are seen when other areas, such as specimen collection, use barcoding as well. 

Click-and-Deploy Mobile Applications: Enabling Essential Collaboration Among Mobile Healthcare Workers (Formotus)

Smart phones and other wireless devices are critical for enabling collaboration between mobile healthcare workers and office-based teams. For example, in-home healthcare professionals collecting vital data about patients have limited options for sharing information in a timely manner with other key members of their team. As most healthcare workers have experienced, filling out paper-based forms for later entry into the network is a slow, inefficient process – and carrying a laptop along with other medical diagnostic equipment can be daunting. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the convenient size of smart phones have quickly made them a favorite among workers that need laptop computing capabilities in the field but don’t want to suffer with the nagging limitations of a laptop, such as a short battery life.  IT managers also prefer smart wireless devices for their ruggedness and low cost, yet a lack of off-the-shelf mobile applications that allow easy data sharing among geographically disperse teams has historically posed significant IT challenges.  This lack of readily available mobile applications has forced busy IT departments to shoulder the time consuming development burden and high expense of creating custom applications optimized for the mobile platform.

Composite Applications In SharePoint – A Case Study (OTB)

OTB Solutions’ Knowledge-Driven Solution Accelerator™ (KDSA) enables solutions that seamlessly combine content from more than one source into an integrated experience using Microsoft Office System 2007* products and technologies.  KDSA is a service-oriented framework, development environment and toolset to produce business applications in less time and with 70-100% less custom code than using a pure .Net custom development approach.  Come learn how OTB used this accelerated development approach to deliver a claims payment accuracy solution for health plans.

Connected Health Framework - Health Plan

Microsoft’s Connected Healthcare Framework (CHF) for Health Plans is a Service Oriented reference Architecture (SOA) with a focus on a health plan’s line of business service domains and Microsoft solution showcases for health plans. Using the reference architecture as a roadmap, Microsoft and its partners can deliver a pre-validated and tested SOA environment that enables clients to focus on the business solution versus designing and developing the SOA infrastructure.

In this session we will Review the first iteration of the CHF, review Microsoft’s Business Process Management System (BPMS) solution & strategy for web-services integration and interoperability with legacy and J2EE environments, and understand how customers and partners can use the tool as a roadmap and architectural guide for delivering Microsoft based solutions to Health Plan customers.

How User Experience enhances functionality and adoption in HLS

For the past few years the focus of Architecture in the IT industry has been largely around data centers, back end systems and services. While it's important to get these operational items right, none of them have ever closed a deal, made an important business decision, or created a new market. As these IT architectures mature, it's time to return the focus of architecture to the where is can have the biggest impact and greatest value for the business, the user. The user, whether it be the CEO, middle manager or information worker, have the ability to impact business in both positive and negative ways every day with every decision. In this session, we will present a new way of thinking about User Experience as it relates to Architecture.

Knowledge Driven Health - Regulated Document Management

The session will review Microsoft’s vision and strategy to deliver a complete Regulated Document Management solution for the Life Sciences Industry.  We will cover progress made to date, and give a brief overview of the FDA 21 CFR Part 11 demo recently shown at the DIA Annual Meeting.  We will also discuss our plans to deliver a reference implementation for SAFE-compliant digital signatures.

Personal Health Records (Netsoft USA)

Personal Health Record (PHR) provides a method for establishing and maintaining dynamic, analytical healthcare data for healthcare association members.  This data can be used by the members and their physicians to determine targeted, actionable opportunities to improve healthcare quality and lower costs.  Pre-populated with medical, lab and pharmacy claims, the PHR also allows members to enter additional personal health information such as specific disease or condition in the family, or whether they take over-the-counter medications.  As new data is received in the PHR, it is analyzed to empower members to learn more about their conditions and engage their physicians with targeted questions regarding aspects of their care.

Project Codename Magellan:  Information Lifecycle Management in Drug Discovery

Increased competition, profitability pressures, inefficient processes, regulatory compliance, and lack of data integration are only some of the challenges.  Some might see these challenges as obstacles and costs of doing business…but we see it as an industry renaissance opportunity where IT is an enabler to business needs. The ability to effectively collect, store, validate, analyze, and share (CSVAS) complex data is critical. 

In this session we will discuss architecture concepts of CSVAS as it applies to Life Sciences and how it could be used to help simplify the way we look at Information Lifecycle Management overall in a new class of tool called “Scientist Workbench” in a project codename “Magellan”.  Magellan allows scientists to be more productive by addressing their needs across the entire drug discovery process allowing data & information visualization for analysis and annotation, collaboration in context, enhanced search across structured data & metadata enrichment, social networking, integrated aggregation of disparate data source such as from lab instruments in common data format (i.e. GAML & OpenXML).  This work has the potential of becoming a Life Sciences industry changing initiative as it helps drive common tools and data standards. 

Scientific Workbench/Catalytic IT (Infosys)

Scientific Workbench - Scientific Workbench is:
• a Continuous Health Assessment board for VP Research
• a Program Management Tool for Director Research
• a Project Management Performance Bench for Senior Scientist
• a Mind & Knowledge Sharing Tool for a Scientist
• a Day-to-Day Use Bench top to conduct Hypothesis Testing on expts for a scientist

Catalytic IT  - Catalytic IT is the Infosys approach to create a flexible IT environment that acts as a catalyst to make your business competitive. This is an evolutionary and self-funding IT transformation journey. It brings together Infosys’ IP assets, solutions and service offerings enabling you to unlock the business value of your technology investments.

Office Business Applications for Personal Health Engagement

Health care industry is facing many challenges ranging from increasing costs to inflexible and brittle applications. Industry is looking for ways to control costs and improve care and overall patient health. Technology can play a critical role in this area, provided it is right technology and deployed appropriately. Clinics and hospitals have many solutions either acquired or home grown, however most of these applications function well and serve their purpose in fixed silos. There is little to no integration between them, resulting in errors and duplication of information. In addition these applications are brittle and do adapt to the changes in the process. Some of these applications force physician’s to change their process to follow the process dictated by the application and not the other way around. To build an application that is flexible enough to meet the changing processes at a physician’s office or is easy to integrate with requires a platform that comes with certain core capabilities. Microsoft’s Office 2007 platform is no longer a bunch of word processing applications, but rather has evolved into a complete business application platform. So join us to learn more about this platform and how you can build better applications or how you can use this platform to extend and expand your existing applications.

Using WCF for Cross-Entity Authentication in the Health Plan Space

Health plan companies are looking more and more at ISVs to implement industry strategies such as consumerism and outcome-based care. This session looks at how Microsoft used Windows Communication Foundation to build a flexible cross-entity authentication mechanism for CIGNA and their Choicelinx ISV. The developed solution has become an SOA service offering from MCS and Microsoft partners. The session will review the solution which implements cross-entity authentication using X-509, SAML and Cardspace.

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A Lap around IIS 7.0 for Developers and Architects

The next version of Windows Server will ship with an all new and improved web server - IIS 7. IIS 7 offers several improvements in the area of development, configuration, deployment and overall management. In this demo intensive session we will compare and contrast IIS 7 to IIS 6 and will review the architecture of its components, the improved integration with ASP.NET, troubleshooting facilities, the overall extensibility and the new features for administrators (e.g. delegation of administration control to non-administrators, new diagnostic tools, etc.). This session will better prepare you to build on this exciting platform and identify areas of focus for migrating legacy IIS applications.

A Lap around Visual Studio Orcas - ADO.NET, Linq, WCF/WF

In Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas", developer productivity doesn’t end with the code editor and wizards. By extending this concept to application architectures and the underlying platform, Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" delivers not only a productive development tool but also enables developers to tackle new business problems while decreasing the total cost of solution construction. In Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" developers, designers and database professionals will see new tools and frameworks become available to simplify their tasks. In this lap around "Orcas", we will use code to demonstrate the new features in ADO.NET, the innovative Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and the integration between WCF and WF.

Building Composite Based Applications, Best Practices and Roadmap

The Smart Client Composite Application Block (CAB) is a reusable, source code–based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.  It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as the Composite pattern, in which simple user interface parts can be combined to create complex solutions, but at the same time allowing these parts to be independently developed, tested, and deployed.  This session will focus on how to develop solutions using CAB, as well as the future roadmap, including information on the upcoming Acropolis framework.

Building Connected Applications with WCF and WF

This session will demonstrate how Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) can be used to simplify the development of service oriented, message-based systems, and how Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can be used as a foundation for workflow and orchestration for solutions. 

Building Mobile Solutions in the Health & Life Sciences Industry

This session will focus on how to build mobile solutions in the Health & Life Sciences industry using Windows Mobile, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Compact Framework. 

Building Next Generation User Interfaces with WPF

Learn how you can differentiate your appeal to your customers by leveraging WPF technologies to build a new and immersive experience for your users. The Windows Presentation Foundation (or WPF), formerly code named Avalon, is the graphical subsystem feature of the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly called WinFX) and is directly related to XAML. Learn how you can leverage this exciting new technology to build smart client retail banking applications.

Developing Solutions with Microsoft Office System 2007 (MOSS 2007)

There are many advances in each of the products in the 2007 Microsoft Office system that make it an awesome platform on which to build applications and products. Enhancements in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Portal Server, and Office Project Server in particular have made this a compelling platform for faster application development.   This session will focus on the best practices for building solutions using these services.

Microsoft Insights - Application Performance Analysis & Optimization

In today’s fast-paced global environment, creating applications that achieve high performance and availability is a key success criterion in meeting business objectives.  Microsoft’s worldwide IT organization runs thousands of applications and have developed a successful systematic methodology for addressing application performance.  This session presents the performance analysis methodology used by the Application Consulting & Engineering (ACE) Team, and discuss common performance problems seen in web applications with case examples.  A demonstration of Visual Studio 2005 Team’s web / load test features will be included, with advice on application performance best practices.

Secure Application Design and Development Principles

A key aspect of building secure applications is to understand some of the fundamental principles of application security. This session provides an overview of the Security Development Lifecycle for IT (SDL-IT) process developed by Microsoft and expand on key secure application design and development principles including authentication, authorization, logging and auditing, asset handling and input validation.

Web 2.0 in the Enterprise HLS Industry

There is a lot of "buzz" in the industry about Web 2.0… blogs, wikis, social networking, mashups, RSS, etc...  yet what it is and what truly is and what it means to enterprises is still not entirely clear.  In this session we will define Microsoft's vision for Web 2.0 as well as our technologies, services, and strategies in this evolution.  We will also examine how this new phase of computing will affect the Health & Life Sciences space, and debate potential uses (and misuses) in the enterprise.

Web client programming with ASP.NET AJAX

With ASP.NET AJAX, developers can quickly create pages with rich, responsive UI and more efficient client-server communication by simply adding a few server controls to their pages. This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates cross-browser client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 development framework. ASP.NET AJAX provides developers building client-based Web experiences with a familiar development process and programming model already known from using server-side ASP.NET development.