Venue:  Qasr Khozam, Intercontinental Hotel Coordinator: Metab Alkubeyyer, MD, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh Faculty: Bradley Erickson, Metab Alkubeyyer, Harry Solomon, Nabeel Mishah, Kostas Chantziantoniou, Ammar Al-Badarneh and Moneif Eid

Target Audience :

Radiologist, IT Managers, Medical Physicists, and PACS Administrators.

Course Description:

This course offers highlights related to imaging and health informatics. The rapidly evolving image sharing technologies and standards will be reviewed.  The course is intended to be an explanatory review of issues related to PACS, image sharing and workflow from the level of imaging department up to enterprise and national level.
The presentations will be given by noted experts from major national and international centers that have broad experience with image management and technology.

Lectures:

1. 20 years of PACS: 10 Lessons Learned, Bradley Erickson
2. Introduction to IHE – Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, Harry Solomon
3. Status of Healthcare IT, Nabeel Mishah
4. Status of DICOM standards for radiology, radiation oncology, and radiation protection, all of which are in active development, Harry Solomon
5. Clinical Image Sharing Technologies for Medical Imaging Enterprises, Bradley Erickson
6. E-Learning Management System in Imaging Department, Metab Alkubeyyer
7. Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR), Nabeel Mishah
8. Making the Most of DICOM – Keys to improved workflow, Harry Solomon
9. Workflow Engines and Content Management Systems: The Next Step for Imaging Departments, Bradley Erickson
10. PACS Implementation Strategy, Kostas Chantziantoniou
11. Saudi e-health Exchange and the Interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR), Ammar Al-Badarneh
12. Saudi National Digital Image Sharing and Tele-Radiology Platform, Moneif Eid