Are you making the right technology choices to improve patient care?

Hosted by Ian Beattie, Head of IT, B&T University Hospital and Danny McCormack, Assistant General Manager, Essex CTC, the seminar is a must-attend for anyone who is looking to improve patient care through the use of innovative technologies, including: wireless, PACs, workflow, perfusion, networks, voice security, heart monitoring, medical observation & training, RFID and IP telephony.

Registration for the event is FREE. However places are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come basis. To register for your place or recieve further information simply click here, or call 01628 852 523.

Agenda:

9.30am Registration & Coffee

10.00am Collaboration between clinical users and IT in designing a new centre
Danny McCormack, CTC, Basildon & Thurrock Universtiy Hospital

10.30am Building the foundations: wireless networks, what can it deliver?
Danni Isaacs, Scalable Communications

11.00am Patient Monitoring & IT Solutions; Integrating patient information at the Acute Point of Care
Steve Gould, Draeger Medical Systems

11.30am The impact of cardiology PACs on patient care
Adam Leps, Medcon

12.00am Coffee & refreshments

12.30 am Helping everyone see the Clinician’s point of view
Gordon McLoughlin, Scotia Medical Observation and Training Systems

1.00am Leading edge technology in Cardiac Surgery
Ian Robertson, Sorin

1.30pm Technology’s impact at the knife edge
John Mullholland, Lead Perfusionist

2.10pm Lunch, tours of the CTC

About Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital

Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust were one of the first 10 NHS Foundation Trusts in the country and are an associate teaching hospital.Providing an extensive range of acute medical services at Basildon University Hospital and Orsett Hospital, it primarily serves the 310,000 population of Basildon and Thurrock in South West Essex, plus some residents of the neighbouring districts of Brentwood (for whom it is the main provider of cardiology services) and Castle Point.  More than £60 million
 
About Essex Cardiothoracic Centre

The CTC is among the most modern of its kind in the country, with the latest equipment and technology throughout, including state-of-the-art operating theatres and cardiac catheter laboratories. The centre has facilities for 100 patients and the capacity to perform 1,400 surgical procedures and 2,500 cardiology procedures each year. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, accompanied by the Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Minister Lord Darzi, officially opened The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC) in October 2007.

To register for your FREE place click here, or call 01628 852 523. If you are unable to attend the event you can recieve copies of the presentations by emailing ctcevent@splc.co.uk.

Speakers and Exhibitors