When: May 17–18, 2007

Where: Hyattt Regency Boston, Financial District, One Avenue de Lafayette

Featuring:  Presenters Julian Goldman, MD; Warren Sandburg, MD, PhD; Jeffrey Robbins, LiveData CEO

The Sixth Annual Conference of Active Communications International (ACI) explores issues related to adding, updating, and expanding operating rooms for the future. This national forum focuses on how hospitals can leverage state-of-the-art OR technology and design innovations for more competitive and advanced surgical services and facilities.

Featured Presentations: 

 
May 17, 10:30–11:15 a.m.

Plug and Play and Medical Device Interoperability
Julian M. Goldman, MD, Principal Anesthesiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Operation Room of the Future, Project Leader, Operating Room of the Future, Medical Device PnP Interoperability Project (Boston, MA)

Jeffrey Robbins, LiveData CEO 

May 17, 1:30–2.45 p.m. 

Make Your OR of the Future Support Pay-for-Performance Plans

Warren Sandberg, MD, PhD, Co-Program Leader, CIMIT OR of the Future Project, Massachusetts General Hospital

The operating room is a financial hot spot with high costs and higher revenue potential. The clinical risks to the patients are also high, in part because patients are unconscious and unable to participate in their own care. Systems that simultaneously improve clinical and financial performance would thus be doubly welcome. Pay-for-performance reimbursement plans reward high performance on defined metrics, and the OR is a prime environment where these plans can reward hospitals while improving patient care. The OR is becoming an immersive computing environment, and the same systems that document clinical care.

Other topics at the conference include: 

• Transforming Today's ORs into ORs of the Future
• Developing State-of-the-Art Operating Rooms: How hospitals are utilizing robotics, computer integrated surgical systems, wireless technologies, and the latest advancements in medical technology in the OR 
• Planning and Funding Integrated Surgical Suites for Improved Patient Safety, Surgical Efficacy, and Operational Efficiency 
• Evaluating Emerging Trends and Innovations in OR Technology and Design to Advance the Surgical Services, Decrease Operating Costs, and Improve Surgical Outcomes 
• Materializing the Surgeon's Vision in the Development and Design of the OR 
• Designing the OR of the Future: Key considerations in medical technology, OR design, and implementation strategy 

Please go to ACI's website for schedule and registration details >

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