HISA and CHIK Services are delighted to bring you a unique opportunity to reach the decision makers and influencers in eHealth systems purchasing in Australia. CHIK's Health-e-Nation'08 conference, Australia's leading eHealth strategy and policy conference and HIC'08, Australia's premier eHealth industry and research conference will be held contiguously at the same location. A combined industry exhibition will span both events giving exhibitors maximum exposure to key individuals at the centre of Australia's eHealth purchasing processes.
This event will provide you with the opportunity to showcase your products and services to a highly influential audience. The extended time for the exhibition allows you to build a stronger rapport with key clients and better present the value you can deliver.
For those who support both conferences this unique event provides an opportunity to substantially reduce your operational costs whilst maximizing your exposure. The exhibition will run from Sunday, August 31 to Wednesday, September 3, 2008 and will be held in the You Yangs Exhibition Hall of the Melbourne Convention Centre.
To find out more click on the "Download Brochure" button below or call HISA on 613-9388-0555
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EXHIBITION BOOTH 1
eHealth has a key role to play in the future of healthcare for all Australians. eHealth activities can improve health outcomes and health system efficiency, while facilitating the right healthcare, at the right time, in the right place.
The Australian Government through the Department of Health and Ageing is encouraging positive approaches to ageing, and the promotion of the development and application of IT in aged care.
Aged Care eConnect incorporates a range of projects that aim to further the implementation of IT by aged care providers.
Website: http//www.health.gov.au/agedcareeconnect
EXHIBITION BOOTH 2
Initiate Systems enables you to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Our enterprise master person index (EMPI) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide complete, accurate and real-time views of disparate data. Unlock the value of your data assets for competitive advantages and operational improvements.
Website: http://www.initiatesystems.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 3
InfoMedix is the leading medical records scanning solution provider in Australia.
With more live customers and projects than any other vendor, InfoMedix has a proven track record and the experience to ensure your scanning project is a success. InfoMedix is a healthcare subsidiary of Object Consulting
Website: http://www.objectconsulting.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 4
Procura's complete home health suite offers operational, financial and clinical tools to Aged and Community Care agencies to enable them to efficiently provide community care, nursing and other in-home services. With over 6,000 users at more than 350 client sites across Australia and North America, Procura is a proven solution for improving care.
Website: http://www.goprocura.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 5
Ocean Informatics is a recognised leader in e-health strategy, semantic interoperability and shared EHR solutions. Our team include some of the most experienced clinical and technical experts in the health informatics domain, ensuring that our health ICT solutions truly reflect clinical needs. Ocean has a long history of involvement in international e-health projects, standards development (through ISO, HL7, CEN, Standards Australia), as well as systems and tool implementation. As primary authors of the architecture specifications, Ocean are world experts on development, implementation and application of the openEHR methodology.
Website: http://www.oceaninformatics.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 6
Philips is one of the world's leading healthcare technology companies. We are committed to understanding the technological and human needs of patients and caregivers and to delivering solutions that enable more confident diagnoses, more efficient delivery of care, and more positive user experiences. People focused. Healthcare simplified.
Website: www.philips.com/healthcare
EXHIBITION BOOTH 7
NATIONAL E-HEALTH TRANSITION AUTHORITY
E-health - the electronic communication and storage of health information - will provide Australia with the essential technological infrastructure to pave the way for major health reform. The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has been tasked by the governments of Australia to identify and foster the development of the right technology necessary to deliver the best e-health system for Australia.
Website: http://www.nehta.gov.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 8
BETTER LIFE ICT
Better Life ICT provides expert consultancy and ICT product development services. Putting people first is our value proposition based on decades of experience with SAFETY and PRIVACY of E-HEALTH and E-GOVERNMENT service-oriented systems. For Privacy Impact Assessments, E-Health Quality Assurance (QUiPS), Software Engineering Services and Product Development (TakeSure) visit ‘http://www.blict.com/'.
Website: http://www.blict.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 9
Uniti is an advanced client management system designed primarily for use in the delivery of community nursing services. Uniti can schedule client visits, maintain secure and searchable electronic client records, manage statistical and financial records, as well as provide remote and mobile access to information.
Uniti enables information to be created, edited, and analyzed in a simple and timely manner.
Website: http://www.uniti.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 10
DCA's solution The Care Manager is used by over 150 agencies Australia wide to manage the delivery of services to clients in the community including aged care, mental health, ambulatory care, post acute care and day centres.
The Care Manager is at the forefront of electronic integration with hospital and regional patient/client systems.
Website: http://www.data.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 11
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's.
Agfa HealthCare today employs 5,700 staff members, with sales offices and representatives in over 100 markets worldwide.
Website: http://www.agfa.com/healthcare
EXHIBITION BOOTH 12
EMERGIS - A TELUS COMPANY
Through its hallmark electronic health record solution - Oacis | emr -- Emergis helps care delivery organizations improve patient safety while reducing operating costs.
Oacis | emr offers a unique clinician-driven user interface along with smart-summarization techniques. This helps caregivers to more rapidly accommodate patient needs as well as optimize clinical workflow.
Visit us at http://www.emergis.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 13
MEDITECH AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
MEDITECH provides integrated software solutions to meet the information needs of health care organisations around the world. A global leader in the health care information systems industry, we understand the complexities of health care organisations and develop the informatics tools needed to deliver patient care safely and efficiently. From large integrated delivery networks to community hospitals, our software solutions support the entire continuum of health care, including physician practices, clinics, hospitals, home health agencies, long-term care and behavioral health facilities.
Website: http://www.meditech.com/meditech.com
EXHIBITION BOOTH 14
The Tasmanian Department of Economic Development and Tourism, is assisting the efforts of the Tasmanian e-health sector by coordinating an exhibition stand at HIC 2008. Some of Tasmania's premier e-health companies will be showcasing their high-quality, original and adaptable e-health solutions at the expo including:
- Healthcare Software Pty Ltd: deliver clinical solutions that cover patient care from the admission interview to discharge summary (http://www.healthcaresoftware.com.au/)
- Nunatak Business Solutions Pty Ltd: provide electronic document management systems which deliver all the functionality and reporting requirements for aged care in one solution (https://www.nunatak.com.au/)
- Verdant Health: deliver patient centric health information systems that improve the quality, safety and level of patient care. (http://www.verdant.com.au/index.php?Company=VH)
Website: http://www.development.tas.gov.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 15
Orion Health is a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector.
Orion Health's easy-to-use applications and tools integrate and enhance existing healthcare information systems and deliver secure, universal access to information. Orion Health delivers an end-to-end information technology (IT) integration platform that brings together clinical content to improve clinician effectiveness and patient care.
Our customers worldwide include hospitals, primary care providers, area health services, lab/radiology networks, technology vendors, systems integrators, state and federal government agencies and research organisations.
Website: http://www.orionhealth.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 16
SATO AUSTRALIA/ALSG
Website: http://www.satoworldwide.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 17
Emerging Health Solutions (EHS) brings together a set of electronic tools designed by clinicians to help them better manage the patient care process and a patient centric electronic medical record in a secure, integrated web browser based application. EHS works the way clinicians work and will change just as quickly as clinical practice changes.
Website: http://www.emerginghealthsolutions.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 18
Medical-Objects are a software company with a vision of a tightly connected integrated health platform. Built on open standards and strong architectural solutions, Medical-Objects provides rich messaging between all sectors of the health sector and tools that build on that messaging such as Clinical Tools for Specialists and Hospitals, Decision Support and Guideline Support. Medical-Objects are a standards based organization, using existing standards such as HL7 v2.3.1, SNOMED CT, GELLO and GLIF.
Website: www.medical-objects.com.au
EXHIBITION BOOTH 19
Compuware Corporation is a recognised industry leader in enterprise software and IT services that help maximise the value of technology investments. We offer a powerful set of integrated solutions for enterprise IT including IT portfolio management, application development, quality assurance and IT service management.
Website: http://www.compuware.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 20
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
The Faculty of Health Sciences is acknowledged nationally and internationally for its quality and innovation in teaching and research. We have 10 Disciplines within the Faculty, one being Health Informatics. Health Informatics professionals are highly sought after. Their specialist skills and expertise keeps demand for qualified Health Informatics specialists extremely high.
Website: http://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 21
Motion Computing is a mobile computing and wireless communications leader, combining world-class innovation and industry experience so professionals in industries such as healthcare and government can use computing technology in new ways and places. The Motion C5, mobile clinical assistant, was designed specifically for the healthcare industry to deliver mobility and reliability at the point of care.
Website: http://www.motioncomputing.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 22
Clinical management solutions to manage quality and cost of care.
HealthSolve provides specialist solutions for aged, acute, community and primary care that can be shared across the continuum. Our solutions are underpinned by our design philosophies of innovation, agility, interoperability, industry standards and open architecture.
Website: http://www.healthsolve.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 23
Formerly known as MedCare Systems Pty Ltd, TeleMedCare commercialises home telecare technologies developed by the Biomedical Systems Laboratory at the University of NSW. Commencing in 1992, unobtrusive methods were pioneered for the assessment of functional health status of the aged in their home.
Today the clinically tried and tested TeleMedCare System has applications throughout the primary care sector; in the HOME to assist the management of patients with chronic disease, COMMUNITY HEALTH, RESIDENTIAL CARE facilities, HOSPITALS and in GENERAL PRACTICE. TMC MEDSafe, Medications management for Residential care facilities, is without rival, innovative software minimising medication errors at P.O.C and empowering managers with detailed reports.
A revolution in medication management.
Website: http://www.telemedcare.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 24
GS1 Australia is the not-for-profit, standards organisation that administers the global GS1 system of unique item numbering, bar coding, eMessaging and RFID standards used extensively in all parts of the retail supply chain and eCommerce transactions. In addition to being the single organisation that is licensed to issue GS1 barcodes to industry, GS1 Australia also provides training, education, technical support and implementation assistance to suppliers and retailers alike looking to reduce the cost of doing business. For more information go to: http://www.gs1au.org/
Website: http://www.gs1au.org/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 25
MEDICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN PTY LTD
MSDesign globally delivers an integrated layered technology for a single web based GUI deployment of Patient Centric Inventory Automation solutions across acute care surgical facilities. By providing true outcomes for patient safety and business returns while automating compliance in clinical and contract billing workflow processes; our SurgiDat software solution provides the glue to run your facilities.
Website: http://www.surgidat.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 26
MIMS is
Website: http://www.mims.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 27
The Australian E-Health Research Centre
| The e-Health Research Centre is a leading national research facility in ICT for healthcare innovations. A joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, the Centre aims to improve the quality and safety of healthcare through a research program focused on applied outcomes and active adoption by the health system. |
Website: http://www.e-hrc.net.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 28
3M Health Information Systems, part of the 3M Health Care family, is a leading provider of advanced software tools and services that help healthcare organizations capture, classify, and manage accurate healthcare data. Built on a foundation of over 22 years of providing solutions for the clinical, financial, and administrative areas of health care, 3M Health Information Systems' expertise is focused on the quality of data that drives the hospital's ability to manage revenue and resources, comply with coding regulations, and ultimately help improve the quality of patient care.
Website: http://www.3m.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 29
Trend Care Systems is now a leading provider of Hospital software for the private & public sector. Our product TrendCare is a multidisciplinary clinical information & workload management system providing dynamic decision support to clinicians.
TrendCare manages & reports on; patient acuity/workload & efficiency measures, clinical pathways & care plan management, patient assessments, HRM, rostering, medical & nursing handovers, discharge planning & diet ordering. TrendCare is operating in some of the world's largest & most acute tertiary hospitals in Australia, NZ and Asia, revolutionising the way hospitals use information to monitor & manage resources. TrendCare empowers health care providers with dynamic information, enabling patient care to be managed effectively & efficiently.
Website: http://www.trendcare.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 30
TotalCARE EQUIPOISE (INTERNATIONAL) PTY LTD
Totalcare is a fully integrated suite of software modules that has been developed in close working relationships with GPs, specialists and hospitals across Australia. It’s developed to suit and follow the particular needs and processes of healthcare professionals here in Australia. Built using industrial strength relational databases, Totalcare is a complete clinical, front office, financial & management solution designed to give you everything you need to run your GP surgery, specialist practice, day surgery or hospital.
Website: http://www.totalcare.net.au
EXHIBITION BOOTH 31
Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions from Nuance
Through the integration of speech recognition, dictation and transcription solutions within existing health information management workflow, Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organisations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability of their medical documentation. For more information visit: http://www.nuance.com/dictaphone/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 32
Health Communication Network (HCN) is the leading provider of Knowledge Solutions, Research data, clinical and practice management software for the Australian Primary Care sector. HCN’s head office is located in
Website: http://www.hcn.net.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 33A
Today, patients and providers around the world are taking advantage of Polycom's video conferencing solutions for interactive, remote-patient care, training and research. Hospitals are linking clinics, specialists and patients, extending the reach into remote areas and providing more-accurate training and diagnosis, for a higher level of patient care. Polycom HD solutions are the highest-quality encrypted video, audio and content sharing available today for sophisticated and complex medical applications.
Website: www.polycom.com/healthcare
ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
EXHIBITION BOOTH 33B
The Continua Health Alliance is a non-profit, open industry coalition of the finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare. With more than 160 member companies around the world, Continua is dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal health solutions with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters independence, empowers individuals and provides the opportunity for truly personalized health and wellness management.
Website: http://www.continuaalliance.org/
HIC'08 ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
EXHIBITION BOOTH 34
Moorola Healthcare Solutions extend mobility to the point of care and beyond. They allow you to share real-time information anywhere - inside or outside the facility - for increased patient safety and allow more attentive care. As a result, hospitals can dramatically improve accuracy and efficiency of every day tasks - from medication administration and specimen collection to patient monitoring, medical rounds and more.
Website: http://www.motorola.com/healthcaremobility
EXHIBITION BOOTH 35
GE Healthcare is a $17billion business of General Electric Co. and provides a broad portfolio of medical imaging and information technologies, patient monitoring systems and healthcare services. A leader in healthcare solutions, GE Healthcare provides:
EXHIBITION BOOTH 36
First DataBank is the leading provider of context-relevant, actionable, integrated drug database products which enables safer prescribing and dispensing and improved patient care through effective clinical decision support. Through our partnerships with leading healthcare system providers, First DataBank's drug databases are in use daily by thousands of healthcare professionals worldwide.
Website: http://www.firstdatabank.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 37
"WinChart - an Enterprise Wide Perioperative Information Management System"
WinChart is todays leading solution for the management and control of the demanding perioperative environment. Its touchscreen interface is unique and provides an intuitive and powerful tool, that ensures satisfaction in use and high quality in data collected. Whilst its lease of use is a key feature, the inbuilt interface and decision support engines, ensure reliability, performance and low cost of ownership. Capacity for research is greatly enhanced as data is captured, processed, analysed and reported against effortlessly with WinCharts inbuilt 'CARM' module.
Website: http://www.winchart.com.au/
HIC'08 ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
EXHIBITION BOOTH 38
MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN HEALTH
Knowledge Driven Health solutions from Microsoft and our Partners help healthcare organisations provide people with the information they need when they need it, so they can turn it into knowledge-driven action for improved patient, clinical and business outcomes. With easy-to-use, flexible software solutions and tools, healthcare professionals are able to provider safer, higher-quality, more accessible care that is patient-centric, evidence based and cost-efficient.
Website: http://www.microsoft.com.au/
HIC'08 MAJOR SPONSOR
EXHIBITION BOOTH 39
For 30 years, InterSystems has been a leader in healthcare IT innovation. Our Caché object database, Ensemble rapid integration platform, HealthShare health information network platform, and TrakCare web-based health information system, enable rapid creation, integration, and deployment of high-performance systems for connected healthcare. Visit booth #39 to learn more.
Website: http://www.intersystems.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 40A
SAP is globally renowned in the healthcare sector. The SAP for Healthcare portfolio contains SAP Patient Management, SAP Supplier Relationship Management & Logistics for Healthcare and SAP Ambulatory Care Management as well as our partner's clinical system offering, Siemens I.s.h.med. It is the most comprehensive healthcare-specific, integrated solution available today. The solution is live in 22 countries, with 270 implementations around the world; and is market leader in 5 countries, running most of the hospitals in the advanced healthcare systems of Singapore, Israel, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In addition, the same integrated solution contains the world's leading business software, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
The SAP for Healthcare portfolio enables providers to enhance efficiency through integrated processes and information flows, thus reducing costs and increasing the time spent on patient care.
Website: http://www.sap.com/australia
EXHIBITION BOOTH 40B
Ergotron Health Care Solutions
Smart Point-of-Care Mounting Solutions for Your Entire Facility
With Ergotron products, computer systems can be easily and ergonomically positioned for any user - minimizing space requirements and maximizing efficiency - and that's healthy for everyone. True ergonomic designs allow our mounting solutions to accommodate viewing heights of up to 95% of the population - making your employees more comfortable and productive in shared computing environments. Space saving technology powered by Constant Force (CF) patented lift-and-pivot motion technology produces smooth adjustment.
Our specialty mounting solutions will enhance EMR, eMAR, CPOE or PACS/RIS implementation by providing comfortable access to patient data and images - in-patient, emergency and operating rooms, labs, radiology, nurse's stations - wherever patient data or PACS images need to be accessed.
Website: http://www.healthcare.ergotron.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 40C
The Map is a web-based visual representation of evidence-based patient care journeys covering 28 medical specialties and 390 pathways. As healthcare provision becomes much more specialised the need to plan and then benchmark clinical practice against national standards whilst incorporating local intricacies is key. It serves as a single healthcare knowledge source that will speed the delivery of evidence based best practice across healthcare organizations.
Website: http://www.mapofmedicine.com/
HIC'08 PRINCIPAL SPONSOR
EXHIBITION BOOTH 41
Cerner is the leading global supplier of healthcare information systems. Our ‘Person in the Centre' approach to healthcare for almost three decades has resulted in a suite of high quality solutions that span the healthcare continuum.
Website: http://www.cerner.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 42
IBA Health Group Limited (ASX-IBA) is the largest specialist information technology company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. IBA builds software applications for healthcare. It is a leader in the provision of advanced application solutions in modern healthcare economies around the world. Today, over 13,000 provider organisations in 35 countries across five continents use IBA's solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes.
Website: http://www.ibahealth.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 43 
A patient centric healthcare system is open, collaborative and flexible. It can deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. IBM is uniquely qualified to help organisations advance the transformation of healthcare with their Mobility and Medical Imaging Solutions. They aim to improve clinical and business outcomes but also to reshape the future.
Website: http://ibm.com/au/healthyoutcomes
HIC'08 ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
EXHIBITION BOOTH 44
We are an established, Australian-owned, health informatics company specialising in primary health information systems that support chronic disease prevention and management, population health, clinical decision support, and domiciliary nursing. We are proud Associate Sponsors of HIC 2008 Conference and members of HISA, the Medical Software Industry Association, and HL7 Australia.
Website: http://www.pencs.com.au/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 45
Carestream Health is a world leader in healthcare information and imaging systems and with origins as Kodak's Health Group has over 100 years of expertise and experience. An innovator and leader in healthcare and imaging technologies, Carestream Health prides itself of its broad solution portfolio including information management solutions, picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), a range of digital imaging solutions and a variety of professional services.
Website: http://www.carestreamhealth.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 46
Website: http://www.telstra.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTHS 47 AND 48
Ascirbe Asia Pacific (ASC Computer Software Pty Ltd )
Established in 1984, Ascribe is a global leader in the supply of clinically focussed IT solutions. Ascribe's software solutions support the patient, clinical and business processes of Primary & Secondary healthcare providers. Our broad range of integrated clinical IT solutions is focused on serving the needs of the patient as the ultimate customer. The company is dedicated to providing IT solutions that provide patient data at 'the point of care' helping to reduce risks and save lives.
Website: http://www.ascribe.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 50
Honeywell HomMed USA
Honeywell HomMed, a global leader in the telehealth industry, is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive telehealth solutions to improve quality of care through standardization of healthcare delivery and control of variance through evidence-based disease management to improve outcomes.
Honeywell HomMed's Telehealth Ecosystem is a comprehensive solution built upon three unique pillars: patient-facing devices, content/applications, and services. The LifeStreamTM Platform seamlessly integrates patient information to enhance productivity, workflow and communication. The Genesis® DM is the fourth generation of telehealth monitors from Honeywell HomMed and has enhanced patient usability, automatic set-up wizard feature, is integrated with LifeStream and has Disease-Specific Symptom Management (DSSM) patient education to provide the most comprehensive remote biometric symptom evaluation available.
Website: http://www.ascribe.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 51
Eclipsys is a leading provider of advanced integrated clinical, revenue cycle and access management software, clinical content and professional services that help healthcare organizations improve clinical, financial, operational and client-satisfaction outcomes. Today, over 70,000 clinicians around the world rely on Eclipsys software to help them deliver timely and safe patient care.
Website: http://www.eclipsys.com/
EXHIBITION BOOTH 52
Global Health products support the clinical, consumer and operational needs of healthcare providers committed to the effective management of chronic disease and health promotion programs for consumers.
Internet connectivity is embedded in Global Health applications to promote secure information sharing, financial transactions and the use of technology in ways that transform how healthcare is delivered.
Website: http://www.global-health.com/
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