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InterSystems Symposium 09 – Agenda
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 Plenary Healthcare TrackAcademy
09.00 -  09.30Registration
09.30 - 10.30

What's new, what's next - Business Strategy
John McCormick, COO, InterSystems
Paul Grabscheid, VP of Strategic Planning - InterSystems 

Presentations by InterSystems senior executives will address our strategic direction and product plans. There will also be preview demonstrations of some exciting features planned for future releases.

10.30 - 11.00What’s new, what’s next – Technical Strategy
Robert Nagle, VP of Software Development, InterSystems
 
11.00 - 11.20Break
11.20 - 12.00Disruptive Innovation: Reinventing Publishing
Philip Walker, Managing Director – PCS Ltd

Responding to a brief from their parent company, major UK-based news publisher the Claverley Group, PCS is developing from the ground up a genuine multi-media system that will publish to multiple news output channels, simultaneously and in real time – using in-built business intelligence to drive the workflow. Eschewing the ‘me-too’ option, PCS has a vision to truly change the game in the world of high-speed publishing. This session tells us how PCS is using InterSystems technology to realise that vision.
12.00 - 12.30Introducing DeepSee
Joe Gallant, Product Manager - InterSystems

DeepSee is our new product that enables you to make your Caché and Ensemble transactional applications more valuable by enhancing them with embedded real-time business intelligence capabilities. This session gives an overview of DeepSee and explains how it differs from traditional business intelligence and decision support products.  
12.30 - 13.20Lunch
13.20 - 14.00Trends in Decision Support
Philip Howard, Research Director - Bloor Research

 

Zen Innovations
Robert Hickingbotham, Sales Engineer – InterSystems
Gary Wilson, Sales Engineer – InterSystems

In this academy, attendees will build a complete Web application using some of the new Zen layout tools and components that will be introduced in Caché and Ensemble versions 2009.1. 

Prerequisite: Familiarity with Zen and CSS.

14.00 - 14.40Join Up Silos, Protect Existing IT Investment
Simon Blades, Public Safety Division - Chief Architect – Northgate Information Solutions (UK) Ltd

Learn how Northgate Public Safety help UK police forces consolidate screens and information silos to maximise value from existing IT systems and deliver better services to the public.
InterSystems Connected Health UK
Phil Birchall, UK Healthcare Business Development Director - InterSystems

Hear the latest about InterSystems' activities in the UK healthcare marketplace including details of the significant role that Ensemble integration platform is playing in helping NHS end-user organisations to address their integration challenges.
14.40 - 15.20A Question of Integrity? 
Mark Massias, Sales Engineer – InterSystems
Richard Harris, Senior Systems Manager - Smartwater
Peter Cooper, Director - Xebec Information Systems Ltd

An overview of Process Integrity and why you should care. This session outlines how Caché and Ensemble enable service-oriented architectures (SOA) and how the approach results in a need for Process Integrity.                                     
TrakCare Healthcare Information System - From Acute to Community and Primary Care
Kerry Stratton, Worldwide MD Healthcare - InterSystems

TrakCare is InterSystems Web-based healthcare information systems that is successfully implemented in over 25 countries with UK sites including NHS Lothian, Royal Bath, Priory Group and new implementations underway at States of Guernsey and Jersey.  In Chile, TrakCare is showing its effectiveness in care settings beyond acute care.  Hear how TrakCare is being deployed in this strategic regional initiative addressing both community and primary care.
15.20 - 15.40Break
15.40 - 16.20The Value of Connected Applications
John Joseph, Director of Ensemble Product Management - InterSystems

Across industries there are many examples of how composite, connected applications are adding more value to the business.  Whether it is consolidating data across systems, applications with process management, or people with workflow.  Attend this session to learn how applications built on Ensemble are more valuable.
HealthShare - Swedish National Patient Summary
Iain Bray, Systems Architect - InterSystems

HealthShare is InterSystems software platform for the delivery of regional and national electronic health record solutions. In Sweden HealthShare has provided in record time a consolidated national patient summary.  Attend this session to hear how the Swedish are improving patient care using a standard health information exchange platform and how InterSystems are helping to address issues such as identity, security, access and consent.

Creating DeepSee Components & User Interface
Mark Massias, Senior Sales Engineer - InterSystems
Kerry Kirkham, Sales Engineer – InterSystems

Starting with a pre-built data model, attendees will use DeepSee Analyser to create pivot tables and graphs. You will incorporate these elements into interactive dashboards by using DeepSee Designer. Hands-on exercises will demonstrate how to change the look and feel of DeepSee components, as well as how to control the options users have when using dashboards created with DeepSee.

Prerequisite: None.

16.20 - 17.00Making “Fast” Faster: Caché Performance Tuning
Vik Nagjee, Product Manager - InterSystems

Virtualisation, grid and cloud computing are driving innovative capacity and deployment options but add layers of complexity that you may not need.  Join this session for the most advanced tips and tricks for getting the utmost performance from the Caché database engine.
TrakCare Business Intelligence
Kenny Lim,  Healthcare Architect - InterSystems

TrakCare Business Intelligence provides dashboards and real-time business intelligence as part of the TrakCare application using InterSystems powerful DeepSee technology. A 2009 Datamonitor survey in America and Western Europe reported only 23% of clinicians currently use BI-generated reports. Users want relevant, real-time information with click-through to actionable detail anytime, anywhere, on anything they decide needs insight.  Join this session to see how TrakCare Business Intelligence provides this capability.
17.00 - 17.40Identity Management Technology
Louise Parberry, Sales Engineer - InterSystems

In every industry there is a growing need to rapidly and accurately identify people. This session presents InterSystems innovative technology solution to this problem.
17.40 - 18.00Summary and Close
Mike Fuller, Director of Marketing UK - InterSystems
 
18.00 - 19.30Networking Reception Join us for evening refreshments and stadium tours.