You are cordially invited to attend a lecture on Predictive Health: How to deliver on the Promise of Analytics in Healthcare Sunday, February 23rd 2014 Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Center – Dubai Health Care City Basement Parking Available (Map Attached) Abstract: The science of Analytics has been transforming several leading industries including banking, telecom, retails and others. In healthcare, there has been a rapid advancement in the way medical and financial data are captured and stored through EMR, telemedicine and other applications. With innovations in Data Mining and Predictive Analytics driving Big-Data revolution, the opportunity to unlock valuable insights from the captured data becomes critical to improving multiple aspects of the healthcare: avoiding costly readmissions, enhancing the understanding of chronic diseases, and optimizing patients outcome. While the rate of adoption of analytics by healthcare stakeholders has been limited by several factors including concerns over patient confidentiality, the same primary challenge that persists across all other industries also applied to healthcare; that is, how to build an effective analytics roadmap within the organization, what are the right mix of technologies and resources needed to employ complex analytical algorithms. Most importantly to decision makers, however, is how to achieve all this economically without compromising the informational value created. 11:00 11:15 11:20 12:00 12:20 Networking and Coffee Welcome and Introduction Dr. Osama El Hassan, Head of eHealth, Health Data & Information Analysis Dept., DHA Lecture Dr. Amjad Zaim, Founder of Cognitro Analytics Q & A Session Closing Remarks Moderator: Dr. Osama El Hassan, PhD Head of eHealth Health Data & Information Analysis Dept. Dubai Health Authority Lecturer: Dr. Amjad Zaim, PhD Founder Cognitro Analytics Lecturer’s Bioraphy: Amjad Zaim is the founder of Cognitro Analytics, a US-based firm that provides analytics consulting services. Currently, he is also the Chief of Party of the FLAGSHIP Project, leading a USAID-funded program aimed at establishing a National Palestinian Healthcare Information System. Amjad is also a consultant of data mining and predictive analytics with over 20 years researching and developing advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve real life problems in various industries including healthcare, banking and security. Amjad also held several academic and research positions. While teaching at the University of Texas, Amjad established the Vision, Intelligence & Bioinformatics (VIB) research group, leading a multidisciplinary team of scientists in government-funded programs including computer-aided surgery, medical pattern recognition, and biometric security. He has also written over 100 technical, scientific and business articles. He is a frequently invited guest speaker at data mining and medical informatics conferences worldwide and has been on the chairing, organizing and review committees of several international IEEE conferences including the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, as well as the Predictive Analytics World Conference (PAW). Amjad holds two master degrees in both electrical and biomedical engineering from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toledo. * Seats are limited & will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. ** Kindly RSVP to eHealth@dha.gov.ae or call Mrs. Deepa Abraham on 04-219-4084