IT Interest Group Seminar

Aston Villa Football Club, Birmingham

Wednesday 30 April 2003

Programme

09:30  Registration, Coffee & Tea.

09.45  Welcome & Introduction – Graeme Richardson on behalf of the ITIG Committee.

09.50  Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions - The Way Forward

Christine Burdess, Prescription Pricing Authority

10:30  Dispensing Robots - The Swisslog Experience

Derek Swanson, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals

11.05  Coffee & Exhibition.           

11:30  ‘A Robot is For Life, Not Just For Christmas’ - ARx System

Ann Winsper and/ or Carolyn Sharpe, Wirral

12.00 Decentralisation with Robots: An Alternative Approach - ScriptPro & Consis Systems

Professor Ron Purkiss, Sheffield Hospitals

12.30 Lunch & Exhibition

13.45  First DataBank Winning Presentation

Prescribe-a-Chat – Mary V Struthers

Pharmacist Prescribing Adviser, Highland Primary Care NHS Trust

14.15 Business to Business Solutions

·         Introduction – George Gannon

·         Rx-e.com – Andrew Edwards

·         Hospital Pharmacy: Online and Real Time – Paul Hartigan, CEO, PharmiWeb

·         Summary – George Gannon

15.00  Comfort Break

15.10  Handheld Computers in Practice – Clinical Databases & Intervention Monitoring

James Goddard, Morriston Hospital