Program Overview

Stay informed, confident in your actions, and poised for success. The 2008 IBM/SCC Healthcare Information Technology Summit will bring together influential healthcare IT decision makers and leading industry experts, providing engaging educational topics as well as the opportunity to share ideas and network. Representatives from IBM will share their insights on the business of going green.
Gilbert Hakim, SCC Soft Computer’s, CEO will discuss the paradigm shift from traditional clinical information systems to an integrated genetics information system and illustrate the future of healthcare IT. And, learn first-hand from real case studies you can implement as best practices within your organization.

Going Green with IBM

The main focus of the Going Green Segment is to stress the benefits of using IBM’s new Power Systems solutions and highlight ways to increase operational efficiency in the clinical environment.

IBM’s new Power Systems Solutions is energy efficient and uses half the power of other competing hardware suppliers. Additionally, IBM’s new Power Systems solutions takes 50% less processing time, enabling you to access vital information faster than ever.

• More Work per wall reduces power at the system level
• Power VM enables collaboration of under-utilized servers
• Active Energy Manager with Power6 Energy Scale™ technology enables dynamic power saving management
• Broad range of platform and operating system choices for optimal consolidation

The Future of Healthcare
Personalized Medicine and the Genetics LIS

The Future of Healthcare Sequence will focus on how information technology applications have narrowed the gap between diseases and cures, and are ushering in the new age of personalized medicine. Learn how you can keep your organization on the cutting edge of personalized medicine and the genetics LIS.

Discover how the right clinical information system along with a convenient interface to instruments can increase operational efficiencies by allowing fewer FTE’s with instrument automation and robotics. Find out how to go paperless, eliminating the time consuming paperwork associated with processing laboratory specimens.

Case Studies

Hear first hand how other healthcare facilities have utilized information technology to streamline operations and realize improvements in customer satisfaction, work processes, profitability and speed and efficiency within the organization.

Keynote Speaker
Gilbert Hakim, CEO, SCC Soft Computer
The Future of Healthcare-SCC

Mr. Gilbert Hakim, founder and CEO of SCC Soft Computer, graduated from Stony Brook University, New York, with a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Master's Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Prior to forming SCC in 1979, Mr. Hakim held several technical and management positions in the telecommunications industry with Periphonics, Inc. Driven to provide innovative and practical technological solutions to the allied healthcare industry, Mr. Hakim founded SCC and focused on providing custom software programming to healthcare customers, primarily in the clinical laboratory.

Over the years, as SCC has grown to a company of nearly 1,400 employees worldwide, Mr. Hakim has been actively involved in all aspects of the Company and, through his intimate knowledge of advances in information technology and the needs of the hospital laboratory, provides the driving vision to ongoing product development. Mr. Hakim’s understanding of the healthcare industry’s intense regulatory environment and rapidly changing markets, combined with his expert knowledge of software development, keeps SCC’s products at the leading edge of industry demand.

For those active within the LIS community, it becomes evident that Mr. Hakim is a major force in the world of LIS. Year after year, Mr. Hakim’s image and message can be found within industry publications and journals, and the world of academia. From the earliest iterations of what has evolved into the modern LIS in the late 1970s, to leading the way in genetics-based LIS and workflow automation, Mr. Hakim is more than just a corporate CEO, he is often found at client sites, and is considered the most hands-on CEO in the business.

He speaks directly to laboratorians and medical professionals alike, and learns from them, absorbing and transforming this knowledge into SCC’s vision. Through his contributions towards the modernization of the LIS and laboratory medicine, as well as profound generosity to SCC employees, the underprivileged, and countless other charitable contributions, Mr. Gilbert Hakim plays a positive role in society, and most certainly, is considered a valuable part of what makes SCC special in the world of LIS.

Program Overview

Stay informed, confident in your actions, and poised for success. The 2008 IBM/SCC Healthcare Information Technology Summit will bring together influential healthcare IT decision makers and leading industry experts, providing engaging educational topics as well as the opportunity to share ideas and network. Representatives from IBM will share their insights on the business of going green.
Gilbert Hakim, SCC Soft Computer’s, CEO will discuss the paradigm shift from traditional clinical information systems to an integrated genetics information system and illustrate the future of healthcare IT. And, learn first-hand from real case studies you can implement as best practices within your organization.

Going Green with IBM

The main focus of the Going Green Segment is to stress the benefits of using IBM’s new Power Systems solutions and highlight ways to increase operational efficiency in the clinical environment.

IBM’s new Power Systems Solutions is energy efficient and uses half the power of other competing hardware suppliers. Additionally, IBM’s new Power Systems solutions takes 50% less processing time, enabling you to access vital information faster than ever.

• More Work per wall reduces power at the system level
• Power VM enables collaboration of under-utilized servers
• Active Energy Manager with Power6 Energy Scale™ technology enables dynamic power saving management
• Broad range of platform and operating system choices for optimal consolidation

The Future of Healthcare
Personalized Medicine and the Genetics LIS

The Future of Healthcare Sequence will focus on how information technology applications have narrowed the gap between diseases and cures, and are ushering in the new age of personalized medicine. Learn how you can keep your organization on the cutting edge of personalized medicine and the genetics LIS.

Discover how the right clinical information system along with a convenient interface to instruments can increase operational efficiencies by allowing fewer FTE’s with instrument automation and robotics. Find out how to go paperless, eliminating the time consuming paperwork associated with processing laboratory specimens.

Case Studies

Hear first hand how other healthcare facilities have utilized information technology to streamline operations and realize improvements in customer satisfaction, work processes, profitability and speed and efficiency within the organization.

Keynote Speaker
Gilbert Hakim, CEO, SCC Soft Computer
The Future of Healthcare-SCC

Mr. Gilbert Hakim, founder and CEO of SCC Soft Computer, graduated from Stony Brook University, New York, with a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Master's Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Prior to forming SCC in 1979, Mr. Hakim held several technical and management positions in the telecommunications industry with Periphonics, Inc. Driven to provide innovative and practical technological solutions to the allied healthcare industry, Mr. Hakim founded SCC and focused on providing custom software programming to healthcare customers, primarily in the clinical laboratory.

Over the years, as SCC has grown to a company of nearly 1,400 employees worldwide, Mr. Hakim has been actively involved in all aspects of the Company and, through his intimate knowledge of advances in information technology and the needs of the hospital laboratory, provides the driving vision to ongoing product development. Mr. Hakim’s understanding of the healthcare industry’s intense regulatory environment and rapidly changing markets, combined with his expert knowledge of software development, keeps SCC’s products at the leading edge of industry demand.

For those active within the LIS community, it becomes evident that Mr. Hakim is a major force in the world of LIS. Year after year, Mr. Hakim’s image and message can be found within industry publications and journals, and the world of academia. From the earliest iterations of what has evolved into the modern LIS in the late 1970s, to leading the way in genetics-based LIS and workflow automation, Mr. Hakim is more than just a corporate CEO, he is often found at client sites, and is considered the most hands-on CEO in the business.

He speaks directly to laboratorians and medical professionals alike, and learns from them, absorbing and transforming this knowledge into SCC’s vision. Through his contributions towards the modernization of the LIS and laboratory medicine, as well as profound generosity to SCC employees, the underprivileged, and countless other charitable contributions, Mr. Gilbert Hakim plays a positive role in society, and most certainly, is considered a valuable part of what makes SCC special in the world of LIS.