Description:
Work environment issues continue to create formidable recruitment and retention challenges. The demands on nurses have increased, yet work-saving technologies have not been implemented at many facilities. Information Technology offers many opportunities to improve care delivery, as well as patient safety and satisfaction. This presentation reviews the TD2 process, findings, and recommendations.

Speaker Information:
Pamela Cipriano, PhD, Rn, FAAN
Chief Clinical Officer & Chief Nursing Officer, University of Virginia Medical Center

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
320

Description:
With 5% of its community physicians using EMRs in 2003, Partners Community Healthcare will achieve 100% EMR adoption by its 6,000 physicians by 2009. Learn which strategies are currently being utilized to produce this dramatic result.

Speaker Information:
Cynthia Bero
Chief Information Officer, Partners Community Healthcare, Inc.
Michael Esters
Manager, Clinical & Managed Care Systems, Partners Community Healthcare, Inc.

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Identify the benefits and challenges associated with the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR)
• Discuss the approaches taken by some organizations to overcome the challenges associated with EMR adoption
• Apply proven strategies utilized to ensure successful EMR adoption
• Recognize the benefits that can be achieved through EMR adoption

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
311 E

Description:
Discussion of on-going information technology efforts between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to support better care and smoother transition of wounded Service members.

Cosponsor:
MHS

Speaker Information:
Dr. Steven Jones
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Military Health Systems
Dr. Paul Tibbits
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Development, Department of Veterans Affairs

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Understanding of the health data being shared between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs for shared patients
• Be able to tell providers how to access information from the other Department
• Increased knowledge of how DoD and VA are responding to the recommendations from the various Task Forces and Commissions regarding providing better care and coordination for wounded warriors, with an emphasis on the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
206 A

Description:
This session will focus on IHE's efforts to develop a Functional Status Assessment Profile (FSA) supporting continuity of care intra-enterprise and cross-enterprise. The process for FSA development and selected evidence based scales/instruments will be shared.

Cosponsor:
This session is brought to you by IHE-Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

Speaker Information:
Michelle Troseth, RN, MSN
Vice President, Point-of-Care Automation; Chief Professional Practice Officer, Eclipsys Corporation
Jenny Elrod, RN, MSN, CPHIMS
Director, Clinical Informatics, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Marcia Veenstra, RN, BSN
Product Director: Ambulatory/ED/Community, Eclipsys Corporation

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Describe the IHE's role in optimizing patient care and outcomes by sharing actual patient data using scales across settings
• Outline how IHE's Patient Care Coordination Domain work affects point of care providers and improves patient outcomes
• Review the impact of interoperable, evidence based FSA's on improving handoffs of patient care and outcomes, intra-enterprise and cross-enterprise, nationally and internationally
• Describe possible ways you personally or your enterprise could be involved in the IHE effort

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Room:
204 C

Description:
Hospitals today are awash in data. How can that data be made meaningful and actionable to administrators? Discover the best practices utilized when implementing business intelligence to become a data-driven enterprise.

Speaker Information:
David Katz, MD,JD
Principal, The Advisory Board
Peter Bacon, MBA
Director of Marketing and Strategic Planning, Flagler Hospital

Level:
Introductory

Objectives:

• Understand how business intelligence (BI) technology has enabled other industries to transform business performance and how their success is applicabile to the healthcare industry
• Apply out-of-industry principals to transform legacy data into meaningful and actionable information that drives real-time decision making
• Leverage best practice strategies from hospitals across the country for the implementation of business intelligence within your organization, in the effort to drive improved patient outcomes and elevate margin performance
• Perform an organizational self analysis against the industry's best practice standards for data management

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
202 A

Description:
The Orange County Health Care Agency has successfully linked 24 Emergency Departments, 12 Community Clinics, and over 200 primary care physicians to support their ER Diversion, Medical Home Linkage, and Patient PHR programs, providing more effective care for their patients, including those without health insurance.

Speaker Information:
Dan Castillo
Administrator, County of Orange Medical Services Initiative Program

Level:
Introductory

Objectives:

• Describe the importance of technology in improving the efficiency of healthcare services with respect to public health programs
• Identify specific areas of public health that would immediately benefit from technology
• Discuss how technology has created benefits in eligibility and enrollment, utilization management, access to information at the "point of care," and facilitated better communication between the emergency department and the PCP-level physician
• Recognize how technology links data at all stages, and why it is important to include primary care providers such as Community Clinics and physicians
• Discuss how this initial connectivity can be used as the first building block to expansion into a County-wide RHIO that incorporates private sector stakeholders

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
203 A

Description:
A hospital IS Director and the president of a firm that manages healthcare legacy data will discuss various options for migrating and managing data from legacy HIS

Speaker Information:
Anthony Paparella
President, MediQuant, Inc.
Jim Large
Director of Applications, MedCentral Health System

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Identify the statutory requirements for data retention of hospital data sets
• Describe the options, and their respective advantages and disadvantages, available as data migration plans for legacy data during and after a system conversion
  
• Formulate a method for assessing costs and appropriateness of each option
  
  
• Review survey results of hospital solutions actually used for legacy data migration

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
207 A

Description:
A Mayo Clinic National Health Information Exchange was designed and built for patient care quality and safety improvements mandated by the Board of Governors. In 12 months, expectations were exceeded.

Speaker Information:
Keith Frey, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Information Officer, Mayo Clinic
David Anderson, MS, FHIMSS
Customer Relationship Manager, Mayo Clinic

Level:
Advanced

Objectives:

• Understand the positive impact and value that a Health Information Exchange can have on patient care
  
• Evaluate support efforts and cost factors between two alternative solutions to secure exchange of clinical information from multiple disparate EMRs
  
• Understand how to bridge the gap between disparate organizational/georgraphic cultures, processes and technology platforms
• Recognize the importance of establishing effective and efficient communications, governance and support structures to support an ongoing national HIE
• Explore the lessons learned from implementing a Composite Application Architecture and Distributed Data Model for Mayo's HIE
  

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
208 A

Description:
Current status of e-prescribing standards will be provided, as well as suggestions for improvement and industry action. Will also discuss e-prescribing's effect on outcomes and clinician workflow. ACPE Number: 204-999-08-023-L04P (1.0 credit hour)

Speaker Information:
P. Jon White, MD
Health IT Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Rochelle Woolley
Principal, Woolley & Associates

Level:
Advanced

Objectives:

• Provide information on recent Federal activities related to e-prescribing standards, as well as status updates of the standards themselves
• Discuss current limitations of the standards deemed "not ready" for implementation under Medicare Part D
• Discuss implementation and workflow considerations associated with use of e-prescribing from a prescriber perspective
• Examine early findings related to outcomes associated with e-prescribing use. For example, use of on-formulary medications and generics, medication errors and adverse drug events

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
ACPE (Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education)
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
209 A

Description:
This presentation discusses contemporary collaboration technologies and how they can be applied in healthcare to achieve rapid consensus and buy-in from clinicians engaged in order set and care standardization. ACPE Number: 204-999-08-024-L04P (1 credit hour)

Speaker Information:
Brian Yount, MD, FAAP
Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist, OU College of Medicine, Tulsa
Timothy McNamara, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, HealthGate Data Corp.

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Describe the business need and value proposition for collaboration management technology in hospitals and health systems.
• List key requirements for healthcare specific document management and collaboration management tools.
• Understand representative products available on the market to facilitate collaboration management in healthcare.
• Identify success factors for deployment of collaborative tools in health systems.

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
ACPE (Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education)
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
224 B