Description:
Hear the latest MS-HUG news from this year's chair, David H. Snyder, CPHIMSS, FHIMSS.

Speaker Information:
David Snyder, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
VP of IS Technology Management, Albany Medical Center

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
Microsoft believes that software can play an important role in transforming the health system. Come learn more about hospitals who are creating long term care relationships and developing community outreach programs with Microsoft’s HeathVault and the Microsoft Health Enterprise solutions.

Speaker Information:
Grad Conn
, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Health Solutions Group , Microsoft Corporation

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
Arkansas Children's Hospital has developed an innovative bedside education, information and entertainment system (CarePoint). Patients can access a wide range of multimedia entertainment, while physicians can access the patient?s medical records. The CarePoint system is comprised of a touch screen, LCD monitor, Microsoft Media Center and Xbox gaming system. See a live demonstration on the future?and the potential of bedside technology.

Speaker Information:
David Higginson
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Russ Hopkins
Senior Programmer, Systems Development Group, Arkansas Children's Hospital

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
Rural healthcare providers have limited capabilities in treating chronic diseases. Project ECHO was developed to solve this problem by creating a Web based Clinical Management tool. Learn how a simple, integrated solution can impact an isolated setting – and how Microsoft technologies took top honors for a Global Award Winning Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare.

Speaker Information:
Sanjeev Arora, MD
UNM Health Sciences Center
Praveen Soti, MD, MBA
Principal, Healthcare and Life Sciences Consulting, Infosys Technologies

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
How do you apply process analysis techniques to clinical behavior? This has been a long-term problem, but today has a viable solution. By analyzing billing information, a model can be built to improve treatment and reduce costs. This session has a solution model that you can adopt for your organization. In addition, you will learn candidate models for treatment pattern analysis and how to transform medical billing data into useful data mining information

Speaker Information:
Daniel Sullivan
Systems Architect, Enablecomp

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
Clarian Health needed a solution to better manage their 12,000 PCs with 400 client applications at 124 locations. The solution? Microsoft's MDOP technologies, including Softgrid and Advanced Group Policy Manager. Clarian was able to realize many benefits including fewer PC and application headaches, increased clinician satisfaction and lowering costs.

Speaker Information:
Edwin Simcox, JD
Director of Enterprise Technology, Clarian Health Partners

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
In this session, discover how a Clinical Decision Support system was enhanced with.an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help with a difficult-to-diagnose condition. Join the presenters, a neuropsychologist and an IT project manager, and learn how they created an innovative system to address this complex diagnostic problem. And learn how MS-Access enabled a quick turnaround from design to functioning application.

Speaker Information:
Jeffrey Axt, MBA-TM
IT Project Manager, Hospital for Special Care

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
This session demonstrates how Microsoft's collaborative technologies like SharePoint enable organizations to efficiently gather, improve, and share information. See how workflow-based procedures can be used to implement best practices with actual case study examples. Gain a deeper appreciation of the value collaborative technologies bring to healthcare organizations in terms of data and process integration.

Speaker Information:
Duke Kasprisin, MD
Chief Medical/Scientific Officer, Biomedical Synergies, Inc.
Craig Yellick
Vice President and Senior Software Architect, Alto Consulting & Training

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
Microsoft SQL Server Express helped to develop a ‘physican friendly’ database of commonly used medications in an office setting. One of the reasons for its success was creating an application that would work within a physicians’ frame of reference – regardless of tech expertise. This case study is a perfect example of how the IT and medical professional approaches differ with respect to the EHR…and how to overcome them.

Speaker Information:
Neil Silva, MD
University of Virginia Student Health

Location:
Orlando Convention Center

Description:
For areas where physician availability is low, the need for medical guidance technologies is high. GuideView is a system that enables interactive, structured, multimodal delivery of clinical advice via voice, pictures, video, and animation. Developed mainly using Microsoft's Visual Studio,(IS THIS RIGHT?) GuideView is multi-platform, executing on desktops, the web, Pocket PCs, and Windows Mobile cellphones.

Speaker Information:
Jose Florez-Arano, MS, MD, PhD Student
School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Sriram Iyengar
Assistant Professor of Health Information Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center and Informatics Research Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Location:
Orlando Convention Center