Description:
Organizational Davies Award - Recognizes hospitals and health systems Allina Hospitals & Clinics -- Minneapolis, MN This health system includes 11 hospitals and 65 clinics, an operation that serves Minnesota and western Wisconsin. With its vision four years ago as "One Patient, One Record," the Allina system shares patient health information among its sites through its extensive EHR and revenue cycle design.

Speaker Information:
Susan Heichert
VP, Health Information and Systems Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Allina Hospitals & Clinics
Dick Pettingill
President & CEO, Allina Hospitals and Clinics
Ann Vesall
Ambulatory Upgrade Business Analyst, Allina Hospitals & Clinics

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
204 C

Description:
Public Health Davies Award - Any state, local or tribal public health program that improves the health of a defined community through health information management Illinois-National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS) - Springfield, IL I-NEDSS is a Web-based application used by all 95 local health departments in Illinois and by health care providers and laboratory staff throughout Illinois to report and investigate infectious disease conditions, clusters, and outbreaks. The I-NEDSS systems has significantly increased monitoring of disease occurrences, trends and outbreaks leading to earlier event detection. Institute for Family Health - New York, New York The Institute for Family Health operates 15 community health centers, two school-based health centers, a counseling center, and eight part-time clinics that serve the homeless, providing services to minority, uninsured and disadvantaged communities throughout the Bronx, Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.

Speaker Information:
Judy Kauerauf
I-NEDSS Administrator, Division of Infectious Diseases, Illinois Department of Public Health
Neil Calman, MD
President and CEO, Institute for Family Health

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
204 C

Description:
Ambulatory Care Davies Award - Recognizes independent physician practices Valdez Family Clinic - San Antonio, TX Valdez Family Clinic is a solo-practitioner operation serving an economically disadvantaged and medically underserved community. The practice of Alicia Valdez, MD, achieving real-time data capture of data, diagnosis, orders and plans at the point of care, has decreased her average time spent per patient note from 10 to two minutes. The electronic health record enables this physician to efficiently provide care to seven exam rooms all in a four-day work week. Village Health Partners, Plano, TX An eight-physician family practice in a suburban community was founded in 2001 by Christopher Crow MD, MBA and Sander Gothard MD. The EHR was implemented in 2003. Efficiencies are woven into the practice as it offers online health services through its website.

Speaker Information:
Alicia Valdez, MD
Physician, Valdez Family Clinic
Christopher Crow, MD
Physician, Village Health Partners

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
204 C