Spend 25 minutes meeting with your conference ‘Living Group’.  Attendees will be grouped together so that starting on Day 1 you will have an opportunity to meet new contacts and maximize your conference experience.

In addition to meeting your Living Group, you will also take part in an interactive activity to determine the top challenges facing the HIT industry. The top challenges for each group will be announced at the end of the session!

Join Marc Probst, CIO at Intermountain Healthcare, for a look into Intermountain’s strategy for driving innovation in healthcare technology.  How we can use emerging technologies to support better care and lower costs.  Intermountain Healthcare has created a technology lab where emerging technologies such as; tele-health, robotics, comprehensive wire-less monitoring, 3-D printing, gaming systems and others are tested and aligned with health care delivery.  This presentation will discuss the work being done by Intermountain to identify and adopt best practices for new health care technology.

This session will discuss:

1. Areas for stakeholder collaboration with information exchange
2. Security concerns for data sharing
3. Payer-to-provider interoperability challenges
4. Financial models for combined systems vs. independent implementation
   

1. Current and evolving security concerns
2. Points of risk in the continuum of care
3. User education
   

This panel will discuss:

1. Data storage and virtualization
2. Data privacy and HIPAA compliance
3. Improving clinical, operational and financial performance

This session will discuss:

1. Benefits and potential risks
2. Success stories and best practices
3. Challenges and obstacles for implementation
4. Integration strategies

Healthcare organizations are looking at ways to combine more sophisticated uses of health IT and clinical care to achieve better health outcomes and improve health system performance.  Examples of such applications include using clinical decision support tools, patient registries, patient portals, e-prescription and more.  The widespread adoption and meaningful use of certified EHR technology is a necessary interim step in the transformation to a more intelligent healthcare system.  The HITRC and REC programs will make these best practices available to providers throughout the country.

It is essential to build upon the health IT infrastructure currently in place and use the information made available by EHRs in order to move toward improving outcomes and reducing costs.

This session will address:

1. Improving outcomes and reducing costs through implementation of Meaningful Use
2. Institutional challenges and change management
3. Progress report on current implementation initiatives

MemorialCare Health System is a not-for-profit integrated delivery system and an innovator in health care delivery.  With the rising importance of health information sharing across organizational and geographic boundaries‚ the need to support more standards and profiles than just HL7 has become a necessity.

HealthShare is central to MemorialCare’s plan to integrate its internal clinical and patient administration systems with EMR systems used externally by community provider groups.  HealthShare provides for integration to a variety of EMRs and other clinical systems, CCD transmission of patient information directly to a provider’s EMR or Clinical Viewer, event notifications and connection to local, state and national HIEs.  Join us to discover how HealthShare enables MemorialCare’s vision for the future.

Lou LaRocca

Lunch on the final day will be both delicious and informative.  We’ll start off with 45 minutes for lunch service and some time to get settled.  For the last hour we’ll host a high-level, interactive keynote session that will satiate your thirst for knowledge once you’ve taken care of your other appetite!

The session will discuss how advanced health IT in the hands of clinicians, care teams, and patients can dramatically improve outcomes across all fronts, from effectively delivering coordinated care to empowering members to take an active role in their health. It will also provide a vision for the next generation of health IT that will allow care teams to bring evidence-based care to every aspect of the patient’s life, across the care continuum.

The transition towards adoption and implementation of health IT systems and a more patient-centric healthcare delivery model will require a move away from an acute delivery platform to one that will focus more on managing the patient for life. This is a move towards healthcare ‘without walls’, where a connected healthcare delivery system will be supported by greater use of patient-controlled data, the leveraging of technology to provide care in non-traditional settings, and empowered patient and physician communities.

Increasing use of applications like remote patient monitoring, telehealth, mHealth and other hi-tech healthcare delivery platforms will be instrumental in reducing costs and empowering patients to take a more active role in their own healthcare.  Along with new regulations, these technologies also present new challenges and concerns to the providers who are implementing them.

This session will discuss:

1. Models for implementation of new technology and devices in healthcare delivery
2. HIPAA & HITECH compliance for mobile devices
3. Improving clinical efficiency with mobile imaging & videos
4. Facilitating telemedicine programs between distributed locations
5. Eliminate sharing information on unsecure media
6. Integrating new technologies into existing IT infrastructure