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Panel Discussion “Health Information Exchange: A Vehicle for Overcoming Health Care Challenges”

Supporting the adoption of electronic health records among healthcare providers and building the infrastructure necessary to make HIE possible, are essential components to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care.  Additionally, HIE gives doctors and other clinicians a more comprehensive understanding of their patients’ full medical histories, which helps them deliver better care. Electronic health records provide patients with more information about the care and treatments they receive and empower patients to be more involved in the health care decisions that impact them and their families.

This session will discuss a range of challenges and objectives of health information exchange including:

1.    ∙ Improving healthcare quality and outcomes  
      ∙ Reducing health disparities
      ∙ Reducing medical errors and enhancing coordination of care
2.    ∙ Maintaining interoperability standards & stakeholder engagement
      ∙ Sustainable funding & support for information exchange 

Introductions to Living Groups and Group Activity

Addressing Current and Future Industry Imperatives

1.    ∙ Understand the business and regulatory drivers impacting health care organizations and the state of the IT industry’s capability to respond
      ∙ Explore the different levels of interoperability and understand why they matter
      ∙ Understand why change management is the most critical factor in technology adoption
   
   
   David Garets
   Executive Director
   Advisory Board
   
   

Panel “Meaningful Use Stage 2: 2015 is Closer Than You Think!”

Before we get too excited, this panel will touch on Meaningful Use but not how you think.  With all the focus on qualifying for Stage 2 and what future stages will look like, it is important to take a step back and consider what life will look like after Meaningful Use.  With MU incentives scheduled to end in 2015, it’s never too soon to think about life without MU and how we can continue to drive improvements in quality, safety and cost effectiveness.

This session will address:

1.    ∙ Driving IT post-Meaningful Use
      ∙ The long term picture of the health IT landscape
      ∙ What comes next?

Panel "Raising the Bar: Leveraging Mobile & Telehealth Technologies in Health Care"

Case Study "How to leverage today's top hospital IT trends"

Between mandates and upgrades, it's hard to add more IT projects to the list. Or even to identify the IT trends that will add the most value. Search no further than this session! Keith Nichols, President of Enterprise Solutions Group, a certified Microsoft systems integrator, will walk you through the pros and cons of today's hottest IT trends—from leveraging virtualization to mapping the EMR to clinician workflow. In this unique "fireside chat" format, Mr. Nichols will share the tricks and tips his organization uses to identify and leverage the IT trends that deliver the most value.


Keith Nichols, MCSE, CCEA
President & Senior Consultant
ESG

Case Study “EMR Usability & NLP”

Panel “ACO’s & Population Health Management: Tying Technology to Health”

Panel “Adopting the hCloud: Delivering Care Anytime, Anywhere”

Panel “Analytics in Healthcare: Leveraging Data for Organization Wide Improvements””

An exciting element to the implementation of health IT is the improved ability for providers to track safety & outcomes in a quantitative manner.  Improvement can only come once one can determine where a process is failing or succeeding.  In addition to improvements in care, providers are gaining the ability to collect data and drive improvement in all areas of operation.

 This session will discuss:

1.     ∙ Measuring processes for IT, HIM and physicians
2.     ∙ Claims & Diagnostic Analytics
3.     ∙ Developing a Data Model to Support an Accountable Care Organization
4.     ∙ Developing strategies for gathering and acting on new intelligence
       ∙ Providing physician feedback

Is "healthcare intelligence" an oxymoron? What can we expect to accomplish with the data we have in healthcare? How do we transform data in electronic health records into superior clinical and financial outcomes? What are the information building blocks for a continuously learning health system? How important is technology in healthcare intelligence? What is the role of Big Data in healthcare and how do we prepare for it?

Power Luncheon & Work Session

Panel “Security & Privacy in Health IT: A Fresh Look at Strategies & Risk Assessment”

The current security risks for ePHI are well known and HIPAA updates continue to maintain security in both policy and in action.  That said, the risks today are not the risks we faced just five years ago or those we will face five years from now.  As new technologies evolve and access to ePHI becomes more prevalent, it is critical to have a security plan in place that will change proactively as new technologies are implemented and new stakeholders are incorporated into the healthcare landscape.

This session will help participants:

1.    ∙ Establish priorities for a cyber security plan
2.    ∙ Assess  and act on risk analysis
3.    ∙ Mitigate legal exposure
4.    ∙ Understand breach prevention & protocol
5.    ∙ Minimize the economic impact of an ePHI breach