Keynote Speakers

Michael O'Rourke VP & CIO Catholic Health Initiatives	Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph. D. VP & CIO University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	Barry Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS Chief Medical Officer DocsNetwork, Ltd. HIMSS Chair

Featured Speakers

John Moore Managing Partner Chilmark Research	Joann Strobbe CFO & AVP of Administration, Finance & Technology USF Health	Lisa Khorey Director of Interoperability UPMC	Deane Morrison CIO Capital Region Healthcare	Samantha Burch Director, Healthcare Policy & Research Federation of American Hospitals	Evon Holladay VP Business Intelligence Catholic Health Initiatives	Al Villarin, MD National Director of Physician Services Thomson Reuters	Linda Minghella VP & CIO Boulder Community Hospital
Mark McCurry Executive Director Healthcare Covisint	Roy Sanford CMO Stratus Technologies	Gary Kolbeck Healthcare General Manager LodgeNet Interactive Corporation	Dana Moore CIO Centura Health	Chris Wood, MD Medical Director, Information Services Intermountain Healthcare	Mary Ann Leach VP & CIO The Children’s Hospital	Andy Steele, MD Director, Medical Informatics Denver Health	Swati Abbott President MEDai
Rick Hayes VP of Business Development InteliChart	Mark Levine MD CMO, Denver Region The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services	Robyn Leone Director Colorado REC	Brad Hawkins VP of Clinical Experience MEDSEEK	Cathleen Crowley CIO Columbia Memorial Hospital	Brigadier General Robert Stall President Medina Hospital Commander 108th Training Command (USAR)	Phyllis Albritton Executive Director CORHIO	Dave Podwojski Director of Government Education & Health Citrix
Tom Arnold Senior Project Manager DSS, Inc.	Charles E. Christian CIO Good Samaritan Hospital	Steven Vickner MHA, FACHE CIO Manhattan’s Physician Group	Jessica Grosset Chair, IT Applications Department Mayo Clinic	Christopher Jackson, PhD Physician Informaticist Sisters of Mercy Health System

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

7:45 am	Registration Opens
8:30 am	Introductory Remarks
8:45 - 9:45am Brought to you by:	General Panel Session “Meaningful Use – Where do we go from here?” The closing of the discussion period and release of the final definition for Meaningful Use is one of the most important federal regulations for Health IT in over a decade.  These criteria span the HIT landscape, affecting EMR, interoperability, clinical decision support, privacy, safety, quality of care and much more.  This session will take a bold look at the state of the healthcare system at present and examine the critical next steps for moving forward as meaningful users of Health IT. Moderator: Jessica Grosset, Chair, IT Applications Department, Mayo Clinic Mark Levine, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Denver Region, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services   Evon Holladay, VP Business Intelligence, Catholic Health Initiatives Andrew Steele, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, Denver Health Dana Moore, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Centura Health Gary Kolbeck, Healthcare General Manager, LodgeNet Interactive Corporation Swati Abbott, President, MEDai
9:45 - 10:45am	Keynote Presentation “Meaningful Use: Is it meaningful?” Barry Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS Chief Medical Officer, DocsNetwork, Ltd. HIMSS Chair Now that the Office of the National Coordinator released the final rule on “meaningful use,” many organizations and physicians are putting into place their plans to satisfy the rule requirements to qualify for Federal EMR implementation incentive funds. Yet, there are many providers who are choosing to forgo EMR implementation due to the complexity of the “meaningful use” rules. With all the focus on EMRs and proper implementation following meaningful use guidelines, the question remains as to whether EMR implementation will do anything to truly transform healthcare. Healthcare transformation is defined as enhanced quality, patient safety, and access coupled with a reduction in cost. In this session attendees will: Obtain an a current overview of meaningful use rules and provider incentive funding Understand how EMRs can transform healthcare delivery Learn about the potential benefits of healthcare information technology beyond EMRs Explore a vision of using healthcare technology to truly transform healthcare
10:45 - 11:00am	Introductions to Living Groups and Group Activity Spend 15 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. The Living Group concept was developed at Harvard University to facilitate peer interaction. The living group is a powerful concept that brings together people of extraordinary cultural and professional diversity. With a small but diverse group of peers, you can test ideas, absorb new perspectives, and build lifetime bonds.  Upon meeting each member of your Living Group we encourage each delegate to briefly introduce themselves and describe why they are attending this year’s summit along with some HIT challenges your group is facing.  In addition to meeting your Living Group for the first time, you will also take part in an interactive activity to determine the topic for a future iHT2 webinar.  All participants will receive a complimentary webinar registration so bring your best ideas!
11:00 - 11:45am	Morning Networking Break on Exhibit Floor
11:45 - 12:15pm Brought to you by:	Case Study “Implementation of SaaS EHR with greater than 99.999% Uptime” Cathleen Crowley Chief Information Officer Columbia Memorial Hospital Roy Sanford Chief Marketing Officer Stratus When Columbia Memorial Hospital received a grant under Heal NY, part of New York State’s strategic health IT plan they moved forward with an ambitious initiative to make electronic health records accessible to clinicians across more than 25 locations requiring access to patient records over a secure Web interface 24/7. The project was subject to detailed milestones and guidelines under Heal NY, as well as, federal ARRA incentives for "meaningful use" of EHRs. In addition, the new EHR implementation would have to fulfill challenging criteria and it had to be completed on a very aggressive schedule. The hospital found its answer in a solution comprising CCHIT Certified(r) software for ambulatory EHRs, fault-tolerant Medical Grade servers and storage from Stratus Technologies, and virtualization software from VMware. This presentation will outline how the hospital met their ultimate goal of patient-centered care that results in improved quality, affordability and outcomes for patients. It will discuss the implementation of a 'private cloud' SaaS infrastructure built for 99.999% or great uptime. It will outline the underlying turnkey solution that includes EHR software, servers and storage implemented using virtualization for maximum cost savings and flexibility.
12:15pm - 1:30pm	Break for Lunch
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Case Study “Innovation in HIT: Meaningful use as a driver and detractor” Chris Wood Medical Director, Information Services Intermountain Healthcare Today, Intermountain Healthcare operates 21 hospitals and more than 140 clinics throughout the Intermountain West region. They also own or support 17 community clinics serving uninsured and low-income patients.  Intermountain's integrated system is special—it promotes teamwork among physicians, clinicians, SelectHealth and other caregivers to provide consistent, coordinated, high-quality care.  Intermountain and it’s leadership have been recognized for excellence by President Obama, Healthcare Informatics, ComputerWorld, Information Week, Hospitals & Health Networks, U.S. News & World Report, the American Heart Association and others. Intermountain Healthcare’s broad adherence to its best practice clinical process models have enabled physicians and nurses to supply Utah’s patients with some of the lowest cost and highest quality care in the nation.  Rich access to and use of data at the point of care has been crucial to achieving those goals.  Dr. Wood will give an overview of what Intermountain Healthcare has learned about the meaningful use of data over the last four decades and make the argument that while the current HITECH incentives and penalties will raise the bar of meaningful use of information systems across the country, it may cause some long term challenges to the meaningful use of data.  We will certainly begin to make meaningful use of information systems as defined by the law, but will we be able to assure the meaningful use of clinical data to continue to drive our national healthcare to the highest quality at a sustainable cost?
2:15pm - 3:15pm Brought to you by:	Panel Session “Effective IT Adoption and Physician Engagement: Achieving buy-in throughout the healthcare continuum” With the passage of the Healthcare Reform Bill , as well as ARRA and HITECH, there are a multitude of new concepts that must be assimilated by the U.S. health care system in order to meet government requirements. These requirements create measurable criteria to demonstrate meaningful use of CPOE, EHR/EMR and data exchange. Physicians are on the front lines of the healthcare system and must commit to these initiatives, as well as be in compliance with security and privacy guidelines in order for providers to be eligible for federal rebates.  This esteemed group of executives will discuss their experiences in working with physicians to successfully implement their IT initiatives. Topics Include:   Understanding how IT fits into physician work flow to improve health care efficiencies Educating physicians on the implications of security and patient privacy compliance Addressing physician fears around implementing HIT systems and how to alleviate those fears with proper training modules Discussing the value of effective IT transition: how providers can improve economic and health outcomes (i.e., reducing health care costs, improving quality of care, and promoting evidence-based medicine) Moderator: Bernie Monegain, Editor, Healthcare IT News Linda Minghella, VP & Chief Information Officer, Boulder Community Hospital L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, FACEP, National Director, Physician Services, Thomson Reuters Steven Vickner, MHA, FACHE, Chief Information Officer, Manhattan’s Physician Group Mark McCurry, Executive Director, Healthcare, Covisint Daniel Newman, Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Medical Center
3:15pm - 4:00pm	Afternoon Networking Break on Exhibit Floor
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Panel Session “Implementing a Comprehensive Security Program: From the data warehouse to the point of care” Implementation of EHR and other health information technology promises to provide myriad benefits for both patients and providers through improved safety, quality and coordination of care.  This proliferation of data will present additional risks and challenges for care providers.  For instance, criteria for meaningful use includes a mandate for the capability to exchange key clinical information among providers of care and patient authorized entities electronically while protecting information maintained using certified EHR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities.  This session will address current and evolving security concerns that will arise as we move toward meaningful use and increase access to sensitive electronic health information.     Moderator: Barry Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS, Chief Medical Officer, DocsNetwork, Ltd., HIMSS Chair Brigadier General Robert Stall, President, Medina Hospital and Commander, 108th Training Command (USAR) Deane Morrison, Chief Information Officer, Capital Region Health Care Charles E. Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS, Chief Information Officer, Good Samaritan Hospital
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Keynote Presentation “Interoperability: Challenges for Architecture more than Applications” Lynn H. Vogel, Ph.D Vice President & Chief Information Officer The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute In this presentation, Dr. Vogel will discuss M. D. Anderson’s experience with developing an Electronic Medical Record in-house on a fully implemented Services Oriented Architecture.  While the technical aspects of this effort are of interest, more important are the lessons that M. D. Anderson has learned about how to meet the challenges of interoperability, both intra- and inter-organizationally.   Dr. Vogel will contrast the historical and currently prevailing views of software architecture with the promise of SOA, and draw on M. D. Anderson’s experience with successfully implementing SOA. Dr. Lynn Vogel is VP and CIO and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas.  At MD Anderson, Dr. Vogel serves as the senior IT executive, managing a workforce of more than 700 people.  He has been named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, and was awarded one of ten “Best in Class” designations for his work in bridging clinical care and research through IT. This past year, Computerworld awarded MD Anderson the prestigious “21st Century Achievement Award” in healthcare.  Dr. Vogel is a Fellow, Charter Member and currently Trustee of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association.
5:30pm - 6:30pm	Opening Cocktail Reception on Exhibit Floor Don't miss this interactive and fun reception amongst your colleagues and peers toasting an incredible day of thought leadership and networking.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

8:00am	Registration Opens
9:00am	Opening Remarks by Day Two Conference Chair
9:15am - 10:30am Brought to you by:	Presentation and Panel Session - “Establishing a Health Information Exchange: adoption barriers and the role of subsidization and meaningful use” This session will highlight how regional providers are working together to enhance data sharing and interoperability of health information and to implement a capability for improving quality of care.  This group of panelists will share their challenges and successes with adoption barriers for HIE and moving toward meaningful use. What are the priorities for establishing a sustainable and meaningful HIE? Importance of creating strategic alignment across the HIT landscape Keys for implementing interoperable HIT models Describe and qualify funding options Moderator: John Moore, Managing Partner, Chilmark Research   Lisa Khorey, Director, Interoperability, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mary Anne Leach, VP & Chief Information Officer, The Children’s Hospital Phyllis Albritton, Executive Director, CORHIO Rick Hayes, VP of Business Development, InteliChart Brad Hawkins, VP of Clinical Experience, MEDSEEK
10:30am - 11:15am	Morning Networking Break on Exhibit Floor
11:00am - 12:00pm	Keynote Presentation “Bringing it All Together: Adoption, Implementation and Meaningful Use” Michael O’Rourke Vice President & Chief Information Officer Catholic Health Initiatives You’ve spent the past 36 hours addressing strategies and tactics for adoption, implementation and meaningful use for health information technology; this keynote will discuss how you can bring everything together.  Don’t miss this presentation where you will hear the successes and strategies for coordinating a health IT system with 74 hospitals in 19 states.  With recent passage of the Healthcare Reform Bill, it’s more critical than ever to have a comprehensive health IT strategy.  Whether you’re a large health system or an independent physician practice, this presentation will shed light on how you and your organization can best move forward toward realizing the full potential of your IT assets.
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Break for Lunch
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Case Study “Meaningful Use: Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail” Deane Morrison Chief Information Officer Capital Region Health Care The planning process is a key element in the success of any implementation.  With meaningful use defined, any implementation must plan to hit the deadlines and maintain financial viability. Ensuring success, building a strong team, preparing for launch, designing deployment strategies and other important considerations will be addressed as they pertain to meaningful use criteria.  Considerations for patient privacy and clinical information exchange Vendor management: what you need to ask before you buy Implications of ARRA for clinical decision support Reviewing malpractice implications Working toward interoperability in a complex IT environment
2:00pm - 2:45pm	Afternoon Networking and Coffee Break on Exhibit Floor
2:45pm - 3:30pm Brought to you by:	Presentation “How is the Colorado Regional Extension Center positioned to help Colorado primary care physicians achieve meaningful use?” Robyn Leone Director, Colorado Regional Extension Center CORHIO Healthcare providers are currently experiencing digital overload regarding the use of electronic health record systems, federal incentive programs, meaningful use criteria and health care reform. The Colorado Regional Extension Center (CO-REC) was established at CORHIO to assist primary care providers to successfully navigate the path to meaningful use. This session will explore the services CO-REC offers to primary care providers within small practices as well as those practicing in safety net clinics such as rural health clinics, community health centers, public and rural hospitals and critical access hospitals.
3:30pm - 4:30pm Brought to you by	Panel Session “Health IT Implementation Strategies & Considerations” Implementing an IT system is a complex process, this panel will address how providers are getting from here to there by understanding the system lifecycle and using the principles of project management.  Panelists will discuss the key components of developing a strategic road map for developing, implementing and monitoring your IT infrastructure. This discussion will include: Big Bang vs. Incremental IT Implementation Monitoring for compliance, security and privacy Physician cooperation and managing change Implications from ARRA and priorities for achieving meaningful use Moderator: Lauren Plunkett, State Health IT Program Director, State of Colorado – Governor’s Office of Information Technology Christopher Jackson, PhD, Physician Informaticist, Sisters of Mercy Health System Samantha Burch, Director, Healthcare Policy & Research, Federation of American Hospitals Joann Strobbe, Chief Financial Officer & AVP of Administration, Finance & Technology, USF Health – College of Medicine Dave Podwojski, Director of Government Education & Health, Citrix Tom Arnold, Senior Project Manager, DSS, Inc.
4:45pm	Closing Remarks by Day Two Conference Chair