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The Nation's Most Advanced Initiatives for Interoperability Architecture, EMR Implementation and eHealth Connectivity Demonstrating a Positive ROI

WHCC Health IT Summit convene over 150 CEO and other senior executives focused on establishing standards for interoperability, meaningful use and demonstrating significant ROI on Health IT and eHealth connectivity. CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CMOs, are in attendance, as well as, EVP/SVP and VP of IT and Interoperability, Compliance, Quality, Clinical Systems from the nation’s largest hospitals, health systems, health plans, integrated delivery networks, group practices and government agencies.

Chair:
Craig D. Schneider,PhD
Director of Healthcare Policy
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium

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Monday, April 12, 2010
1:35 pm -
2:25 pm
Meaningful Use of Health IT to Reform Health
  • How public policy is promoting Health IT and insight into 5 focus areas for meaningful use
  • Setting the framework for meaningful use and strategies to achieve meaningful health data exchange
  • Maintaining a focus on improving health outcomes through meaningful use of HIT, not simply software implementation
  • Meaningful use from a consumer perspective and determining how meaningful, is meaningful use
  • Identifying how regulations and incentives support patients and family engagement in the health care system
Paul C. Tang, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation;
Vice-Chair, DHHS, Health IT Policy Committee

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Christine Bechtel
Vice President
National Partnership for Women & Families

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2:30 pm -
3:20 pm
Defining the Architecture for Health IT—An Intermountain Case Study
  • Designing the architecture to deliver needed information at the point of care
  • Driving a culture of change through education and methods to design effective feedback systems
  • Designing systems to enable meaningful use to support the clinician/patient relationship
Carr Smith, PhD
Director, Product Management – Information Systems
Intermountain Healthcare

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Mark J. Segal, PhD
Senior Director, Government and Industry Affairs, GE Healthcare IT
GE Healthcare

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
10:20 am -
11:10 am
A Patient-Centered Approach to Quality Metrics: “Meaningful” Adoption and Use of HIT
  • The impact of federal stimulus dollars catalyzing a national movement for providers and hospitals to “Meaningfully Use” technology to reduce costs and improve quality
  • Discuss achieving “meaningful” market adoption, widespread effective use of HIT and cost-effective quality care by securely delivering personalized patient-centric information into provider workflows
  • Innovative methods of data exchange where the business case demonstrates ROI that can ensure market adoption of HIT
  • In-depth view of “Patient-Centered Quality Practices,” which leverage the patient’s trusted relationship with the provider to help drive patient behavior change -- the “last mile” to reaching cost and quality goals
Dr Rushika Fernandopulle
Chief Executive Officer
Renaissance Health

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Kimberly Labow
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
NaviNet

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Joe Miller, FHIMSS
Director, E-Business
AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies

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David K. Nace, MD
Vice President, Clinical Development, McKesson Health Solutions and RelayHealth divisions
McKesson Corporation

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Moderator:
Jeremy Nobel - Speaker Photo Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH
Dept of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

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11:15 am -
12:15 am
Wiring For Quality—Retooled Quality Measures in Support of a National Health Infrastructure
  • Update on National Quality Forum's quality measures required to develop a national health information network
  • Challenges to overcome to report on new quality measures
Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN
Special Advisor to the Chief Nursing Officer
University of Virginia Health System

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Daniel Rosenthal, MD MSc MPH
Senior Advisor, Health Information Technology
National Quality Forum

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Business Case Forum 4: Leveraging Health IT for Patient Engagement and Cost Effective Care
2:25 pm -
3:10 pm
Patient Registries to Advance Health Care Research—Innovative Initiatives from Consumer, Government and Biotech
  • Exploring divergent approaches to the development and deployment of patient registries
  • Understanding the revolutionary health care research advances from connections among registries
Kenneth H. Buetow - Speaker Photo Kenneth H. Buetow, PhD
Chief, Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute;
Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Information Technology;
Director, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)

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Adam Clark, Ph.D
Director of Health Policy, Lance Armstrong Foundation;
Member, Health IT Policy Committee, Department of Health and Human Services

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Stephen H. Friend, MD, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sage Bionetworks

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3:15 pm -
4:15 pm
Remote Patient Monitoring to Achieve Improved Engagement and to Reduce Costs
  • Strategies to deliver connected health via push and pull strategies
  • Assessing the positive correlation between engaged consumers and clinicians that digitally communicate with patients
  • Case study with Cleveland Clinic re: remote patient monitoring via HealthVault to demonstrate differences in health outcomes
David Cerino
General Manager, Consumer Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corp.;
former VP and General Manager, Orbitz LLC

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Christian Nasr, MD
Staff Physician, Department of Endocrinology, Cleveland Clinic;
Fellow, American College of Physicians

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