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Thursday, February 25, 2010
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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8:00 am - 8:15 am
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8:15 am - 9:15 am
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8:15 am - 8:45 am |
Reforming Provider Reimbursement: Transitioning to Accountability for Health Outcomes and Overall Costs |
- Learn about the three key features of an ACO and the foundation that must be laid for successful implementation
- Evaluate the key design components that highlight the decisions that need to be made through negotiations with participating payers
- Hear how the ACO model holds substantial promise as a reform that offers a potential win-win for providers, payers, and patients alike
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8:45 am - 9:15 am |
Measuring Physicians’ Performance to Improve the Value of Care: Addressing the Lack of Good Information
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- Hear about ways to improve the current state of physician performance measurement and how the field may advance
- Uncover reasons why many physicians resist measurement efforts and what can be done to address these concerns
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9:15 am - 9:45 am
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9:45 am - 10:30 am
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- Examine the implications of the current state of health information technology standards in relation to EMR data exchange
- Learn how HITSP has prioritized various standards, progress and future plans of EMR data exchange adoption for achieving interoperability
- Hear different view points, debates and challenges that remain with standards in the industry
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LeRoy E. Jones
Chief Executive, GSI Health;
Program Manager, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
American National Standards Institute

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10:30 am - 11:15 am
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- How to capture administrative claims data to analyze utilization trends
- Why it is important to review trends in data from various sources other than administrative claims such as PHRs, care management data, laboratory or diagnostic medical records or registries
- Discover how to map informatics to common terms to structure data to the point of capture and documentation
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11:15 am - 12:00 pm
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- Study how Cedars-Sinai Health System ensures data integrity through development of
responsive management capabilities to meet data needs for external submission and internal
clinical improvements
- Identify how organizations can exercise oversight of critical data supply chains and conduct
validation checks to ensure sufficient integrity
- Evaluate business processes that produce data resources through flow charting and failure
mode analysis
- Establish data governance leadership capabilities and data quality management infrastructure
- Prioritize key data elements for focused attention
- Learn to recognize the complex life-cycle of data resources throughout the organization, crossing
departmental and information system boundaries, and the crucial role of building a data
stewardship culture
- Identify the impact on decision-making, and the potential material risks to your organization's
reputation of unmanaged data resources
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12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Variation in the way that care is delivered within health care organizations translates into an opportunity for significant waste reduction, quality improvement and cost optimization. Organizations that can establish a systematic, evidence-based approach to achieve continuous quality improvement will be best positioned to take advantage of these opportunities.
- Learn how to identifying variation in the most important clinical work processes through Key Process Analysis
- Understand methods for defining and implementing best practice through an effective Clinical Management Infrastructure
- Discover how an Adaptive Data Warehouse driven by clinicians can turn data into useful and actionable information
- Explore how Care Process Models can support the implementation of best practice across an entire health care organization
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1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
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- Enhance customer satisfaction through real time analytic collections by providing information at a faster pace
- Recognize how to implement care changes through acquired data
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2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
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- Hear how Montefiore Medical Center converts data into information to remediate patient care, to assess public policy and to maintain post marketing surveillance of medications
- How will we provide information access to quality improvement specialists, clinician and researchers while still protecting privacy?
- Discover the must-have software functionalities imperative to enable clinicians to summarize outcomes over time across populations of patients and then identify their specific patients who require intervention
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Eran Bellin, MD
Vice President, Clinical IT Research and Development,
Emerging Health Information Technology;
Department Outcomes Analysis and Decision Support,
Montefiore Medical Center

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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
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3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
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- Uncover how organizations are creating effective report cards and the information they are collecting
- An in-depth look at data entities from different types of health care settings
- How do you effectively utilize data to manage your patients and meet population based performance goals?
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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- What are the issues of what can be measured from what data source?
- Should there be risk adjustments made for patients that require more care, or should there be a higher reimbursement for those patients?
- Understand how to communicate extremely technical information for other stakeholders to understand
- Integrate and improve quality in billing, reporting and availability
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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