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Road to Interoperability: Driving Health Information Exchange to the Next Level
Monday, November 9, 2009
(for Provider and Health Plan executives including Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers as well as those looking for in-depth sessions on the current and future landscape of interoperability)
Summit Chairperson:
Timothy Mills
Senior Vice President, Provider Operations
NaviNet

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1:15 pm -
2:00 pm
A CONNECTed Health Care System: The Federal Government’s Role in Promoting the National Health Information Network
  • An industry update on the status of the federal collaboration to advance heath IT
  • Understand what CONNECT is and how it enables federal agencies to securely exchange health IT data
Presenters:
Jim Borland
Special Advisor for Health IT
Social Security Administration SSA

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Rick Howard
Chief Information Officer
Oregon Department of Human Services

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Vish Sankaran
Director, Federal Health Architecture, Officer of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services

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2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
Interoperability Standards: Identifying the Key Components
  • Summarize challenges and possible solutions to achieving interoperability
  • Hear the CORE rules including administrative transactions important to exchange information
  • Recognize why payer-provider collaboration is necessary for interoperable data exchanges
Presenters:
Gwendolyn Lohse
Managing Director, CORE
Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH)

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Jay Eisenstock
Manager, Provider eSolutions
Aetna, Inc.

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John Kelly
Director, IT Operations
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

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2:45 pm -
3:45 pm
What Will be Different This Time Around: Are HIE's the key to Meaningful Use as Proposed by the ARRA?
  • Establish realistic goals to meet the 2011 goals for certified inpatient and ambulatory EHRs
  • Explore what other infrastructure or policy requirements need to be implemented to enable and prepare for the sharing of electronic data for quality measurement Align your hospitals interoperability strategy with both state and federal initiatives
Panelists:
Theresa Cullen, MD, MS, RADM
U.S. Public Health Service, Chief Information Officer
Indian Health Service

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Bill Beighe
Chief Information Officer
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz

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W. Holt Anderson - Speaker Photo W. Holt Anderson
Executive Director
North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA)

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Thomas G. Morrison
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
NaviNet

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10:55 am -
11:35 am
Interoperability: A Payer's Perspective
  • Results to date on collaboration:
    • Provider
    • Member
  • What are some of the hurdles that need to be overcome?
  • The future of interoperability
    • Concepts for tomorrow
John Janney
Senior Vice President, e-Business and Support Services
Independence Blue Cross

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Augusta L. Kairys
Vice President, Network Management
Highmark Inc.

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11:35 am -
12:20 pm
Interoperability and Connectivity: Privacy Security and Trust in Health Information Exchange
  • Leave with a strategic plan to comply with the High Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) through the eyes of HIPPA
  • Examine "Trust" as the foundation of information exchange, what does this mean to all parties involved?
Panelists:
Randy Vanderhoof
Executive Director
Smart Card Alliance Health Care Council

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Pete Palmer
Co-Chair, Health Identity Management Special Interest Group, Liberty Alliance
Information Security Manager, Surescripts

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John Fraser
Co-Chair, Health Identity Management Special Interest Group, Liberty Alliance
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, MEDNETWORLD.com

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12:20 pm -
12:30 pm
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