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The Road to Interoperability and Health Information Exchange
The WHIT Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability and HIE focuses on key strategies to successful EHR Implementation and achieving meaningful use. As meaningful use criteria evolve, it is critical to ensure continuous compliance and successful integration. The Summit Faculty will provide tactical strategies to ensure successful EHR implementation; and offer solutions to optimizing EHR utilization and HIE capabilities to improve quality and bend the cost curve.
- EHR Implementation – Lessons Learned on the Path to Meaningful Use
- Building a Successful and Sustainable HIE
- Solving the Question of Interoperability and Information Exchange
- Optimizing EHR and HIE for Improved Outcomes
Who Should Attend?
- Hospital and health system CIOs, CMIOs, Chief Technology Officers
- EVPs, SVPs, VPs of Quality
- State officials and contractors developing regional extension centers and health information exchanges
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Monday, November 7, 2011
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10:45 am -
11:30 am
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EHR Adoption and Optimization – The Path to Quality Improvements and to Achieving Meaningful Use Stages 1, 2 & 3 |
Evaluate alternative strategies and solutions from this panel of providers who are well along the path to EHR implementation and optimization. Hear real world examples of barriers, challenges and successes, including.
- Identify transferable best practices
- Analyze strategies to leverage technology for improved care and reduced cost
- Asses methods to encourage physician adoption
- 20/20 hindsight – what would you have done differently?
- Looking ahead to Stages 2 and 3
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Rebecca Armato
Executive Director,
Physician and Interoperability Services, Huntington Memorial Hospital;
Commissioner,
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
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Lyle Berkowitz, MD
Medical Director, IT & Innovation
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group;
Founder
Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program
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Bruce Metz, PhD
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Lahey Clinic
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11:30 am -
12:15 pm
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11:15 am -
12:00 pm
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CASE STUDY: Adventist HealthCare’s Readmissions Strategy – Leraging EHR and HIE to Reduce Readmissions
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Current evidence shows that a primary contributor to readmissions is the lack of coordination between the inpatient and outpatient environments.
- Learn how Adventist HealthCare is leveraging its care coordination network to reduce readmissions
- Optimizing use of inpatient EHR and ambulatory EHR
- Utilizing a multi-specialty HIE to ensure interoperability across the continuum of care and improve patient outcomes throughout the health system
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Gaurov Dayal, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Adventist HealthCare, Inc.
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Arumani Manisundaram
Director of Connected Health
ACES Program / CareEx HIE
Adventist HealthCare, Inc.
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12:00 pm -
12:45 pm
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Pillars of Innovation for HIE |
MedVirginia was selected as one of the original NHIN participants, and in 2009 was the first HIE to exchange live patient health information across the NHIN and the first to deploy the open source CONNECT gateway. Learn from the Med Virginia the ‘pillars of innovation’ necessary to build a sustainable Health Information Exchange that enables improved clinical workflow and the attainment of “meaningful use” of health IT.
Attendees will learn key aspects of successful HIE, including:
- Technological innovation
- Clinical innovation
- Trust Innovation
- Governance innovation
- Scaling innovation
- Sustainability innovation
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Michael B. Matthews
Chief Executive Officer, MedVirginia;
Chair, NHIN Coordinating Committee
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James E. Ratliff, MD
Virginia Urology
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Lauren Thompson, PhD
Director, Federal Health Architecture
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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