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The Role of HIE in Meaningful Use: Connecting to Your Ambulatory Physicians Disparate EMRs
Santa Cruz HIE has been exchanging data in a multi-stakeholder environment for more than a decade, but now with the adoption of EMRs, data needs to be to be seamlessly exchanged across the entire community � in order to achieve Meaningful Use. With over 300 providers, 42 specialties, and 100 locations, Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County (PMG) is the organization that supports and connects them all to each other via the Santa Cruz HIE. As the nation�s longest running HIE, the Santa Cruz HIE enables electronic clinical data communication between PMG providers, 2 hospitals, County Health Clinics, 7 national and local reference labs, 5 imaging centers, and several safety net clinics.
In 2008 Santa Cruz HIE led the interoperability charge and connected disparate HIS and EMR systems, Clinically Networking them to enable complete interoperability to improve patient care and practice efficiencies. Using an Interoperability Hub, physicians will easily meet the clinical data exchange objective for meaningful use. For smaller practices that don't already have an EMR, Santa Cruz HIE offers an EMR Lite solution, providing immediate interoperability with the entire HIE and EMR functionality enabling practices to apply for stimulus funds - leaving no physician behind.
As a result of attending this session, attendees will be able to:
- Achieve bi-directional HIE in a true multi-stakeholder environment
- Understand and address the challenges of connecting EMRs into a HIE
- Perform medication reconciliation across a community
- Manage a Community Master Patient Index
Bill Beighe
Chief Information Officer
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz
The World Congress Leadership Summit on Leveraging the Stimulus Funding to Accelerate EHR Adoption will convene representatives from hospital and health systems, medical societies and associations, states and health information exchanges, as well as medical group leadership to discuss strategies for financing an EHR purchase and implementation of technology that will meet criteria for meaningful use. A key focus will be on the stakeholder's role in supporting physician and medical group technology adoption and optimizing the use of these tools post-implementation.
State Initiatives that Lead to Sustainable HIEs, EHRs and Quality Reporting
- How can the payer and provider communities sustain a National Health Information Network once federal seed money for EHRs and HIE support and Quality Reporting is spent?
- Results of HIE Initiatives: Hear how leading clinics, hospitals and physicians are
connecting to each other in a region or an area
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W. Holt Anderson
Executive Director
North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA)
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Jim Borland
Special Advisor for Health IT, Office of the Commissioner
Social Security Administration SSA
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L. Allen Dobson, MD
Vice President, Clinical Practice Development, Carolinas Healthcare System;
President, Cabarrus Family Medicine
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Debbie Rieger
Chief Operations Officer
CalRHIO |
Keynote Panel Discussion: * Meaningful Use * and EHRs - Transforming the Health Care System
- Assess the national progress toward meaningful use of IT and the final definition that will create a practical set of standards for 2011
- Examine ARRA Enabling Structures: Beacon Communities, Regional Extension
Centers, HIE Grants, Standards and Certification - as well as state initiatives that are designed to help providers improve clinical health outcomes
- Discuss the emerging framework for IT adoption at the state level and what this means for your organization
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David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator HIT
HHS
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Philip Magistro
Deputy Director, Program Implementation, Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform
State of Pennsylvania |
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Gina Perez
President
Advances in Management, Inc. |
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Debbie Rieger
Chief Operations Officer
CalRHIO |
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