The World Health Care Congress 9^th Annual Health IT Summit convenes over 150 CIOs and other senior executives focused on paving the way for patient data exchange, leveraging the health IT for consumer engagement and operational efficiencies, effective utilization of technology resources and national level health IT priorities and initiateves. CEOs, CMIOs, CIOs, CTOs, CMOs, as well as EVPs, SVPs and VPs of IT and Interoperability, Compliance, Quality and Clinical Systems, from the nation’s largest hospitals, health systems, health plans, integrated delivery networks, group practices and government agencies, gather to exchange ideas and strategies with their peers on achieving business and reform goals through effective implementation, utilization and allocation of health IT systems and technologies.

• Leveraging public-private partnerships to increase the national rate of innovation and adoption of health IT to improve health care of all Americans
• Data Liberation – Learn how open source is accelerating the development of innovations that will help to coordinate care and improve the flow of information between providers of care, engage the patients through mHealth technologies and make better use of health data on a population level
• Case examples from entrepreneurs that are transforming the future of health care to be more affordable and efficient

• Balancing reform priorities and HiTECH initiatives with institutional goals of improved system interfaces, upgrading networks and participation in community health interchanges
• Lessons learned from providers who have fully implemented EHRs, connected to an exchange and how it has helped them to improve the quality of care, be a better place to receive care and be a better place to provide care
• Explore how to incorporate and leverage consumer engagement in EHR rollout to help drive adoption by patients and physicians

• The role of data analytics in supporting CEO decisions to drive quality, financial performance and accountable care
• Key considerations in ensuring the information strategy supports all organizational goals and data needs instead of mere technology solutions to current cost and quality challenges
• Promote greater transparency and organizational information sharing by dismantling the silos of data typically found within healthcare organizations

• The business case for telemedicine – Evidence-based strategies for improving quality, access and cost of care
• Learn engagement strategies to increase CIO and physician adoption of telemedicine into care delivery models
• Understand how reimbursement approaches should be improved and aligned across payers to encourage greater use of telemedicine across rural settings
• Incorporating telemedicine into a virtual care coordination strategy across the organization to improve community care through the connecting of disparate agencies for data to proliferate the health record

• Collaborative payer IT strategies for increasing provider adoption of Web based tools and lowering enrollment, billing, claims services and member service costs while maintaining quality
• Leveraging the EHR to improve communication and data sharing with providers to improve patient-centered care, streamline reimbursement and deliver sustained administrative cost reduction
• Comprehensive analytics to achieve better quality and performance and create new member value in the transition to a consumer focused business model
• Innovative Solutions in combining administrative data with patient data to create a longitudinal patient record and achieve interoperable health care
• Understand the critical issues surrounding the privacy and security of health information, access to patient medical records, HIPAA Privacy Rules and potential changes and behavioral health confidentiality laws