HIMSS Chapter HIE Liaison Roundtable
The HIMSS Chapter HIE Liaison Roundtable provides a vital communication link between HIMSS chapters and their local HIE/RHIO and/or state level HIE activities with HIMSS national activities. Sharing and communication is focused around local activities and efforts as well as national activities including the HIMSS HIE Steering Committee, HIMSS State Advocacy efforts and HIMSS Advocacy CALR program.
The core members of this Roundtable are the designated HIMSS Chapter HIE Liaison(s). It is the responsibility of the individual HIMSS Chapter to identify their representatives to participate in this Roundtable. In addition, the monthly Roundtable conference calls are open to all HIMSS members to participate as guests who may have an interest in HIEs. Guests however are not official members of this Roundtable.
Co-Chairs:
Judy Remz
Director of Electronic Medical Record Optimization, Training and Support
Atrius Health, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Mark Renfro
Executive Director
North East Florida Regional Health Organization
Contact:
Pam Matthews, Sr. Director, Regional Affairs at pmatthews@himss.org or
(706) 838-0583
Monthly HIMSS Chapter HIE Liaison Roundtable Call:
For more information about the Roundtable calls, please contact Pam Matthews at pmatthews@himss.org or (706) 838 – 0583
June 2010
Guest Speaker: John Kansky, Vice President -Business Development, Indiana Health Information Exchange
Presentation:
Indiana Beacon Collaborative Overview
May 20, 2010
Guest Speaker: Jeff Blair, Director of Health Informatics, LCF Research
Presentation: New Mexico State HIE: One State’s Early Experience with ONC’s State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program.
May 15, 2010
Guest Speaker: Jeff Blair, MBA, Director of Health Informatics at LCF Research
Presentation: New Mexico Health Information Collaborative: One State’s Early Experience with ONC’s State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program
April 15, 2010
Guest Speakers: Gerry Hinkley, Co-Chair, Health Care Industry team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
Presentations: ONC's State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program – Understanding the Nuts and Bolts from Notice of Awarded to Implementation.
February 18th, 2010
Guest Speakers: Larry Garber, M.D., Medical Director for Informatics, Fallon Clinic/SAFEHealth & Jamie Ferguson, Executive Director, HIT Strategy & Policy, Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente
Presentations: SAFEHealth – A Sustainable HIE with a Novel Patient Consent Architecture & The NHIN In Production for Treatment Purposes – About Kaiser Permanente, Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Dept. of Defense using NHIN for real time patient care today
Websites: http://www.safehealth.org/ & https://www.kaiserpermanente.org/
January, 21st 2010
Guest Speakers: Tom Leary, Senior Director, Federal Affairs, HIMSS & Lisa Gallagher, Senior Director, Privacy and Security, HIMSS
Presentation: What You Need to Know Now about the Meaningful Use Proposed Rule AND Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria Interim Final Rule
Website: http://www.himss.org/
December 17th, 2009:
Guest Speakers: K. Meredith Taylor, MPH Director HIMSS Congressional Affairs
Presentations: Legislative Update
Website: http://www.himss.org
Guest Speakers:
Chris Muir, Senior Program Analyst, ONC, Department of HHS
Presentations: ONC Update with focus on HIE
Website: http://www.hhs.gov/
Guest Speakers: Liesa Jenkins, Executive Director, CareSpark
Presentations: Navigation Skills for HIEs
Websites: www.carespark.com
October 15th, 2009:
Guest Speakers: Dick Thompson, Executive Director/CEO, Quality Health Network
Presentations: Quality Improvement via Health Information Exchange: Re-Engineering Communities
Websites: http://www.qualityhealthnetwork.org/
September 17th, 2009:
Guest Speakers: Bobbie Holm, Chief, Policy Branch, California Health and Human Services Agency, Office of Health Information Integrity; Debbie Rieger, Chief Operating Officer, CalRHIO; David Minch, Executive Committee, California e-Health Collaborative and HIPAA/HIE Project Manager, John Muir Health
Presentations: California: On the Fast Track to Widespread Health Information Exchange
Websites: http://www.hie.ca.gov/
August 20th, 2009:
Guest Speakers: Laura Kolkman, President, Mosaica Partners, LLC; K. Bharathan, Executive Director, Southern Arizona Health Information Exchange
Presentations: Rooting the HIE, Part I, Rooting the HIE Part II
Websites: www.MosaicaPartners.com
May 21st, 2009:
Guest Speakers: Laura Kolkman, President, Mosaica Partners, LLC, HIMSS HIE Steering Committee Chair
Presentation: Leading Practices: Leveraging the Economic Stimulus Funds for HIE
Website: www.MosaicaPartners.com
March 19th, 2009:
Guest Speakers: Cindy Brinkhaus, Clinical Information Systems - Project Manager, Atrius Health/Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Presentation: Revolutionary Road: Community Hospital and Physician Practice Integration
Website: http://www.sshosp.org/index.html
February 19th, 2009:
Guest Speakers: Trudi Matthews, Director of Policy and Public Relations, HealthBridge; Dr. Todd Rowland, Executive Director, HealthLINC; Marty Larson, Executive Director, Collaborating Communities Health Information Exchange (CCHIE)
Presentation: HealthBridge 2.0: Taking HIE to the Next Level
Website: http://www.healthbridge.org/
December 18th, 2008:
Guest Speakers: Harris Frankel, MD, President, NeHII, Inc.; Michael Westcott, MD, CMIO, Alegent Health Systems; Deb Bass, Interim Executive Director, NeHII, Inc.; Christopher M. Henkenius, Program Manager, NeHII, Inc.
Presentation: Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII): Community Betterment through HIE
Website: www.nehii.org
October 16th, 2008:
Guest Speaker: Mark Renfro, Executive Director, North East Florida Regional Health Organization
Presentation: Why Should We Invest in a Health Information Exchange?
Website: www.nefrho.org
August 21st, 2008:
Guest Speaker: Theresa Wisdom, MBA, RHIA, Senior Manager, Standards Harmonization; HIMSS
Presentation: Healthcare Information Standards Panel (HITSP)
Website: www.hitsp.org
May 15th, 2008:
Guest Speaker: Lynn Dierker, Project Director, ONC’s State Level HIE Consensus Project
Presentation: State-Level Efforts to Advance Health Information Exchange; Update from the
SLHIE Consensus Project
Project Website: www.staterhio.org
March 20th, 2008:
Guest Speaker: Michael Paddock, CEO of Grants Office
Presentation: Funding Your RHIO Projects
Grants Office Research Report: Funding RHIO Projects
January 17th, 2008:
Guest Speaker: Mark Jacobs, MHA, CPHIM, Director of Technology Services, Well Span Health, Vice Chair, Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI), Chair, 2007 – 08 HIMSS HIE Steering Committee, NAHIT’s ONC HIT Terms Standardization Project: RHIO/HIE Workgroup Member
Presentation:The American Dream of HIE (Pragmatic-ideological Challenges & Successes)
November 15, 2007:
Guest Speaker: Gerry Hinkley, Partner; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP;
Presentation: Privacy Issues in HIE: Legal Dimensions & Implications
October 18, 2007:
Guest Speaker: Lynn Dierker, Project Director; ONC's State Level HIE Consensus Project;
Presentation: State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Project Update
Project website: www.staterhio.org
September 20, 2007:
Guest Speaker: Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chair; Alisa Ray, Executive Director; CCHIT
Presentation: 2008 CCHIT Environmental Scans
Website: www.cchit.org
August 16, 2007:
Guest Speaker: David Sharp, Ph.D.; Director, Center for Health Information Technology, Maryland Health Care Commission
Presentation: A Maryland Overview - HIT
July 19, 2007
Guest Speaker: Didi Davis, Sr. Director - HIMSS; Intergrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Presentation: Introduction to IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Website: www.ihe.net
