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Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare
Group/Convention Code: “HIM”
HIMSS/ARRA Block Rate: $99.00 + tax per night


Collaborator Chapters

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HIMSS Greater Chicago Chapter
HIMSS Heart of America Chapter
HIMSS Indiana Chapter
HIMSS Iowa Chapter
HIMSS Kansas Chapter
HIMSS Michigan Chapter
HIMSS Midwest Gateway Chapter
HIMSS Minnesota Chapter
HIMSS Ohio Central Southern Chapter
HIMSS Northern Ohio Chapter
HIMSS Wisconsin Chapter

American Medical Informatics Association

National Cooperative of Health Networks Association.

Rural Health Resource Center

Session Matrix

The Promise of Healthcare Today: Steps Leading to Achieving Meaningful Use

7:30 - 8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast Tabletop Exhibits

8:00 - 9:00

Keynote: Ten Steps for Creating your Roadmap to EHR Meaningful Use

This session will explain the maturation model of EHR "meaningful use" criteria from 2011 through 2015 and discuss how to create your organization's roadmap to achieve meaningful use and receive the federal incentives outlined in ARRA.

Speaker:Judy Murphy,  RN, FACMI, FHIMSS
Vice President, Information Systems, Aurora

 

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

 

Large Hospital Track

Small Hospital Track

Solution Provider
Industry Briefing

9:00 - 10:25

Keane

Facilitating Interoperability with the Proper Tools and Service Offerings

Speakers:
J. Mark Hamilton, Business Development Manager,
Keane, Inc.

Tony Damron, RN,
Senior Clinical Consultant,
Keane, Inc.

IntraNexus, Inc.

Great By Design

Speakers:
Rick O’Pry, CEO

Larry Perreault, VP Sales

Kay Loebel, RN, Clinical System Specialist

Learn how your organization can benefit from a true web-based system - SAPPHIRE Web. SAPPHIRE utilizes the latest secure technology with modules including a fully integrated EHR, CPOE, clinical documentation, patient scheduling, patient access, patient financials, and document management

ARRA, KLAS Snapshot of Today's Readiness

KLAS explores Top 10 hurdles of acute care physician CPOE adoption and analyzes “meaningful use” measurement based on vendor performance and clinical adoption research — including ambulatory CPOE readiness taken from EMR vendor performance ratings. Find out which professional services firms are ready and willing to assist in the CPOE adventure. Uncover new findings about HIE/RHIO successes, discover their relationship to ARRA and examine today's potential product readiness snapshot by extending KLAS research into 2011-2014.

Speaker: Karen Ondo,
Executive Vice President, Research Quality, KLAS Enterprises, LLC

10:25 - 12:00

Oracle

How Providers Can Elevate Quality, Safety and Care Delivery through Use of HIEs

The exchange of electronic health records is a key part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services. The customers profiled in this 90 minute session are users of Oracle's HTB and other solutions that enable providers to capture and maintain medical records at the point of care as well as to exchange comprehensive clinical information or records elevating the patient experience and the provider's service delivery platform. The discussion will focus on patient experience, stakeholder buy-in and quality delivery of care based on Health Information Exchange (HIE) standards and 3 possible models for HIEs, federated, centralized and hybrid in addition to discussing the requirements for delivery of secure, accurate, and reliable information across a secure platform.

Speaker: Mark McCourt, Regional Vice President

Meta

Implementing affordable closed loop medication safety as a meaningful use strategy.

Implementing a medication safety strategy that includes CPOE, Pharmacy, and Bar code medication administration is a key objective of the meaningful use requirements for electronic health records. In this session, Meta will demonstrate 4 integrated products - MetaCare CPOE, MetaCare Rx, MetaCare CPOE, and MetaCare Intellidocs for Clinical Documentation. This affordable suite of products allows small hospitals to implement high quality patient safety products typically costing much more.

Speakers:
Sal Barcia, President/CEO, Overview of Meta Closed Loop Medication Safety Products

Martin Haluza, Senior Analyst, MetaCare CPOE

Stephany Carrillo, Senior Pharmacist, MetaCare Rx Pharmacy Mana

Kathleen Morgan, Senior Product Manager, MetaCare eMAR BCMA

Brian Weaver, Pharmacy Analyst, Metacare Intellidocs

 
12:00 - 1:00 Networking and Lunch
 

General Session: Legal Strategies on the Road to Meaningful Use: Negotiating Strategies to Manage Expectations and Avoid Disputes

With the emphasis on meaningful use, healthcare organizations will no doubt be adding systems and replacing systems. Because of this, customers and vendors must establish clear and reasonable expectations when negotiating vendor purchases. Learn effective tips on how to avoid vendor disputes while on the road to achieving meaningful use.

Speaker: Steven J. Fox, JD, Partner, Post and Schell, PC

1:00 - 2:25

McKesson

Paragon: McKesson’s Integrated Hospital Information System for Community Hospitals of All Sizes

McKesson’s Paragon® HIS is an affordable community hospital information system (HIS) that provides better patient safety and comprehensive clinicals; HIPAA and regulatory compliance; financial management capabilities; and a fast-track to electronic health records to hospitals ranging from critical access to mid-size community hospitals. As a fully integrated clinical and financial information system, Paragon meets the specific needs of community hospitals by providing low cost of ownership; easy-to-use, comprehensive clinical applications; a familiar Microsoft® technology and architecture; a single vendor for all your revenue cycle needs; and the strength of McKesson as your healthcare partner. Learn more about Paragon and see an overview of the product.

Speakers:
Adam Cornwell,
Client Executive,
McKesson Provider Technologies

Carie McLean,
Clinical Product Consultant,
McKesson Provider Technologies

Oracle

Developing a Web Presence Strategy to Drive Business Returns: Oracle Customer Case Studies (North Americas)

The case studies profiled in the presentation will provide information about Oracle Customers who developed Web-site redesigns to meet the needs of internal and external constiuency groups, including key stakeholders. Discussion will center around how they deployed robust and open solutions to integrate their environments driving transactional, retail and educational web services in support of varied clinical and business processes to create new revenue sources, improve knowledge flows, customer service and drive mission-critical communications. A key objective for some was achieving desired enhancements to better suit end users, and fully utilize existing technology. The case studies will emphasize the business objectives and business value enabled with the technologies selected and how these technologies became a part of orgnaizational long-term strategy.

Speaker: Mary Kilmer,
Senior Director, Healthcare

General Session:
Healthcare IT Trends and Glimmers

HIMSS Analytics surveys every non-federal hospital and health system in the US every year by conducting a comprehensive, granular studyof healthcare IT presence and use. Dave Garets will discuss the reality of what's planned and what's been done in healthcare IT, based on interviews with 5,171 hospital and health system CIOs and other IT and business executives. He’ll also discuss where the data says healthcare IT is going in 2009 and beyond.

Speaker:
David E. Garets,
President and CEO, HIMSSAnalytics; Executive
Vice President, HIMSS

2:30 - 3:55 Zynx

The Importance of evidence-based clinical decision support in your “meaningful use” strategy

Achieving meaningful use requires enabling better decisions at the point of care. Clinical evidence integrated into the clinical workflow has been proven 112% more effective for changing clinical practice. This session will provide tools and best practices to integrate evidence-based order sets, rules and alerts into the clinical workflow.

Speaker:
Neil Thompson,
Sales Manager

Healthland

Another Rural Community Hospital Chooses Healthland EHR Solution- See the Process from Beginning to Board Approval

Speaker: Chris Schoenrock,
VP of Sales

 
4:00 - 5:00 General Session

Critical Requirements for EMR Adoption: Getting Meaningful Use

The rush is on to automate care delivery organizations. Numerous surveys have documented that the vast majority of healthcare organizations, including ambulatory clinics and hospitals, have yet to implement comprehensive electronic medical record systems. HIMSS Analytics data shows that that’s not completely true in the hospital environment, but by any measure, there’s much work to be done.

This presentation will describe how to prepare your organization for such an initiative (Hint: It’s not about the technology):

Speaker: David E. Garets, President and CEO
HIMSS Analytics; Executive Vice President, HIMSS

5:00 - 6:00

Networking Reception Tabletop Exhibits

6:00

Tabletop Exhibits Close