Wednesday, November 3

8:00 AM CST Exhibit Hall Opens

9:00-10:00 AM CST, Opening Keynote, “Achieving and Measuring Meaningful Use: A View from the Field,” Judith A. Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, vice president of Information Technology, Aurora Health Care

Education Track: “Health Information Exchanges: Facilitating the Adoption of HIT”

10:00-11:00 AM CST, Education Session 2, “Recruiting for Excellence: One REC’s Experience,” Beth Schindele, project director, Quality Insights of Delaware, Delaware Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center, and Michael Lampros, assistant director of Human Resources, West Virginia Medical Institute

11:00 AM -12:00 PM CST Lunch Break - Exhibit Hall Only Hours

12:00-1:00 PM CST, Education Session 4, “HIE Common Myths,” Deborah Bass, executive director, Nebraska Health Information Exchange (NeHII)

1:00-2:00 PM CST, Education Session 6, “Embracing Direct for Health Information Exchange,” Erik Pupo, MBA, CPHIMS, health Interoperability architect, Vangent

2:00-2:30 PM CST Break

2:30-3:30 PM CST, Education Session 8, “ROI from MedVirginia’s HIE Initiative with the NHIN and Social Security,” Michael Matthews, CEO, MedVirginia

3:30-4:30 PM CST, Education Session 10, “ICD-10: A Roadmap for Success,” Caroline Piselli, RN, MBA, FACHE, global program manager, ICD-10, 3M Health Information Systems

6:00 PM CST Exhibit Hall Closes

6:00-7:00 PM CST, Education Session 12, “The Virtues of an Opt-Out Consent Model for an HIE,” Anna Daly, MSN, RN, HIE coordinator for ICA

7:00-8:00 PM CST, Education Session 14, “Achieving Meaningful Use: A Look at HIMSS Davies Winners,” Tim D. Barker, MD, CMO, Heart of Texas Community Health Center, and Robert Lamberts, MD, Evans Medical Group PC

Education Track: “The Fundamentals of Achieving Meaningful Use: Real-World Approaches”

10:00-11:00 AM CST, Education Session 3, “R U MU Savvy? How an Enterprise Data Warehouse Moves You Toward Meaningful Use,” Dan Furlong, MBA, CPHIMS, Project Management Office, Medical University of South Carolina, and Lynn Garrett, product manager, Telus Health Solutions

11:00 AM -12:00 PM CST Lunch Break - Exhibit Hall Only Hours

12:00-1:00 PM CST, Education Session 5, “Engaging Patients and Families to Support Meaningful Use,” Jim Milewski, student, University of California at Irvine

1:00-2:00 PM CST, Education Session 7, “Medicaid EHR Incentive Program,” Jessica Kahn, MPH, technical director for Health IT, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

2:00-2:30 PM CST Break

2:30-3:30 PM CST, Education Session 9, “Meaningful Use and HIPAA: Compliance Requirements,” Gaurov Dayal, MD, vice president and CMO, Adventist Healthcare, and Arumani Manisundaram, director, Adventist Healthcare

3:30-4:30 PM CST, Education Session 11, “HIMSS Security Survey: A Snap Shot of Healthcare Security Implementation,” Lisa Gallagher, BSEE, CISM, CPHIMS, senior drector of Privacy & Security, HIMSS; Jared Quoyeser, MHA, MBA, director of Americas Healthcare Industry Management, Intel Corp.; and Robert Tennant, MA,
senior policy advisor, Medical Group Management Association

6:00 PM CST Exhibit Hall Closes

6:00-7:00 PM CST, Education Session 13, “Improve Quality and Achieve Clinical Workflow: Get CPOE Right the First Time,” Susan Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH, CPHIMS, chairwoman of the Department of Quality and Patient Safety, Mount Auburn Hospital, and Jeannette Currie, assistant IT director, CPOE project manager, Mount Auburn Hospital

7:00-8:00 PM CST, Education Session 15, “Zero to MU in 52 Weeks,” Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS, clinical director, REACH – Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT, and Phil Deering, regional coordinator, Key Health Alliance
 
Thursday, November 4

8:00 AM CST Exhibit Hall Opens

Education Track: “Health Information Exchanges: Facilitating the Adoption of HIT”

9:00-10:00 AM CST, Education Session 16, “HIE Financial Sustainability: Why it is Top Priority,” Gerry Yantis, vice president, Capgemini LLC, and Drs. Toon van der Werf of
Capgemini Netherlands

10:00-10:30 AM CST Break

10:30-11:30 AM CST, Education Session 18, “Meaningful Use Legos: Modular Approaches to Qualify for Government Funding,” Mariam Paramore, senior vice president of Clinical & Government Services, Emdeon, and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA, senior advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians, and principal, The Kibbe Group LLC

11:30 AM-12:30 PM CST, Education Session 20, “HIE Connectivity Using the NHIN: Lessons from the SSA, C-HIEP & NHIN Projects,” Todd Rowland, MD, executive director, HealthLINC, and Rodney Cain, chief technology architect, HealthBridge

Education Track: “The Fundamentals of Achieving Meaningful Use: Real-World Approaches”

9:00-10:00 AM CST, Education Session 17, “Leveraging IT Adoption and Utilization to Achieve Meaningful Use,” David Ehrenberger, MD, CMO, Integrated Physician Network (iPN) Avista

10:00-10:30 AM CST Break

10:30-11:30 AM CST, Education Session 19, “Communities of Care: Promoting Healthy Change Through Social Media,” Amy Cueva, CEO and co-founder, Mad*Pow

11:30 AM-12:30 PM CST, Education Session 21, “Meaningfully Using Technology to Improve Quality of Care and Practice Efficiencies,” Barbara Morris, MD, CMO, Community Care Physicians

12:30-1:30 PM CST Lunch Break and Exhibit Hall Only Hours

1:30-2:30 PM CST, Closing Keynote, “Meaningful Use: Current and Future Standards,” John D. Halamka, MD, MS, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and co-chair, HIT Standards Committee.

4:30 PM CST Exhibit Hall Closes