Keynote Presenters
Opening Keynote, Monday October 27th, 2008
Marc Probst
Chief Information Officer
Intermountain Health Care
Keynote Presentation, Tuesday October 28th
Deborah Gash
Chief Information Officer
Saint Luke's Health System
Conference Agenda - 2008 Fall CCS HIT Los Angeles
Monday, October 27, 2008
7:30 am Registration Opens
8:15am Opening Remarks by Day One Conference Co-Chairs
Laura Peters
Senior Executive
Agile 360, division of Entisys Solutions
Thad Morrow
Director of Sales
Entisys Solutions
8:30am - 9:30am General Panel Session
Care Intelligence - Innovative Uses of Data from Health IT Systems
Improvements in healthcare quality, patient safety, and efficiency are the principal reasons for implementing health IT systems. One of the underlying benefits of any IT system is the patient data that's now readily available. This value of this data is not just for physicians and patients but it also holds tremendous opportunities for all stakeholders in the healthcare system. Understand how data from health IT systems is creating additional value for providers, apply this information to transform health data into meaningful and actionable information that drives real-time decision making and leverage best practice strategies to improve patient outcomes. Don't miss this informative session where our panelists will discuss innovative uses of this data and the controversy around it.
Moderator: Gene Fernandez, CIO, LA Care Health Plan
Michael Cantor, MD, Director Healthcare Informatics, Pfizer
Mark Jacobs, Director of Technology, Wellspan Health
John Geade, Director of IT, El Centro Regional Medical Center
Naomi Fried, VP Innovation & Advanced Technology, Kaiser Permanente
9:30am - 10:00am Keynote Presentation
Opening Keynote, Monday October 27th, 2008
"Success in the I.S. Game Requires the WHOLE TEAM"
Marc Probst
Chief Information Officer
Intermountain Health Care
10:00am - 10:30am Morning Networking Break
10:30am -10:45am Innovation Demo
MDdatacor
Join MDdatacor for a demonstration of an interoperable, patented technology that automatically collects, analyzes and reports on clinical information directly from physicians' existing electronic systems, regardless of vendor (EMRs, labs, registries, practice management systems - even transcription). This solution has been used to support quality improvement, health information exchange and patient-centered medical home programs for over 7,000 physicians representing more than 7 million patients. Also, be sure to attend the follow-up diabetes outcomes improvement case study that highlights this technology, presented by Dr. Stephen Ober on Tuesday at 11:30.
Tim Roche
President, CEO & Co-Founder
MDdatacor
10:45am -11:30am Case Study
Avera Health - IT and the Greater Vision
The picture of information technology within Avera Health has been shifting over the past three years from being independent and regionally focused, to having much more of a system-wide approach. The implementation of a system-wide EMR over the past two years has solidified the importance of a unified approach to IT. At Avera, IT is more than just the moving of traditional data. It has also incorporated into the greater vision of telehealth applications. As in most situations, the first 12 years of telehealth services started slowly. However, in the past three years the growth and expansion of various telehealth-related services has been significant. These include the traditional in-patient and out-patient consults, and a wide variety of additional program growth. With programs like eICU® Care and CareVIEW in operation, and additional projects like Tele-Urgent Care. e-Pharmacy and Emergency Telehealth in the implementation phase, combined with the new EMR, these rural communities supported by the Avera Health System have better access to quality health care services close to home.
This presentation will highlight the evolution of IT within the Avera Health System and will include a summary of the issues and difficulties encountered as well as some of the successes and opportunities afforded by this greater vision.
Jim Veline
SVP & Chief Information Officer
Avera Health
Mary DeVany
Director of Telehealth
Avera Health
11:30am - 12:00pm Case Study
Communication Strategy - Rethinking your Organization's Approach to ICT
Today, the healthcare sector is challenged to be financially responsible while managing an aging population and clinician shortages against the backdrop of a technological boom that has shaped and transformed almost every other industry on a global scale. Yet, as most experts agree, the healthcare sector has been slow to adopt information and communications technology (ICT.) But leveraging ICT solutions to provide the highest quality of patient care can and should produce financially sound and viable healthcare systems. ICT will be a competitive differentiator for healthcare organizations and it will enable them to address the challenges they face. Do you view your ICT investments as expenses or assets for competitive advantage?
Gay Madden
Chief Information Officer
Florida Hospice of the Suncoast
Liz Hervatic
Senior Director Healthcare
Alcatel-Lucent
12:00pm - 1:30pm Break for Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Case Study
Alameda County Medical Center and Virtualization Oriented Architecture
The focus of this discussion will be around the successful integration of the Entisys Virtualization Oriented Architecture® methodology and associated key virtualization solutions resulting in massive cost savings. Issues addressed will include Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Patient Care, Mobile computing, Secure Access, Desktop Virtualization and overall value of virtualization of your healthcare environment will be discussed with an open panel for questions. Don’t miss this chance to learn about solid solutions around similar issues you may be facing today!
Jaymes Davis
Virtualization Practice Manager
Entisys Solutions
Dave Bennet
Director of Technical Support
Alameda County Medical Center
2:30pm - 3:30pm General Panel Session
Security and Innovation in Health IT
Forever in search of new ways to steal personal data about Internet users, identity thieves have found a fertile new source of sensitive information to sell on the black market: online medical records. And the record number of Americans without health insurance has created an exploding market for fraudsters who traffic in insurance packages created with stolen identities. Meanwhile, more hospitals, insurance companies and drugstores are making patient records accessible online. This panel will address the latest security and privacy issues in health IT and what your organization should be prepared for today and in the future. Discover what's new on the horizon, up and coming trends and what your organization should be thinking about.
Moderator: Thomas Lorentzen, Regional Director, Region IX, U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
Jennifer Gilburg, Director of Business Development, VeriSign
Doug Darby, Director of IT, Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District
David Fortini, Director of Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent
3:30pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Networking Break
4:00pm - 4:30pm Case Study/Presentation
The e-ICU: A Model for the Future
The e-ICU at Saint Luke's Health System supports patient safety and transforms care by being another layer of eyes and ears watching out for patients, standardizing critical care, and extending specialty care to rural areas. Bedside staff has immediate access to critical care experts at the push of a button and uses a national, critical-care database to research disease or conditions. It also extends knowledgeable staff to a larger, underserved area and is a recruiting tool for rural facilities/communities. The results are decreased length of stay and improved mortality rates, and Saint Luke's is in the top 5 e-ICU sites in the nation for performance and improvement in patient outcomes. The e-ICU is an example of how technology enhances patient care and actually demonstrates that implementing technology can have an effect on patient outcomes and overall healthcare.
Walk away with insight and understanding on business challenges solved, what worked and what didn't and learn how your organization can effectively leverage an e-ICU.
Jennifer Ball, RN, BSN, MBA
eICU Operations Director & Director, Nursing Informatics
Saint Luke's Health System
4:30pm - 5:00pm General Panel Session
Connecting the Healthcare Enterprise and Community for Improved Outcomes and Coordination of Care
This session will provide an in-depth look at on-going case studies addressing treatment health, outcome date and usage. Our panelist's will address the healthcare needs for supporting provision of care and resulting in outcomes analysis and identifying ways to improve care. Walk away with real world examples describing population specific programs.
Rhonda Poirier, MD, CEO, Jaxcare
Cindie Watkins, Director of IT, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
Don Holmquest, MD, PhD, JD, President & CEO, CalRHIO
5:00pm - 6:00pm Opening Cocktail Reception
Don't miss this interactive and fun reception amongst your colleagues and peers toasting an incredible day of thought leadership and networking.
Tuesday October 28th, 2008
8:00am Registration Opens
8:30am Opening Remarks by Day Two Conference Chair
John Wade
Former CIO, Saint Luke's Health System
2007 HIMSS Chair
8:45am - 9:45am General Panel Session
PHR's, Consumerism and Healthcare
Consumer-centered healthcare is proposed as a solution to reduce healthcare costs through more informed patient strategies. Easier said than done, so what results are available on PHR's and how many patients are currently using them? What kind of data is going in, who is using it and are providers inputting data? This session will address solutions to for greater utilization, making them most effective and reveal adoption and usage data.
Moderator: Dr. Holly Miller, CMIO, University Hospitals
Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager, Google Health
Philip Marshall, MD, MPH, VP Product Strategy, WebMD
Sanjay Gupta, CFO & Director of Strategy, Dossia
9:45am - 10:00am Innovation Demo
PracticeIT
PracticeIT is the simplest electronic medical record solution available, supported with unlimited premium service, all at an affordable annual fee. We deliver the only results you value - a successful EMR/PM implementation. And technology that fades into the background so you can do what you do best: Practice Medicine.
Rich Steinle
CEO
PracticeIT
10:00am - 10:30am Morning Networking Break
10:30am - 11:00am Keynote Presentation
Healthcare Challenges Meets Proven Results
The U.S. healthcare system today faces more challenges than ever before. Healthcare leaders from across the sector are tasked with developing innovative strategies that deliver a higher quality of care at a lower cost. If leveraged properly technology can be a key enabler in this process. This presentation will highlight how healthcare technology solutions are enabling providers to overcome challenges and a compelling value proposition for HIT investment. Walk away with an understanding of the results delivered and how your organization can establish its own measureable metrics for success.
Deborah Gash
Chief Information Officer
Saint Luke's Health System
11:00am - 11:30am Case Study/Presentation
Naomi Fried
VP Innovation & Advanced Technology
Kaiser Permanente
11:30am - 12:00pm Case Study/Presentation
Going Beyond the Claim: Automating Clinical Data Collection and Utilizing Natural Language Processing for Improved Patient Outcomes
Quality improvement, pay-for-performance, and patient-centered care initiatives are being implemented to reduce clinical complications, decrease health care costs, and improve the quality of life through wellness or management of chronic diseases. However, identifying patients, collecting clinical data in order to apply individualized interventions, and monitoring outcomes can be an expensive, time-consuming and inaccurate process. This presentation will cover a case study of how a health plan successfully used a system with Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to automatically review clinical data residing in dictated notes, electronic medical records, lab, registry and practice management systems to identify lab values, examinations and other metrics in a disease management program.
Stephen Ober, MD, MBA
Executive Director of New Ventures
Boston University Office of Technology Development
12:00pm - 1:30pm Break for Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm General Panel Session
Vision for the Future: Working with Payers and Health Plans
Multi-stakeholder collaboration and interoperability underscore two of the biggest challenges healthcare executives face providing high quality patient care and strategic planning for the future. Closer collaboration between providers and payers alike can only result in a more cost effective and efficient healthcare system. This session will expose HIT considerations from the payers perspective and address critical issues to consider when formulating a strategy on how providers can more closely align IT initiatives with health plans.
Moderator: Tom Check, CIO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
David Lansky, President & CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health
Julie Klapstein, CEO, Availity
Charles Kennedy, MD, VP Health Information Technology, Wellpoint
2:30pm - 2:45pm Afternoon Networking Break
2:45pm - 3:45pm General Panel Session
2014: Leadership and HIT Realities
The prognosis for adoption of universal electronic health records by 2014 seems bleak at best however that doesn't mean healthcare systems are not making great strides leveraging IT. With the cost of IT investment so high and the ROI, if utilized properly, so great informed leadership and vision from a systemic and organizational level is more critical than ever. The panelists will discuss weighing critical and sometimes conflicting issues of healthcare delivery, policy and finance. This informative discussion will provide a fresh look at the considerations, challenges and opportunities that healthcare leaders are confronted with when evaluating and implementing IT systems.
Moderator: Cindie Watkins, Director of IT, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
Zan Calhoun, CIO, HealthCare Partners
Scott Joslyn, SVP& CIO, Memorial Health Services
Gay Madden, CIO, Florida Hospice of the Suncoast
3:45 pm Closing Remarks by Day Two Conference Chair
