Registration & Breakfast

Opening Remarks: Rob Waters, VP Development Healthcare Stimulus Exchange

Keynote: Health IT Innovation and Transformation (Topic TBC)
Dr Aaron McKethan, Beacon Program Director, Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)

NeHC Listening Session: What have you heard about NHIN? Is it fact or fiction? 

Experts representing the National eHealth Collaborative, a bi-directional feedback between health IT stakeholders and decision makers, will participate in an interactive discussion with participants to share information on, and gather feedback about, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and it's affiliations with other programs.

Panelists:
Thomas Fritz, American Hospital Association Representative at the NeHC and CEO Inland Northwest Health Services
W. Holt Andersen, Executive Director, North Carolina Healthcare and Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA)

Health Systems: Planning for Meaningful Use and Community Connect

Moderator: Greg Linden, VP CIO Stratis Health 

Panelists:
David Liebovitz, CMIO Northwestern Memorial Hospital
David Stumpf, M.D., Ph.D.,SVP Clinical Data Strategy, United HealthGroup
Kathy Young, CIO, Centegra Health
Stephen Brown, Director Technology Projects The Urban Health Initiative, University of Chicago Medical Center 

Session Description: This Discussion will focus on how health systems intend to implement HIE to qualify for Meaningful Use, with an empahsis on how MU can help drive local/regional communities of providers and health plans towards health information exchange with each other. Also, the panel will discuss how HIE can address coordination and cost issues that can be solved with better, richer access to data. 

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 

Regional Leadership Presentation: Health Information Exchange Perspective
Putting Quality into Action: Indiana's Triple Crown of Health IT Stimulus Awards

J.Marc Overhage MD, CEO President Indiana Health Information Exchange

Session description: As one of only a few states to receive the three main Health IT awards by the Department of Health & Human Services, the $16M Indiana Health Information Exchange-led Indiana Beacon Community serves as the cornerstone for Indiana's health IT quality improvement efforts. This presentation will focus in what Indiana is doing that is different and unique in health information exchange and quality improvement efforts and how the Indiana Beacon Community is the capstone for translating other Indiana ARRA programs in health IT ($10M State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program and Purdue University's $12M Regional Extension Center) into specific, measurable outcomes and transformational approaches into meaningful use.

Roundtable: Ensuring internal EMR adoption and community connect strategies

Moderator:  Richard Walsh, Director Strategic Initiatives, Greenway Medical Technologies
Panelists:
Tim Long, MD, CMO The Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services
Dr Mark Shields, Senior Medical Director for Advocate Physician Partners, VP Advocate Health
Stasia Kahn MD, VP & CIO Northern Illinois Physicians for Connectivity & Co-Founder of Fox Prarie Medical Group

HIE Success: Building a 'trust fabric' between health IT stakeholders: Delivering secure ID solutions to Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and their payer / provider customers. 

Session Description: Dr William Braithwaite, CMO Anakam, Former Senior Advisor HIT Policy Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)  

- will discuss the critical success factors and the logical dependancies between Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and the long term national goal of higher quality, lower cost healthcare. Lean why 'trust' is one of the key ingredients needed to meet 'meaningful use' and how strong identity management is required to engender that trust.

Liesa Jenkins, Executive Director of Carespark RHIO
- will discuss the pitfalls, challenges, successes and future outlook for identity management from the RHIO perspective. She will also identify the key role which the provider, HIE, state and federal entities could play in this effort.

Keynote: Local, State and National Perspectives on Health Information Exchange

Michael Matthews CEO, Med Virginia, Senior Advisor Office of Health IT, Commonwealth of Virginia

Session Description: As a fully operational HIE and the first to go into limited production on the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), MedVirginia has unique perspectives on demonstrated value of HIE initiatives. From support to local safety net providers to its partnership with the SSA to automate disability determinations, MedVirginia will share approaches to collaboration that result in value creation for multiple stakeholders. Also discussed will be the importance of ensuring that all providers and patients realize the benefits of health IT and HIE.

Plenary Session: An ARRA EHR Certification Alternative for Hospitals
Alisa Ray, Executive Director, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
Patricia Becker, VP Technology Services and CIO, University HealthSystem Consortium

Session Description: As hospitals anticipate the benefits of federal incentive payments for meaningful use of certified EHR technology, some face an unexpected hurdle.. Many hospitals will be able to meet the requirement through the use products purchased by vendors, but many may to achieve it on their own. Hundreds of hospitals have built their It capacity over the past decade or so, through multiple commercial products, internal development or a mix of both. Without the ability to certify this self developed or legacy technology, hospitals will lack the first prerequisite for qualifying for the incentives.

The presentation describes an alternative path to certification planned by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) to help qualify their existing EHR Technology for ARRA incentive payments.

HIE/Health System Roundtable: HIE Challenges and Benefits from a hospital, RHIO and state perspective

Health Information Exchange is no longer an option - but what exactly if HIE. A health system, RHIO and State HIE will share their HIE perspective, challenges, benefits and long term plans.

Moderator: Ed Novelli, Senior Director Axolotl Corp
Panelists: 
Deb Bass, Interim Executive Director, Nebraska Health Information Initiative
Ed Duryee, CIO, EMH Regional Healthcare System
Valerie Glesnes-Anderson, Acting Director Capital Area RHIO

State Leadership Panel: The role of State Designated Entities in governance, HIE and support for EMR adoption

Moderator: Ed Barthel, MD, MS Director of Connected Health, Microsoft Health Solutions Group

Panelists:
Mary McGinnis, Program Director, Office of Health Information Technology, State of Illinois
Liesa Jenkins, Executive Director, Carespark 
Monica Arrowsmith, Director Indiana Health IT Extension Center

Privacy and Security: Compliance in the ARRA Era
Amy Leopard, Partner & Practice Leader Healthcare Technology & Bioscience, Walter & Haverfield
David Mayer, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) office of Civil Rights 

Session Description: Are you ready to navigate the Compliance Risks under the ARRA/HITECH? Gain an understanding of the legal and regulatory challenges presented under HIPAA, HITECH and the Stark and anti-kickback laws. Join us for a presentation on the following issues:

1. Properly alining Hospital and Physician EHR adoption and data sharing without afoul of referral laws.

2. Compliance Issues under the OCR Privacy and Security Rule and CMS Meaningful Use Rule.

3. Rules of Engagement for Business Associate Relationships.

4. Harmonizing HIPAA and HITEC for Patient Engagement: Notice, Accounting for Disclosures and Release of Information.