Opening Remarks: Rob Waters VP Development, Healthcare Stimulus Exchange  
John Reifenberger Vice President of HIE Deployment Axolotl Corp

Keynote: Information Technology and Healthcare Transformation
Lonny Reisman, Chief Medical Officer, Aetna 

Dr Reisman will be discussing his perspective as Chief Medical Officer of Aetna on the ways in which Information Technology can be used to for healthcare in several important ways.

The delivery of advanced clinical decision support at the point of care can facilitate greater coordination of care such as Patient Centered Medical Home and can also intelligently inform the interaction between the patient and the physician in order to increase the quality of care and decrease unnecessary testing and errors as well as the decreased overall cost of medical treatment.

He will also be discussing the implications of Healthcare Reform for building interconnected systems that will serve to turn data into useful information in the healthcare arena.

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Health Systems: Planning for Meaningful Use

Session Leader: Lori Evans CEO Active Health Provider Solutions
Panelists:
Robert Kagarise, Director of IT Strategic Planning,Catholic Health East
John Reifenberger Vice President of HIE Deployment Axolotl
Monica Muttreja, Project Manager, Continuum Health Partners

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Ambulatory/HIE Regional Leadership:
Jesse Singer, Development Director, Primary Care Information Project (PCIP)

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Ambulatory IT Leadership: Ensuring EHR Adoption and Focus Towards Community Connect Strategies

Moderator: Richard Walsh, Director Strategic Initiatives, Greenway Medical Technologies
Panelists: 
Steve Berman, Director Business Development, Emerging Health IT (Subsidiary Montefiore Medical Center)
Aman Bhasin, CIO, Preferred Health Partners
Stephen Li CIO Liberty Health

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Keynote: The Reality of HIE Adoption

Jason Hess, General Manager, Clinical Research, KLAS 
With the advent of meaningful use requirements and the prospect of a Nationwide Health Information Network , interest in health information exchange (HIE) solutions is high. But while marketing by vendors would have provider organizations believe that there are plentiful examples of successful HIE organizations built on commercial technologies, proven models are scarce. Based on months of research this presentation helps providers separate HIE fact from fiction. Jason highlights the key vendors currently offering commercial solutions for HIEs how many validated HIEs each vendor has live and which of those solutions have been successful for healthcare organizations. Covering both acute-to-acute and acute-to-ambulatory exchanges, Jason helps participants understand the common characteristics among successful HIEs and what industry trends are helping to shape this emerging market. 

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Regional Leadership Presentation: State HIE Perspective: 
Roberto Martinez, MD, Medical Director, Office of Health Information Technology Transformation, NYS Department of Health

After the presentation, the audience will have of the goals and strategies for statewide health information exchange in New York State.

The building blocks of interoperable health IT will be discussed. The presentation includes governance, policy development, and technical requirements. The presentation also elaborates on how the statewide efforts align with Medicaid and Federal Stimulus funding and guidance.

The presentation will conclude with examples of how the multiple initiatives coordinate in making the the New York Health IT Vision come together.

HIE/Health System Roundtable Discussion

"On March the 15th, DHHS announced a second round of funding of State HIE grants bringing the grand total to $548 million. Now that all the states and eligible territories have received their initial year of funding, the next challenge will be the development of the business processes and business model that engage subscribers and create a sustainable operating model. Federal funding is intended only as a catalyst and will rapidly dwindle, based on the expectations that a sustainable cash flow model will replace it.

How will these entities become sustainable?

The panel will explore the challenges, current business models and future thinking in an area so critical to the success of their organizations.

Moderator:
Marc Holland, CEO, System Research Services
Panelists:
Irene Koch, Executive Director, Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX)
Thomas Check, CIO, Visiting Nurse Services of New York
Tom Moore, New York Clinical Information Exchange, NYCLIX Technical Director
Joseph Orlando, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bergen Regional Medical Center, LP 
 

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HIE Integration with an Advanced Medical Home:James Younkin, Project Director, Key stone Health Information Exchange (KeyHIE)

"Learn how one of the nation's most advanced medical home programs is leveraging a health information exchange (HIE) to extend it's capabilities. Geisinger Health System has applied it's Provencare model of HIT-Supported care process redesign to using Geisinger's EHR and networked care medical home. In addition to using Geisinger's EHR and networked PHR, the primary-care medical home uses the regional HIE, the Keystone Health Information Exchange (KeyHIE) to share information with non-Geisinger facilities."

Security, Privacy and Other Compliance Risks in the ARRA Era
Robert Belfort, Partner Healthcare Industry, Manatt Phelps and Phillips

The presentation will provide an overview of the heightened legal risks faced by healthcare organizations under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). The presentations will cover the following issues.

1. Heightened civil and criminal penalties for security and privacy violations
2. The expanded role of the FTC and State Attorneys General to privacy and security enforcement
3. The impact of breach notification
4. The potential application of the False Claims Act and other fraud abuse laws to data submissions by hospitals and physician organizations in support of ARRA meaningful use incentive payments