Welcome to San Francisco:Introduction Rob Waters, VP Development, Healthcare Stimulus Exchange
Keynote Address
8:45-9:00
Opening Remarks: Glenn Keet, President Axolotl Corp
9:00-10:00
Keynote Address: Establishing the Health IT Infrastructure for Health Reform
Paul Tang, MD, CMIO, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Vice Chair HIT Policy Committee
The HITECH provision of the Recovery Act provides substantial incentive funding for Health IT - provided physicians and hospitals meet the 'meaningful use' criteria. Dr Tang will review the rationale and framework of the HIT Policy committee recommendations regarding meaningful use and put them in context of health reform.
10.00-10.30
Break in Exhibit Hall
10:30-11:30
The Nuts and Bolts of Incentive Payments: Overview of incentive payment opportunities in Medicare and Medicaid CMS (Speaker TBC)
The Medicare and Medicaid Health IT provisions in the Recovery Act provide incentives and support for the adoption of certified electronic health records (EHRs). The Recovery Act authorizes bonus payments for eligible professionals and hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid if they become meaningful users of certified EHRs. The bonus payments will help them lessen the financial burden for many healthcare providers to adopt this technology
11:30-12:30
Health Systems: Regional Leadership Session Leader:James A. Ferguson, Executive Director of Health IT Strategy and Policy, Kaiser Permanente.
Panelists:
William Spooner, CIO, Sharp Healthcare Richard Roth, Senior Director Strategy and Business Development, Catholic Healthcare West.
12:30-2:00
Lunch in Exhibit Hall
2:00-2:45
Group Clinic/HIE Regional Leadership: The role of HIE in Meaningful Use - Connecting Ambulatory Physicians Disparate EMRs Bill Beighe, CEO Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange, CIO Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz Robert Keet, MD FACP, CMO Axolotl Corp
To receive Stimulus incentives, physicians must have certified EHR systems and must achieve the applicable meaningful use measures including exchanging information with other providers. Hospitals and other data providers need to provide HIE capabilities in order for both hospitals and physicians to provide meaningful use. Implementing an Interoperability Hub enabled us to move to the next level of exchange - from unidirectional (HIS to EMR) to bidirectional between and HIS and EMR and EMR to EMR. The Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange connects a large IPA, Physicians Medical Group, two local hospitals, two national and two local reference labs, two imaging centers and several FQHC safety net clinics.
2:45-3:15
Break in Exhibit Hall
3:15-4:15
Ambulatory IT Leadership: Ensuring internal EHR adoption and focus towards community connect strategies. Moderator: Richard Walsh, Director Strategic Initiatives Greenway Medical Technologies Panelists: Ernie Hood, CIO Group Health Cooperative Tom Williams, Executive Director Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) Leigh Hutchins, VP & COO NAMMCAL
4.15-5.15
Cocktail Reception
Day 2 - January 20th, 2010
7:00-8:00
Breakfast
7:45-8:45
The IT Anatomy of Healthcare Reform: Healthcare Information Exchange is the Backbone William Braithwaite, MD, PHD, Chief Medical Officer, Anakam, Former Senior Advisor Health Information Policy, DHHS
Dr Braithwaite will lay out his view on the logical dependancies between health information exchange and the long term national goal of higher quality, lower cost healthcare. He will discuss the major barriers to achieving the required infrastructure and how current national standards and incentive programs can support the industry moving in the right direction.
8:45-9:00
Break
9:00-10:00
Regional Leadership: RHIO/HIE Perspective Joan Henneberry, Chair CORHIO, Executive Director, Colorado Department Healthcare Policy and Finance Donna Lynne, CEO, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Board Member and Former Chair Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO)
The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) is a non profit organization that facilitates health information exchange to improve care for all Coloradans. Created in 2007, CORHIO serves consumers, employers, doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, home health agencies, health plans and local health information exchanges that are interested in improving the health of all Coloradans through the use of health information technology.
This session will introduce you to the two dynamic leaders who built CORHIO's reputation as one of the nation's health-IT success stories. Donna and Joan will walk the audience through the planning, collaboration and stakeholder engagement activities that were critical to CORHIO's early success. Then, they'll take you on a journey from their initial data- exchange pilot to Governor Ritter's recent decision to designate CORHIO as the state-level entity to receive health information technology (HIT) funds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
10:00-11:00
Developing an Intra- and Inter - organizational Health Information Exchange Strategy?
Moderator: Lori Hack, Chairperson California eHealth Collaborative, CEO Object Health Panelists: Jan Root, Executive Director, Utah Health Information Network Steve Martin, CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield Nebraska Will Ross, COO Redwood Mednet
11:30-12-30
Regional Extension Centers (RECs): What support will state designated entities and Regional Health IT Extension Centres provide now and throughout my EMR deployment?
Moderator: Timathie Leslie, Managing Director, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP Panelists: Sajid Ahmed, Director IT LA Care Health Plan Eileen Moscaritolo, CIO CalOptima
12:30-1:30
Privacy and Security Compliance in the ARRA Era Gerry Hinkley, Co-Chair Health Care Industry Team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Deven McGraw, Director Health Privacy Project, Center for Technology and Democracy
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) greatly expanded the privacy and security requirements for covered entities and business associates under HIPAA. New mandates will force adoption of policies and procedures in order to avoid new enforcement provisions and significantly increased penalties. Critical changes include: onerous new provisions for accounting of disclosures; new patient rights that you will need to incorporate into your policies and staff training; new requirements should your patient data be breached; modifications that will need to be made to your business associate relationships; and increased penalties up to $50,000 per violation to a maximum of $1.5 million a year in the most egregious cases of data beaches. One of the nation's leading privacy experts will lead you through these changes and how they will impact the healthcare industry.
