Agenda

Thursday, October 21

Health Information Technology solution demonstrations

9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.	Exhibit Hall Open
9:40 a.m. - 5:20 p.m.	Health I.T. solution demonstrations scheduled every 20 minutes

Educational program: Schedule of events

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Meeting registration Breakfast available in the exhibit hall
10:00 a.m.	Setting the Vision for Health I.T. @10:10 \| Meaningful use: What does it mean for me?
10:40 a.m.	Payer Perspectives on Health I.T. @ 10:45 \| Medicare @ 11:15 \| Virginia Medicaid
11:30 a.m.	Break
11:45 a.m.	Payer Perspective on Health I.T. (continued) @ 11:45 \| Anthem @ 12:05 \| Q&A
12:20 p.m.	Innovations in Patient Care – Telehealth
12:45 p.m.	Networking lunch @ 1:00 \| Join VHIT in the Lincoln Forum for a 20 minute presentation about Virginia’s regional extension center
1:30 p.m.	Practical Perspectives on Health I.T. @ 1:30 \| Achieving the potential of health I.T. @ 2:15 \| E:Care: 2005 to 2015 @ 3:00 \| Q&A Equipping Those Who are New to H.I.T. @ 1:30 \| Selecting & negotiating a performance-based contract @ 2:00 \| Practical implementation strategies @ 2:30 \| Physician/hospital I.T. alignment strategies that work @ 3:00 \| Q&A
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Health Care Leaders’ Perspectives on Optimizing H.I.T. Utilization
4:30 p.m.	Networking and speaker meet-and-greet
5:30 p.m.	Adjourn

Program learning objectives

Setting the Vision for Health IT

Speakers:
Jeffery Daigrepont, Senior Vice President, Coker Group
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participants will be able to:
1. Identify how health information technology adoption and utilization will impact patient care and the future of health care.
2. Outline the benefits of and criteria for achieving meaningful use of health information technology.
3. Understand how to achieve meaningful use of health information technology.

Payer perspectives on Health IT

Speakers:
Barbara Connors, DO, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, CMS Division 3
Michael Ackerman, MD, Medical Director, Anthem
Kevin Barger, CEBS, FAHM, CPC, Network Management Director, Anthem
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participants will be able to:
1. Identify payer strategies and objectives for promoting health information technology adoption.
2. Understand CMS quality reporting requirements and methodology.
3. Outline specialty-specific payer requirements for health information technology reporting.

Innovations in Patient Care: Telehealth

Speaker:
Karen Rheuban, MD, Medical Director, Office of Telemedicine, UVA School of Medicine
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participants will be able to:
1. Understand the role of telemedicine in access, quality and cost effectiveness models in healthcare
2. Understand the statutory and regulatory issues related to telemedicine

Practical Perspectives on Health IT

Speakers:
E. Bruce Awad, MD, IT Physician Advisor, Kaiser Permanente
David M. Levin, MD, Vice President of Medical Information, Sentara ECare Health Network
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participants will be able to:
1. Identify the benefits of electronic health information exchange for improved patient care.
2. Identify methods for optimizing health information technology utilization.
3. Identify methods for using health information technology to measure and benchmark quality of care.

Equipping those who are new to HIT

Speakers:
Jeffery Daigrepont, Senior Vice President, The Coker Group
Kurt Elward, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Family Medicine of Albemarle
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participants will be able to:
1. Identify best practices and how to overcome possible pitfalls in selecting and implementing an electronic health record system.
2. Outline strategies for successfully partnering with local hospitals and health systems to effectively vet and coordinate health information technology opportunities and strategies.

Health Care Leader Perspectives on Optimizing HIT Utilization

Speakers:
Sandy Chung, MD, FAAP, President, Fairfax Pediatric Associates
Anne Wolff, Director of Information Services, Dermatology Associates of Virginia
Alan Wynn, MD, Founder, Primary Care Associates of Potomac
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, the participants will be able to:
1. Outline strategies and opportunities for optimizing health information exchange.
2. Understand opportunities for effectively integrating health information technology into patient care.

This information was last updated on October 5, 2010 at 3:28 p.m.