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The Nation's Most Advanced Initiatives for Interoperability Architecture, EMR Implementation and eHealth Connectivity Demonstrating a Positive ROI
WHCC Health IT Summit convene over 150 CEO and other senior executives focused on establishing standards for interoperability, meaningful use and demonstrating significant ROI on Health IT and eHealth connectivity. CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CMOs, are in attendance, as well as, EVP/SVP and VP of IT and Interoperability, Compliance, Quality, Clinical Systems from the nation’s largest hospitals, health systems, health plans, integrated delivery networks, group practices and government agencies.
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Craig D. Schneider,PhD
Director of Healthcare Policy
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium

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Monday, April 12, 2010
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1:35 pm - 2:25 pm
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| Meaningful Use of Health IT to Reform Health |
- How public policy is promoting Health IT and insight into 5 focus areas for meaningful use
- Setting the framework for meaningful use and strategies to achieve meaningful health data exchange
- Maintaining a focus on improving health outcomes through meaningful use of HIT, not simply software implementation
- Meaningful use from a consumer perspective and determining how meaningful, is meaningful use
- Identifying how regulations and incentives support patients and family engagement in the health care system
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2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
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10:20 am - 11:10 am
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| A Patient-Centered Approach to Quality Metrics: “Meaningful” Adoption and Use of HIT |
- The impact of federal stimulus dollars catalyzing a national movement for providers and hospitals to “Meaningfully Use” technology to reduce costs and improve quality
- Discuss achieving “meaningful” market adoption, widespread effective use of HIT and cost-effective quality care by securely delivering personalized patient-centric information into provider workflows
- Innovative methods of data exchange where the business case demonstrates ROI that can ensure market adoption of HIT
- In-depth view of “Patient-Centered Quality Practices,” which leverage the patient’s trusted relationship with the provider to help drive patient behavior change -- the “last mile” to reaching cost and quality goals
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11:15 am - 12:15 am
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2:25 pm - 3:10 pm
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Patient Registries to Advance Health Care Research—Innovative Initiatives from Consumer, Government and Biotech |
- Exploring divergent approaches to the development and deployment of patient registries
- Understanding the revolutionary health care research advances from connections among registries
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Kenneth H. Buetow, PhD
Chief, Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute;
Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Information Technology;
Director, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)

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Adam Clark, Ph.D
Director of Health Policy, Lance Armstrong Foundation;
Member, Health IT Policy Committee, Department of Health and Human Services

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Stephen H. Friend, MD, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sage Bionetworks

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3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
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