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The 8<sup>th</sup> Annual Health IT Summit

The WHCC 8th Annual Health IT Summit convenes over 150 CEO and other senior executives focused on achieving meaningful use in a hospital setting, leveraging the EMR for true clinical integration, secondary use of health data and utilizing mobile health for improved efficiency and outcomes. CEOs, CMIOs, CIOs, CTOs, CMOs, as well as EVPs, SVPs and VPs of IT and Interoperability, Compliance, Quality and Clinical Systems, from the nation’s largest hospitals, health systems, health plans, integrated delivery networks, group practices and government agencies, gather to exchange ideas and strategies with their peers on qualifying for HITECH incentives, integrating EMRs across disparate health systems, improving quality reporting and delivery system efficiency, leveraging PHRs and portals for business analytics and meeting increased patient demand through mHealth.

Monday, April 4, 2011
2:00 pm -
2:55 pm
Achieving Meaningful Use in a Hospital Setting—Strategies to Qualify for HITECH Incentives
  • Effective IT communication and training to capture and report on quality
  • Integrating EHRs and connecting to health information exchanges
  • Achieving and demonstrating improved outcomes to qualify for federal incentive payments
Pamela McNutt
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Methodist Health System (Dallas, TX);
Chair,
CHIME Policy Steering Committee
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Tony Trenkle Tony Trenkle
Director, Office of e-Health Standards and Services
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Virtualized Health Care Systems—Telehealth Systems to Improve Access, Quality and Cost Effectiveness of Care
  • The potential for telehealth to disrupt the health care delivery system by integrating technology throughout the continuum of care
  • Providing patient-centric, connected care for improvements in patient outcomes and reduced costs associated with health care
Andrew Watson, MD, MLitt, FACS
Vice-President, International and Commercial Services Division, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;
Medical Director, Center for Connected Medicine
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
10:40 am -
11:35 am
Leveraging the EMR to Achieve True Clinical Integration for Patient Centered Care and Improved Quality
  • Integrating EMRs across disparate health systems and technology platforms that enable quality initiatives rather than hinder
  • Aligning incentives to improve quality reporting while advancing overall delivery system efficiencies
  • Engaging physicians with data analytics to support patient centered care
  • Proven strategies to align physician behavior across both employed and non-employed medical staff
Norma J. Ferdinand, MSN, RN
Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer
Lancaster General Hospital
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John Popovich Jr, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Henry Ford Hospital
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11:40 am -
12:35 pm
Next Steps in Health Data Exchange and Secondary Use of Health Data to Improve Care and Cut Costs
  • Optimizing EMR and HIT investments through secondary uses of information i.e. in-depth analysis of population health and disease progression
  • Utilizing EMRs and patient portal analytics for improved business intelligence, patient outcomes and research capabilities
  • Creating governance and incentives to enable secondary uses of health data
David R. Artz, MD
Medical Director of Information Systems, Chief Medical Information Officer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Christopher Queram Christopher Queram
President and Chief Executive Officer
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)
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2:50 pm -
3:45 pm
Innovations in mHealth Platforms for Improved Diagnosis, Monitoring and Delivery of Care
  • mHealth platforms to meet increased patient demand and enable point-of-care diagnosis and treatment
  • Patient monitoring through mHealth integration for improved care quality and cost-effectiveness
  • Case study results -- Strategies to employ mHealth and eHealth to improve health outcomes and decrease costs
Sailesh Chutani Sailesh Chutani, PhD
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Mobisante, Inc.
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