2012 Schedule-at-a-Glance

Kathryn Marchesini, JD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) (bio)

Will Phelps, MS, IT Security Specialist, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) (bio)

This session will include a discussion of ONC's several ongoing mHealth initiatives designed to explore the challenges to securing mobile devices, document privacy and security good practices, and research consumer attitudes and preferences with using mobile devices.

1. Describe OCPO's privacy and security mobile device initiative that focuses on health care providers and other health care delivery professionals
2. Discuss OCPO's Endpoint Security research initiative that explores the security configuration functions on mobile devices currently on the market.
3. Explain ONC's focus group research to identify and explore consumer attitudes and preferences with respect to the privacy and security of communicating health related information on mobile phones and devices

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Moderator:
Jason Kunzman, MBA, CPA, Project Officer, Officer of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (bio)

Speakers:
Marc Bennett, MA, President & CEO, HealthInsight (bio)
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc C., New Orleans Health Commissioner and Senior Advisor for Health Policy, City of New Orleans (bio)
Steven D. Grant, MD, FACP, Executive Vice President of Physician Partnerships Detroit Medical Center (bio)

Having just concluded the second year of the Beacon Community Program, the confluence of health information technology and health reform policy has never been clearer.

1. Discuss how technology investments and IT-enabled clinical interventions can improve quality, cost and population health
2. Identify potential pitfalls (and risk mitigation strategies) for IT-enabled, community-wide-improvement initiatives
3. Consider how Beacon Community efforts might serve as a proving ground for testing new ideas and achieving broader state-wide aims
4. Describe efforts to align organizational or project-based goals with local and state healthcare transformation strategies

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Craig Miller, Vice President, Health Strategy and Innovation, General Dynamics Information Technology (bio)

This session will discuss the crisis in healthcare costs, including implications for Federal agencies, and explore how innovations in technology, policy and care delivery can begin to bend the cost curve.

1. Describe drivers of exploding healthcare costs
2. Share ideas on innovation strategies that may drive down costs
3. Explore advantages and disadvantages of technology breakthroughs that can impact the cost of care
4. Discuss innovation initiatives where participants can share knowledge
   
   

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Robert McCready, popHealth Project Leader and Senior Software Systems Engineer, MITRE's Center for Transforming Health (bio)

David P. Delano, Senior Project Director, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (bio)

To support the growing need for quality metrics in healthcare, a pilot study was conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center highlighting the use of continuity of care records and comparing results from similar reporting systems.

1. Share findings of the pilot study comparing the clinical quality measure reports produced by popHealth, an open-source clinical quality measure reporting reference implementation, and Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative Quality Data Center (QDC).
2. Discuss the potential challenges to ensuring consistency of Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) reporting across organizations.
3. Examine the CQM lessons learned for providers and vendors engaged in clinical data analytics.

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Peter A. Pappas, MD, FACS, Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon, Health First -Holmes Regional Medical Center (bio)

Christi Rushnell, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS,
VP Information Technology, Health First, Inc (bio)

We used existing teleconferencing technology to develop an integrated system for delivery of medical expertise across a four-hospital healthcare system, and beyond, emphasizing maximum return on investment and clinical utility.

1. Provide an overview of active telemedicine initiatives for healthcare delivery at Health First
2. Review strategies on controlling costs while maximizing clinical efficacy of telemedicine for health-care providers
3. Share real-life stories on the impact of a regional tele-medicine network.

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The session will address the increased focus on the reduction of payment errors and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse by Congress and the Administration and its resulting impacts to government IT shops.

Rob Rolf, Vice President, Health and Compliance Programs, CGI Federal (bio)

1. Explore what is happening and speed at which it is happening.
2. Explain the ramifications and what your agency will have to think about strategically to comply
3. Provide case studies and describe successful approaches already taken
   

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This session will present information about the Care Connectivity Consortium including patient care scenarios, information exchange modalities and specifications, the trust agreement framework, and opportunities for partnering.

Jamie Ferguson, Vice President, Health IT Strategy and Policy, Kaiser Permanente

1. Describe and recognize the CCC model of interoperability.
2. Evaluate opportunities to achieve higher levels of interoperability than are enabled by email based solutions.
3. Formulate and prepare strategies for participation in interoperability for treatment purposes through standards and collaborative efforts.
   

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Nandan Kenkeremath, JD, Vice President, The Marwood Group (bio)
James B. Wieland, JD, Principal, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver (bio)
David W. Hilgers, JD, Partner and Chair of the Firm, Brown McCarroll (bio)

The session will examine the legal landscape and discuss the Supreme Court's pending decision on the Affordable Care Act and its impact on care delivery and health IT.

1. Review the tenets of the Affordable Care Act and the legal framework for the case before the Supreme Court.
2. Educate participants on public policy landscape for healthcare reform and health IT
3. Emphasize potential impact on healthcare IT and the Affordable Care Act.

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 Quality Reporting Provisions

 Provisions Discussed in Detail - June 11, 2012 HIMSS/AHLA Government IT Seminar

Advanced data analytics are critical to Federal Health agencies to implement comparative effectiveness research to devise health care strategies for diverse populations. The anticipated influx of patient data is a result of ACA, HITECH and EHR adoption, as well as adherence to Meaningful Use. Analysis of large clinical data sets will enable an increasingly patient centered approach to health care informing the next generation of evidence-based medicine. All of this will present Big Data opportunities and challenges for Federal Health agencies.

John Stinn, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting
Jim Kirkwood, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Erik Pupo, Senior Advisor to ONC, Deloitte Consulting

1. Describe how agencies can use data analytics to successfully manage the health information of populations they will be serving.
2. Explain how data analytics can be used to promote prevention, wellness, and management of disease progression over the lifespan.
3. Describe the proposed data analytics solution.
   

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BG Jones, Vice President, Alliances and Federal Government, Orion Health (bio)

HealthInfoNet, the largest statewide HIE, is successful due to broad stakeholder support, technology selection methodology, funding mechanism, privacy and security considerations. The HIE also supports state-required public health reporting.

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Moderator
Richard Pizzi, Editorial Director, MedTech Media (bio)

Speakers:
Tom Sullivan, Editor, Government Health IT (bio)
Mary Mosquera, Senior Editor, Government Health IT (bio)
Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (bio)

The national debate around healthcare has intensified in the 2012 election cycle. Panelists will discuss the impact of electoral contests at the national, state and local levels on healthcare policy.

1. Recognize how U.S. political culture distorts honest public discussion of the healthcare industry.
2. Determine whether a Republican president might actually repeal the entire Affordable Care Act, and what such a move would mean for health IT.
3. Assess the likelihood of bipartisan cooperation on health IT legislation after the 2012 elections.
4. Evaluate the role of healthcare issues in state-level elections in 2012.
5. Discuss potential political resolutions to issues like the Medicaid funding crisis in the states and the battle over health insurance exchanges.

This was a panel session and no slide presentation is available.

This session will explore the benefits of applying identity analytics and leveraging big data to drive down improper payments, automate enrollment processes and improve overall health management efforts.

Clint Fuhrman, National Director, Government Health Care, LexisNexis (bio)

1. Define the role of identity analytics in health care.
2. Discuss the value of health care big data and existing platforms on which it can be aggregated and analyzed for insight.
3. Prescribe uses of both to reduce fraud, waste and abuse and automate processes that enhance multiple administrative processes.
   

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David Katz, Health IT Technical Lead, Division of Disability and Health Information Systems, Office of Disability Systems, Social Security Administration

Mike Lomangino, IT Specialist, Office of Disability Systems, Social Security Administration

Equipped with best practices from exchanging data across the Nationwide Health Information (NwHIN) Exchange, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has large-scale health information exchange experiences to share with the GHIT 2012 audience.

1. Recognize how the Social Security Administration leverages health IT to manage the workload of millions of disability claims annually
   
2. Discuss how the Social Security Administration was first Agency to exchange data across the NwHIN and today is one of the largest participants exchanging data.o
3. Identify how the Social Security Administration continues to advance its health IT technology with advancements like eAuthorization and initiatives

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Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (bio)

Improving patient outcomes and delivering high-value care rely upon greater consumer engagement. IT is an essential tool, though requires careful consideration of consumer preferences and differences.

1. Discuss consumers' attitudes towards technology in the health care industry.
2. Analyze consumers' concerns about privacy and security of personal information.
3. Identify critical gaps and opportunities in consumers' use of IT

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