GHIT 2011 Schedule-at-a-Glance
GHIT 2011 Keynote Speakers
Welcoming Address:
U.S. Congressman Michael C. Burgess, MD (bio)
Opening Keynote:
The Honorable Gayle B. Harrell (bio)
Wednesday Keynote:
Todd Park (bio)
Closing Keynote:
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM (bio)
| Day 1 - Tuesday, June 14 | |||
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking | ||
| 8:00 am - 1:00 pm | CPHIMS Review Course | ||
| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | CPHIMS Exam | ||
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Welcoming Address U.S. Congressman Michael C. Burgess, MD (bio) 26th District of Texas Opening Keynote The Honorable Gayle B. Harrell (bio) Florida House of Representatives |
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| 9:00 am - 6:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open - All attendees invited | ||
| Open to Full-Paid Conference Attendees Only | |||
| TRACK 1 Overcoming Barriers to Achieving Interoperable Systems |
TRACK 2 InterAgency Initiatives Leading the Way Ahead for Health IT |
TRACK 3 Industry Solutions |
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| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Sess 1-1 Consumer Privacy and Information Security in Electronic Health Record Interoperability This presentation will discuss policy and technology to help protect the privacy of individuals and the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of health information in interoperable electronic health records exchanges. Dixie Baker, PhD (bio) Senior Vice President, Health CTO SAIC |
Sess 2-1 ONC Interoperability Initiatives Dr. Fridsma's talk will focus on the current status of the Nationwide Health Information Network, the CONNECT project, and the EHR certification program, along with an update on several Standards & Interoperability Framework initiatives. Attendees will leave this session with a clearer understanding of ONC's efforts in support of interoperable health information exchange. Doug Fridsma, MD (bio) Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
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| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch and Networking on Exhibit Floor - All attendees invited | ||
| 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm | Sess 1-2 Are Health Records Secure? The Reality on the Ground. HIPAA privacy and security laws are intended to protect patients with strict regulations and stiff penalties. As the amount of data that is created, stored and shared in electronic form increases, so do the risks. What does the industry and government have to do to make sure the data is secure? Lisa A. Gallagher, BSEE, CISM, CPHIMS (bio) Sr. Director, Privacy & Security HIMSS |
Sess 2-2 Interagency Initiatives Leading the Way Ahead for Health Information Technology This session discusses federal agency collaboration to spur the development and adoption of clinical decision support (CDS) systems with health IT and a public-private sector consortium for addressing knowledge management requirements for CDS implementation in diverse clinical environments. Jon White (bio) Director, Agency for Healthcare, Quality & Research, DHHS Rachel Nelson (bio) Senior Advisor Office of the Chief Scientist Office of the National Coordinator |
Sess IS-2 Health Information Exchange to Enable Medical Home Implementation This presentation will focus on the importance of health information exchange in enabling information flow in the medical home and showcase how HIT and PCMH can meet or exceed NCQA guidelines. Erik Pupo, MBA, CPHIMS (bio) Deloitte Specialist Leader Chris Brancato, RRT, RCP (bio) Deloitte Specialist Leader ![]() |
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Sess 1-3 Early Lessons Learned about Medicaid Providers' Adoption of Certified E H R Technology The Medicaid E H R Incentive Program provides incentive payments to eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and CAHS as they adopt, implement and upgrade. On January 3, 2011 Medicaid launched the E H R Incentive Program with 11 states. Jessica Kahn, MPH (bio) Technical Director for Health Information Technology Centers for Medicare & Medicare |
Sess 2-3 Social Security's Health IT Initiatives and Value Proposition Social Security is more than retirement. We request more than 15 million medical records from about 500,000 providers to help make decisions on over three million disability claims annually. This makes us one of the largest disability insurers in the world. Frank Baitman (bio) Chief Information Officer, Social Security Administration |
Sess IS-3 Clearing the Air on Cloud: Beyond the Hype and Puns Get beyond the hype to understand what Cloud is and what it isn't. Understand the fundamentals of Cloud, including: deployment models, top reasons for initiating adoption of Cloud, top concerns, security through FedRAMP, case studies, success statistics and more. John W. Loonsk, MD, FACMI (bio) Chief Medical Officer, CGI John Pientka (bio) Vice President, CGI ![]() |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Networking Reception (Exhibit Hall) All attendees invited | ||
| Day 2 - Wednesday, June 15 | |||
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast & Networking | ||
| 8:45 am - 9:45 am | Wednesday Keynote Todd Park (bio) Chief Technology Officer Health and Human Services |
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| Open to Full-Paid Conference Attendees Only | |||
| TRACK 1 Overcoming Barriers to Achieving Interoperable Systems |
TRACK 2 InterAgency Initiatives Leading the Way Ahead for Health IT |
TRACK 3 Industry Solutions |
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| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Sess 1-4 Applying Systems Engineering Processes for Inter-Organizational Exchanges This session addresses the application of systems engineering practices to the inter-organizational space, 'mediating' these practices with organization specific practices, and examples showing the value of applying these practices. Doug Felton (bio) Manager Enterprise Architecture DoD/VA Clay Robinson (bio) Data Strategist DoD VA Interagency Program Office |
Sess 2-4 Overcoming Barriers of Health IT Adoption in Underserved Communities The Latino population is the largest, and fastest-growing community in the U.S. However, Latinos are underrepresented in Health IT. Getting Latinos involved in Health IT adoption can help ensure the underserved communities are not left behind. Panel Moderator: Joxel Garcia, MD, MBA President and Dean Ponce School of Medicine & Health Sciences Former Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS David R. Hunt, MD, FACS (bio) Medical Director, Office of Provider Adoption & Support ONC, HHS David Dietz, MSW, MHSA (bio) Commander, Public Health Service Senior Public Health Advisor, Division of Policy and Data Office of Minority Health, HHS |
Sess IS-4 popHealth: An Open-Source Quality Measurement Solution for Government Programs The presenters will illustrate how popHealth, ONC's open source project for quality measure reporting, helps physicians understand the quality of care they provide and supports reporting their Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures. Thomas Tsang, MD Medical Director of Meaningful Use and Quality ONC Maggie Lohnes Healthcare Principal MITRE ![]() |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Sess 1-5 Operating Rules Advancing Interoperability Through an industry-wide, multi-stakeholder collaboration, the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange is developing rules that streamline adminstrative transactions and help to create interoperability among healthcare trading partners. Gwendolyn Lohse (bio) Managing Director, CAQH |
Sess 2-5 An Integrated RTLS Approach for Improving Clinical and Financial Outcomes Find out how operating RTLS (real-time location system) within military networks and allowing integration into DoD's healthcare systems is essential to improving clinical and business processes. Harold M. Koenig, MD (bio) Vice Admiral Medical Corps United States Navy, Retired |
Sess IS-5 Solutions to Support Effective and Timely Responses to Public Health Situations The presenter will discuss how to provide a secure, collaboration platform for data aggregation, enhanced analytics, and integration of common-purpose user communities through rapid data sharing and decentralized network access. The discussion will also include use of natural language processing for unstructured data sources. Timothy Heiser (bio) Sr. Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin ![]() |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch & Closing Keynote Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM (bio) National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
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Education Credits
This conference has been approved for up to 8.0 continuing education (CE) hours for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS).
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HIMSS has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Participants may receive up to 8 professional development units (PDUs) for attending the Government Health IT Conference.
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Media
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