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5th Annual Georgia Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference
sponsored by HIMSS Georgia Chapter

also in partnership with:.

Georgia Hospital Association
Georgia Chapter HFMA &
Georgia Association of Healthcare Executives (GAHE)

Westin Peachtree, Atlanta - 7,8,9th Floors
210 Peachtree Street NE - Atlanta, Georgia
Situated in heart of downtown Atlanta
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 - 7:15am-4:00pm

Conference Agenda

7:15am-8:00am
Exhibits Open
8th Floor (Optional)

Buffet Breakfast & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs
(sample menu)

8:00am-8:05am
Exhibits Closed
8th Floor

Welcome & Morning Event Keynote Speaker Introductions
	President, GA HIMSS

8:05am-9:05am
Exhibits Closed
8th Floor

Morning Event Keynote Presentation

Topic: Georgia Hospital & Health System CIO Roundtable Discussion

Discussion Moderator:
	President, GAHIMSS
Discussion Panelists:
	Memorial University Medical Center Savannah, GA	Wellstar Health System Marietta, GA
	Emory Healthcare Atlanta, GA	Phoebe Putney Health System Albany, GA
	Piedmont Healthcare Atlanta, GA
Discussion topics: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) As a resource, check out the following HIMSS website: Key Healthcare Reform Documents 1. What are the major impacts to your organization? 2. How are you reacting to these new legislative requirements? 3. Who bears the financial burden of PPACA? 4. Accountable Care Organizations. As a resource, please visit John Glazer’s article on ACOs entitled: Information Technology for Accountable Care Organizations – What is an ACO? – Is this on your radar as a strategic initiative? – What are the implications for Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)? – Role of ACO on … wellness, predictive health etc. ARRA / Meaningful Use - 1. Will you be able to reach the STAGE 1 Certification process? 2. How does meeting stage 2 look for your organization? 3. How is your organization dealing with the certification process? Patient Satisfaction - Enhancing the experience of the patient and the family. 1. How important is patient satisfaction on your organizational score card? 2. What programs have you created / are considering to improve patient satisfaction? Have they been successful? Acquisitions / Growth Mode – Clinics and hospitals 1. What is your growth strategy? Why now? 2. What are the IT challenges as a result? What support models are you having to put in place to deal with growth particularly since IT usually has to do more with less … - 3. Challenges with an expanding IT workforce - skills / flexibility …. – What challenges do you have with your GEN X / GEN Y workforce. E.g. more flexible work hours … work from home - do not want a lot of structure … – How do you support this new workforce? – What are the challenges to supporting an ever increasing mobile workforce?

9:05am-9:50am
Exhibits Open
8th Floor

Break & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs (refreshments available)

9:50am–10:35am
Exhibits Open
8th Floor (Optional)
Presentations
Floor 7 & 9

Morning Conference Panelist Discussion Tracks & Presentations
*note: Some panel discussions and/or discussion topics may change or be substituted for another.

Augusta Room 1 (7th Floor - 100 classroom style seating set-up)
Health Information Exchange and the Clinical Perspective - A Panel Discussion

Discussion Moderator:
	Board of Directors member
Discussion Panelists:
	Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Shared Health	Director, Clinical Solutions Microsoft Health Solutions Group Redmond, WA
	Chief Medical Information Officer WellStar Health Systems
Overview: Although health information exchange appears to be rooted in technology, one of the most critical success factors involves understanding and addressing the impact to healthcare professionals and the clinical workflow. Discussion topics will include: • Demonstrating value to the clinician users • Staying patient-centric, and focusing on the patient’s best interests • Providing knowledge at the point-of-care to drive quality improvement

Augusta Room 2 (7th Floor - 53 classroom style seating set-up)
A Capitol Hill Perspective on the State of Healthcare, Health IT and our
Nation’s Health Transformation

Presenters:

Electronic Health Record
(EHR) Association

Gingrich Group /
Center for Health Transformation

Overview:

Capitol Hill overview of the latest developments on the state of healthcare and health IT
Overview of what is on the legislative and regulatory horizon for healthcare and health IT
A perspective of what all this means here in Georgia as well as to Georgia-based healthcare providers
An overview of new healthcare payment models including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
Towards the end of the presentation will be some time and a chance for audience questions and answers
Additional presentation information will be added closer to event time check back periodically

Augusta Room 3 (7th Floor - 63 classroom style seating set-up)
Georgia Hospitals/Health Systems/Medical Clinics -
CFO Executive Roundtable Discussion

Discussion Moderator:

Executive Vice President
Georgia Hospital Association

Discussion Panelists:

Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer
West Georgia Health

VP of Finance & CFO
Kennestone Hospital

Chief Financial Officer
Houston Healthcare
Warner Robins, GA

Key Discussion Points:

Technology ROI - concerns that the proposed definition of meaningful use will make it difficult for many providers to qualify for financial incentives and avoid penalties.
Thoughts on optimizing an EHR investment. The role of technology in a high-performing revenue cycle & strategies for a High-Performance Revenue Cycle
Physician requests for new technology: Evaluation committee roles is assisting in being well informed and deciding whether to approve
HIPAA 5010: thoughts on preparing staff, processes, and systems for a successful conversion to HIPAA 5010.

Presenter Company: Redwood Software
Peachtree Room G (9th Floor - 40 classroom style seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Managing the Business Behind the Medicine (Part 1) with better report management and distribution

Overview: Redwood Software’s enterprise report management and electronic distribution solutions provide a practical approach for managing document-centric information for healthcare organizations. Whether clinical or operational in nature, Report2Web for Healthcare serves as a constant, secure repository of information in an environment of ever changing best-of-breed applications. Bridging the gap between disparate systems, hospital employees, providers and payers can easily access the information they need at a moment’s notice while the organization is protected with multi-layer security and extensive audit controls. Report2Web for Healthcare lets you make decisions based on business requirements rather than today’s technology limitations, securely and easily automating operational and clinical report processes from all of your systems—today and into the future.

Presenter Company: QlikTech Inc
Peachtree Room H (9th Floor - 40 classroom style seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Enterprise Intelligence: Beyond EMR/EHR and traditional Decision Support! (this session will be presented by Michael Thompson, Director of Business Intelligence for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta)

Overview: CHOA is revolutionizing their approach to Enterprise communications and delivering information to all levels of the organization in what Industry analysts are calling "the Consumerization of software" meaning everyone can use it without formal training. Users are able to simply search across all systems with ease while looking for that piece of information that might improve the quality of care, influence Clinical research, improve operational efficiencies, and eliminate cross functional issues of sharing information across systems and Departments with ease. Discussions around how these core functions (see below) are serving CHOA for years to come to revolutionize information delivery for Healthcare.

Speed and flexibility on all systems
Design to deployment in days and weeks
User experience and adoption rates by all functions including physicians
Disparate data sources and systems
External regulations and requirements (Core Measures, etc.)
Level of ad hoc requests
New initiatives
Data discovery
Integrated dashboard right to the detail data

10:35am-11:00am
Exhibits Open
8th Floor

Break & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs (refreshments available)

11:00am-11:45am
Exhibits Open
8th Floor (Optional)
Presentations
Floor 7 & 9

Morning Event Sponsor Conference Presentations

Presenter Company: Microsoft Corporation
Augusta Room 1 (7th Floor - 100 classroom style seating set-up)

Presentation Topic: Cloud Computing in Health

Overview: Microsoft recognizes the challenges organizations have to reduce costs and improve productivity across the enterprise. Learn how the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which includes Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communications Online, can enable collaboration with the entire healthcare ecosystem, promote patient safety, support staff training and improve communication between caregivers and patients. BPOS provides simplified administration, lowered support costs, seamless integration with existing architecture and consistent availability and most up to date technology.

Presenter Company: Alcatel-Lucent
Augusta Room 2 (7th Floor - 53 classroom style seating set-up)

Presentation Topic: Connected Hospital

Overview: Being connected to crucial clinical information, colleagues, hospital staff, patients and their families is a pre-requisites for best in class care. But there is an impending connectivity crisis that can be avoided if attention is paid to a few connectivity pillars. This session will address the areas to focus on in order to best avoid an impending connectivity crisis.

Presenter Company: IBM
Augusta Room 3 (7th Floor - 63 classroom style seating set-up)

Presentation Topic: Care Collaboration Technology for Meaningful Use and Financial Returns

Overview: Care collaboration is the important theme for Meaningful Use metrics. The exchange of clinical information needs to occur between providers and patients that typically cross organizational boundaries and IT systems. In addition, as provider organizations need to grow referrals to address financial challenges caused by the market competition and payers, care collaboration is critical to building a solid network and to ensure long term success. In this presentation, Dr. Li will describe how IBM and Carefx use advanced care collaboration technology and work with a large safety net hospital to build a stronger referral network and deliver advanced care management solutions.

Presenter Company: InfoLogix, Inc.
Peachtree Room G (9th Floor - 40 classroom style seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Bringing the EMR and Mobility Together to Meet Meaningful Use

Overview: With 1,500 hospital clients across North America, experts from InfoLogix and HIA come together to discuss "lessons learned" from their major mobility and EMR implementations over the last decade, and how to evaluate and integrate the latest Point of Care technology to extend these EMR capabilities directly to the patient's bedside.

Presenter Companies:
Logicalis Inc. / TeraMedica
Peachtree Room H
(9th Floor - 40 classroom style
seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Managing, Storing, Sharing Medical Images for Quality Care

Overview: The adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is as true in healthcare as anywhere. Clinical images need to be readily available from the Electronic Health Record as well as easily shared through Health Information Exchanges and between providers to provide high quality care and to reduce costs and risks of duplicate tests. The costs of storing, securing and managing digital image data is staggering and growing rapidly. Industry estimates this data is being created at a rate of 60GB per bed per year. Clinical lifecycle management is needed to balance clinical and economic needs. A vendor neutral, PACS neutral, Enterprise Image Management Archive can address these issues. Logicalis/TeraMedica.

11:45am-12:50pm
Exhibits Open
8th Floor

Luncheon Buffet & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs
(sample menu)

12:50pm-12:55pm
Exhibits Closed
8th Floor

Afternoon Announcements & Event Keynote Speaker Introductions
	President, GA HIMSS

12:55pm-1:45pm
Exhibits Closed
8th Floor

Afternoon Event Keynote Presentation

Keynote speaker:

	Grady Health System Atlanta, GA
Topic: HITECH and Health Reform: How Grady Health System is moving from Meaningful Use to Innovation
Overview: To the residents of Georgia, the turnaround of Grady Health System’s viability under the leadership of CEO Michael Young is nothing short of miraculous. In just a few short years, he has guided the restructuring of the health system and use of state-of-the-art clinical and information technologies which has resulted in a positive impact on both the bottom line and in care quality. The HITECH act and Health Reform legislation has provided Young with yet further impetus to not only leverage Meaningful Use for system-wide improvement, but to leapfrog to true innovation. In this session, Young will highlight Grady’s current initiatives in quality, staffing and information usability; and offer his perspective on future care delivery models, such as Accountable Care Organizations.

1:45pm-2:05pm
Exhibits Open
8th Floor

Breaktime to network with staffs from 41 exhibitors/sponsors, and other event
attendee peers in attendance (refreshments available)

2:05pm–2:50pm
Exhibits Open
8th Floor (Optional)
Presentations
Floor 7 & 9

Afternoon Event Sponsor Conference Presentations

Presenter Company: Microsoft Corporation
Augusta Room 1 (7th Floor - 100 classroom style seating set-up)

Presentation Topic: Health Care Reform: Transforming challenges into opportunities

Overview: In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which represented the largest change to America’s healthcare system since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. While there are many impacts on healthcare providers contained in the legislation, these three areas present the most financial risk and require significant process innovation to accomplish legislative requirements: Delivery System Reforms; Quality, Disparities, and Comparative Effectiveness; and Regulatory Oversight and Program Integrity. This presentation will detail the specific provider requirements and risks under PPACA, the solutions that Microsoft and our partners have developed to address these challenges and examples of customers who have used these technologies to make significant clinical and financial progress.

Presenter Companies: Alcatel-Lucent
Augusta Room 2 (7th Floor - 53 classroom style seating set-up)

Presentation Topic: Sensor Networking & Impending Connectivity Crisis

Overview: Sensor networking enables timely acquisitions of key information on a patient’s condition as well as distribution of this information to key clinical staff members to provide improved care for the patients. However, the explosion of sensors in Hospitals as well as homes is leading to tremendous demands on new connectivity and performance of data networks and can completely swamp today’s network deployments. New approaches needed and will be discussed and addressed during this session.

Presenter Company: IBM
Augusta Room 3 (7th Floor - 63 classroom style seating set-up)

Presentation Topic: Promoting Interoperability with Registry Technologies

Overview: Medicaid and Medicare cost are escalating. State tax revenues are declining. And, while no silver bullet for long term sustainability exists, stimulus funding from both the ONC and CMS are motivating states to adopt health information exchange (HIE). 50 states can mean 50 approaches, but common challenges will lead to common solutions. In all states there are common denominators - the client, the provider, the patient. Registry technologies create a unified view of a person, whether as a patient, a Medicaid beneficiary or a provider, across disparate source systems to enable effective information sharing including results routing, secure messaging, user authentication, benefits coordination and fraud detection. This presentation will discuss the important roles that registry technologies and record locator services play in HIE, especially in light of ONC requirements to effectively share data with state agencies, with neighboring states and with federal agencies. Attendees will learn how registry technologies, both patient and provider, enhance an HIE’s ability to:
1. Govern data through reconciling data from disparate source systems ranging from providers to payers to state or federal agencies
2. Allow multiple stakeholders to take advantage of accurate, trustworthy data
3. Recognize patterns that may point to fraud being enacted by patients or providers
4. Implement meaningful message routing, as well as authentication and security measures
5. Connect with State Medicaid agencies to improve benefits coordination.

Presenter Companies: InfoLogix, Inc.
Peachtree Room G (9th Floor - 40 classroom style seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Bringing the EMR and Mobility Together to Meet Meaningful Use

Presenter Companies:
Logicalis Inc. / TeraMedica
Peachtree Room H
(9th Floor - 40 classroom style
seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Managing, Storing, Sharing Medical Images for Quality Care

2:50pm-3:15pm
Exhibits Open
8th Floor

Breaktime to network with staffs from 41 exhibitors/sponsors, and other event
attendee peers in attendance (refreshments available)

3:15pm–4:00pm
Exhibits Open
8th Floor (Optional)
Presentations
Floor 7 & 9

Afternoon Conference Panelist Discussion Tracks & Presentations
*note: Some panel discussions and/or discussion topics may change or be substituted for another.

Augusta Room 1 (7th Floor - 100 classroom style seating set-up)
Leadership Update and Perspectives on GA HIE Initiatives – a Panel Discussion

Discussion Moderator:
	HIMSS, Blue Ridge GA
Discussion Panelists:
	Memorial University Medical Center Savannah, GA	Emory Healthcare Atlanta, GA
	Wellstar Health System Marietta, GA	Children's Hospital of Atlanta Atlanta, GA

Overview: Hear from the experts in different regional communities, and from the Office of Health Information Technology and Transparency (HITT), who are leading the strategic efforts for health information exchange (HIE) in the state of Georgia. Discussion topics will include: • An overview on community Health Information Exchange efforts in Georgia • An Update on HIE efforts at the State level • Challenges, opportunities and achievements to-date

Augusta Room 2 (7th Floor - 53 classroom style seating set-up)
The State of EHR Meaningful Use, Standards & Interoperability and
Privacy & Security - Fall 2010

Presenters:

HIMSS Electronic Health Record
(EHR) Association

Gingrich Group /
Center for Health Transformation

Discussion Panelist:

Resurgens Orthopaedics
Atlanta, GA

GAHIMSS & Advocacy Co-chairman, and Director of Marketing for Georgia’s HITREC

Overview:

Overview of EHR Meaningful Use Final Rule and key measurement criteria
Update on the evolution of EHR Meaningful Use across the country as well as in our community
Overview of new health IT Standards & Interoperability policies and criteria
Overview of privacy & security policies including new HIPAA and breach notification rules
Towards the end of the presentation will be some time and a chance for audience questions and answers
Additional presentation information will be added closer to event time........check back periodically

Augusta Room 3 (7th Floor - 63 classroom style seating capacity)
Community Solutions in Health IT

Co-Presenters:
	Executive Director, Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council Savannah, GA	Chief Medical Officer Coast Health District/Chatham County Health Department Savannah, GA
Overview: One Georgia community’s approach to managing its large volume of health care to the uninsured/underinsured with health information technology as its foundation. Leadership of the Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council will present their path to development and implementation of ChathamHealthLink, a functioning HIE with safety net providers as the pilot participants.

Presenter Companies: Redwood Software
Peachtree Room G (9th Floor - 40 classroom style seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Managing the Business Behind the Medicine (Part 2) with automated GL account reconciliation and report validation

Overview: Managing the Business Behind the Medicine (Part 2) With automated GL account reconciliation and report validation Hospital financial personnel spend countless hours manually performing GL account reconciliations during and after the period-end close. In addition, clinical employees tediously scan reports to validate lab results, ensure appropriate medication dispensation and other time-sensitive tasks. Now, with Redwood Report Validation and Account Reconciliation, you can save time and money while eliminating errors by automating these reconciliation tasks.

Data capture and validation: Extract output from any enterprise application and compare values based on defined business rules.
Excel integration: Populate and compare data within Excel templates.
Status and exception reporting: Create exception reports for analysis of results and alert users to reconciliation status.
Approval process: Support compliance requirements by tracking approvals and roles.
Report archiving: Store and access reconciled financial reports in a centralized repository based on corporate data retention periods.

Presenter Company: QlikTech Inc
Peachtree Room H (9th Floor - 40 classroom style seating capacity)

Presentation Topic: Enterprise Intelligence: Beyond EMR/HER and traditional Decision Support! (this session will be presented by Michael Thompson, Director of Business Intelligence for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta)

Overview: CHOA is revolutionizing their approach to Enterprise communications and delivering information to all levels of the organization in what Industry analysis are calling "the Consumerization of software" meaning everyone can sue it without formal training. Users are able to simply search across all systems with ease while looking for that piece of information that might improve the quality of care, influence Clinical research, improve operational efficiencies, and eliminate cross functional issues of sharing information across systems and Departments with ease. Discussions around how these core functions (see below) are serving CHOA for years to come to revolutionize information delivery for Healthcare.