Main Summit Day Two: Thursday, October 27, 2011

7:15 REGISTRATION

8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:15 KEYNOTE REMARKS: Current Initiatives within the VA for Health IT

  • Achieving interoperability
  • Transforming VistA to complement AHLTA
  • Crafting improved usability

Dr. Paul Tibbits, SES
Deputy CIO
Office of Strategy, Architecture
and Design Dept of Veteran Affairs

9:00 The Role of Information Management and Information Technology in Patient Centered Care

  • The central role of patient comprehensive care planning in the EHR of the future
  • How clinical and business intelligence delivered to the pointof- care can facilitate patient care plans and drive population level health improvements
  • The value proposition of designing IT to support patient centered workflows
  • The critical role of IT in facilitating care coordination between the Patient Centered Medical Home practice and the associated Accountable Care Organization

Terry Newton, M.D.,F.A.A.F.P.
Family Physician
Senior Physician Advisor to the
AMEDD Chief Information Officer

9:45 NETWORKING BREAK

10:30 Achieving Stage 6 and Reaching for Stage 7: Lessons Learned from a Community Hospital

  • Computerized Physician Order Entry. The implementation journey and lessons learned in reaching greater than 90% compliance in a community hospital setting
  • Electronic medication record and bar-coded medication verification implementation strategy and lessons learned
  • Use of barcodes in computer documentation and safety. BMV, bedside verification for lab specimens and blood administration

Nancy B. Smith MAS, BSN
RN Sr. Director Patient Care Services

Howard County General Hospital
A Member of Johns Hopkins Medicine

Kimberly A. Rost, RN
Lead Clinical Informatics Analyst

11:15 Standards and Meaningful Use

  • Current debate on meaningful use and clinical quality measures
  • HER technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care
  • Federal National Health Information (NHIN) overview

Nancy J. Orvis, M.H.A, CPHIMS
Dir Business Architecture, Health Standards & Interoperability
Office of Information Management DoD (HA)/TMA

12:00 LUNCH

1:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: “I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know” Detailing the Current Challenges Impeding the Implementation of EHR Systems

  • Resource availability
    • Money, time, people, technology
  • Standardization of data
    • Data dictionaries
    • Data mapping
    • LOINC codes
    • RX Norm Codes
    • Snomed/ICD-9/ICD-10
    • Federal/State requirements
  • Data exchange
    • Security of data
    • Data format
    • Use of interface engine
  • Data transfer
    • Unidirectional versus Bidirectional
    • Single versus Multiple connections

Angela L. Allen
Director of Information Services
Ephraim McDowell Health

Rebecca S. Blevins
Information Services Project Manager
Ephraim McDowell Health

1:45 NETWORKING BREAK

3:00 EHR Acquisition and Project Management

  • Managing EHR integration policy
  • Emphasizing usability across systems

Keith Seaman
Acting Director
Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive
Business Transformation Agency’s

3:45 Current Testing and Certification Criteria from NIST

  • Research activities and collaborations in support of standards and testing necessary for “meaningful use”
  • Nationwide collaboration efforts and priorities

Bettijoyce Lide
Scientific Advisor
Program Coordinator for Health Information Technology
National Institute of Standards& Technology

4:30 END OF MAIN SUMMIT

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