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Sunday April 12th 2015
HIE Symposium - Interoperability Driving Innovation
Sunday, April 12th, 2015 | 8:00am - 4:30pm
McCormick Place Convention Center
Opening Keynote
The Roadmap to Interoperability for
Health Information Exchange
Interoperability and Innovative Health
Information Exchange
Evolving Solutions to
Transitions in Care
Consumer Access and
Health Information Exchange
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Registration is separate from main Annual Conference registration.
The work to enhance interoperability has become particularly urgent with the need to address
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the national priority of better and more affordable care, leading to better population health. This
session will address HHS's Roadmap for Nationwide Interoperability and how they are working
with the healthcare industry to ensure some of the key building blocks are in place.
8:15 AM
9:15 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
Room S105
Intermediate
Interoperability and standards are allowing for broad connectivity for the purposes of health
David Watson
information exchange. This session looks at unique and high value functions that have been
President & CEO
introduced by both private and public health information exchanges across the nation. The result Cal INDEX
is using HIE to increase value not just meet requirements.
Joel Vengco, MS, MA
VP & CIO
Baystate Health
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10:30 AM
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Intermediate
10:45 AM
11:45 AM
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12:45 PM
1:45 PM
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2:00 PM
3:00 PM
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Intermediate
3:15 PM
4:15 PM
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Intermediate
Integration including interoperability, usable standards, costs, vendor readiness for Meaningful
Use Stages 2, 3 and beyond remain major challenges for HIEs and their partners. This technology
focused session puts these issues in context and provides examples of how interoperability is
allowing HIEs to support transitions in care through innovative but practical ways that have value
for their customers.
Russell Leftwich, MD, FAAAAI, FCCP
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
State of Tennessee Office of eHealth Initiatives
Consumer engagement is critical to the success of healthcare reform. HIEs play an important role
in consumer engagement, acting as an aggregator and means of access to health data, as well as
an on-ramp for consumer-sourced data. This session examines the use of health information
exchange to support engagement including social networks, gaming, m-Health and consumer
access.
Barbara Spurrier
Senior Administrative Director, Center for Innovation
Mayo Clinic
Jacqueline Rosenblatt, BSN, PhD, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
VP Clinical Operations
MPRO
Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
CMIO and VP
Stanford Children's Health
Douglas Wood, MD
Medical Director, Center for Innovation
Mayo Clinic
Network of Networks: Approaches to
Interoperability from Coast to Coast
This session features a panel of thought leaders from leading HIO Networks across the country.
These leaders will discuss their innovative and collaborative approaches to building
interoperability between HIOs, and then will visualize the path toward the ultimate network of
networks where providers can exchange data with other providers anywhere in the U.S. without
a previously defined relationship.
Mariann Yeager, MBA
CEO
Healtheway, Inc.
Laura McCrary, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Kansas Health Information Network, Inc.
This session will allow the audience to hear from leadership within the Department of Health and Jessica Kahn, MPH
Human Services describe the agency's vision for interoperable health IT across myriad system
Director of Data Systems Group
platforms. The speaker will focus on funding opportunities, future rule promulgation, and long
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Medicaid Moving Forward: Systems
term strategy to achieve the triple aim: better health outcomes, improved population health, and
Priorities for 2015 and Business Case for lower costs.
Integration at All Levels
Closing Keynote
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Sunday April 12th 2015
Title
HIE Community
Reception
Poster Sessions
Code
PSP5
Title
Enabling Medical Device
Data Interoperability to
Facilitate Clinical Care
Processes
Description
Speaker(s)
The HIE Community provides networking and education opportunities for healthcare and health
IT professionals interested in health information exchange. With over 6,000 members, the HIE
Community is a national hub for sharing ideas, learning best practices and leveraging knowledge
around this crucial piece of the healthcare landscape. Join us for this face-to-face networking
event at HIMSS15!
N/A
Description
Speaker(s)
Data interoperability among health care professionals and care management systems cannot be
complete without incorporating data from medical devices. We analyze the role medical devices
play in patient management, and review how data interoperability from medical devices to care
management systems optimizes point of care decision making.
Jay Joshi, M.D., M.B.A.
University of Illinois Medical Center
Konstantin Kostov, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
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Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
4:30 PM
5:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
Room S105
Foyer
All!
Time
Location
Room
Level
8:00 AM
4:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
TBD
Intermediate
Monday April 13th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
15
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
Payers and Providers Build Philadelphia and Southeastern Pennsylvania are leading the way in health information exchange
an HIE: A Major Metro (HIE) architecture and business-service model by launching the first exchange formed from the
Experiment
ground up by both payers and providers to serve a major metropolitan market with a single HIE.
Learn about the challenges overcome — and the future benefits — in this unique HIE enhanced
with insurer data.
Objectives:
▪ Outline traditional structures of HIEs predominantly set up by health systems
▪ Identify the advantages of incorporating claims-related data in an HIE and how this feature
affects an HIE's use cases
▪ Describe the challenges and rewards inherent in establishing a payer-and-provider HIE
structure in a major healthcare market
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Advancing Interoperability Join the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) for a discussion on the Nationwide
and Standards
Interoperability Roadmap, collaboration between ONC, other federal agencies and the private
sector to advance a real-word, nationwide, interoperable infrastructure for health IT. This shared
roadmap charts a path to achieve progress in 3, 6 and 10 years using core critical building blocks.
Martin Lupinetti
Executive Director
Healthshare Exchange of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S100C
Intermediate
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
Richard Snyder, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Independence Blue Cross (IBC)
Erica Galvez
Interoperability Portfolio Manager
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC)
Steven Posnack
Objectives:
Director, Office of Standards and Technology
▪ Discuss audience questions regarding the Interoperability Roadmap and technical standards for Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
interoperability.
Technology (ONC)
▪ Restate fellow conference attendee perspectives on the Interoperability Roadmap and
technical standards for interoperability.
▪ Describe the implementation status of a least two of the initiatives
▪ Describe ONC perspectives the Interoperability Roadmap and technical standards for
interoperability.
▪ Identify the areas where additional industry focus and prioritization around technical standards
for interoperability is necessary.
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Beyond HITECH:
Arizona's Collaborative
Strategic HIT Plan
Working together, Arizona’s HIT Coordinator, AzHeC, and Mosaica Partners created Arizona’s
strategic plan and roadmap to continue to advance HIT/HIE in the state. Two of the plan’s key
authors discuss how Arizona’s Health IT Roadmap 2.0 was developed, the 19 initiatives that
emerged from the work, and Arizona's progress to date.
Objectives:
▪ Describe the high level approach Arizona used to develop its Health IT Roadmap 2.0
▪ Identify two challenges Arizona faced in developing its Health IT Roadmap 2.0
▪ Describe the implementation status of a least two of the initiatives
▪ List five of the initiatives described in Arizona's Health IT Roadmap 2.0
▪ Identify the governance model in place for Arizona's statewide HIE
Laura Kolkman, RN, MS, FHIMSS
President
Mosaica Partners
Lorie Mayer
Health IT Coordinator & Medicaid HIT Coordinator
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Monday April 13th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
45
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
HIE for Population Health: Health information exchanges (HIE) have tremendous potential value for measuring population
The NY Million Hearts health and promoting health improvement. Hixny, a RHIO with high HIE adoption, and the New
Campaign
York State Department of Health conducted a pilot project to evaluate this potential for the
Million Hearts Initiative. This session will report on results.
Objectives:
▪ Discuss the federal Million Hearts initiative as an example of a multi-sector population health
improvement program
▪ Recognize the process steps involved in a pilot to use data collected by a health information
exchange to estimate population health measures related to the Million Hearts initiative
▪ Describe key findings from the pilot and their implications for improving the utility of health
information exchange data for public health surveillance and supporting initiatives to improve
population health
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DIRECT Patient
Information Exchange
Outcomes
EHR systems must interface with related patient information exchange technology to help
Providers close their Continuum of Care circle, enabling delivery of effective patient care in their
community. Health IT professionals are working diligently to close this gap between small, mid
size and large Providers. This roundtable discusses best practices.
D. Scott Momrow, M.P.H.
VP, Marketing and Outreach
Hixny
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S403
Intermediate
2:30 PM
3:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S100A
Advanced
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
South
Building, Hall
A
Booth 2084
Ian Brissette, Ph.D.
Director, Bureau of Chronic Disease Evaluation and Research
New York State Department of Health
Therasa Bell
President & Chief Technology Officer
Inofile
Objectives:
▪ Recognize new and deep insight from Provider User Case exposure in successfully, and securely,
interfacing with all size providers to effectively exchange patient information
▪ Use insight from Health IT peers into FAX alternative solutions that help mitigate HIPAA privacy
and security issues
▪ Identify how the DirectTrust Framework (www.DirectTrust.org) is fundamental to true
interoperability between Providers of any size, anywhere
▪ Discover Provider Health IT strategic initiatives, beyond patient information exchange, focused
on patient engagement
▪ Share best practices and challenges in reaching true interoperability beyond EHR systems
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Data Warehousing with
Semantic Ontologies
Data warehouses that provide interoperability require differentiating three semantic layers in our Richard Biehl
data: system, practice, and phenotype. Failure to separate these layers creates problems of
Informatics Architect
representation that result in incorrect or misleading queries. Ontologies can mediate between
University of Central Florida
the data and our warehouse representations to resolve these issues during design.
Objectives:
▪ Demonstrate how the HIT human-machine interface relies on the semantic abilities of human
participants
▪ Categorize the three semantic layers relevant to clinical data warehouse design
▪ Employ an ontological framework for mapping and modeling system-practice-phenotype data
▪ Illustrate how semantic ontologies can resolve common problems in warehousing, using the
ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion problem as an example
▪ Propose a reasoning-based warehouse design that can learn on behalf of human participants
who are increasingly overwhelmed by the flow of big data
Interoperability
Showcase
Visit the Interoperability Showcase to tour four health journeys demonstrating a clinically
accurate continuum of care that explores multiple use cases for standards-based health
information exchange!
Over 100 live clinical information systems, plus presentations
on interoperability success in the Education Theater
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11:00 AM
6:00 PM
Tuesday April 14th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Title
Description
Interoperability & Standards
Networking Breakfast Panel
Code
64
Title
Medical Device
Communication: A
Harmonized Approach
Speaker(s)
Topic TBD
* Separate registration required
TBD
Description
Speaker(s)
In this session, NIST will cover the tooling they have developed in support of medical device
communication based on international standards. A brief medical device nomenclature and also
cover the importance and levels of interoperability that this work addresses will be discussed.
John Garguilo
Project Leader
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
7:30 AM
9:30 AM
Location
Room
Exhibit Hall A
Interop
Showcase
Theater
Level
Time
Location
Room
Level
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
W192
Intermediate
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
W196A
Intermediate
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
N427
Intermediate
Paul Schluter
Objectives:
Principal Engineer
▪ Identify available software tooling used in medical device communication and explain how this
GE Healthcare & Life Care Solutions
increases interoperability in healthcare applications
▪ Explain the difference between Conformance testing and Interoperability testing and how
Connectathon type events increase interoperability
▪ Demonstrate test tool functionality and a harmonized standards-based medical device
nomenclature repository publically available
▪ Develop understanding of criteria likely to be identified by Meaningful Use and addressed by
message validation tools developed by NIST
▪ Develop understanding of IHE tooling developed by NIST
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HIMSS Continuity of Care This session will provide a one-year update on the Continuity of Care Maturity Model (CCMM),
Maturity Model Update: initially launched at HIMSS14. The CCMM, comprising eight stages, is a global model that
Going Beyond EMRAM addresses the importance of interoperability, information exchange, care coordination, patient
engagement and analytics with the ultimate goal of holistic individual and population health
management.
John Hoyt, FACHE, FHIMSS
Executive Vice President
HIMSS Analytics
James Gaston, FHIMSS, MBA
Senior Director Maturity Models
HIMSS Analytics
Objectives:
▪ Identify the eight stages of the model and how it can drive transformation in individual and
regional health systems globally.
Uwe Buddrus
▪ Describe how the model demonstrates the effective use of IT with care coordination,
Managing Director
patient/consumer engagement, information exchange, interoperability, analytics and the overall HIMSS Analytics Europe
management of the health of individuals and populations.
▪ Recognize the pilot programs implemented with the goal of optimizing outcomes for health
system and patients.
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Shannon Pohl, RN, BSN, MS
Data-Driven Decision
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) has commonly been viewed as a tool for individualized patient
Making for Individual and care. However, these data-driven, quality of care tools can be applied also to the population level, Clinical Informaticist
Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services
Public Health
to support healthcare transformation. Stemming from past experience, this session will discuss
methods and recommendations to support patient and population health.
Fred Rachman, MD
Chief Executive Officer
Objectives:
Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services
▪ Identify methods for successfully developing and implementing Clinical Decision Support for
patient-level initiatives
▪ Identify approaches for applying CDS to population and public health initiatives
▪ Recognize the key clinical, technical, and human factors that play into developing and
implementing Clinical Decision Support
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Tuesday April 14th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
Interoperability & Standards
Networking Breakfast Panel
Topic TBD
* Separate registration required
TBD
Code
76
Description
Speaker(s)
Title
A Private HIE - Operations, This session will discuss operational and analytical challenges associated with HIE that has 3.6+
Challenges, Strategy and Million individual patient records and with plans to integrate with 46+ independent EMR’s.
Analytics
Attendees will also receive insight in future strategy of NYULMC HIE data analytics and its
connection to the organizational goals of CIN, ACO’s and population health measures.
Objectives:
▪ Illustrate lessons from managing and maintaining large HIE with 3.6+ Million individual patient
records
▪ Evaluate pains and gains of connecting with 46+ EMR’s
▪ Identify maturity and shift in strategy of a HIE by pay for performance healthcare reform
▪ Explain the strategy and plans of NYULMC HIE clinical data analytics
HIE and Interoperability
Leadership Council Meetup
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Mobile, Digital and
Connected Health: A
Status Update
Time
7:30 AM
9:30 AM
Location
Room
Exhibit Hall A
Interop
Showcase
Theater
Level
Time
Location
Room
Level
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
Anthony Antinori
Senior Director of IT
Clinical Affairs at NYULMC
HIE and Interoperability volunteer leaders are invited to discuss their groups' progress and share
ideas about future collaboration - a great opportunity to strategize about next year's goals.
* By invitation only
N/A
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
North
Building
Hall B
This session will offer a status update on key aspects of personal connected health, including
engagement, social networking, connectivity to providers, provider adoption, resources,
interoperability, personalized innovation, EHRs, reimbursement and regulation.
Rob Havasy
Vice President, Personal Connected Health Alliance
Executive Director , Continua
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S103
Intermediate
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
Objectives:
▪ Describe at least five key aspects of personal connected health and explain their status
▪ Explain the differences between consumer and provider attitudes about personal connected
health
▪ Recognize at least two recent changes or decisions impacting personal connected health
interoperability, from around the globe
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Fraq Iqbal
Senior Manager - Information Management
NYU Langone Medical Center
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
HIMSS
Spot
Joseph Kvedar
Director
Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare
The Portal Balancing Act: The session will explore the benefits and challenges associated with creating a statewide, HIELaura McCrary, Ed.D.
sponsored patient portal that satisfies meaningful use patient engagement requirements, delivers Executive Director
Meeting Patient and
Provider Needs
Kansas Health Information Network, Inc.
value to patients and providers alike, and can be deployed and sustained within tight budget
constraints.
Objectives:
▪ Define the key capabilities and benefits that providers expect from an HIE sponsored patient
portal
▪ Explain what patients need and want from patient portals in order for them to become (and
stay) engaged in their healthcare
▪ Identify the challenges inherent in deploying a statewide patient portal and share the lessons
learned in successfully implementing a phased approach
▪ Recognize the often misunderstood meaningful use patient engagement requirements and the
role an HIE sponsored portal can play in meeting those requirements
▪ Assess the best way to work and collaborate with a PHR vendor, as well as best practices for
PHR implementation
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Tuesday April 14th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
Interoperability & Standards
Networking Breakfast Panel
Topic TBD
* Separate registration required
TBD
Code
100
Description
Speaker(s)
Title
Using HIE to Improve Care This session will demonstrate how the Colorado Springs Military Health System within the
for Military Personnel Department of Defense was able to overcome both policy and technology barriers to improve
care coordination for more than 172,000 beneficiaries by partnering with a regional health
information exchange (HIE) organization.
Francesco Dominicci, RN-BC
Chief Information Officer and Director of Health IT
Colorado Springs Military Health System
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Exhibit Hall A
Interop
Showcase
Theater
Time
Location
Room
2:30 PM
3:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S100A
Time
Location
Room
9:00 AM
5:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
TBD
7:30 AM
9:30 AM
Level
Level
Morgan Honea, MHA
Objectives:
Executive Director
▪ Compare and contrast the characteristics and needs of an active duty military patient
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO)
population and a more traditional civilian patient population, and how health information
technology (HIT) to support each population has traditionally differed
▪ Define the types of technological solutions that need to be developed to improve care
coordination when active duty military patients receive care from both within the Department of
Defense’s healthcare system and from civilian healthcare professionals and facilities
▪ Describe the clinical and financial improvements that the Colorado Springs Military Health
System has documented since becoming a participant in a regional, public health information
exchange (HIE) network
▪ Summarize the ways in which civilian healthcare providers, and the IT teams that support
civilian healthcare organizations, can work with Department of Defense to improve care
coordination for active duty military personnel and their families
Poster Sessions
Code
PSEP5
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
State HIE Program: Key During January – May 2014, NORC conducted in-depth case studies of six states – Iowa,
Findings from a Six-State Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming – to understand effects of the State HIE
Program on HIE progress.
Review
Prashila Dullabh, M.D.
Director of Health IT
NORC
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Level
Wednesday April 15th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
136
Title
A National Pediatric
Health Information
Network
Description
Speaker(s)
HIEs are not one-size-fits-all. Pediatric healthcare, for example, poses unique challenges such as Wes Wright
consent issues that are ill-suited to most regional HIEs. Seattle Children’s Hospital spearheaded a Senior Vice President and CIO
multistate pediatric health information network (PHIN). This session will describe the strategic,
Seattle Children's Hospital
technological and human factors for a specialty HIE.
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
8:30 AM
9:30 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S105
Intermediate
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
Objectives:
▪ Assess specialized HIE needs for a distinct patient population, such as pediatric, behavioral
health, or other clinical specialties
▪ Recognize the strategic, technological, and human factors that must come together for a
specialty HIE of a regional or national scale
▪ Create consensus and engage grassroots support across a broad community of stakeholders
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Transforming Continuity Standardized secure communications helps providers to deliver timely healthcare information to
hospitals, referral physicians, labs, and patients. Discover how secure communications can
of Care: A Statewide
optimize workflows and improve business intelligence by leveraging existing HIT investments and
Standard Model
enabling access to information.
Minakshi Tikoo, PhD, MBI, MS, MSc
Director of Business Intelligence and Shared Analytics /
Health and Human Services HIT Coordinator
Connecticut Department of Social Services
Objectives:
▪ Analyze current challenges in Connecticut provider-provider referral communications, and
identify the unique challenges faced when referring between public health and commercial
providers
▪ Evaluate the solution facilitated by Connecticut Department of Social Services to enable secure,
standards-based between eligible providers with the goal to improve person centered care
▪ Differentiate the effects of the Connecticut HIE initiative leveraging standards based
communications program on referrals, patient care and provider workflow efficiency
▪ Assess the limitations of the existing physician directory for measuring electronic health record
(EHR) adoption rates among physicians in Connecticut
▪ Discuss specific use cases and mitigation of issues around workflow, security and privacy.
Compare and contrast other applications of secure communications to connect healthcare
systems to deliver improved quality of care
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Connecting Rural
Communities in Alaska
and North Dakota
People living in rural areas are at higher risk for chronic disease and poor health outcomes. Alaska Rebecca Madison, MBA, CPHIT, CPHIE, CLS, MT (ASCP)
and North Dakota are pioneering the use of health IT tools to overcome barriers to rural
Executive Director
population health management by electronically delivering patients’ complete health information Alaska eHealth Network
to rural providers using Direct Secure Messaging and query-based exchange.
Charles Peterson
Technology and Operations Manager
North Dakota Health Information Network
Objectives:
▪ Identify strategies using health IT to break down barriers to care in rural areas
▪ Compare two approaches to implementing and using Direct and query-based exchange
▪ Analyze the types of communications channels to conduct outreach that facilitates technology
adoption
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Wednesday April 15th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
166
172
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
Safety Nets Improve Care Ten Safety Net Organizations in the Kansas City Regional and two Health Information
Rebecca Goldberg
Coordination with HIE Organizations came together to provide access to patient records across the region as well as
Director, Care Optimization
design, develop and implement electronic transitions of care to improve care coordination among BluePrint Healthcare IT
the clinics.
Carla Gibson
Objectives:
Senior Program Officer
▪ Organize regional collaborations using a program framework that unifies participants on shared
REACH Healthcare Foundation
goals, measurements and accountability
▪ Design regional initiatives with simple but impactful use cases for improving outcomes using
current healthcare technologies
▪ Create a strong communication program with executive level sponsorship
▪ Create outcome measures and metrics that align with the design and intended objectives of the
program
Developing an Enterprise CHRISTUS Health developed a VNA (vendor neutral archive) strategy to eliminate imaging silos,
Imaging Strategy with VNA neutralize the proprietary image storage problem and create an interoperable imaging
infrastructure to normalize data, optimize image management and streamline enterprise image
access across 40 hospitals and facilities.
Lynn Gibson, M.B.A.
Vice President and CTO
CHRISTUS Health
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
N426
Intermediate
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S105
Intermediate
Larry Sitka
Objectives:
Principal Solution Architect and Founder of Acuo Technologies
▪ Identify which criteria are most important when selecting a VNA platform as the foundation for
Perceptive Software
image sharing and clinical content interoperability
▪ Evaluate VNA capabilities for addressing specific clinical and business challenges, including
unexpected benefits that can be realized and examples of creative solutions to clinical and
business problems using VNA technology
▪ Discuss recommendations and lessons learned implementing an enterprise VNA platform: the
good, the bad and the ugly
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Improving Transitions of HealthInsight, a Nevada QIO, pilot tested an intelligent health information delivery system to help Erick Maddox
Care through Intelligent its physicians meet transitions of care requirements. This innovative closed loop system monitors Health Information Technology Manager
HIE
alert status, manages workflows, and provides customized dashboards with real time statistics
HealthInsight, Inc.
and report generators that can track alert responses and process progress.
Michael Lundie
Director, HIE Practice
Objectives:
Cognosante, LLC
▪ Share experiences in implementation and findings from a pilot using an intelligent alerting
system for transitions of care
▪ Discuss the items that must be considered in implementing a closed-loop notification system
▪ Demonstrate the use of innovative closed-loop, real time, intelligent alerting and work flow
capability to support transitions of care
▪ Describe the metrics available through dashboards to evaluate alert status, responses, and
progress
▪ Evaluate how lessons learned from the pilot study translated for a full scale statewide HIE
deployment
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Wednesday April 15th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
190
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
VistA Evolution's
This session will discuss the VistA Evolution roadmap, timelines, milestones and initiatives,
Interoperability Roadmap including the transformative new Enterprise Health Management Platform (eHMP) and the
robust user experience it is designed to deliver. Discover how the first open source EHR is
and Initiatives
adapting to meet the current and future needs of Veterans and providers.
Interoperability
Showcase
Aaron Drew, Ph.D.
Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect
Office of Information Technology, Department of Veterans
Affairs
Objectives:
▪ Describe VistA Evolution’s roadmap and milestones over the next decade.
▪ Assess the successes, challenges and opportunities for collaboration with partners.
▪ Identify VistA Evolution’s top priorities and emerging needs.
▪ Evaluate methods for optimizing provider-technology interactions.
Jonathan Nebeker, M.D.
Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer, Strategy and
Functional Design
Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs
Visit the Interoperability Showcase to tour four health journeys demonstrating a clinically
accurate continuum of care that explores multiple use cases for standards-based health
information exchange!
Over 100 live clinical information systems, plus presentations
on interoperability success in the Education Theater
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
2:30 PM
3:30 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S102
Intermediate
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
South
Building, Hall
A
Booth 2084
9:30 AM
4:00 PM
Thursday April 16th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
207
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
10:30 AM
11:30 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S105
Intermediate
Richard Swafford, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Inland Empire HIE
10:30 AM
11:30 AM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
Ranga Chandra Gudivada, Ph.D.
Manager
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
W196C
Intermediate
Care Transitions: Optimal Ensuring that the best possible care is delivered across the continuum while preserving
Paula Hedlund
Outcomes Require
reimbursement incentives requires the ability to identify and eliminate discontinuity among care- Director of Enterprise Business Services
Efficient Handoff
givers during transitions between care settings. Closing those gaps requires improvement to care Upper Peninsula Health Plan
team workflows driven by a heightened awareness of critical patient activity.
Objectives:
▪ Describe the issues and opportunities in managing transitions of care across a loosely
integrated system of care
▪ Analyze the inter-company workflows, dependencies and the associated impacts on patient
experience and outcomes
▪ Recognize how to apply appropriate interoperability technology to improve complex transitions
of care workflows across multiple care providers
209
Inland Empire HIE: A Path Sustainability continues to keep health information exchange (HIE) executives up at night, with
to Sustainability
more HIEs failing despite an urgent scramble to find a way to remain operational. Inland Empire
HIE a completely self-sustaining HIE from day one has a clear-cut growth strategy based on a
hybrid model that facilitates participation.
Objectives:
▪ Define the components of a hybrid governance model
▪ Identify key components of health IT that create value for participants
▪ Employ a fee structure and calculate return on investment to help ensure a sustainable
operation
214
Beyond the Hype:
A patient’s medical information in an EHR constitutes diverse data from disparate clinical
Achieving True Semantic systems. This session focuses on three different aspects of building a Semantic Interoperability
Interoperability
Platform: 1.Terminologies and vocabularies 2.Processes, tools and technologies, and 3. UPMC’s
ambitious efforts to reach 100% semantic mapping of various clinical elements.
Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA
Chief Innovation Officer, UPMC
Objectives:
President, UPMC Technology Development Center
▪ Differentiate various clinical terminologies and their roles in harmonizing discrete data
elements from existing silos of clinical information systems
▪ Identify the challenges and specific methodologies, tools and technologies adopted and refined
by UPMC to enable a Semantic Interoperability platform
▪ Recognize the value of leveraging a true Semantic Interoperability platform across a diverse set
of applications from point-of-care, clinical decision support and enterprise analytics endeavors
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Thursday April 16th 2015
Interoperability and HIE Events & Education
Code
215
Title
Description
Speaker(s)
Trust in Regional Exchange HIE As Key Enabler of Innovative Patient-Centered Research. This session illustrates how a
Supports Patient-Centered complex and dynamic multi-stakeholder collective, led by the New York City Clinical Data
Research Network (NYC-CDRN), has created an accessible, sustainable and scalable clinical data
Research
network to facilitate patient-centered research with the help of two New York City RHIOs.
Thomas Check, M.A.
President & CEO
Healthix, Inc.
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
N426
Intermediate
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
McCormick
Place
Convention
Center
S404
Intermediate
Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA
Global Ambassador, Information Management
Objectives:
▪ Explain how HIE patient-matching technology supports the innovative research infrastructure IBM
of NYC-CDRN
▪ Identify privacy issues addressed by HIE participants and describe how the NYC-CDRN
infrastructure supports patient privacy
▪ Describe how consumer, patient consent and other concerns of community stakeholders are
addressed
▪ Discuss the value of re-use data from Healthix and the Bronx RHIO including costs and
technology infrastructure savings
▪ Illustrate the information data model's use within NYC-CDRN and its connection to the PCORnet
222
Using a Regional EMPI to This session discusses the value of a regional enterprise master patient index (REMPI), sharing
Optimize Data and Reduce how 80 hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area use a REMPI to optimize their data, improve care
continuity and reduce readmissions. Moreover, the session offers practical strategies for
Readmissions
developing and implementing a REMPI.
Kristin Jenkins, JD, FACHE
President
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation
Objectives:
▪ Identify the differences (in functionality and benefits) between a master patient index (MPI)
and a regional enterprise master patient index (REMPI)
▪ Describe how a regional enterprise master patient index (REMPI) can be incorporated with an
organization’s overarching data strategy, supporting better data transparency with consumers in
regions with multiple healthcare providers
▪ Discuss how a regional enterprise master patient index (REMPI) optimizes diverse data across
care settings, ultimately helping hospitals and health systems reduce readmissions and improve
financial performance in a value-based care environment
▪ Explain what technologies and networking relationships are necessary to support
implementation of a regional enterprise master patient index (REMPI) and achieve care
collaboration and population health management goals
▪ Recognize the importance of quality and accuracy when attempting to aggregate data for a
regional enterprise master patient index (REMPI)
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
April 13th - April 16th 2015
On Demand / eSessions
Code
OD10
OD11
Title
Ambulance Services:
HIE Access on the Road
in Maine
Enabling Improved
Transitions of Care
through HIE Technology
Description
Speaker(s)
HIEs must provide access to all points of care. Learn how Maine’s HealthInfoNet takes HIE to new Todd Rogow, MPA
levels by providing ambulance personnel with secure access to a clinical portal that provides real Chief Technology Officer
time up-to-date, vital patient information in emergency situations and supports Community
HealthInfoNet
Paramedicine practice in rural and underserved parts of Maine.
Robert Russell, CCEMT-P
Objectives:
Chief Operating Officer
▪ Discuss three use cases for ambulance services to connect to a health information exchange
North East Mobile Health Services
▪ Identify how ambulance personnel use HIE data to provide care during emergencies and
Community Paramedicine activities in support of rural and underserved areas of Maine
▪ Describe how a two-step authentication process helps ensure secure HIE access for ambulance
personnel with differing levels of skill sets
The Ohio Health Information Partnership developed one of two HIEs in Ohio. The CliniSync HIE
connects 2,000+ physicians and 141 hospitals to promote coordination of care in 77 of 88
counties. This presentation will detail how CliniSync uses powerful technology and a grassroots
approach to provider adoption, to facilitate improved transitions of care.
Dan Paoletti
Chief Executive Officer
Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP) /
CliniSync Health Information Exchange
Objectives:
▪ Demonstrate how a multi-phased approach to health information exchange (HIE)
implementation leads to successful provider adoption and care coordination
▪ Explain why health information exchange (HIE) is key to supporting improved transitions of care
and the specific advantages of this approach
▪ Identify how government programs and new standards around data formats and protocols
have shaped the evolution of health information exchange (HIE)
▪ Discuss how best practices from CliniSync’s experience could be applied to connect diverse
communities of care
402
HIE Data Analysis
HITECH curriculum was adapted to provide training on Health Information Exchange, quality
Kathryn Miller, M.S.
Workforce Development improvement and advanced clinical analytics tools to students with experience in Health IT
Program Director
and/or health care delivery. This e-session describes the curriculum, learning modalities used and Bronx RHIO
outcomes experienced by the students including job search techniques.
Objectives:
▪ Identify skills required for HIE Analyst roles as compared to traditional HIT roles
▪ Compare HITECH curriculum to BCC/Bronx RHIO Curriculum and analyze enhancements to
HITECH related to teaching skills required in new roles
▪ Summarize employment changes experienced by graduates of the BCC/Bronx RHIO program
▪ Define three steps that improve a candidate's potential for promotion or hiring after
completing such a course of study
© 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Interoperability and HIE Sessions of Interest
Time
Location
Room
Level
April 13
April 16
On Demand
N/A
Intermediate
On Demand
N/A
Intermediate
eSession
N/A
8:00 AM
5:00 PM
April 13
April 16
8:00 AM
5:00 PM
April 13
April 16
8:00 AM
5:00 PM