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PROGRAM
AMIA 2000 Spring Congress Program
May 23-25, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Tuesday, May 23, 2000 |
| 1:00 pm: Welcome and Introduction, Georgian Room |
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| 1:15 pm: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION, Georgian Room |
| Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., Chairman & CEO, Lion Gate Management Corporation, Boston, MA, "To Err is Human: What about Computers?" |
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| 2:00 pm: Break |
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| 2:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions |
| Consumer Informatics Supporting Patients As Co-Producers of Quality, Arlington Room |
| KEYNOTE PANEL: As individuals use technology to seek health information, changes are occurring in health care professionals' and patients' roles, the heart of health care practice, and the organization of health care delivery. This panel examines key trends and major issues in providing health care information to facilitate individuals' control of their health. |
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| Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Joyce Flory, PhD, President, Communications for Business and Health, and Editor, Internet Healthcare Strategies |
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| Helga E Rippen, MD, PhD, MPH, Director of Medical Informatics, Pfizer Health Solutions, Inc. |
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| Warner V Slack, MD, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Co-President, Center for Clinical Computing |
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| Preventing health care errors through better patient records, standards, and vocabularies, Berkeley/Clarendon Room |
| KEYNOTE PANEL—ERRORS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System," has stimulated substantial interest in the problem of medical errors. Many preventative approaches involve changing the systems by which care is provided. This change, and the role of information technology in it, will be the focus of this keynote panel and track. |
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| Lucian Leape, MD, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health |
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| Thomas B. Sheridan, ScD, Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Michael Cohen, MBA, MHA, Consultant, Sheldon I. Dorenfest and Associates |
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| David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Division of General Medicine, Partners Health Care |
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| J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Professor, Regenstrief Institute |
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| Michael Shabot, MD, Director, Enterprise Information Service, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
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| 3:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions |
| Consumer Informatics and Quality, Arlington Room |
| KEYNOTE PANEL (continued) AND AUDIENCE DISCUSSION |
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| Preventing health care errors, Berkeley/Clarendon Room |
| CASE STUDIES FROM THE LEADING EDGE: This case presentation session will highlight leading projects from clinical settings that have been successful at preventing errors and improving safety in health care. |
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| Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, Vice President, Clinical and Patient Systems, HEALTHvision |
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| J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Professor, Regenstrief Institute |
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| Michael Shabot, MD, Director, Enterprise Information Service, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
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| David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Division of General Medicine, Partners Health Care |
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| 4:30 pm: Adjourn |
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| 6:00 pm: Reception, Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon Room |
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| 7:00 pm: Banquet Dinner, Banquet Speaker: J. Keith Green, Chief Technology Officer, drkoop.com, Georgian Room |
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| Wednesday, May 24, 2000 |
| 8:30 am: Concurrent Sessions |
| Consumer Informatics and Quality, Georgian Room |
| COMMENTATOR PANEL I: THE APPLICATIONS PERSPECTIVE: Clinicians and medical informaticians who have developed successful consumer health applications comment on keynote panelists' and each others' remarks. |
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| Thomas K. Houston, MD, MPH, Research Fellow, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
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| Robert H. Friedman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Boston University, Chief, Medical Information Systems Unit, Boston Medical Center |
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| Preventing health care errors, Arlington Room |
| NEEDS AND PRIORITIES FOR IMPROVING THE PREVENTION OF MEDICAL ERRORS: Conference participants will join to discuss error reduction, and what the key principles of using information technology to reduce errors may be. |
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| Facilitator: David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Division of General Medicine, Partners Health Care |
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| 9:30 am: Concurrent Sessions, Georgian Room |
| Consumer Informatics and Quality |
| COMMENTATOR PANEL II: THE OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVE: Panelists present viewpoints from outside the clinical provider community. Experts in economics and regulation, philosophy and bioethics, and patient empowerment highlight additional significant considerations. |
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| Kenneth W Goodman, PhD, Director, Bioethics Program, University of Miami |
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| Gilles Frydman, Founder and President, ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) |
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| Preventing health care errors, Arlington Room |
| COMMENTATOR PANEL: Commentators will reflect and expand on the key themes from the previous sessions. |
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| Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, Vice President, Clinical and Patient Systems, HEALTHvision |
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| Other Panelists To Be Announced |
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| 10:30 am: Break |
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| 11:00 am: Concurrent Sessions, 4th Floor Conference Center |
| Consumer Informatics and Quality, Whittier, White Hill, Stuart Rooms |
| BREAK-OUT GROUPS: Individuals will separate into groups to discuss topics identified in the panel sessions. The groups will recommend activities and issues for further action and consideration by AMIA. These recommendations will be presented at the Report Back session on Thursday. |
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| Preventing health care errors, Franklin, Cambridge, Beacon Hill Rooms |
| BREAK-OUT GROUPS: In this session, conference participants will complete their deliberations on the research and policy needs and priorities for reducing errors using information technologies. A compilation of these discussion group results will be presented at the Report Back sessions on Thursday. |
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| David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Division of General Medicine, Partners Health Care |
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| Recorder: Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Department of Information Systems, Partners Health Care |
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| 12:15 pm: Lunch, Luncheon Speaker: John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA, Administrator, The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) "Health Informatics Initiatives of AHRQ", Stanboro Room |
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| 1:45 pm: Concurrent Sessions |
| Changing clinical practice patterns with computerized decision support, Georgian Room |
| KEYNOTE PANEL: Computer-based decision support systems hold the promise of helping practitioners translate research evidence more effectively into evidence-based care. This keynote panel will focus on the role of information technology in the initiation, dissemination, and critical appraisal of clinically-relevant research evidence. It will examine the technical challenges and opportunities in evidence-driven computerized decision support, as well as organizational and workflow barriers to information-technology-supported practice change. |
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| Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University |
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| Paul Tang, MD, VP of Epic Research Institute, and Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Palo Alto Medical Foundation |
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| Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, and President, Kaplan Associates |
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| Health care quality scorecards and population-oriented analyses, Arlington Room |
| FUTURE OF ACCREDITATION: Accountability, quality improvement, and on-the-job performance improvement need health care quality scorecards. In spite of advances in computerization, most clinical quality scorecards are produced by manual chart reviews. Invited experts will discuss the current trends of performance evaluation and information needs of future accreditation, and will highlight information techniques to make clinical systems better for performance evaluation. |
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| Jerod Loeb, PhD, Vice President of Research and Measurement, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
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| Carolyn Cocotas, RT, MPHA, Executive Director ,Performance Measurement Coordinating Council |
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| 2:45 pm: Concurrent Sessions, Georgian Room |
| Changing clinical practice patterns |
| CASE STUDIES FROM THE LEADING EDGE: This case presentation session will highlight two projects that have been successful at changing clinical practice patterns. In addition, this session will provide an update on advances towards a standard computer-based representation of practice guidelines. |
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| Tamara T. Stone, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management & Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine |
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| Robert Greenes, MD, PhD, Director, Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
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| Health care quality scorecards, Arlington Room |
| PUBLIC NEEDS: Experts will discuss controversies surrounding publicly available scorecards and will provide examples of improved health care outcomes from scorecards at the large population level. |
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| David Lansky, PhD, President, FACCT--Foundation for Accountability |
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| Edward L. Hannan, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy Management and Behavior, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany |
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| 3:45 pm: Break |
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| 4:15 pm: Concurrent Sessions |
| Changing clinical practice patterns, Georgian and Arlington Rooms |
| NEEDS AND PRIORITIES DISCUSSION GROUPS: Conference participants will break into groups to discuss research and policy needs and priorities around such topics as facilitating easier linking of patient problems to relevant research, building computerized knowledge bases that incorporate research evidence, and workflow-sensitive methods for filtering and delivering relevant and high-quality evidence to clinical decision-making. |
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| Group 1 Facilitator: Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD, Director, Medical Informatics Education, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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| Group 2 Facilitator: Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco |
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| Health care quality scorecards, Berkeley/Clarendon Room |
| INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE: Information system developers will discuss the various requirements of supporting clinical performance evaluation including vocabularies, standardization, and other data management issues. |
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| Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Senior Vice President for Clinical Informatics, MedicaLogic, Inc. |
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| Bernard P. Wess, Jr., CEO, InfoMedtrics, Inc. |
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| 5:15 pm: Adjourn |
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| Thursday, May 25, 2000 |
| 8:30 am: Concurrent Sessions |
| Changing clinical practice patterns, Georgian Room |
| COMMENTATOR PANEL: Three commentators will reflect and expand on the key themes from the previous day’s activities, looking in particular at lessons that can be learned from outside of the health sector. |
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| Paul Gorman, MD, Assistant Professor, Oregon Health Sciences University |
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| Helen Burstin, MD, Director for Primary Care Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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| Cynthia Gadd, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh |
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| Health care quality scorecards, Arlington Room |
| FORMAT AND IMPACT: "Quality Report Cards, will they get us where we want to go?" |
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| Arnie Epstein, John H. Foster Professor and Chair, Departnet of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health |
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| Sheldon Greenfield, MD, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Primary Care Outcomes Research Institute |
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| 9:30 am: Concurrent Sessions, 4th Floor Conference Center |
| Changing clinical practice patterns, Whittier, White Hill, Stuart Rooms |
| BREAK-OUT GROUPS: In this session, conference participants will complete their deliberations on the research and policy needs and priorities for effective computer-supported practice change. A compilation of these discussion group results will be presentated at the Report Back sessions. |
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| Group 1 Facilitator: Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD, Director, Medical Informatics Education, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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| Group 2 Facilitator: Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco |
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| Health care quality scorecards, Franklin, Cambridge, Beacon Hill Rooms |
| BREAK-OUT GROUPS: Participants will make and review recommendations for the advancement of health information systems that support improvement not just in large provider organizations, but also in small practices. A compilation of these discussion group results will be presented at the Report Back sessions. |
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| David B. Pryor, MD, System Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Allina Health Systems |
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| 10:45 am: Break |
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| 11:15 am: Keynote Presentation: Janet Corrigan, PhD, Director, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, "Future of Healthcare Improvement," Georgian Room |
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| 12:00 noon: Lunch, Standboro Room |
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| 1:00 pm: EXPERT PANEL REPORTS, Georgian Room: After gathering and discussing a broad array of recommendations, spokespersons representing the four expert panels - consumer informatics, health care errors, quality scorecards and changing clinical practices, will summarize major findings and present health informatics practice guidelines. |
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| 2:30 pm: CLOSING SESSION: GOING INTO ACTION, Georgian Room: After highlighting the opportunities for improvement and developing specific recommendations, the closing discussion will focus on the activities necessary to make a difference in health information management. |
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| 3:00 pm: Adjourn |
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| TOUR THE BOSTON MEDICAL INFORMATICS CENTERS: Spring Congress Registrants are eligible for a complimentary tour at one of the following centers of medical informatics. Tours will be on Monday, May 22, 2000, 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm. Registrations will be processed on a first come, first-served basis. Please specify your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice on the registration form. Participants are responsible for their own transportation. |
| PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INFORMATION SYSTEMS (TOUR A) |
| Host: Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, PhD (Maximum Registration: 20) |
| DECISION SYSTEMS GROUP AT BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL (TOUR B) |
| Host: Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD (Maximum Registration: 10) |
| LABORATORY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AT MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL (TOUR C) |
| Host: Octo Barnett, MD (Maximum Registration: 10) |
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| HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Please contact the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to make a reservation at (800) 225-2008 or (617) 426-2000. You must state that you are attending the American Medical Informatics Association conference in order to qualify for conference discounts. All reservations must be guaranteed by a first night's deposit or a major credit card and signature. Reservations received after April 29, 2000 or after the room block has been filled (whichever comes first), are subject to availability and prevailing rates. The single room rate is $175 and the double room rate is $195. |