Program Chronology
 | |
| Sunday, April 10, 2005 |
| 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm |
Registration Open
|
| Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| 7:00 am to 5:00 pm |
Registration Open
|
| 8:45 am to 9:00 am |
Welcome Remarks
Don Detmer
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Medical Informatics Association
Congress Overview
Blackford Middleton
Program Committee Chair - 2005 AMIA Spring Congress
Dr. Middleton will preview the Spring Congress and provide an overview of the plenary sessions as well as the breakout workshops focusing on how attendees can effectively participate throughout the meeting.
|
| 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
Opening Plenary Session:
Electronic Health Records Product Selection - An Overview of How to Select an EHR that Leverages the National HIT Agenda
David J. Brailer (invited)
National Health Information Technology Coordinator, United States Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Brailer will speak specifically on critical features, functions, benefits, and selecting an EHR that leverages the administration’s efforts toward wiring US health care. Dr. Brailer will share his thoughts on how ambulatory care organizations, from the solo private practice to large multi-site ambulatory networks, ought to go about selecting a commercially-supplied EHR to ensure success in meeting their EHR-related goals.
Dr. Brailer was appointed the first National Health Information Technology Coordinator by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson on May 6, 2004. Dr. Brailer’s duties as National Coordinator are to execute the actions ordered by President George W. Bush in his Executive Order on April 27, 2004, calling for widespread deployment of health information technology within 10 years. Dr. Brailer is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on clinical data sharing, local health information exchanges, and the use of peer-to-peer technologies in health care. He is recognized as a leader in the strategy and financing of quality and efficiency in health care, with a particular emphasis on health information technology and health systems management.
|
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am |
Coffee Break & Sponsor Area Open
|
| 10:30 am to 10:45 am |
Orientation to Workshops 1 & 2
Led by members of the Program Committee:
Patricia Abbott, Blackford Middleton, Eduardo Ortiz, and Eric Rose
|
| 10:45 am 11:45 am |
Plenary Session:
Maximizing the Value of Clinical Decision Support in your EHR
Blackford Middleton
Program Committee Chair - 2005 AMIA Spring Congress
Dr. Middleton will discuss the value proposition relating to EHR value assessment research from the CITL and other settings, and he will review and synthesize the evidence for achieving the maximum impact of EHR implementation. Dr. Middleton has focused his research on clinical decision support systems, systems integration, and patient computing.
Blackford Middleton is one of the nation’s foremost experts on EHRs and the promise they hold on improving the health care practice environment in the United States. He is currently Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development and Chairman of the Center for IT Leadership (CITL) at the Partners HealthCare System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
|
| 11:45 am to 12:00 pm |
Transition to Lunch
|
| KEYNOTE PRESENTATION |
| 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
Lunch: Keynote Speaker
Tom Lee
Chief Executive Officer
Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.
Dr. Lee will share his unique views on EHR from the community practitioner’s perspective touching on how EHR supports pay for performance, ambulatory practice safety and quality, and care integration across a multi-facility integrated delivery network.
Thomas H. Lee is an internist and cardiologist, and he is Network President for Partners HealthCare System and Chief Executive Officer for Partners Community HealthCare, Inc; the integrated delivery system founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health. His research interests include risk stratification and optimal management strategies for common cardiovascular problems and improvement of quality of care, with a particular focus on critical pathways, guideline development and implementation, and managed care. He is the Editor-in-Chief for The Harvard Heart Letter and Associate Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
|
| 1:15 pm to 2:45 pm |
Breakout Workshops – Day 1
The following two breakout workshops provide forums for attendees to interact with several national experts as they share best practices in a facilitated discussion. Two additional breakout workshops will be conducted on Day 2. Each attendee will have a chance to participate in two of the four workshops during the conference.
Workshop 1:
Selecting an EHR for your Practice
Led by members of the Program Committee:
Patricia Abbott and Eric Rose
Learning objectives:
- How to assess your readiness to implement an EHR
- Assessing practice needs that may be met with EHR
- Writing an RFP
- Getting the most out of a site visit
- Analyzing the long-term business stability and viability of a commercial EHR vendor
- Understanding and negotiating EHR contracts
- Estimating the true cost of ownership of an EHR
Workshop 2:
Increasing EHR Value with ACPOE
Led by members of the Program Committee:
Blackford Middleton and Eduardo Ortiz
Learning Objectives
- Understand the clinical and financial value of ACPOE
- Understand requirements and alternate methods for use in clinical practice
- Understand how to successfully implement and maintain ACPOE in practice
|
| 2:45 pm to 3:15 pm |
Coffee Break & Sponsor Area Open
|
| 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
Workshops Synthesis
Attendees stay in their groups in either Workshop 1 or 2 to work toward synthesizing discussion results for presentation as a plenary report at the conclusion of the Spring Congress.
Breakout workshops will be moderated by teams of facilitators. If you wish to serve as a facilitator contact AMIA.
|
| 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm |
Plenary Session
Micky Tripathi
Chief Executive Officer
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
Dr. Tripathi will provide a perspective of the adoption of EHR across the state of Massachusetts and New England as the organization attempts to wire health care in the region.
The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative is a newly launched non-profit entity backed by 34 leading institutions seeking to create a state-wide health information network to improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care.
|
| 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm |
Reception
A networking event with opportunity for attendees to interact with speakers and members of the program committee. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Cash bar.
|
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| 7:00 am to 12:00 pm |
Registration Open
|
| 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
Plenary Session:
EHR Implementation Successes and Failures: What Have We Learned?
Jerome H. Carter
Chief Executive Officer
NT&M Informatics, Inc.
Dr. Carter will lay the foundation for a comprehensive understanding of the people, process, software, hardware, and infrastructure components of a successful Electronic Medical Record implementation. Strategies to engage and train your organization, the complexities of configuring and deploying your system, and key points to watch for on the technical side will be among the topics covered.
Jerome H. Carter is the editor of Electronic Medical Records: A Guide for Clinicians and Administrators, published by The American College of Physicians. Dr. Carter has the broad perspectives of a clinician, informatics and infectious diseases educator, policy maker, author, and consultant. His talk will take a pragmatic approach.
|
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am |
Coffee Break & Sponsor Area Open
|
| 10:30 am to 10:45 am |
Orientation to Workshops 3 & 4
Led by members of the Program Committee:
Charles Jaffe, Kevin Johnson, Michael Krall, and Jerome Osheroff
|
| 10:45 am to 11:45 am |
Plenary Session:
Population Management with an EHR
Paul Wallace
Executive Director
Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente
Dr. Wallace will pull from his experience in the areas of guideline development and evaluation of emerging medical technologies to provide a unique perspective on population management with electronic medical records.
Dr. Wallace has combined past experiences in academic medicine and clinical Medical Oncology and Hematology practice with work in quality improvement. Dr. Wallace directed guidelines development and chronic condition management programs for Kaiser’s Northwest region before becoming the Executive Director of Kaiser’s national Care Management Institute in June 2000. Dr. Wallace participates on KP New Technology, Research, Guidelines, and Diversity Committees. He is a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Medical Coverage Advisory Committee for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Committee on Performance Measurement for NCQA. He is also a Board member for the Disease Management Association of America, and a Commissioner with the Center for Information Therapy.
|
| 11:45 am to 12:00 pm |
Transition to Lunch
|
| KEYNOTE PRESENTATION |
| 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
Lunch: Keynote Speaker
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
United States House of Representatives
1st District, Rhode Island
Congressman Kennedy will discuss many of his initiatives including legislation he introduced last year, “The Quality, Efficiency, Standards, and Technology for Healthcare Transformation Act (QUEST),” which would infuse billions of dollars into a national health care IT infrastructure by 2015. The bill calls for, and would fund, the creation of a “fully wireless, fully paperless” electronic health record, standardized reporting, evidence-based medicine regulations and “payment practices to get quality out of the system.”
Patrick J. Kennedy was re-elected to serve a sixth term in Congress in November 2004 as the representative from the First District of Rhode Island. Health care, as nearly one-sixth of the nation’s economy, the largest employer in Rhode Island, a major cost to businesses, and a basic human right, has been one of Kennedy’s top priorities. He has spoken out strongly in support of adding a comprehensive prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program and has introduced a bill to reduce drug costs. Kennedy has been a vocal proponent of health care reform, including calling for universal coverage and reorienting the system towards preventive care. He has led Congress in efforts to reduce asthma and improve asthma care for children, including co-sponsorship of the Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act of 2003. He also has been particularly active in the effort to conquer lymphoma and leukemia and was named the recipient of the Lymphoma Research Foundation’s Paul E. Tsongas Memorial Award as well as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation Congressional Honors Award.
|
| 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm |
Breakout Workshops – Day 2
The following two Breakout Workshops provide forums for attendees to interact with several national experts as they share best practices in a facilitated discussion. Each attendee will have a chance to participate in two of the four workshops during the conference.
Workshop 3:
EHR Implementation
Led by members of the Program Committee:
Michael Krall and Jerome Osheroff
Learning Objectives:
- Appreciate the significance to a successful implementation of people and process factors, and learn strategies to positively engage, train and support your organization in EHR implementation
- Understand the complexities of configuring, populating with clinical and business content, and deploying the Electronic Medical Record software, and develop a systematic approach to these tasks
- Become acquainted with the many hardware, network, and technical infrastructure considerations, and develop an approach to addressing these requirements
Workshop 4:
Increasing EHR Value with Population Management
Led by members of the Program Committee:
Charles Jaffe and Kevin Johnson
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by population management and a system of care that supports it
- Understand the critical versus desirable components of a population management system
- Identify steps needed to begin population management with commercially available EHR tools
- Understand how population management approaches vary with the number of providers in a practice
- Understand how to evaluate a population management system
|
| 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm |
Coffee Break & Sponsor Area Open
|
| 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
Workshops Synthesis
Attendees stay in their groups from either Workshop 3 or 4 and work toward synthesizing discussion results for presentation as a plenary report at the conclusion of the Spring Congress. Breakout workshops will be moderated by teams of facilitators. If you wish to serve as a facilitator contact AMIA.
|
| 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Plenary Session:
EHR Certification
Mark Leavitt
Chair, The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and Medical Director and Director of Ambulatory Care, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Dr. Leavitt will discuss this effort by reviewing the background, purpose and goals, scope and timeline, and roadmap to the future for product certification as it relates to the changing healthcare information technology landscape.
Mark Leavitt has devoted his career to the application of information technology in healthcare, with the goal of saving time, money, and lives. In his role as Medical Director of HIMSS, he is engaged in a number of the nationwide public/private initiatives to bring this goal to fruition. His most recent appointment is Chair of the CCHIT which is the focus of this presentation. He received his PhD from Stanford University, his MD from the University of Miami, and Board Certification in Internal Medicine from the Oregon Health and Sciences University, with subsequent added qualifications in geriatrics.
The purpose of CCHIT is to create an efficient, credible, sustainable mechanism for the certification of health care information technology products.
|
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
Plenary Panel:
Perspectives from the Vendor Community
Several vendors will be featured as they describe EHR issues of the day from the front lines and provide their candid reaction to the issues central to the 2005 Spring Congress. |
|
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am |
Best of the Best – Part One
Breakout Workshop Reports 1 & 2
Workshop leaders will select the best ideas generated during the breakouts and the originators of these ideas will be featured in these reports from the workshops.
|
| 10:30 am to 11:00 am |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:00 am to 11:30 am |
Best of the Best – Part Two
Breakout Workshop Reports 3 & 4
Workshop leaders will select the best ideas generated during the breakouts and the originators of these ideas will be featured in these reports from the workshops.
|
| 11:30 am to 12:30 pm |
Plenary Reactor Panel
John Glaser
Vice President and Chief
Information Officer
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Larry Garber
Medical Director for Informatics
Fallon Healthcare System
John Blair
President and Chief Executive Officer
Taconic IPA, Inc.
The panelists will react to 2005 Spring Congress and give their point of view on the state of EHR from the perspectives of a CIO, clinician, and senior administrator. This combined expert panel of individuals from diverse segments of the health care industry will provide insight for what these ideas mean for the future of healthcare practice and policy.
|
| 12:30 pm to 12:45 pm |
Closing Comments & Conference Adjournment
|
AMIA Home
American Medical Informatics Association
4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite 401
Bethesda, MD 20814
phone: 301-657-1291 I fax: 301-657-1296
© 2000 American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved.
|
