E-Session: Education is the Key to Success
Terri Barber, M.Ed, PMP, CPHIMS
E-Session Number: 400
Topic Information:
Leadership and Communication - Primary Topic
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Healthcare managers use information technology in their departments every day. A basic education on Health Information Technology is essential in order for clinical managers to participate in decisions that impact all clinical areas.
Speaker Information:
Terri Barber, M.Ed, PMP, CPHIMS
Director, IT Operations, Cleveland Clinic
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Level:
Introductory
Objectives:
- Recognize the need for clinical managers to have a basic understanding of health information technology
- Identify essential knowledge areas of information technology that impact clinical department managers
- Formulate a strategy to offer health information technology education to department managers in your organization
- Create an IT curriculum for clinical managers to build confidence when discussing information technology decisions that impact their departments
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: Patients vs. Technology: Implementing Patient-Centered Initiatives
Sherry Smith, MSA, RHIA, CPHIMS
E-Session Number: 401
Topic Information:
Community Health Initiatives - Primary Topic
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Emerging technologies continue to enhance the patient experience and transform the healthcare industry. A health information administrator discusses how new technologies can be incorporated to improve patient care.
Speaker Information:
Sherry Smith, MSA, RHIA, CPHIMS
Assistant Professor, Medical College of Georgia
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Level:
Intermediate
Objectives:
- Define Patient-Centered Care and explain why it is important in today's healthcare environment
- Discuss and provide examples of emerging technologies being used to transform the patient experience
- Explain how the use of technologies for patient-centered care will affect the patient as a healthcare consumer
- Predict the impact to the healthcare industry with the use of technologies for patient-centered care
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: Building New Framework for Compliance
Robert Case, PMP
E-Session Number: 402
Topic Information:
Public Policy Initiatives - Primary Topic
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Legislative laws such as SOX and HIPAA are forcing Healthcare IT Organizations to ensure compliance. The ITIL is an ideal IT framework to meet IT governance and ensure legislative compliance.
Speaker Information:
Robert Case, PMP
Program Manager, General Dynamics Information Technology
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Level:
Introductory
Objectives:
- Explain what the ITIL is, its origin, who controls its content, and what it provides to organization's IT operation
- Examine the ever-increasing legislation minefield, where laws such as SOX and HIPAA are forcing IT organizations into compliance
- Recommend ITIL literature and certification programs
- Describe how ITIL can satisfy SAS-70/88 IT audits
CEUs Information:
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: The Framework for Successful HIE Efforts
Atif Zafar, MD
E-Session Number: 403
Topic Information:
Interoperability, Standards and Health Data Exchange - Primary Topic
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A simplified 3-tier framework for implementers interested in operationalizing a health information exchange includes key best practices, technical details and lessons lea
Speaker Information:
Atif Zafar, MD
Associate Professor, Indiana University/Regenstrief Institute
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Level:
Intermediate
Objectives:
- Explain the technical components of a health information exchange and how they all fit together
- Identify problems that a health information exchange helps resolve and what minimum datasets should shared for solving those problems
- Describe the successful health information exchange efforts around the country and what implementation issues they have had to tackle with
- List national resources available to implementers of health information exchange efforts
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session:What Should IT Know about Safer Infusion Technologies?
Erin Sparnon, BSE
E-Session Number: 404
Topic Information:
Clinical Informatics - Primary Topic
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Infusion safety technologies can greatly reduce harm to patients, but successful implementation requires clinical and IT involvement. This E-Session outlines the current state of the art technology and strategies for success.
Speaker Information:
Erin Sparnon, BSE
Senior Project Engineer, ECRI
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Level:
Introductory
Objectives:
- Examine the current state of the market in infusion technology
- Analyze how dose error reduction systems, bar code scanners, wireless data transfer and automated programming strategies all benefit your facility
- Present a case to the facility's administration for the purchase of infusion safety technologies to reduce error in the medication use process
- Critique the IT/IS implications of implementing infusion safety technologies and including IT in the selection, planning, implementation, and ongoing maintenance
- Identify the steps needed in order to implement infusion safety technologies and avoid stumbling blocks through applying ECRI's lessons learned
CEUs Information:
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: Top Ten Ways You Can Improve Quality at Your Institution
Howard Strasberg, MD, MS
E-Session Number: 405
Topic Information:
Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management - Primary Topic
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You're aware of the big problem that medical errors pose, but what can you do about it? We'll list 10 simple ways to improve quality at your institution.
Speaker Information:
Howard Strasberg, MD, MS
VP Medical Informatics, Wolters Kluwer Health
Level:
Introductory
Objectives:
- Describe the problem of medical errors in healthcare.
- List several ways to improve quality at healthcare institutions.
- Recognize how some quality improvement initiatives are prerequisites for other such initiatives.
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
Adapting to the Changing Face of Self-Pay
Leigh Orlov
E-Session Number: 406
Topic Information:
Business Management Systems - Primary Topic
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With new changes in benefit structures, the definition of self-pay is changing. This session will address the ramifications, identify a new class of uninsured and offer solutions though effective network utilization.
Speaker Information:
Leigh Orlov
VP of Sales and Business Development, HTP, Inc.
Level:
Advanced
Objectives:
- Define the new class of self-pay causing providers to increase collections
- Identify how eligibility criteria can be utilized to reduce bad debt and the effects of increased self-pay
- Demonstrate how incorporating demographic and benefit data can decrease operating expenses for providers and payers
- Develop criteria to evaluate current best practices and identify why they may not be relevant in the future
- Present case studies of provider success stories demonstrating higher collection rates for self-pay
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: A Mutual Relationship: Workflow Management Systems, Meet Healthcare
Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS
E-Session Number: 407
Topic Information:
Electronic Health Record - Primary Topic
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This presentation describes the characteristics of electronic health record (EHR) workflow management systems (WfMSs): their conceptual basis, a glossary, and results of a productivity study of 20 practices that implemented workflow management systems.
Speaker Information:
Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS
VP, Medical Informatics, JMJ Technologies
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Level:
Intermediate
Objectives:
- Describe the difference between workflow systems and workflow management systems in the health and non-health industries
- Review workflow management systems as applied to electronic health records
- Analyze the results of a workflow management productivity study of 20 ambulatory primary care practices
- Recognize workflow management system standard terminology
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: Patient Web Portals: What's the Convenience Worth to Patients?
Kenneth Adler, MD, MMM
E-Session Number: 408
Topic Information:
Clinical Informatics - Primary Topic
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Have you considered implementing a patient web portal in your ambulatory practice? This carefully done survey of over 300 patients in a typical urban family medicine practice offers encouraging information.
Speaker Information:
Kenneth Adler, MD, MMM
Medical Director of Information Technology, Arizona Community Physicians
Level:
Intermediate
Objectives:
- Review the percent of patients who state they are willing to pay a small annual fee for patient web portal services
- Examine what web portal services patient's value most
- Analyze how patients' interests in web portal services vary by age, sex, and employment status
- Identify what percent of patients overall and in various demographic groups are online
- Describe how implementing a patient web portal service can improve your office efficiency, patient satisfaction and your bottom line
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
E-Session: E/M Documentation & Coding: Practice Differences
Susan Fenton, MBA, RHIA
E-Session Number: 409
Topic Information:
Clinical Informatics - Primary Topic
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These results are from national primary mixed methods research on Evaluation and Management documentation and coding methods from physician practices. How they document and who uses which methods is answered.
Speaker Information:
Susan Fenton, MBA, RHIA
Manager, AHIMA
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Level:
Introductory
Objectives:
- Define the different E/M documentation and coding methods used in physician practices
- Distinguish practice characteristics that are indicative of preferred documentation and coding methods
- Propose new methods for E/M documentation and coding for their situation
CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)
