Level:
Introductory

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
252

Fee:
$225.00

Description:
Communication gaps exist among various stakeholders: Vendors, Providers, Quality Organizations and Patient-Consumers. Challenge: how do we improve communication, collaborations, knowledge exchange, and common activities in order to increase the value, quality, and safety of healthcare? Where is the US now and where do we want to go?

Speaker Information:
Jonathan White, MD
Health IT Portfolio Manager, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Contact speaker Jonathan White

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Discuss the problems with quality and safety
• Describe the United States quality improvement structure
• Evaluate the technological potential to enable quality and safety improvements
• Examine evidence based medicine and quality metrics development

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
252

Fee:
$225.00

Description:
The Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support, commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, provides recommendations and an action plan for advancing the development, adoption, and value of clinical decision support, in order to fully realize its potential to facilitate improved healthcare quality and other outcomes. The lead authors of this report will discuss its findings and implications, and provide an update on progress.

Speaker Information:
Jerry Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI
Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Micromedex
Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, FACMI, FHIMSS
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier Asst. Professor of Medicine , Harvard University/Brigham & Women's Hospital

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Examine the background and current status of the CDS Roadmap initiative
• Assess some of the major barriers to CDS adoption and possible solutions
• Identify the plans to make best knowledge widely available and to learn from others' experience
• Evaluate the implications of the Roadmap for other quality improvement efforts, and vice versa
• Learn how your organization could prepare for and participate in the initiatives

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
252

Fee:
$225.00

Description:
Health IT opportunities exist to improve quality, safety and value. The benefits of utilizing these tools are manifold: decreased administrative burden, remote access to care, improved 24/7 communication capabilities, portable or mobile health information, improved Patient/Consumer control and focus, improved coordination of care across settings, increased informed patient engagement, and protections from preventable adverse events.

Speaker Information:
Lyle Berkowitz, MD
Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group (NMPG)
Andrew Hamilton, RN, BSN, MS
Nurse Informaticist, Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services
Brian Jacobs, MD, MS
Chief Medical Information Officer, Executive Director, Center for Pediatric Informatics, Children's National Medical Center

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Describe what tools enable quality and safety
• Assess what features make a difference
• Describe tools that have the potential to improve quality and safety
• Appraise performance measures- what impact variables are likely to emerge

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
252

Fee:
$225.00

Level:
Introductory

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
257

Fee:
$225.00

Description:
Various quality and safety stakeholder interests have the potential for great impact on the small physician practice, organization is needed to understand the perspective of the small practice in an environment with more than 100 different pay for performance programs, Stark Reform, an evolving value chain and multiple moving targets.

Speaker Information:
Bruce Bagley, MD
Medical Director for Quality Improvement, American Academy of Family Physicians

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Define the needs of the small practice
• List incentives for improving quality
• Describe the value chain- how the value chain is evolving, what quality and safety metrics mean to the small practice, patient centered care
• Evaluate some of the decisions and the kind of organization needed to work with quality and the 80% of ambulatory practices that are self-employed

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
252

Fee:
$225.00

Description:
This session explains the quality measure development process. A "reactor" panel of HIT vendors serving physician practices and healthcare enterprises will share how they are incorporating quality measures in their products.

Speaker Information:
Charlene Underwood, MBA
Chair / Director, Industry and Government Affairs, EHRVA / Siemans Medical Solutions
Sarah Corley, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Governor, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc & Virginia Chapter, American College of Physicians
Karen Kmetik, PhD
Director, Clinical Performance Evaluation, American Medical Association
Andrew Ury, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Practice Partner

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Define the process to establish quality measures, including the relationships among measure developers, measure endorsers and selectors, and measure implementers
• Describe key initiatives that advocate measurement incentives, such as Pay for Performance, Bridges to Excellence, and Leapfrog
• Evaluate how vendors are participating in these processes and how they incorporate support for performance measurement in their products

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
252

Fee:
$225.00

Description:
This session will bring together a panel of healthcare professionals that work shoulder to shoulder at the patient bedside, dealing with the issues surrounding medication reconciliation, as a multi-disciplinary team. The session will begin with a statement of overarching issues (technological, interdisciplinary communication, JCAHO standards, etc) that impact collaboration in medication reconciliation. The panel will then talk about case studies / stories, best practices, and practical approaches of how to tackle and resolve the issues collaboratively.

Speaker Information:
Cindi Brennan, PharmD, MHA
Assistant Director, Ambulatory Pharmacy, Harborview Medical Center
Cindy Heberlein, RN
Clinical Analyst, Information Management, St. Joseph Mercy Health System
Alexander Turchin, MD,MS
Senior Medical Informatician, Clinical Informatics Research & Development Group, Deputy Product Manager, Medication Reconciliation Project Partners Healthcare System, Partners Healthcare System

Contact speaker Alexander Turchin

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Describe the issues associated with medication reconciliation practices, technology and interdisciplinary collaboration
• Evaluate the causes of issues surrounding medication reconciliation
• Identify best practices for a multidisciplinary collaborative resolution of issues

Location:
Ernest N Memorial Convention Center

Room:
La Nouvelle C

Fee:
$225.00