Description:
This Roundtable highlights findings from the Fall 2006 summit to interweave enabling technologies transparently into nursing practice and education, in what is known as Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER).

Speaker Information:
Marion Ball, FHIMSS, FCHIME
Fellow, IBM Center for Healthcare Management
Donna DuLong, RN, BSN
Program Director, The TIGER Initiative

Contact speaker Donna DuLong

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Examine the exemplars of excellence presented at the summit, identifying key differences and similarities among/across them
• Present guidelines for your organization to follow as you integrate informatics into practice settings
• Describe action plans developed at the summit by participating organizations/institutions for implementation
• Summarize lessons learned from an invitational summit using a facilitated process with graphic recordings, audience response technology and experiential gallery walk process

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
A continuation of work presented at earlier roundtables (e.g. at HIMSS '06), this session summarizes the ongoing dialogue on HIMSS's CDS Listserve, which fosters learning and collaborations on CDS implementation best practices.

Speaker Information:
Dean Sittig, PhD
Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Northwest Permanente
Jerry Osheroff, MD
Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Micromedex

Contact speaker Jerry Osheroff

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Review practical strategies for (and answers to questions about) improving outcomes with clinical decision support
• Critique how HIMSS is helping to build and support the community of CDS implementers
• Discuss the implementation of a roadmap for national action on clinical decision support

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
The HIMSS Ambulatory Committee will be hosting a round table discussion on the following topic. What resources and tools are required and useful when adopting an EHR in Ambulatory Care setting?

Speaker Information:
Laura Jantos, FHIMSS
Principal, ECG Management Consultants, Inc.

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
NHIN and RHIO developers and recent legislation appear to be going down a path separate from that established under HIPAA. This program will explore how HIPAA can be leveraged to assist and help to expedite the development of such entities.

Speaker Information:
William Braithwaite, MD, PhD
Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7)

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Assess incorporating existing HIPAA transactions in the design of the NHIN and RHIO's (e.g. 275 and 277)
• Evaluate new transactions that emerge from the NHIN and RHIO designs into the HIPAA TCS regulation
• Examine a new Covered Entity that operates the NHIN or RHIO's
• Define how addressing these issues up front will help in the design of the NHIN and RHIO's.
• Compare existing infrastructures that could expedite the development of the NHIN and RHIO's

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
This session is all about you. It offers information about the state of the healthcare IT job market and offers tools and tips to assess your skills and set your career direction. In a dynamic panel format, three perspectives will be explored -- the employee, the employer and the recruiter. Using real examples, participants will critique ugly resumes and will learn and practice the skills involved in writing a professional results-getting resume. In this fast-paced session, participants will also learn strategies for effective interviewing, negotiating, and networking. To top it off you will receive information on where to find job postings to target your search. Participants are urged to bring their resumes, use their newfound skills to enhance it, and walk out of the session with a stellar resume to use at HIMSS.

Speaker Information:
Kathleen Kimmel, RN, MHA, CHE
VP Nursing Informatics, McKesson Corporation
Brenda Herrmann, BSN, RN, BC

Bonnie Siegel
Vice President, Hersher Associates, Ltd.

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Understand the dynamics of the current IT job market
• Evaluate personal skills and career path options
• Dispel common myths about resume writing -- healthcare is a different market
• Develop insightful resume critiquing skills, editing abilities -- and apply them to a personal resume writing makeover
• Improve your interviewing and negotiating skills

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Room:
257

Description:
This roundtable discussion session will focus on the features and functions of the growing number of patient-centered portals offered by healthcare provider and payor organizations.

Speaker Information:
Deborah Kohn, MPH, RHIA, CHE, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Principal, Dak Systems Consulting
John Sharp, MSSA, PMP
Web Administrator, Cleveland Clinic

Contact speaker John Sharp

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Identify the technical and functional requirements for patient-centered web portals
• Discuss the hurdles in implementing patient portals
• Recommend when patient-centered portals should be implemented as part of an organization's strategy to use enabling technologies improve patient care and lower costs
• Define what providers and payors expect from the organization's patient portal
• Determine how to market the organization's patient portal to the organization's constituents

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
The HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics Task Force invites all pharmacy IT Professionals to join us for a roundtable discussion of potential Pharmacy system improvements, standards development and advocacy Opportunities.

Speaker Information:
Allen Flynn, PharmD, CPHIMS, CHS
Pharmacy Informatics Coordinator, St. Joseph Mercy Health System

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Identify trends in pharmacy informatics practice
• Understand need for pharmacy informaticist involvement in standards development and setting public policy
• Participate in a healthcare IT pharmacist needs assessment
• Learn about the important role of the Pharmacy Informatics Task Force at HIMSS

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
How can we effectively prevent and treat partial implementations of ambulatory EHR systems? Come dialogue with your colleagues to tackle the often un-addressed dilemma of partial EHR implementations.

Speaker Information:
Kenneth Adler, MD, MMM
Medical Director of Information Technology, Arizona Community Physicians

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Examine the characteristics of both successful ambulatory EHR implementations and failed ambulatory EHR implementations
• Review the characteristics of a partial-implementation, one in which some functions and/or users are not performing as expected
• List proven preventative strategies to partial and failed implementations
• Cite best practices to enable fully successful implementations
• Identify key strategies to correct the situation once it becomes clear that an implementation is only partly successful

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CME (Continuing Medical Education)
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
Social Security is partnering with the medical/technology industries to develop release of information methods that provide significant benefits to medical providers. Both immediate and long-term savings and value are achievable, and will be discussed during this roundtable.

Speaker Information:
Bill Gray
Deputy Commissioner for Systems, Social Security Administration

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Examine a strategic approach to release of information that allows benefits to be realized immediately and to grow throughout implementation
• Identify specific savings and benefits through the use of electronic release of information processes
• Discuss opportunities for the technology industry to gain by facilitating release of information activities
• Describe the benefits to patients and employers through facilitating the secure sharing of information necessary to a disability claims process
• Demonstrate how a cooperative approach between a federal agency and the industry can result in overall benefits to all parties

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271

Description:
Interested in discussing ways to measure information technology's impact on safety and efficiency despite limited resources and other potential barriers? Then this session is just for you.

Speaker Information:
Eric Poon, MD,MPH
Physician Scientist, Assistant Professor, Partners HealthCare System, Harvard Medical School

Contact speaker Eric Poon

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Learn about ways to evaluate health IT systems to demonstrate the value these systems bring to the delivery of healthcare
• Discuss with interested attendees about how they evaluate health IT systems in their organizations
• Create actionable ideas about how health IT systems might be improved to better measure and report on quality indicators
• Prepare actionable ideas how health IT systems might be improved to better measure and report on quality indicators

CEUs Information:
ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives )
CNE (Continuing Nurses Education )
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
271