Description:
You have set your sites on becoming the Health Care Provider of choice not only for your community, but also for Physicians and Health Care Workers. Now you have to confront the brutal facts. Where are you, and how far will you have to journey to reach this goal? Greg Stock, CEO of Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, has led his hospital through such a journey. Hear the amazing story of how the power of a shared vision inspired a cultural transformation, and understand the lessons that were learned along the way.

Speaker Information:
Greg Stock
CEO, Thibodaux Regional Medical Center

Level:
Advanced

Objectives:

• Advantages of facing the brutal facts
• The Power of a Shared Vision
• Individual personal journeys exceed the aggregate of the hospital's journey
• How to hardwire a Cultural Transformation for Excellence

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
La Nouvell AB

Description:
Delivering value to customers, increasing efficiency and effectiveness, globalization, innovation, risk, security, technology without borders, all challenging issues a CIO has to deal with. This session will give some insights into the evolving and crucial leadership role of the CIO in IT enabled business transformations. Also lessons and best practices "from the CIO deck" will be highlighted in the areas of : IT governance, business and IT process changes, IT infrastructure, as well as IT risks and operations.

Speaker Information:
Andre Spatz
CIO, UNICEF

Level:
Advanced

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
La Nouvell C

Description:
IT is central to efforts to improve access to quality, affordable healthcare. Two esteemed government officials, one from the Executive branch and one from the Legislative branch, will discuss the ways the U.S. can move forward with the goal of positively transforming healthcare, and how IT can play an integral role.

Speaker Information:
Robert Cresanti
Under Secretary of Commerce, Commerce Department, U.S. Government
Senator David Vitter
U.S. Senator, Louisiana

Level:
Intermediate

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell AB

Description:
Hear from two key healthcare leaders about the role of IT in supplying future-based strategies and practical solutions to meet the challenges and opportunities in providing enhanced quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. These speakers will provide context to the challenges of meeting privacy and security issues as well as standards initiatives, from both a high-level policy perspective, as well as a practically based implementation perspective.

Speaker Information:
Richard Pettingill
President and Chief Executive Officer, Alina Hospitals and Clinics
William Braithwaite, MD, PhD, FACMI
Consultant in Health Information Policy

Level:
Intermediate

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell C

Description:
With surgical precision, Dr. Cook will identify the gap that exists in patient care continuity and its consequences, as well as definition and impact of error and a failure and between and accident and an incident. Finally, the implication of hindsight bias on post-accident assessments of human performance in complex systems.

Speaker Information:
Richard Cook, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago Hospitals

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell AB

Description:
The healthcare industry offers impressive talent and powerful interventions, yet it is one of the world's most inefficient information enterprises, does not consistently produce the best health outcomes, and does not operate at a reasonable cost. HIT promises to change this. Hear one nurse's perspective on this challenging endeavor.

Speaker Information:
Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS
Vice President, Information Services, Aurora Health Care

Level:
Intermediate

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell C

Description:
Ambassador Ginsberg will trace the new dangers to globalization posed by instability in the Muslim world and the role that a new, technology-based "Marshall Plan" can play in helping to reduce the global terror threat posed by radical Islam.

Speaker Information:
Ambassador Marc Ginsberg, MBA, JD
Senior Vice President, APCO Worldwide

Level:
Advanced

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell AB

Description:
Patient identity establishment is the process by which an individual is unambiguously linked to his/her healthcare information. Unequivocally establishing this linkage is a fundamental requirement for meaningful health information technology interoperability. Recently, RAND has been performing an in-depth analysis of the key technical, social, political, legal and economic factors involved in developing a system for establishing patient identity, within the architecture of a National Health Information Network (NHIN), and for utilizing that system to access authorized health information from multiple and disparate electronic record sources while preserving patient privacy.

Speaker Information:
Jeffrey Rideout, MD
Corporate Medical Director and Vice President of the Internet Business Solutions Group Healthcare Practice, Cisco Systems
Richard Hillestad, PhD
Senior Systems Analyst and Head of the Management Sciences Group, RAND Corporation

Level:
Advanced

Objectives:

• Examine the state-of-the-industry regarding IT adoption, the factors influencing hospitals in adopting IT, and evidence-based ROI from health information technology (HIT) investments based on a current survey of more than 400 published articles
• Assess how specific healthcare organizations and circumstances (e.g. payer mix, patient mix, institution size, tax status, etc.) impact HIT ROI along with the cost, quality, and safety benefits of implementing multifunctional, interoperable HIT systems
• Evaluate a new web-based ROI calculation that calculates not only the financial, but quality and safety returns on HIT investments
• Identify answers to questions such as "How is ROI affected by various combinations of functions--such as Electronic Medical Records with and without Computerized Physician Order Entry or decision support?"
• Appraise the necessary process changes that are required to fully benefit from HIT investments

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell C

Description:
Take this opportunity to interact with some of the top vendor execs as they share their perspective on healthcare and their personal leadership style and share insights and experiences. Hear more from the leaders of businesses with whom you do business.

Speaker Information:
Mark Biviano, SAP
Vice President of Healthcare Solutions, Economic Policy Institute
Louis Burns
Vice President, General Manager, Digital Health Group, Intel
Matthew Long
Director of Marketing, Div. of Medical Systems, Phillips
Brandon Savage, MD
CMO, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions

Level:
Advanced

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell AB

Description:
Dr. Miller will discuss the status, challenges, rewards and future of PHRs. She will illustrate her talk with case study examples from experience mapping the evolution of the Cleveland Clinic PHR, MyChart: Your Personal Health Connection.

Speaker Information:
Holly Miller, MD, MBA
Managing Director, e-Cleveland Clinic

Level:
Advanced

CEUs Information:
CPHIMS (CPHIMS Certification)

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
LaNouvell C