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Agenda

Sunday, September 20

12:20 - 6:00 pm Golf Tournament at Grove Park Inn
6:00 - 8:00 pm Opening Reception

Monday, September 21

8:00 - 10:00 am

HIMSS NC Chapter Meeting (registration required)

  • 8:00 - 8:30 am: breakfast and networking
  • 8:30 - 8:45 am: Opening Remarks, Chapter Report/Discussion, NC HIMSS Leadership
  • 8:45 - 9:00 am: NCHICA and its Relationship to HIMSS
  • 9:00 - 9:50 am: The New Medical Image Archive
  • 9:50 - 10:00 am: Closing Remarks
10:00 - 11:00 am Meeting Provider HITECH Needs: The Vendor Perspective
Charlene Underwood (Siemens)
11:00 am - noon NC's Plans for An ARRA HITECH Regional Extenstion Center
Sam Cykert, MD (Moses Cone)
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch & Opening of Exhibit Hall
1:00 - 1:50 pm Bringing ARRA Home to NC: Plans for Applying for & Managing Stimulus Funding
Sam Cykert, MD (Moses Cone), Vandana Shah (Health & Wellness Trust Fund) & Sam Spicer, MD (New Hanover Regional Medical Center)
1:50 - 2:00 pm Break
2:00 - 2:50 pm

Track 1
Why CPOE?...and Its Unintended Consequences
Reba Beavers & Debbie Zanes (Durham Regional Hospital)

Track 2
The Future of HIE: Meeting Unmet Needs
Roy Wyman, Jr. (Williams Mullen)

2:50 - 3:00 pm Break
3:00 - 3:50 pm

Track 1
Understanding Government EHR Incentives - What's In It for Me?
Evan Steele (SRSoft)

Track 2
The Implications of HIE on Healthcare Consumers: The Case of Consumer Empowerment
Sherrie Cannoy (NC A&T State)

3:50 - 4:00 pm Break
4:00 - 4:50 pm

Track 1
Nurse-Driven Clinical IT Solutions: Improving Communication, Efficiency & Outcomes
Reba Beavers, Sheba Smith, Pat Wilkerson & Debbie Zanes (Durham Regional Hospital)

Track 2
How 21st Century Technology May Affect Informed Consent for HIE
Trish Markus (Smith Moore Leatherwood) & Linda Attarian

4:50 - 6:00 pm Reception in Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, September 22

7:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
7:00 - 8:30 am CIO Roundtable (tentative)
8:30 - 9:20 am

Track 1
What Did We Really Accomplish? Improving Compliance & Documentation of Core Measures for JCAHO
Julie Jenkins (Carondelet Health Network) & Kurt Remmert (CTG HealthCare Solutions)

Track 2
Consumer Empowerment & Privacy: What Do Healthcare Consumers Really Know & Want?
Linda Dimitropolous (RTI International)

9:20 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 - 10:20 am

Track 1
The Future 'Ain't What It Used to Be' -- Applying Yogi Berra's Wisdom to Hospital-Physician Partnerships
Avery Cloud (New Hanover Regional Medical Center) & Gail Hinte (HIMformatics)

Track 2
Determining ROI for Public Health IT
Amy Ising (UNC Dept. of Emergency Medicine)

10:20 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 11:20 am

Track 1
PCIX: A Real Approach to P4P
Russell Bessette, MD (SUNY Buffalo) & Marla Roberts, PhD (CTG HealthCare Solutions)

Track 2
NC Public Health IT Advances in 2009 to Improve Public Health Services
Dave Kirby (Kirby IMC)

11:20 - 11:30 am Break
11:30 - 12:20 pm

Track 1
Applying Business Process Analysis to Define EMR Requirements
Tracy Lockard (Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County)

Track 2
Using ICD-10 as a Technology Driver
Michael Magliaro & Dave McCord (TM Floyd & Co.)

12:20 - 1:30 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1:30 - 2:20 pm

Track 1
WebCIS & CDW-H at UNC Health Care System
Raj Gopalan (UNC Health Care System) & Donald Spencer, MD (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Track 2
Grant & Project Proposal Readiness: Improving Your Odds of Securing Grants or Project Funding
Mary Jo Nimmo (Lenoir Memorial Hospital) & Angie Santiago (Health Initiatives Consulting)

2:20 - 2:30 pm Break
2:30 - 3:20 pm

Building on 15 Years of Collaboration: NCHICA’s Contributions to NC’s Success
Moderator: Jane Smith Patterson (e-NC Authority); Phil Brown
(NC Senior Citizens Association), Geoff Lawson (Morehead
Memorial Hospital), Ron Mitchell (Wake Radiology) & Andrew
Weniger (NCHICA)

3:20 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:20 pm

Track 1
Improving Patient Flow at the Hospital's Front Door: Your Emergency Department
Albert Villarin (Albert Einstein Medical Center)

Track 2
IEEE-USA Medical Technology Committee & Interoperability for the NHIN
Thomas Jepsen (IEEE-USA)

4:20 - 5:30 pm Reception & Prize Drawings in Exhibit Hall
6:00 - 9:00 pm Brews Cruise
9:00 - 10:30 pm Ghost Trolley Tour

Wednesday, September 23

7:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast
7:30 - 8:30 am NCHICA Annual & Board Meetings
8:30 - 9:20 am

Track 1
HIT and the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Maria Rudolph, MPH (e-MDs) & William Underwood (American College of Physicians)

Track 2
Sutter's Mills 2009: Meeting the RAC Challenge
John Dooley (CTG HealthCare Solutions)

9:20 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 - 10:20 am

Track 1
Physician Incentives to Adopt EHR/EMR Systems
Kevin Burchill (Beacon Partners)

Track 2
HITECH Compliance: Strategies for Addressing the New Legal and Technical Challenges for Mobile Information Security
Clyde Hewitt (Forsythe Solutions Group) & Steven Kahn (Intel)

10:20 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 11:30 am Federal to Private Sector: Building Connections in NC to Serve Military & Tribal Members
Elder Granger, MD (TRICARE Management Activity) & Michael
Toedt, MD (Cherokee Indian Hospital)
11:30 - 11:45 am NCHICA President's Remarks
11:45 am - noon Prize Drawings & Adjourn