Health care CIO’s are being asked to create the financial and clinical analytics needed to support high value care (low cost, high quality), population health, and coordinate care across the community.  Accountable Care Organizations will be based on healthcare information exchange and analytics, accelerating HIE initiatives and continuing existing work on financial and clinical data warehouses.  Healthcare reform is causing hospitals, practices, payers, and government to align their healthcare IT efforts in support of the data sharing and analytics needed by new reimbursement models.

This session will address:

1. Best practices for achieving accountable care
2. Core principles of accountable care
3. Health care stakeholder collaboration
4. Lessons learned after 12 months

Spend 25 minutes meeting with your conference ‘Living Group’.  Attendees will be grouped together so that starting on Day 1 you will have an opportunity to meet new contacts and maximize your conference experience.

In addition to meeting your Living Group, you will also take part in an interactive activity to determine the top challenges facing the HIT industry. The top challenges for each group will be announced at the end of the session!

In Texas alone, 2011 and 2012 saw approximately $14 million in HIE funding with federal funds matching that amount.  As with any initiative, it is critical to evaluate the cost and qualitative benefit of the program.  Partnering with local HIEs to build capacity can maximize the impact outreach and effectiveness. It is critical that in the planning, implementation, operation, and evaluation periods, partners maintain and increase their commitments from hospitals and physicians.

This session will address:

1. Ensuring stakeholder participation and commitment
2. Tracking investments and ensuring ROI
3. Evaluating HIE implementation & integration strategies
4. Program sustainability

Enterprise mobility has emerged as a top strategic initiative among leading global organizations, including healthcare providers.  Caregivers are highly mobile, job duties are time-critical and impact people’s lives and regulations abound to ensure patient safety and security.  This technology comes with myriad benefits in error reduction, increased accuracy and productivity, and more.  However, there are significant challenges from security and integration to added costs for hardware, software and support.

This session will address the benefits and challenges of implementing mobile and wireless technologies starting with the network and including devices, applications and vendor partnerships.

Don't miss this interactive and fun reception amongst your colleagues and peers toasting an incredible day of thought leadership and collaboration.

Healthcare organizations are looking at ways to combine more sophisticated uses of health IT and clinical care to achieve better health outcomes and improve health system performance.  Examples of such applications include using clinical decision support tools, patient registries, patient portals, e-prescription and more.  The widespread adoption and meaningful use of certified EHR technology is a necessary interim step in the transformation to a more intelligent healthcare system.  It is essential to build upon the health IT infrastructure currently in place and plan for future technologies and associated challenges to continue the great improvements achieved to date.

Learning Objectives:

1. Improving outcomes and reducing costs through implementation of Meaningful Use
2. Institutional challenges and change management
3. Progress report on current implementation initiatives
4. Planning for the end game – a learning health care system

Lunch on the final day will be both delicious and informative.  We’ll start off with 45 minutes for lunch service and some time to get settled.  For the last hour we’ll host a high-level, interactive work session that will satiate your thirst for knowledge once you’ve taken care of your other appetite!

A strong privacy and security policy and technology framework is essential to building trust in health IT.  As part of HITECH, Congress required a number of modifications to HIPAA the ONC has discussed the need for a comprehensive privacy and security framework to govern its programs.  Almost 18 months into Meaningful Use, the latest developments and future challenges in health information privacy and security policy – including HIPAA regulatory changes, policy initiatives and the state of health privacy on the Internet – have evolved significantly.  This evolution is due to both successes from innovation and challenges from setbacks.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the evolution of ePHI security strategy
2. Strategies for creating a dynamic security environment
3. Learning from challenges and minimizing future risk
4. Evaluating potential shifts in security policy