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2004 Healthcare Information Technology Conference
"Making e-Health Work: What You Need to Know"
Agenda | Exhibitors | Workshops | Sponsorship Opportunities | Co-Sponsors
Session Descriptions: Keynote | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | "A Conversation with... David Bates, MD" | "A Conversation with... Mitchell Adams & David Cochran, MD"
Workshops - 10:30 - 11:30
#1 Zix Corporation
"e-Prescribing"
Bring the efficiency and accuracy of e-communication to your prescription process. ZixCorpT offers PocketScript, an e-prescribing application that enables you to write and generate prescriptions via email or fax from anywhere. Using a wireless handheld PDA or a secure Internet site, physicians also have access to patient drug dispense history, insurance coverage data, drug interactions, formulary information, and patient-specific drug history. The result is fewer rejected prescriptions, enhanced patient safety, and lowered costs through increased formulary compliance.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Payors and Managed Care organizations, Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers, Hospital Managers, Physicians and their Office Staff
#2 PatientEDU, LLC
"The Cleveland Clinic Presents their Approach to Patient Education"
Inpatient education programming is a challenging task: to provide current up-to-date programming in a time efficient manner; to meet the needs of a variety of patient diagnoses; to teach patients when they want to learn; and to support the family and caregivers. Betsy Stovsky RN, MSN, Manager of the Heart Center website and Resource and Information Center will discuss the evolution of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Patient Education program into the Veritech Patient Education Program. Robbie Cwynar RN, BSN, Clinical Manger, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, will describe the heart surgery patient population as an example and discuss family support initiatives to enhance learning. Angela Costello, Coordinator of Patient Education will discuss how patient education programming is developed including addressing national standards, research into current practice and meeting the varied educational level of our patients.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Nurses, Patient Educators
#3 Microsoft
"Leverage the Power of Microsoft .NET to Build a Healthcare Portal"
Healthcare Portal Overview:
The Microsoft strategy for healthcare is to help our customers, providers and health plans, realize their potential for Improved Productivity, Enhanced Quality, and Reduced Operational Costs by delivering innovative solutions that reduce the complexity of the working environment.
Health Plans need streamlined claims and contract management and communications between managers, brokers, members, and providers. Providers need: improving nurse and physician productivity (addressing the nursing shortage), reducing medical errors, and meeting regulatory requirements like HIPAA . Portals have emerged as a significant opportunity to help health plans and providers address these key concerns by aggregating and consolidating access to information, creating a collaborative environment, streamlines workflow, and managing security.
Microsoft has an end-to-end strategy for the healthcare portal. It starts with internal portals for collaboration between all employees. This portal is easily extended to meet specific business needs e.g. claims managers, administrators, executives, physicians or nurses.
In the past implementing a successful portal solution has seemed out of grasp to many, due to the time, cost and resources required. Not to mention the complexity of existing processes and systems. To address these challenges, Microsoft and our industry partners such as Cap Gemini, have developed a Portal Framework that brings together proven technologies, processes and people in a cost effective manner.
We will show attendees how this is done.
#4 Motion Computing
"Tablet PCs: Creating a Productive Mobile Healthcare Environment"
Tablet PCs streamline business processes and improve the quality of care by giving physicians and hospitals instant access to real-time information-all with the natural feel of a pen. Learn how Motion Computing, through a focus on the healthcare industry, has designed a machine specifically suited to meet the expanding needs of the healthcare professional. Rich Eletto, Business Development Executive with Motion Computing, will review the functionality and features of the Motion tablet pc and describe how other healthcare organizations have profited through the implementation of tablet PCs.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Physicians, Hospital Directors, CIOs, CTOs, IT Staff, Purchasing Directors, Medical Records and Administrative Staff
Workshops - 1:45 - 2:45
#5 APP Design
"Case Studies in Reducing Costs with Healthcare Information Portals"
Healthcare information portals greatly reduce costs by efficiently distributing data and automating business processes, such as eligibility checking, referrals/authorizations, patient census and lab results. These portals benefit enterprises needing to distribute information among multiple facilities, and are ideal for community-wide implementations that are shared among several organizations. One case study demonstrates how a hospital increased revenue by $120,000 a month with a healthcare information portal. Other activities, such as HIPAA disclosure tracking, can be distributed among multiple facilities, further reducing costs. Healthcare information portals can deliver unprecedented functionality at a fraction of the cost of developing and implementing numerous solutions at several organizations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and IT staff from health plans, hospitals and managed-care organizations, as well as medical records staff
#6 Bridgeline Software
"The Right Web Content Management System Will Make e-Health Work for You!"
Considering offering Patient Self-Service options as part of your 2004 initiatives? BRIDGELINE Software will discuss their recent implementation of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital e-Health initiatives which they had outlined in their strategic plan including: the development of their new web site that gives patients greater access to hospital services together with pertinent health/medical information; an online, e-commerce, event registration form for patients to sign up and pay in advance for classes offered by the hospital and, a patient pre-registration option allowing patients to proceed directly to their scheduled appointments. The workshop will describe the benefits of implementing such programs within your organization and its advantages to the patient community. BRIDGELINE will give you some estimates as to the costs involved and strategies on how to include these in your budgets. We will discuss various metrics that can be used to determine overall ROI and justification for such an e-Health initiative. The presentation will conclude with a demonstration of BRIDGELINE Software's enterprise-class content management system, netEDITOR-pro, that was used as the cornerstone for Newton-Wellesley Hospital's overall web initiative.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Marketing, Sales, IT personnel, or individuals tasked with improving customer self-service and implementing e-Health initiatives
#7 RelayHealth
"Doctor Patient e-Communication: Research Results, Real-World Experience and Future Directions"
National survey research shows that the majority of patients would like to communicate with and obtain services from their healthcare providers online. Yet little information has been available on the impact of such services on clinical and financial operations of healthcare organizations. This session will be led by Eric Zimmerman, Senior Vice President of RelayHealth - the leading provider of clinically-structured, payor-reimbursed online communication. He will present the RelayHealth service, including the webVisit®, review the latest research findings on patient satisfaction, clinical productivity and cost of care, and describe future opportunities to leverage the secure communication platform to proactively manage care.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Operations, and Marketing executives, from health plans and healthcare delivery organizations as well as others interested in learning about how clinical e-communication works
#8 RxHub
"The Infrastructure Behind e-Prescribing"
One of the most formidable goals for healthcare organizations is assuring that clinicians always have accurate, up-to-date clinical information to deliver the highest quality healthcare. The inability to efficiently and rapidly access the information that is contained in dispersed, paper-based medical records and databases has serious consequences to the health of the nation. Innovations in information technology will transform how health care is delivered. The critical first step is to establish an infrastructure that supports technological advances.
RxHub has built such an infrastructure for the electronic exchange of critical decision support information at the point of care. This interoperable health care information exchange allows for secure connectivity from payers to and across health care systems, emergency departments, physician offices, pharmacies, and other sites of care. Clinicians have the information they need to make the best clinical decisions at the right time to manage and address their patients' health care needs. This presentation will discuss the fundamentals required in building this infrastructure, our current activities in the Boston area and the partnerships in the industry to achieve long-term success.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Benefit Plan Administrators, Health Plan Administrators, Hospitals, Physicians, CIOs, IT staff, Clinic Administrators, Pharmacists
If you would like additional information on exhibiting opportunities for this or other events, please contact Arleen Coletti, Director of Member & Exhibiting Services via e-mail or by phone 781-768-2512.
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