Consortium Events

Friday, February 2, 2007 - 8:00am-4:00pm
Marriott Hotel, Rt 128 & 3A (One Mall Road), Burlington, MA

7:30 - 8:00

Exhibitor Displays / Breakfast / Registration

8:00 - 8:30

Introductions / Welcome

• Ray A. Campbell, III - Executive Director and CEO, MA Health Data Consortium
• Jerilyn W. Heinold, MPH - Healthcare Consultant, MA Health Data Consortium

8:30 - 9:30

Morning Keynote:
"Personal Health Records: Getting Started With What's (Almost) Already Digitally Available"

Personal health records offer the promise of empowering consumers with access to timely and relevant personal health information, linked to decision support systems to provide guidance as to options and choices in taking an active role in managing their own care. Population based availability of digitized health information is clearly essential to this vision, and although full function EHRs are currently present in fewer than 10% of physician's offices, many other sources of timely and detailed digital clinical information exist.

Currently, for instance, PHRs can be loaded with data from health plans, PBMs and lab vendors, and in many cases from consumers themselves through self-entry or through downloading of data from biometric monitoring devices in the home. Although the use of EHRs will certainly expand over the next decade, and detailed and specific clinical data obtained from them will no doubt be of importance, much can be done with digital information already available from current sources.

This talk will explore current "state of the art" in personal health records that can be supported with today's digital information availability, and discuss the forcing functions and "wild cards" that will impact their development, deployment and use.

• Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH - Adjunct Lecturer on Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

9:30 - 9:45

Exhibitor Displays / Break

9:45 - 11:15

Panel Discussion:
"Local Efforts"

• David Cochran, MD - Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
• Slides (PDF)
• James Daniel, MPH - CIO, Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of MA
• Slides (PDF)
• Susan Goldstein - VP, Health Management Strategy, Design and Performance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA
• Slides (PDF)
• Delia Vetter - Senior Director of Benefits, EMC Corporation
• Slides (PDF)
• Moderator: Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH - Adjunct Lecturer on Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

11:15 - 11:30

Exhibitor Displays / Break

11:30 - 12:30

Vendor Workshops 1-5

Vendor Workshop 1	"Advancing the Future of Health Care Delivery through Electronic Health Records"
Vendor Workshop 2	"Healthcare’s Consumer Shift"
Vendor Workshop 3	"Tracking Medical Assets for Improved Patient Care and Productivity"
Vendor Workshop 4	"My PHR"

12:30 - 1:15

Luncheon & Presentation:
"Cost Models and Barriers of Electronic Health Records (EHR)"

EHRs are expected to reduce administrative overhead and provide accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date medical files, but there are many questions surrounding their implementation. How much will they cost? Who should pay for them? Where do healthcare providers go for initial funding? What are the options? These and other financial considerations will be presented.

• Janie Tremlett - Senior Strategic Advisor, Concordant
• Slides (PDF)
• Roger Paradis - Director, Program Management, Concordant

Lunch / Lunch Presentation sponsored by

1:15 - 2:15

Afternoon Keynote:
"The Integration of EHR, PHR and e-Prescribing: A Collision?"

The adoption and integration of electronic health records, personal health records and eprescribing should enable significant improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care. However, the country may be on a course where these technologies collide rather than integrate with the result being a chaotic, uneven and sub-optimal convergence. This presentation and subsequent panel will discuss this impending problem and strategies to avert it. Legal, technical, policy and clinical points-of-view will be represented.

• John Glaser, PhD - Vice President and CIO, Partners Healthcare System
• Slides (PDF)

2:15 - 2:30

Exhibitor Displays / Break / Dessert (Ice Cream Social)

Ice Cream Social sponsored by   

2:30 - 4:00

Panel Discussion:
"Integration of EHR, PHR & e-Prescribing"

• Kate Berry - Senior Vice President, Surescripts
• Slides (PDF)
• Daniel Sands, MD, MPH - Cisco Systems and Harvard Medical School
• Slides (PDF)
• Deborah Theobald - CEO, Vecna Technologies
• Slides (PDF)
• Colin Zick, Esq. - Foley Hoag LLP
• Slides (PDF)
• Moderator: John Glaser, PhD - Vice President and CIO, Partners Healthcare System