HIT '13: Healthcare Information Transformation

• What keeps today's CIO up at night And how to eliminate the stress
• What do you prioritize when resources are fixed, but demand is limitless?
• What is the effect of government programs—ICD-10, meaningful use, and ACO?
• Meeting requirements, while fulfilling your ambitions to increase quality improvement, safety and efficiency
• Is there room for innovation in the time of compliance?

• Developing a strategy to support analytics
• How business, data and predictive analytics can improve healthcare delivery
• The new business tools that you need to know about
• Reviewing the accuracy of underlining data
• Supplement existing systems and create applications that are easy-to-use and support decision making processes
• Creating IT value and maximizing overall performance

• Culture: How we get things done--human nature behavior) and info security
• Technology Innovation: Leveraging technology (e.g., encryption, BYOD, Cloud, etc.) for the business/culture
• Risk Assessment: Importance of this vital tool in balancing technology innovation and building the culture (the information security behaviors)

• Negotiating your contract
• Making the business decision--ROI and vendor delivery
• Auditing--site visits, SAS 70, backups, disaster recovery and data destruction
• Creating your checklist

• Extending the perimeter of healthcare
• Lessons learned from integrating connected health programs across a large healthcare system
• How connected health can better utilize healthcare resources

• Intel's cloud 2015 vision
• Cloud computing concerns in cealthcare
• The Service Gateway -- a configurable appliance for SOA based secure healthcare integration at wire speed.

• Identify the security risks related to the EHR Incentive Program objectives
  
• Discuss security risk vs meaningful use benefits
  
• Discuss the security focus for future stages of meaningful use

Hear about an innovative model of community engagement to advance, Health IT Transformations in Free Clinics and achieve the Meaningful Use of EHRs. Since free clinics do not qualify for HITECH programs, the initiative is supported in its entirety through volunteer efforts - a community based partnership of industry, health professionals, academia, and social entrepreneurs. In this inspirational case study, you will learn how the program's principal architect and partners are working to

• Achieve Meaningful Use of EHRs in Free Clinics consistent with the National Health IT Agenda
• Connecting Free Clinics to state level HIEs and the NHIN
• Developing and supporting a Practice Based Research Network focused exclusively on Free Clinics

• Legacy vs modern platform
• Three types of platforms
• What the ideal platform provides

• How innovation can improve the ability to perform effectively, while achieving the GRC benefits
• Engaging the board in strategic IT issues
• Making governance an integrated function
• Making stakeholder engagement in compliance and innovation (clinical staff, end users, patients)

• HIE infrastructure requirements
• Provider and payer models
• Payment reform driving the transformation of care

• Creating your roadmap for a smooth transition
• Knowing which IT systems will be affected, as well as business processes, training and communication management
• What will it do to "meaningful use"

• Reducing the number of interfaces between diverse systems
• Offering a comprehensive approach: architecture, infrastructure, and software solutions
• Enabling transformation of healthcare organizations with standards, policies and regulatory compliance
• Understanding the significance of interoperability–from data center to enterprise mobility-ways to reaping the benefits of web-enabled technology

• Future outlook for healthcare IT recruitment–the approaching worker crisis:
  • Baby Boomers retiring
  • Housing crisis (upside down in mortgage) has reduced the number of people who can relocate for opportunities.
  • Narrow (yet improving) educational pipeline for new worker entries
  • Less skilled entries into the work force
  • Specialized and more narrowly defined skills required in healthcare IT
• Love 'em or lose 'em: Staff retention
  • Costs associated with replacement vs. retaining
  • Harder to hire than retain
  • Morale
  • Maintaining adequate and quality staffing levels to meet federal guidelines
• Share staff retention strategies, programs and ideas successfully implemented by healthcare CIOs