Agenda: 2012 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
State Health IT Leadership, Health Benefits Exchanges and Medicaid Modernization
- 7:30a.m. - 8:45a.m Registration & Breakfast
- 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
To be Announced
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Opening Keynote
- 9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Keynote: Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC (DHHS)
- 10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Networking Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
- 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. State of Play: State Health IT Leadership and the Implementation of Reform
Moderator:
John Piescik, Strategy Program Manager, Center for Transforming Health, MITREPanelists:
Ed Driesse, CIO, State of Louisiana
Stephen Fletcher, CIO, State of Utah - 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Buffet Served for Meet the Innovators Lunch
- 12:15 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. Meet the Innovators Keynote and IntroductionAmy Santenello, Vice President Strategy and Product Marketing, Curam Software
- 01:00 p.m. - 01:45 p.m. Meet the Innovators Working Lunch Roundtables
Policy makers, CIOs CMIOs and Project Directors from public and private healthcare organizations will lead roundtable discussions around specific technology and project initiatives that are at the leading edge of health IT innovation and transformation process.
- 01:45 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. Mini Break
- 02.00 p.m. - 02:45 p.m. MMIS Upgrades and MITA 3.0: Building out Functionality for the Medicaid Enterprise
Chalres Lehman, Director of State Systems, CMCS
Sammi Morcose, Chief Architect, Software AG - 02:45 p.m. - 03:30 p.m. Comparing Health Benefits Exchange Models: Governance, Implementation and Data Considerations
Panelists:
Greg Franklin, Assistant Secretary of Health Information Technology at the California Technology Agency
Jay Himmelstein, Professor University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Director New England States Collaborative for Insurance Exchange Systems
Pradeep Goel, CEO, Consumer Health Technologies and Chief Innovations Officer, Noridian Mutual Insurance Company - 03:30 p.m. - 03:45 p.m. Networking Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
- 03:45 p.m - 04:30 p.m Gearing Up for Enrollment in the Digital Age
States are plotting a course to overhaul their eligibility systems and procedures to prepare for streamlined enrollment of millions of Americans in 2014. What do we know about where states are today and what can we learn from leaders in the field about what's possible and how to get there?
Moderator:
Alice Weiss, Program Director, National Association for State Health Policy (NASHP)Panelists:
Tracy Turner, Applications and Operational Support Manager, Oklahoma Healthcare Authority
Ben Walker, Consumer Information and insurance oversight (CCIO)
Mark Oh, Director, Division of Enterprise Architecture and Requirements Manager (CIISG/OIS) - 04.30 p.m. - 05.15 p.m. Implementing Analytics to Reduce Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Panelists:
Michael Jackson, Head of Healthcare Solutions, Adobe Systems Inc.
Steve Shandy, Director, Consolidated Data Analysis Center(CDAC), DHHS - 05.15 p.m. - 06.15 p.m. Wine and Cheese Tasting in Connect Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Accountable Care, Healthcare Consumerism and Implementing Cloud Based HIT Services
- 8:00a.m. - 8:45a.m. Registration & Breakfast
- 8:45a.m. - 9:00a.m. Opening Remarks
- 9:00a.m. - 9:45a.m. Opening Keynote
Mary T. McCluskey, M.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Amerigroup
- 9:45a.m. - 10:00a.m. Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
- 10:00a.m. - 11:00a.m. Core Competencies of Successful ACOs and Examples of State Participation
ACOs have received a lot of attention as the new model to improve quality and tie payment to healthy outcomes. States have been exploring the model to varying degrees and looking at what is required to be successful. Join this lively panel discussion to learn what an ACO is, what it will take to implement the model, and how states are using the ACO concept to tie quality and cost together, address quality measurement, and ensuring enhanced care coordination for society's most vulnerable citizens.
Panelists:
Ross Owen, Care Manager Delivery reform Minnesota Department of Human Services
Jed Ziegenhagen, Director Rates and Analysis Division, Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, State of Colorado
Natalie Ellertson, VP, Optum Government Solutions - 11:00a.m. - 11:45p.m. Implementing a Cloud Based Application Services Model for Health Information Exchange
Panelists:
Kim Norby, State Health IT Coordinator, State of Iowa
Kristine Martin Anderson, Senior Vice President Health Care, Booz Allen Hamilton - 11:45 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. Solution Provider Networking and Lunch: Dedicated networking
Dedicated networking hour to meet solution providers and participate in demonstrations
- 1:00 p.m. - 01:45 p.m. ACO: Wellness, Patient Engagement and Social Media
John Whyte, Chief Medical Expert, The Discovery Channel
- 01:45 p.m. - 02:30 p.m. Aligning Patient Safety with Cost Containment: The Challenge for State Medicaid Plans
Sandeep Wadhwa, CMO, 3M Health Information Systems
Measurably improving patient safety remains a paramount goal of quality improvement efforts. This session will evaluate expanded patient safety metric approaches and quantifies the avoidable costs associated with adverse patient outcomes. The speaker will also examine evolving value driven healthcare delivery and how new care delivery and payment models such as ACOs, Health Homes and Health Insurance Exchanges can help States meet patient safety goals. The presenter will describe risk adjustment methodologies that can be used to identify and focus on encounters/events in major service areas—readmissions, initial admissions, visits, complications, and services—that are potentially preventable and contribute to poor quality of care and increased costs.
This presentation will discuss the most current issues and concerns in improving patient safety in this new era of regulatory reform, including: • Evolving healthcare delivery and payment models
• Pay for Performance
• ACOs
• Health Homes
• Health Insurance Exchanges
• Regulatory and Commercial Approaches to Payment Reform and the role of Public Reporting
• Risk adjustment metrics to identify process and performance issues
• Potentially preventable complications
• Increased risk of patient readmissions across episodes
• Potentially preventable admissions
•Potentially preventable ED visits, ancillary services and initial admissions - 02:30 p.m. - 02:45 p.m. Networking and Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
- 02:45 p.m. - 03:30 p.m. Connected Communities: Mobility, Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring
- 03:30 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. HIE Implementation Best Practices from the Frontlines: Lessons Learned in West Virginia and Alabama
Moderator
Larry Yuhasz, Director of Strategy and Business Development, Thomson Reuters HealthcarePanelists:
Kathy Moore, Chief Information Officer, West Virginia Health Information Network
Phil Weikle, Chief Operating Officer, West Virginia Health Information Network
Gary Parker. Project Director, Alabama's Health Information ExchangeBuilding and launching a statewide HIE infrastructure is a unique sojourn where multiple stakeholders are brought together to navigate a host of issues and decisions that have never been confronted before. The presenters will share a number of best practice insights born of real-time challenges tackled in West Virginia and Alabama. Among the key issues addressed will include:
• Important processes for moving beyond governance and policy questions
• Essential mechanisms for moving implementation through milestones and acceptance criteria in a multi-stakeholder environment
•Innovative outreach methods for engaging providers, evaluating exchange readiness, and nurturing adoption
• New solutions for monitoring and reporting on exchange performance and data maturation
• Early efforts for “planting seeds” that lead to sustainability options
- 04:15 p.m - 05:15 p.m Peer to Peer Networking Hour
Thursday, June 21, 2012
State Health Information Exchange and Public Health Informatics
- 8:00a.m. - 8:45a.m. Registration & Breakfast
- 8:45a.m. - 9:30a.m. Opening Keynote: Leveraging Statewide HIE for Population Health ManagementJames W. Buehler, MD, Director of the Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office
- 9:30a.m. - 9:45a.m. Coffee Break
- 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. State Support for ACOs, PCMH and Integrated Delivery Systems
Moderator:
Lynn Dierker, Senior Program Director, National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)Panelists:
Jeffrey Miller, CEO, North Carolina Health Information Exchange
Susan Stuard, Executive Director, Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) (TBC) - 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Securing Electronic Healthcare Information as it moves within and across State Agencies
The adoption of sharing healthcare information continues to increase at the state level as healthcare professionals leverage the availability of electronic data to improve patient care. However, with the federal government pushing mandates to states, the challenge facing the industry continues to be the lack of a heterogeneous platform to securely exchange information across localities. Protecting and managing sensitive information while complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) mandates is extremely difficult given limited budgets and resources.
·Need for Alignment with the FICAM Roadmap
·Need for compliance with NIST Levels of Assurance Two-factor authentication minimizes the risk of fraud when users conduct personal and sensitive health related transactions online. Standardized for use across states, identity proofing and two-factor authentication enable secure identity credentials and is critical for HIEs, EHRs, e-prescribing and other electronic transfer platforms. This session will address how to best combine traditional identity authentication and the issuance of credentials while addressing the need for compliance, reliability, scalability, and security. Attendees will also hear from Symantec and Dr. First about the critical nature of deploying two-factor authentication for e-prescribing.Panelists:
Robert Myles, Senior Practice Manager, State and Local Government and Education, Symantec Corp
Dr Brian Sullivan, Chief Strategy Officer, DrFirst
Keir Breitenfeld, Senior Director, Decision Analytics – Americas, Experian Fraud & Identity Solutions - 11:30p.m. - 11:45p.m. Coffee and Brunch
- 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Meeting the PHI Skills Challenge: Does Informatics Training meet with the Informaticians' Job Requirements?
The public health community has increased its support of public health informatics (PHI). The growing PHI workforce has been challenged by two distinguished tasks:(1) support daily information needs of agency’s case managers, epidemiologists, educators, program directors and agency’s leadership; and
The Panel will address how and why expectations of required skills of Public Health Informaticians are changing, and the successes in providing the comprehensive training for these professionals.
(2) respond to technical requests from the national and statewide initiatives and agency/program about information systems integration and interoperability including requests for data mapping between customized codes and a standard (e.g., LOINC).Moderator:
Dr Harold Lehman, Director of Training and Research, Division of Health Science Informatics, John Hopkins UniversityPanelists:
James Coates, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
Jim Kirkwood, Senior Director eHealth, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) - 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Examining Models for HIE Sustainability
George Beckett, HIT Coordinator, State of Tennessee
Jan Lee, Executive Director, Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN)
