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  NASCIO

  
  Contact : Chad Grant, NASCIO Policy Analyst
  Email: cgrant@AMRms.com
  Contact No: 859 514 9148 ext 293
  

  In Partnership with NASCIO’s mission is to foster government excellence through quality business practices, information management, and technology policy. Founded in 1969, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) represents state chief information officers and information technology executives and managers from the states, territories, and the District of Columbia. The primary state members are senior officials from state government who have executive-level and statewide responsibility for information technology leadership. State officials who are involved in agency level information technology management may participate as associate members. Representatives from federal, municipal, international government and non-profit organizations may also participate as members. Private-sector firms join as corporate members and participate in the Corporate Leadership Council. For more information, please visit
  www.nascio.org

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  CAPP

  
  Contact : Nancy Taylor, Executive Director
  Email: ntaylor@amga-capp.org
  Contact No: (510) 271-6995
  

  To register to attend at the 30% discounted attendance please do so entering discount code
  CAPP here A subsidiary of the American Medical Group Foundation is a Consortium of some of America’s most prominent physician-led group practices and organized health systems. These organizations are striving to promote a health care system that is more accountable to patients, consumers and purchasers. CAPP believes that accountability in medicine is more than a promise of high quality healthcare. It is a commitment to excellence and value in every important facet of the care experience.

  It is the goal of the Council of Accountable Physicians to 1). demonstrate that accountable physician practices deliver effective, efficient health care that improves clinical outcomes, satisfies patients and controls costs, and 2) foster the development of accountable physician practices (or accountable care organizations) as a model for U.S. health care system reform. 

  http://www.amga-capp.org

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  NACCHO

  
  Contact : Vanessa Holley, MPH, Program Associate, Public Health Informatics

  Email: vholley@naccho.org 
  Contact No:202 507 4239
  

  The National Association of Country and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is the national organization representing local health departments. NACCHO supports efforts that protect and improve the health of all people and all communities by promoting national policy, developing resources and programs , seeking health equity and supporting effective local public health practice and systems.

  NACCHO is goverened by a 27 – member Board of Directors, comprising of health officials from around the country elected by their peers and including ex officio members representing the National Association of Counties, of which NACCHO is an affiliate and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
  www.naccho.org

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  Health Affairs

  
  Contact : Ann Link, Deputy Publisher, Health Affairs
  Email: alink@projecthope.org
  Contact No: (301) 841-9961
  

  Health Affairs, the leading peer-reviewed health policy journal in the United States, is focused on the intersection of health, health care, and policy in this country and internationally. Its mission is to serve as a high-level forum to promote debate on cost, quality, and access in the health arena.

  Established in 1981, Health Affairs publishes research, analysis, and commentary by experts in the field. As a nonpartisan publication, Health Affairs seeks to publish a wide range of content relevant to the major health and socioeconomic policy questions of the day. Health Affairs is unique in reaching a wide‐ranging audience of private‐sector, government, and academic health policy readers. The journal is published by Project HOPE.
  www.healthaffairs.org

Ensuring EMR Adoption and HIE Participation
Q1 - What would be your No. 1 & No. 2 on your lessons learned list given your experience implementing EHRs 
Q2 - What was the biggest mistake you made in the implementation phase and what would you change if you could do it again?
Q3 - Now that your systems are in place, how are you overcoming obstacles to physician adoption?
Q4 - Many believe the real pay-off for EMRs is when practices are utilizing Clinical Decision Support. What barriers are you seeing in increasing adoption in this area?Q5 - If you change one thing in the future that would you make your organization's goals more attainable, what would you change?
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The American Healthcare Experience and the Health Reform Debate
Public perception and common misconceptions of health reform
What is being invested and what are the risks of failure in health reform?
How can we play a role on improving the public understanding of healthcare reform?
The role of technology in connecting consumers with health reform and an improved healthcare experience
To Change the Current System we must start a new dialogue
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• Understand the role of The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Healthcare Reform and NIH / Applying Science to the Benefit of Healthcare Reform
• A Bold New Paradigm: Cures Acceleration Network
• Health Care Legislation and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
• Information technology and Scaling Data Collection for Clinical / Epidemiological Research
• Data Analysis Challenges in Personalized Medicine
• NIH Perspective: 2010 and Beyond 
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Innovations in Health Information Exchange: Moving Beyond Science Fairs to Sustainable Value Michael Matthews, CEO MedVirginia
Stephania Griffin, Privacy Officer, Veterans Health Administration

Over the past decade, a number of demonstrations and pilots add to the wealth of evidence of the impact of health IT and HIE. Yet, HIE is far too often viewed as optional or discretionary rather than as a standard of care. Discussed will be very practical examples of production-level HIE that are bringing clinical and financial value to stakeholders, along with a framework for how to advance adoption and innovation on a much broader scale..

Session Leader: Ned Ellington, Program Manager HITECH Research Center, DHHS (ONC)
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Healthcare Technology Convergence & Integration
BI/Healthcare Analytics
Medical Image Archiving 
Converged Infrastructure Solution Overview
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Creating clinical and financial value for Stakeholders

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The Creation of a Beacon Community
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About

The 2011 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit examines the role of state health IT modernization and transformation at the intersection of HITECH and State Health Reform. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (ARRA/HITECH) are promoting health IT to enable safe, affordable, high quality care. Health IT has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, allowing providers to have comprehensive, intuitive, high-quality patient information at their fingertips to make the right decisions for patient care, giving states better insight into public health, and reducing costs associated with high risk populations. 

What you can expect

At the summit, policymakers and leading HIT strategists will provide critical insights into state health IT's function at the intersection of HITECH and health reform. Administrators of leading edge Accountable Care Organization pilots and the associated technology infrastructures will present their experiences, and health IT experts will look at the developing role of statewide health information exchange and Regional Extension Centers as the supporting infrastructure for quality improvements and reform. 

Immersed in this intensive learning experience you will examine innovative strategies and best practice for managing and implementing information technology in the new transformed healthcare. You will leave the program ready to overcome barriers to change and improve the overall performance of your organization. 

Across the 3-days of the conference policy makers, administrators and health IT strategists will address key critical topics including:

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