HealthTech Conference 2013

Don't miss HealthTech Conference 2013 this October 30 in Mountain View, CA.

HealthTech Conference 2013 will take place in Computer History Museum, the world's leading institution exploring the history of computing and its continuing impact on society. Locating the HealthTech Conference at the Computer History Museum celebrates the current convergence of information technology and healthcare.

HealthTech Capital is a group of private investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new "HealthTech" start ups at the intersection of healthcare with the computer and mobility worlds. HealthTech Capital is creating a new ecosystem with leading edge clinical providers, venture firms and other industry players.

Health IT Education and Career Opportunities #HITedu

NeHC will continue the very popular Careers in Health IT series with a spotlight on higher education paths and the careers that result from such programs. This webinar will feature health IT workforce development leaders to discuss emerging career opportunities in health IT and describe various health IT academic programs for both undergraduate and graduate students. Speakers will give an overview of the programs in their individual areas while discussing the impact of these programs on a national level. Panelists will highlight specific professional opportunities that these educational paths will prepare graduates for when they join the workforce.

Health IT Education and Career Opportunities
October 1, 2012 1:00-2:30 PM ET

FEATURING

• Dr. Charles Friedman - Director, Health Informatics Program, Schools of Information and Public Health, University of Michigan
• Dr. Leanne Field - Director, Public Health, Medical Laboratory Science and Health Information Technology Programs, University of Texas at Austin
• Sid Voorakkara - Former Program Leader, The California Endowment

Website: http://www.nationalehealth.org/health-it-education-and-career-opportunities

Registration required

Fee: $15

NeHC is a non-profit organization. All revenues generated are directly reinvested into NeHC University programming. All speakers are volunteers.

Health IT Certification

What does it mean to achieve a level of "health IT certification?" There are currently several organizations that offer such certifications in health IT. Here is a recent press release describing developments from the group "Health IT Certification."

WASHINGTON DC, USA -- APRIL 16, 2012: Health IT Certification (www.healthitcertification.com) announces a new training and professional certification program for those responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act Operating Rules to improve efficiency, patient and beneficiary satisfaction, and achieving cost savings. These operating rules provide the enhanced requirements to the HIPAA transactions and code sets to achieve interoperability with a higher degree of automation for business processes.

The Certified Professional for Operating Rules Administration (CPORA) consists of an eight-course curriculum and certification examination evidencing expertise in implementation of the Affordable Care Act Operating Rules. Health IT Certification announces the launch of the new CPORA in three stages:

2012 Digital Health Conference Call for Speakers

Calling all Health IT Innovators and Thought Leaders

The New York eHealth Collaborative is now accepting speaker applications for the 2012 Digital Health Conference (DHC) taking place on October 15-16, at New York City’s Pier Sixty. Speakers from across the healthcare industry are encouraged to apply.

Target topics for the DHC include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare innovations and progress
• Health information exchange
• Advances in chronic care management
• Medicaid Redesign
• Meaningful Use
• NYS Health Homes
• Healthcare apps
• Software solutions

To submit a proposal to speak, please visit www.digitalhealthconference.com

The deadline for speaker applications is March 23rd, 2012.

About the Digital Health Conference

At NYeC’s inaugural 2011 Conference—the first event of its kind in New York City—over 600 healthcare providers, healthcare technology companies, IT startups, public officials, hospital leaders, and others convened to discuss the latest health IT initiatives, share best practices, celebrate achievements, and promote the advancement of healthcare innovation through technology.

AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference

Here's a note I got from the AMA about their upcoming medicine & technology conference:

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have joined together for the second year to offer a conference series that addresses important topics linking biomedical engineering and the practice of medicine.

With a focus on health information technology (health IT)—a discipline at the intersection of information and computer science, engineering and healthcare—the conference will examine resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, display, and use of information in health and biomedicine.

We invite healthcare providers, engineers, innovators, industrial leaders, government agencies and policy makers to:

AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Health IT/Delivering on the Promise of Cost Effective Quality Healthcare in Boston, MA, on Oct. 16–18, 2011, at the Park Plaza Hotel and Towers.

Receive free Health IT education from the National eHealth Collaborative

National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership that enables secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange to advance health and improve health care. NeHC was established through a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to build on the accomplishments of the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) until 2008, and is led by some of the nation’s most respected thought leaders in healthcare and health IT.

National eHealth Collaborative’s NeHC University is a web-based education program designed to provide stakeholders with timely and relevant information on health information technology and health information exchange in the United States. By offering introductory programs focused on providing an orientation to health IT, as well as deep dives into specific health IT topics, NeHC University provides unique opportunities for interested stakeholders to learn about multiple health IT initiatives, programs, and trends all in one place.

Learn more about free upcoming NeHC University classes here.

NeHC University is a program produced by National eHealth Collaborative and it is not affiliated with an accredited institution. NeHC University is a non-accredited program.

PointClear Health IT Physicians Research and Advisory Panel

Recently, PointClear Solutions, Inc. – an innovation leader specializing in health information technology (HIT) product development services – announced the creation of a new Physicians Research and Advisory Panel. PointClear’s “Physician Research and Advisory Panel” participants include:

Dr. David Kibbe Sr. Advisor, Family Practice
Dr. Jim Miller Hospitalist/Internal Med
Dr. Indu Anand OB/GYN
Dr. Meyer Dworsky Neonatalogist
Dr. Brian Raymaker Family Practice
Dr. Jordana Heaven Pediatrician
Dr. Michael Blackstone Internal Med/Entrepreneur
Dr. Anne-Laura Cook Hospitalist/Internal Med

PointClear is a healthcare technology services company headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., with offices in Atlanta, Nashville, and Birmingham. PointClear focuses on Product Strategy, Product Development, and User Experience. The company has an exciting team of technology experts who design and develop healthcare software applications and products with focusing on a “User Centered Design”. Clients include hospitals, health plans, the public sector, disease management companies, health IT vendors, and health 2.0 companies nationwide. We help our clients create compelling intuitive applications which maximize user adoption. For more information on PointClear, visit www.pointclearsolutions.com

Texas Health IT Summit

If you live in Texas, don't miss the upcoming Texas Health IT Summit in Dallas.
Thursday, September 8 – Saturday, September 10, 2011

Sessions led by national and state experts including:

• Health information exchange
• E-prescribing
• EHR implementation
• EHR funding
• Stimulus funding
• "Meaningful use"

Educational tracks available for:

• Physicians, nurses, health care professionals, government agency representatives and others wanting to learn the basics and beyond of HIT
• Physicians and their staff considering adoption of EHR technology
• Those seeking a career in HIT

More information here.

DSI’s Electronic Health Records and HIE Summit

This came out last week, but you may have missed it if you were getting ready to travel for the holidays:

Military, VA and Federal Healthcare Leaders to Convene at DSI’s Electronic Health Records and HIE Summit. The Summit benefits the 501c3 nonprofit Wounded Warrior Project.

Leaders from the Military, VA, Federal Healthcare Agencies and Industry will convene October 11 - 13, 2011 in Alexandria, VA to discuss and debate the current roadmap for iEHRs and HIE. The educational and training Summit, hosted by Defense Strategies Institute and benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project, is designed as a full spectrum viewpoint, and actionable takeaways and "next-steps" will drive the discussions.

Washington, DC, June 30, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Recent advancements towards the interoperability of EHRs between the DoD and VA has created the need to bring together the leaders in healthcare from the Military, VA, Federal Healthcare Agencies, and Industry in order to discuss and debate the next-steps for today, tomorrow, and the future. “In a field such as healthcare, where there are multiple agents acting in tandem, it is extremely important that all involved are working towards a cohesive and holistic approach. While the field has seen an immense amount of ebbing and flowing, we believe that truly great advancements are on the horizon….and this is why our Senior Partners decided to lend our expertise towards creating a forum that can bring together stakeholders from across the continuum of care,” stated Lisa Madison, Director of Communications for Defense Strategies Institute.

Hospitals competing for IT talent

Did you catch the PC World article titled, "Hospitals Compete for IT Talent With Funding at Stake"? Here are some interesting snippets from that article:

With the government spending almost as much as the health care industry's total value of $27 billion, "you can imagine there's going to be a fair amount of hiring," said John Halamka, a doctor at and CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Beyond IT skills, Halamka looks for candidates who "have a working vocabulary of health care" and are familiar with the industry's privacy, security, compliance and regulatory aspects.

"There's a lot of dedicated health care professionals out there in the universe," he said. "There's a lot of dedicated IT professionals. But it's a much narrower band where you have people that can live in both of those worlds."

With the government financially penalizing health care providers that fail to use EHRs by 2015, there is a need to hire staff with the right blend of health care knowledge and technology skills, said Josh Lee, a doctor at and chief medical information officer for the University of California San Diego Medical Center.

The 7,000 graduates produced by the community college training program will not meet the 50,000 heath IT employees the industry needs by their deadlines, Halamka said. This shortage is "a short-term problem" with "the peak of demand coming right now" since the stimulus ends in a few months, he said.

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform

23 June 2011
Improving Informatics Skills for Clinicians, New Foundation Incorporates

Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform – TIGER – focuses on preparing the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care

Focused on better preparing the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care, Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform – or TIGER – becomes the TIGER Initiative Foundation, effective July 1, 2011. With incorporation, this new Foundation becomes a legal entity, a 501(c)(3) organization operating for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and with new resources, including the necessary infrastructure and staff, plus marketing, web development, TIGER began as a grassroots initiative in 2006, with support from over 70 contributing organizations and a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to engage and prepare the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care. Now, five years later, these many volunteer hours and efforts have helped advance the TIGER cause. Leaders from the TIGER Phase III Executive Committee, HIMSS and collaborative partners will help with the process to establish and maintain the TIGER Initiative Foundation.

The Healthcare IT Path Forward

As you know, this as a pivotal time to address the goals of expanding access, improving quality and reducing cost in our healthcare system. But how can your collective investments in infrastructure and improved processes help to deliver on these goals. How do you fit in? Clearly a road map would be highly beneficial. To help guide this process Intel is doing some radical rethinking of the healthcare system. Intel is committed to shifting the focus of healthcare reform from a one-size-fits-all, institutional model to a personalized model that improves both the process and the outcomes for healthcare practitioners and patients.

After all, healthcare is a knowledge industry. Technology should help us share that knowledge effectively. Watch this video of Dr. Mark Blatt, director of Intel’s Health and Healthcare Industry Solutions, and see what he has to say about moving healthcare IT forward.



For a full lineup of videos, watch our video newsmagazine, Healthcare IT Perspectives, at www.hitperspectives.com

iHT2 Health IT Summit in Denver

iHT2 Health IT Summit in Denver – July 26-27, 2011
– Sheraton Denver Downtown

"ARRA, with the move toward EHRs and computerized provider order entry is giving us an unprecedented opportunity to get more and better technology out there and drive quality care."
-Jennifer Lyle, CEO, Software Testing Solutions

Click Here to Download Conference Brochure

“Adoption in the Rear-View Mirror: Strategies to Achieve Meaningful Use (MU)”

Join over 200 CIO’s, VP’s, and Directors of IT from hospitals, health systems, and physician practices and:

∙ Identify why information technology alone
is not the silver bullet to realize care
improvements or achieve Meaningful Use
∙ Recognize how to leverage CPOE to go
beyond error reduction and improve a care
process
∙ Learn how to develop a comprehensive plan
that will help move your organization toward
the realization of the government's Meaningful
Use requirements

7th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition

The 7th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition, June 14 -15 in Washington, DC, brings together thought leaders, executives, clinicians and policymakers either employed by or contracted with the federal or state government to affect an improved health system within the United States through the effective use of IT and management systems. Save when you register for the early-bird rates offered for the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition through May 14. Government employees will pay only $50 for the full conference.

The conference features three tracks: Overcoming Barriers to Achieving Interoperable Systems, InterAgency Initiatives Leading the Way Ahead for Health IT and Industry Solutions. Session topics include the role of privacy and security in interoperability, lessons learned about Medicaid providers’ adoption of certified EHR technology, and solutions for overcoming barriers to health IT adoption in underserved communities. Earlier this week, HIMSS confirmed Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator for health IT, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as the closing keynote speaker.

Health IT Summit in NYC

This hosted event brings together C-level, physician, practice management and IT decision-makers from North America’s leading provider organizations and physician practices. For two full days, executives interact with a national audience of peers, national leaders and solution providers featuring the latest solutions for practice management, mobility, telemedicine, outsourcing, IT infrastructure, next-generation electronic medical records, disease management, and more.

Now in its seventh successful year, the Health IT Summit is the premier executive summit focused on the strategies and tools that are re-defining customer care, collaboration and efficiency in the healthcare provider markets.

Best of all, the Health IT Summit is not a trade show or traditional conference but an intimate, upscale experience in a world-class venue. The unique agenda features a preview of the latest healthcare technologies, industry panels with healthcare luminaries, product demonstrations from leading vendors, and high-level content from researchers reporting on the healthcare industry. Attendees also have the ability to schedule one-on-one meetings with vendors and other delegates of their choice, and attend high-level networking events and receptions.

The 2011 iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City will benefit you by:

• Meet valuable new contacts from all over the country in a convivial and professional atmosphere.
• During social and networking events you will have the opportunity to build new relationships and reinforce existing ties with the healthcare industry.
• A conference curriculum that offers a broad choice of educational opportunities for professional development, both for yourself and the organization you work for.
• Hearing from inspirational panelists and keynote speakers from the healthcare sector.
• Share ideas, aspirations, problems and solutions with peers and colleagues.
• Develop a more intimate understanding about the industry and compare your situation with others.
• Learn about current trends and innovative ideas.
• Understand best practices and applications through case study presentations.
• Solve and debate issues while consulting with industry experts.
• The top-notch setting and activities in New York City, NY.
• A conference experience that will allow you to recharge your batteries, and also see a valuable return on your investment

Health Information Technology Webinar Series from #MEDecision

MEDecision has a number of on-demand health IT webinars such as:

• Medication Therapy Management: An Opportunity to Lower Costs and Improve Outcomes
• Going Beyond the EHR: Supporting Care Coordination Within the Patient-Centered Medical Home
• Proactively Manage Care Opportunities for Members with NCQA Certified Software
• Medical Loss Ratios: Important Implications for Care Management
• Leveraging URAC-Accredited Software to Drive Quality and Improve Health Outcomes

You can access these complimentary webinars here.

3rd Annual Public Health & Technology Conference

The next five years will bear witness to major changes in our nation's healthcare system. These changes will be expensive, expansive, painful to implement and yet, entirely necessary. A key component of the overhaul will be through the implementation of health information technology, most notably the Electronic Health Record and Personal Health Record.

In an effort to further understand where the nation is in Health IT and to lay out a vision for the future that is grounded in the challenges ahead, the HSPH Public Health and Technology Student Forum is hosting a one-day conference, titled "Enabling the Adoption of HIT to Transform Patient Care". Please join us for this special event, to be held on April 25, 2011 at the historic Harvard Club of Boston. The morning keynote will be given by Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, who will speak about the vision for modernizing health care delivery. In the afternoon, Dr. David W. Bates, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, will offer solutions for using health IT to change the way organizations approach patient safety.

The HITECH Act, EHR and Meaningful Use of Your Fax Machine

Author: Tim Kinsman

As you implement your EHR system you will notice that the fax machines, on which you have relied, don’t fit into your computerized processes. Data from your EHR system must be printed before you can stack the pages on your fax machine. Then you shred the sent pages. Pages you receive on your fax machine (more ink and paper) can’t be part of an electronic record keeping system until you use a scanner to convert these pages to digital format, before shredding them.

“Fax servers” (computers that send and receive faxes) provide a HIPPA compliant bridge between the paper and digital worlds. At the computer from which you access your EHR system, you can send electronic health records, reports and prescriptions by phone lines or the Internet (fax over IP) to anyone, regardless of their EHR/EMR usage. Your received faxes are saved to disk as electronic image files. No printing, scanning, filing or shredding is required.

Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit

Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit
Mission-Critical Concerns for CIOs, CMIOs, and other Healthcare IT Leaders
May 11 – 13, 2011
Fairmont Hotel | San Francisco

The Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit is a three-day summit that explores what industry pioneers are doing to meet the requirements for meaningful use under the HITECH Act. Attendees will discuss how to satisfy obligations under healthcare reform and how to move towards new levels of patient data privacy and security requirements under enhanced HIPAA regulations

Join industry-leading CIOs, CMIOs, executive recruiters, and federal policy leaders for the first-ever Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit.
Among the topics to be addressed:

• Building clinical IT infrastructure needed to succeed for stages 1, 2 and 3 of meaningful use
• The core implementation hurdles faced by IT leaders
• Mastering issues surrounding the quality data reporting requirements under meaningful use
• "Hidden" meaningful-use requirements in the quality reporting requirements area
• How patient-care organizations can build the clinical informaticist teams required for success under meaningful use, healthcare reform and HIPAA
• Finding clinical informaticists in an operating environment experiencing an extreme shortage
• How health information exchange pioneers are shaping the HIE environment
• The misunderstood and least-understood underlying requirements for patient-data security and privacy success
• How pioneering patient-care organizations are forging ahead with preparing for accountable-care organizations and bundled payment participation under healthcare reform

IT and Accountable Care: The Big Challenge Ahead

Here's another Complimentary HIMSS Webinar:

IT and Accountable Care: The Big Challenge Ahead

Friday, January 21, 2011
1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Complimentary Webinar

Join the Advisory Board Company's health care IT expert research advisors for a moderated discussion addressing the IT implications of Accountable Care. Using an IT "prism" — the focus of the presentation aims to create an IT blueprint for Accountable Care and assist IT executives in addressing the management challenges senior hospital and health system leaders must tackle to manage the transition to Accountable Care and maximize their IT investments. Key Questions Addressed in the Webinar: What is Accountable Care? How are providers organizing to become Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)? What IT capabilities are essential to ACO status? What IT "endpoints" are required for accomplishing ACO objectives? What IT lessons can be culled from today's ACO pioneers? What are C-Suite expectations for IT Executives in the era of Accountable Care? This webconference is free of charge and is open to all Senior IT Executive Community representatives..

Learning Objectives:

1. How providers are organizing to become Accountable Care Organizations
2. Understand what IT capabilities are essential to ACO status
3. Pinpoint examples of C-Suite and IT executive expectations to accomplish ACO objectives