ARRA and Beyond: Outcomes Driven Health Information Exchange

November 10, 2009
2:30 PM Eastern / 1:30 Central / 12:30 Mountain / 11:30 Pacific

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Please join Mary Mosquera, Senior Editor of Government Health IT; Howard Croft, MD FACEP Emergency Physician, Medical Staff President at Columbia St Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, WI; and Edward Barthell, MD MS, Director, Microsoft Health Solutions Group, for a discussion on the future of connected health and how effective health information exchange can lead to improved quality and cost-effectiveness in care delivery. 

Dr. Barthell will review recent developments in ARRA guidance, the government's role in starting up and creating sustainable funding approaches for HIE, and business and technology strategies. Dr. Croft will highlight how Columbia St. Mary’s hospital, part of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange, is using Amalga UIS to capture regional data and deliver it across corporate boundaries to help improve quality, cost efficiency and support public health initiatives.

What will I learn?

1. Understand the various emerging business approaches to health information exchange, and how those approaches might be sustainable beyond ARRA funding.
2. Learn about the available options for technical solutions to health information exchange, and how various technology approaches can solve problems and deliver improved outcomes.

Who should attend?

1. Military and VA Senior-Level Executives
2. State and Local Government Health IT Senior-Level Executives
3. Medicaid and State Health Services Directors
4. Director of State HIE initiatives

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Personal Health IT in Government: How DOD and VA Personal Health Record Pilots are Helping Pave the Way for Public Sector Health Care Interoperability

Wednesday
July 29, 2009
11:00 AM EST

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Description:
Interoperability Update in Government and What it Means to the Public Sector
Join leaders from the DOD and the Department of Veteran Affairs as they present an update on new technology that links patients and beneficiaries to PHR databases managed by their respective organizations. Be a part of the emerging solutions for military and government-wide health information sharing…and beyond to the public sector.

Presenters
COL Keith Salzman, MD, Chief of Informatics, Western Regional Medical Command/Madigan Army Medical Center, DOD

Theresa Hancock, Director, Veterans and Consumers Health Informatics Office, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Health

Military Health’s Electronic Supply Chain: Using RFID and Automatic Identification Technologies to Manage the World’s Largest Healthcare System

Feb 26, 2009

This e-seminar will provide an overview of the status, goals, technology components and current lessons of the Military Health System’s pilot project for RFID deployment at three Washington, D.C.-area military health care facilities. If the test is successful, MHS plans to deploy RFID to 63 military hospitals and 105 large clinics worldwide.

Duration: 1 Hour

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