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2004 Fall Forum
September 30, 2004 - October 1, 2004
Presentations
| Stan Nelson, Chairman, Scottsdale Institute
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. “Who’s Going to Pay for all of This?” Pay for Performance and Collaborations to Fund Technology Financial Incentives: Innovative Payment for Health Insurance Technology FACILITATOR: PANELISTS:
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, Chief Physician, Mercer HR Consulting and Leapfrog Lily Pad Chair, San Francisco
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. = Break10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. “Interoperability: a Key to Improving Care and Safety” Blackford Middleton [bio, CV], MD, MPH, MSc, Corporate Director, Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners HealthCare, and Chairman, The Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL), Boston, MA. Research findings on the value of health information exchange and interoperability for payers, providers and patients, the financial and clinical importance of interoperability, the variables and dimensions which affect information exchange, and the benefits from an interoperable system will be discussed. Interoperability: Key to Improving Patient Care and Safety FACILITATOR: PANELISTS:
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. = Buffet Luncheon and Technology Fair1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. “Disease Registries: Improving Outcomes, Safety and Satisfaction” FACILITATOR: PANELISTS: James E. Barr, MD, Executive Director, Central Jersey Physician Network, Flemington, NJ
Evan Steffens, RN, Director of Clinical and Quality Systems and Healthnet Operations, Premier Health Partners, Dayton, OHChronic Disease Registries: A Product ReviewClinical Pathway Care Improves Outcomes among Patients Hospitalized for Community-acquired PneumoniaDisease Registries: Improving Outcomes, Safety, and SatisfactionE-Disease ManagementLongitudinal Assessment of a Diabetes Care Management System in an Integrated Health NetworkUsing Clinical Information Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Expert Workshop Summary Using Computerized Registries in Chronic Disease Care 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. = “The Pike”
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. = Advanced Technology Tours: OPTION ONE TOUR INCLUDES: • Brigham and Women’s Pharmacy Repackaging Center: Demonstrates the technologies that are required to assure 100% availability of bar coded medications. Bill Churchill, Director of Pharmacy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation: One of a small number of centers in North America that employs microsimulation, partial-task training, and high-fidelity human patient simulation, and the only civilian application of the US Army micro-simulations of weapons of mass destruction for field personnel. Charles Pozner, MD, Director of EMS and the STRATUS Medical Simulation Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital OPTION TWO TOUR INCLUDES: •
7:30 a.m. = WelcomeBlackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Corporate Director, Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA. 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. “Simulation: Improving Care, Medical Education and Operations” FACILITATOR:
PANELISTS:
Charles Pozner, MD, Director of EMS and the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. = Break10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon “e-Patient-Physician Communication” Non-visit care, such as e-mail, secure Web messaging, telemedicine and telephone consultations: saving time, improving preventive care, and getting paid for it. FACILITATOR: PANELISTS: Jim Jones, Healthcare Solutions Manager, Hewlett Packard, Groton, MA
Mitch Mitchell, Regional Director, Relay Health, Boston, MA Federal Grant To Fund Massachusetts Data Exchange InitiativeFinancial Incentives: Innovative Payment for Health Insurance Technology RelayHealth webVisit Study : Final Report Web Messaging: A New Tool for Patient-Physician Communication 12:00 noon = Closing Remarks Stan Nelson, Chairman, Scottsdale Institute John Glaser, PhD, VP and CIO, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. |
John Yindra, MD, Medical Director, PHO, Central Maine Healthcare, Lewiston, ME
David Classen [bio, 
A walking tour of The Brigham and Women’s Hospital with 
OR Of the Future (Virtual Tour): State-of-the-art operating suite that serves as a living clinical innovation laboratory to explore new technology platforms and systems of care for performing minimally invasive procedures. Smart real-time systems, including RFID, and indoor location technology create a “zone of safety” from check-in to discharge. 
Radiology: A large-scale implementation of multi-disciplinary PACS, and physicians’ perspective on useability. 
