HIMSS 2010 Speaking Sessions
A Path to Improved Care: Communities CONNECTing to the NHIN
Speaking session overviews and presenters are listed below. Check back soon to download the presentations.
Exchange of Medical Records During Disasters
During this session, participants will learn how the federal government uses CONNECT to provide health providers better patient information in disaster environments. Attendees will hear how Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF8) activates the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) and how disaster medical personnel are equipped to better support care in challenging environments.
Presenter:
CAPT Allen Dobbs, MD, United States Public Health Service
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NHIN and CONNECT at a Glance
The NHIN is enabling secure, electronic health information exchange throughout the country. This session outlines what the NHIN is today, how it’s evolving, the value for various health stakeholders, requirements for participation, and the steps for using the NHIN. It will also discuss the CONNECT solution and detail the ways the CONNECT Open Source Community is promoting widespread use of the NHIN.
Presenters:- Mariann Yeager, NHIN Policy and Governance Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- David Riley, CONNECT Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
NCI Enterprise Services to Support Research and Care
During this session, attendees will learn about services being developed by the NCI that are usable within both the care and research environments. Existing services (such as Person, Organization, Protocol Abstraction, Correlation and Outcomes) and the NCI’s service roadmap will be described, and information will be provided on how the NCI’s Enterprise Conformance and Compliance Framework (ECCF) facilitates accessing these services within a SOA framework such as NHIN, as well as through lightweight interfaces such as REST.
Presenter:
Ken Buetow, Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute
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CONNECT Architecture (Versions 2.3 and 2.4)
In this session, attendees will learn about the product updates included in CONNECT v.2.3 as well as the changes expected in CONNECT v.2.4. The presentation will introduce the Cross Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) process and discuss the External Data Representation (XDR) dataflow as a standard for pushing documents to the gateway.
Presenter:
Greg Fairnak, CONNECT Chief Architect (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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Open-Source Population Health Reporting Tool
During this session, participants will learn about popHealth, an open-source population health reporting prototype designed to help providers evaluate quality measures. Attendees will see how popHealth can be used by providers to view information on their patient population and how summary quality information may be transmitted through the CONNECT solution to federal agencies.
Presenters:- Rob McCready, popHealth Lead Software Engineer (Contractor)
- Lisa Tutterow, popHealth Principal (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Coordinating Care Across California
Care coordination represents one of the most promising ways to increase patient safety, improve outcomes and avoid unnecessary procedures. This education session discusses how an emergency department physician can evaluate information from different care episodes in far-flung communities across California while addressing an emergent health situation. HIE enables choice of the proper treatment, avoiding a dangerous invasive test, because a more complete knowledge of the patient was available.
Presenters:- Kim Horowitz, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Believe Health, LLC
- Emilie Kralicek, Project Manager, Long Beach Network for Health
- Bill Beighe, Chief Information Officer, Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz
Public Health: Case Reporting, Biosurveillance and Immunization Tracking
Health information exchange (HIE) organizations offer a valuable opportunity for standards-based transfer of health data between providers and public health. In this presentation, the presenter will discuss the use of HITSP standards and IHE profiles to support public health functions such as biosurveillance, case reporting and immunization tracking. He will cover current practices and provide a description of the demonstration taking place in the model HIE represented at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase.
Presenters:
Bryant T. Karras, MD, Public Health Informatics Officer, Senior Epidemiologist, State of Washington, Department of Health
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The CONNECT Open Source Community’s Role in Promoting Nationwide HIE
This session will highlight the value of collaboration through the CONNECT Community for promoting health information exchange throughout the country. This session will discuss Community participation from the federal government, states, the vendor community and the private sector, and it will provide insight into the reasons for participation and the value the project is having within diverse domains.
Brian Behlendorf, CONNECT Collaboration Advisor (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Transforming Worker Experience through Access and Interoperability
This session will highlight Worker Connect, a Web-based system developed by New York’s HHS-Connect that is used by 11 agencies across 6000 users so that caseworkers are able to share client information without compromising confidentiality. Attendees will hear about how New York has successfully combined clients’ personal and case information into a virtual integrated case file which can be viewed by case workers in a secure way to provide the appropriate services to clients.
Presenters:- Rahul Puri, Chief Software Architect, New York City Health and Human Services
- Joseph Fleischman, Project Manager, New York City Health and Human Services
Innovative Opportunities for Patient Safety Using Electronic Health Record Data: Perspectives from the FDA
This educational session will provide the FDA’s perspective on improving spontaneous adverse event reporting for medical products, including ongoing initiatives and challenges.
Presenter:
Mitra Rocca, Associate Director in Medical Informatics, Food and Drug Administration
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Communities Working Together to Improve Quality, Safety and Efficiency Using the NHIN
HealthBridge, a large urban HIE in Cincinnati, Thayer County Health Services, a community HIE in southeast Nebraska, and Redwood MedNet, a rural HIE in California, will discuss how the CONNECT toolkit is a technology breakthrough that enables simple interoperability for health data. These HIEs will discuss how standard message formats and open source software tools can be combined to enable the use of health data. By exchanging electronic medication and diagnostic health data, these three HIEs help improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care in their communities.
Presenters:- Rodney Cain, Chief Information Officer, HealthBridge
- Joyce Beck, Chief Executive Officer, Thayer County Health Services
- Will Ross, Chief Operating Officer, Redwood MedNet
Patient-Authorized Release of Information to a Trusted Entity
The Social Security Administration will speak about how it is working to dramatically reduce claims processing by removing weeks and months of time spent waiting for medical information. The same attributes of the NHIN that make this possible will enable consumers to control the transmission of their medical information to a variety of recipients for reasons broader than treatment.
Presenters:- Martin Prahl, Lead Technical Architect for Health IT Initiatives, Social Security Administration
- Michael Matthews, Chief Executive Officer, MedVirginia
Nationwide Health Information Network Update
Learn about the future plans of the NHIN as it evolves to support the exchange of health information to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. This session will offer insight into the common standards, services and trust fabric envisioned for the NHIN to serve different information exchange uses and users over time.
Presenters:
- Mariann Yeager, NHIN Policy and Governance Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- David Riley, CONNECT Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Empowering Consumers in Their Care
Health IT interoperability is critical for giving care providers the information they need to effectively care for patients. As importantly, it has the potential to empower consumers to be more active in managing and understanding their own care. This session will provide insight into ways consumers can benefit from patient health records and other consumer applications such the Surgeon General’s “Family Health Portrait.”
Presenters:- Ray Shingler, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
- Dr. W. Gregory Feero, Special Advisor to the Director for Genomic Healthcare, NHGRI, The Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait”
- Sandra Elliott, Director of Consumer Technology and Service Development, Meridian Health
Bi-Directional Communication: Enhancing Situational Awareness in Public Health and Clinical Practice
This presentation will discuss standards-based approaches to enhancing communication between public health agencies and health care providers. Projects funded by the CDC will be showcased that show how health information exchange can facilitate efficient and effective dissemination of information to clinicians to keep them informed of public health threats in their communities.
Presenter:
Brian Dixon, Health IT Project Manager, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
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Linking Health and Human Services
Learn how federal, state, local and private organizations are working together to create a coordinated view of health and human services to better support the citizen and enable the creation of reusable solutions.
Presenters:- Debbie Somers, Health IT Consultant (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- Linda Creps, TRANSFORM Program Manager (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Wounded Warrior Continuity of Care in a Production Environment
This session will highlight lessons learned for implementing NHIN in the VA/DoD/KP production environments to support the Wounded Warrior clinical scenario and data exchange.
Presenters:- Steve Steffensen, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, TATRC, Department of Defense
- Jamie Bennett, NHIN/VLER Program Manager, Department of Veterans Affairs
- Zachary Gillen, Senior Project Manager, Kaiser Permanente
CONNECT 3.0 and Beyond
The release of CONNECT v3.0 in June of 2010 will include enhancements that support emerging national health IT requirements. This session will explain how the CONNECT open source solution helps to address organizations’ needs to securely share electronic health records.
Presenter:
David Riley, CONNECT Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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Steps for Getting Started with the NHIN
This session will provide attendees with an understanding of how they can leverage NHIN standards and guidelines for setting up health information exchanges throughout the country. Speakers will discuss the processes required to utilize the NHIN, using CONNECT as an example for jumpstarting NHIN use.
Presenters:- Douglas Hill, NHIN Implementation Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- Vanessa Manchester, CONNECT Program Manager (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
CMS’ C-HIEP Proof of Concept, CMS Implementation of NHIN CONNECT
This session will discuss the CARE Health Information Exchange Project (C-HIEP) which will contribute to the maturation of CMS’ technological and business processes associated with the receipt and management of clinical, quality information. CMS will discuss the CMS development and intended implementation of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT solution and other technical aspects of the project.
Presenters:- Anita Griner, Senior Project and Program Manager, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Nitin Jain, C-HIEP Executive Consultant (Contractor), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The CONNECT Open Source Community’s Role in Promoting Nationwide HIE
This session will highlight the value of collaboration through the CONNECT Community for promoting health information exchange throughout the country. This session will discuss Community participation from the federal government, states, the vendor community and the private sector, and it will provide insight into the reasons for participation and the value the project is having within diverse domains.
Presenter:
Brian Behlendorf, CONNECT Collaboration Advisor (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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Strategy for Applying Reusable Technology (START)
During this session, participants will learn about the START vision, a game-changing approach to building and deploying re-usable code/systems in government. This partnership between Utah, Illinois, Oregon, Minnesota, the federal government and a number of other key stakeholders serves to demonstrate a high quality, cost-effective approach to modernizing enterprise systems in the future and building the foundation for a “secure government cloud computing platform” to serve the citizens in the digital age we live in.
Presenter:
Thomas A Baden Jr., Director of Enterprise Architecture, State of Minnesota Department of Human Services
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Supporting State HIE Needs through MITA and CONNECT
This session will describe the objectives of the CMS MITA initiative and discuss how MITA can provide states a model for health data interoperability. Speakers will also describe how NHIN services have been applied to existing, industry standard interfaces, aligned with the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture, and implemented within CONNECT to support real-time member eligibility verification with a MITA-based Medicaid system.
Presenters:- Bill Branch, Chief Architect, Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA)
- Laura Megas, MITA-CONNECT Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
NHIN Best Business Practices Round Table
Multiple organizations have now successfully deployed NHIN exchanges in production environments. This panel will highlight best practices learned from these organizations and will discuss the benefits being achieved from NHIN connectivity.
Presenters:- Steve Steffensen, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, TATRC, Department of Defense
- Jamie Bennett, NHIN/VLER Program Manager, Department of Veterans Affairs
- Zachary Gillen, Senior Project Manager, Kaiser Permanente
- Michael Matthews, Chief Executive Officer, MedVirginia
- Martin Prahl, Lead Technical Architect for Health IT Initiatives, Social Security Administration
Ensuring Conformance & Interoperability: NHIN Testing
How do we ensure that an organization is technically ready to exchange health information securely across the NHIN? Through careful and automated testing. This session will discuss the NHIN’s automated testing lab, which tests service conformance and runs candidates through workflow-oriented automated interoperability scenarios.
Presenter:
Leslie Power, NHIN Testing Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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E-Care
This session will provide an overview of e-care technologies (including video conferencing, remote monitoring, digital image transfers) and their potential impact on care in the United States.
Presenters:- Mohit Kaushal MD, Digital Healthcare Director at the Federal Communications Commission
- Dr. Nina Solenski, Associate Professor of Neurology and Co-Chair of the Virginia State Stroke Systems of Care Task Force, University of Virginia
NHIN Specifications
This session will provide a functional and technical overview of NHIN architecture and service specifications. The panelists will walk through several HIE transaction scenarios in order to demonstrate how components of NHIN’s tiered architecture interact and will answer questions from the audience.
Presenters:- Richard Kernan, NHIN Specification Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- Karen Witting, Contractor to the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA), NHIN Specifications Factory
Security and Privacy for the NHIN and CONNECT
A critical component of the NHIN is the “trust fabric” that enables the secure exchange of electronic health information among organizations. This discussion will feature NHIN and CONNECT staff discussing trust issues related to NHIN-based health information exchange, and the CONNECT team will deliver an update on the security elements built into the software solution.
Presenters:- Nick Vennaro, NHIN Team (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- Michael Torppey, CONNECT Health IT Security Specialist for (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT