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Cisco's Community for Connected Health Summit

Monday, February 25
10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Lunch Included
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, FL
Room: 414 A (lunch will be in room: 414 B)

Attend the First-Ever Community for Connected Health Summit
The Connected Health Community Summit brings together the power of like-minded users and Cisco experts in a single forum of networking, educational opportunities and best-practice sharing like no other. You’ve got a front row seat to the very latest developments at Cisco. You’ll be the first to hear about breakthrough solutions available today…and what’s on the horizon tomorrow, including the latest HIMSS Leadership Survey results and recent case studies about HIPAA compliance. Plus, you’ll be entertained…and enlightened by fellow Community member—Matthew Holt.  Register Now!

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Creating a High-Performance Healing Environment — a CEO's Perspective

10:00 – 11:00 am
Michael H. Covert, President and CEO, Palomar Pomerado Health, Poway, CA

Over the next few years, the U.S. healthcare industry is expected to spend $16 billion dollars on new construction projects.  Due to demographic trends and regulatory mandates, the need for new facilities can only continue to grow.  With it comes the opportunity to re-think how the design of a hospital can lead to better patient care.  It opens the door to important questions like:

Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) is on the forefront of answering each of these questions.  In the Keynote Session, Michael H. Covert, the President and CEO of Palomar Pomerado Health will discuss how his organization is redesigning healthcare to foster a high-performance healing environment.  Clearly, the effective integration of technology is a key enabler.  He will discuss the design process, along with PPH's specific plans for the new $1B "Hospital of the Future" scheduled for completion in 2011.

At the conclusion, he will unveil how Cisco and PPH have worked together to create a virtual "Hospital of the Future" simulator that is the very first of its kind for U.S. hospitals.  Whether your hospital is embarking on its own construction project, or whether you're simply interested in the latest thinking about care delivery, this session is for you!

HIMSS Analytics Survey Results

11:15 am - Noon
Panel Moderated by Dave Garets, FHIMSS, President/CEO, HIMSS Analytics and Executive Vice President, HIMSS
Jennifer Horowitz, MA, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, Director, Research, HIMSS Analytics
Members of the HIMSS/Community for Connected Health Executive Advisory Board

Be among the first to learn the results of the “HIMSS-2008 Annual Leadership Survey” sponsored by Cisco. The 18th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey reports the opinions of information technology (IT) executives from healthcare provider organizations across the U.S. regarding the use of IT in their organizations. The study was designed to collect information about IT priorities, technology adoption, application usage and other crucial factors in the use of IT to enhance healthcare.

The HIMSS Leadership Survey has become the most widely referenced healthcare information technology (IT) survey. The results, which provide an indicator for current and future use of healthcare technology, are widely quoted in the media and well recognized throughout the healthcare IT industry. Issues addressed on a yearly basis include IT priorities, implementation barriers, budgeting and staffing.

eDocument Delivery with Data Leakage Prevention

1:00 - 1:45 pm
Len Chiacchia, MS, Information Security, BayCare Health Systems

Adapting to changes in the healthcare delivery business model poses significant challenges to information security. As technology seeks to enable business operations, security tools are pressed further to provide secure edocument delivery and to prevent data leakage. Here is how one organization met the challenge.

WLAN: Design it to Make a Difference

1:45 - 2:30 pm
Mary Carroll Ford, VP, CIO, Lakeland Regional Hospital;
Ted Baker, MCSE, CCNA, Senior Account Manager, Coleman Technologies Inc.

Lakeland Regional Medical Center (LRMC) recently installed a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) designed to improve the tracking and monitoring of IV pumps throughout the hospital.  The WLAN has also been positioned to support future Point of Care (POC) applications and provide guest access to patients and their visitors As LRMC moves forward, the WLAN will provide better access to clinical applications at the POC.  The wireless network will be a vital tool in assisting to improve patient safety and satisfaction.

Health 2.0

2:30 - 3:25 pm
Matthew Holt, Healthcare Strategist, CIO, Matthew Holt Consulting

Social networks are redefining relationships within health care communities in unanticipated and previously unimaginable ways. Web 2.0 tools – like blogs, wikis, podcasts, user-generated video and specialized search – are generating a fundamental shift away from the traditional flow of information as defined by payers, physicians, hospital systems, and suppliers. It is clear that we are at the start of a significant shift in demand from both consumers and providers for better information and easier ways to share experiences. But how will this combination of new technologies and new business models play out? Will Health 2.0 grow into an independent industry sector, be subsumed into the current healthcare system, or create a new hybrid landscape? What is Health2.0 and how do health care organizations need to react to it?

Closing Remarks

3:25 - 3:30 pm
Mike Haymaker, Healthcare Industry Marketing, Cisco Systems, Inc.

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