What's New at HIMSS10

HIMSS tracks new and growing areas in health IT that could bring the greatest value to the greater healthcare community. At HIMSS10, we have developed learning and networking opportunities in the most high-growth or high-demand sectors.

In addition, the exhibit floor will be showcasing the most innovative product and service solutions in the industry. HIMSS10 is excited to bring you...

Career Planning Workshop
Tuesday, March 2
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

HIMSS and Monster.com have partnered to deliver the HIMSS Career Planning Workshop, providing tools and resources to help displaced IT professionals, incumbent healthcare professionals, veterans and others transition into an HIT career. Learn more >>

Innovative Technology Pavilion
View product demos and presentations on the latest technology designed to improve patient safety at the point of care. Developed by clinicians for clinicians, this pavilion delivers cutting-edge products and enhancements in biometrics, clinical decision support, and advanced medical content in a viewer-friendly pavilion setting. Search for a Pavilion Session >>

The Meeting Place
New at HIMSS is an area where you can meet up or hang out with your colleagues. In addition, several exhibitors will have offices or meeting rooms within the Meeting Place where you may be invited to attend a meeting, focus group or private demonstration. If you see “MP” by a booth number, it indicates the booth is a room located in the Meeting Place. The Meeting Place has two locations:

• Lobby B (MP 1-11)
• Exhibit Hall, C Building, Aisle 3600 (MP 20-29).

The Payer Community and Health IT
Important transformations are occurring in the Payer space. While numerous, these transformations can best be summarized by the notion that a major shift has taken place in the role of Payers in the system: A shift from the Payer playing predominantly the role of “Transaction Manager” to one of becoming a true Healthcare “Infomediary” for the purpose of partnering in care delivery to improve patient outcomes. The passage of the HIT provisions contained within ARRA supports this alignment of interests in seven key areas: Care Coordination, Quality Improvement, Consumer Directed Care, HIT adoption, Reimbursement, Administrative Simplification, and Healthcare Reform. HIMSS offers various opportunities to address the HIT areas of critical importance to the Payer community.

5th Annual Payer Networking Breakfast
Tuesday, March 2
7:00 am - 8:15 am
By Invitation Only

Payer Sessions
The following is a list of additional Payer points of interest offered to attendees throughout the conference.

• Session 12 Improving Quality and Access through Administrative and Clinical Transaction Convergence
• Session 34 Integrated Medical Home Leverages PHR and E-Connectivity to Transform Care
• Session 62 Data-Driven Quality: More Bang for Your HIT Buck
• Session 125 Optimizing EMR Usage with Self-Service Check-in and Real-time Claims Adjudication
• Session 196 Integrating Quality Measures into EHRs: Available Tools and Lessons Learned
• Session 245 Informatics and Evidence-Based Practice: Lessons Learned in System Design
• Session 302 Achieving 5010/ICD-10 Compliance: The State of
  the Industry

The Life Sciences Community and Health IT
Well designed HIT systems can help improve the quality of patient care, ensure patient safety, and allow for more individualized care. As a partner in improving patient health outcomes, the Life Science community understands that fully interoperable and interconnected electronic health records have the potential to provide higher quality, more easily accessible and more useful clinical care data. This enables important research for purposes such as safety, outcomes, and the robust research and analysis of diseases, which can lead to new medical discoveries and finding new, life-saving treatments. HIMSS offers various opportunities to address the HIT areas of critical importance to the Life Sciences community.

Life Sciences Networking Luncheon
Monday, March 1
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
By Invitation Only

During this great educational and networking opportunity, mingle with federal and state officials, as well as members of the HIMSS Life Sciences Roundtable, to learn the latest updates on health IT policy and discuss key issues of importance to the Life Sciences community.

Life Sciences Sessions
The following is a list of additional Life Sciences points of interest offered to attendees throughout the conference.

• Session 51 Bedside Medication Scanning: Lessons from a Provider Perspective
• Session 68 Enterprise Data Warehouse: Building the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health
• Session 71 Leveraging EMR Data to Develop Disease- Based Registries
• Session 73 Ambulatory Professionals Practicum
• Session 93 Clinical Decision Support with EHRs
• Session 126 Role of Data-Sharing Environments in Supporting US Health Reform
• Session 164 Enterprise Architecture: Managing Health Information as a National Asset
• Session 172 Standardizing Data Dimensions of Healthcare Data Warehouses
• Session 196 Integrating Quality Measures into EHRs: Available Tools and Lessons Learned
• Session 252 The New Age of Predictive Proactive Personalized Healthcare

Medical Banking Boot Camp
Convergence of banking and healthcare systems is bringing a new stakeholder into healthcare with deep pockets. The area is brimming with new possibilities for best practices. Medical Banking Boot Camp provides an executive overview of the key issues in this emerging trend and how organizations can immediately benefit from new “hybrid” tools that impact revenue cycle performance and other areas. learn more >>

Sign Up - Meaningful Use Sunday Workshop Opens Second Session
While the first Meaningful Use workshop on Sunday morning, Feb. 28, has sold out, the session will be repeated on Sunday afternoon from 1 - 5 p.m. On the registration page, attendees can sign up for the afternoon Meaningful Use workshop as session 204B. learn more >>

State CIO panel - Linking Health and Human Services across Local, State and Federal Programs to Create Citizen Centric Services

Wed March 3, 2:15 - 3:15 pm
Location: Georgia Ballroom
Session 214

Integrating social services that support the continuum of citizen life events - from birth to school to employment to health events to aging needs - occur at all levels of government.  Today, the services are delivered in a fragmented and uncoordinated way based on programs where the citizen needs to coordinate across programs. Some states and counties have integrated health and human services department and others have divided them into separate areas. All are funded and sponsored by separate sources. But the citizen wants integrated help. This in turn will improve the health and well being of the entire community. A number of states and local government have taken on the challenge to provide a integrated help view (a common view) that cross department boundaries. These agencies see these personal-citizen centric issues up close and have been inspired to cooperate together to make a difference.

State & Federal leaders will discuss their State level activities to advance "citizen-centric" services.

Panelists:
Gopal Khanna, CIO, State of Minnesota
Steve Fletcher, CIO, State of Utah
Rick Howard, CIO, State of Oregon
Jessica Kahn,Technical Director for Health IT, Division of State Systems, CMS
Vish Sankaran, Director, Federal Health Architecture, HHS