The 6th Annual Health Information Technology Institute: The Future of IT, Implementation of Technology on Thursday, May 17, 2007 has an impressive list of speakers and a wide range of topics very relevant to today's healthcare industry. We hope you can join us for the conference. This schedule will be updated as speakers and topics are confirmed.
Agenda
| Time | Description |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST |
| 8:30 - 8:45 am | Welcome and HIMSS Updates Susan Heichert, MN-HIMSS President |
| 8:45 - 9:00 am | Welcome Steve Parente, Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at Carlson |
| 9:00 - 10:15 am |
Keynote: e-Prescribing - Prescription for a Healthier Future James Bradley, former CEO of RxHub |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | BREAK |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | Advocacy Update Shawna Schueller Announcement of scholarship winner JoAnne Valerius and Ken Stensvold |
| 10:45 - 12:00 |
Keynote: Personal Health Records: Status, Challenges, Rewards and Future Directions Dr. Holly Miller, Cleveland's University Hospital and Health System |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Breakout 1: Getting Connected: Implanted Cardiac Devices in the 21st Century Kathy Lewis, Marketing Director, Patient Management, Medtronic John LaLonde, Vice President, Latiture R&D and Operations, Boston Scientific CRM Breakout 2: The Future of IT, Information Technology Related to Genetics/Genomics Information Elizabeth L. Pestka, MS, APRN, BC, APNG, Nursing Education Specialist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Breakout 3: ITIL, SOX, What's Next?: A Tool and Approach Designed to Meet Increasing Demands for Compliance Andy Galbus, Senior Systems Analyst-IT, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Breakout 4: MnHCC: Year 1 and Beyond Greg Linden, MA, CPHIT, CPEHR Chief Information Officer, Stratis Health Program Director, Minnesota Health Care Connection (MnHCC) |
| 2:00 - 2:15 pm | BREAK |
| 2:15 - 3:15 pm |
Breakout 1: Leveraging Portal Technologies in Healthcare Understand the functional capability of current portal applications. Dennis Smith, Director, Technology Systems Peter Bruno, Manager of Business Applications & Development, St Mary's Duluth Clinic Breakout 2: Optimizing the Web for Patient Care Debra S. Lafferty, Dept. of Nursing - Web Architect, Mayo Clinic Breakout 3: Achieving CPOE adoption: Lessons Learned from Eight Community Hospitals Dr. Andrew Mellin Breakout 4: Federated Identity Management and the GRID - an architecture for national connectivity John Fraser, CEO, MedNet USA |
| 3:15 - 3:30 pm | BREAK |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm |
Breakout 1: Precepts of a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Rodney Lanners, Director of BCM Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Breakout 2: Human Factors in Healthcare Tom Suther, Senior Analyst/Programmer, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Breakout 3: Interoperability and Scalability: Security, Identity Management, and Trust in the HIE Pete Palmer, Information Security Technology, Wells Fargo |