7th Annual

7th Annual Health Information Technology Institute Payers, Providers and Politics, Oh My! Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota ______________________________________ Presented By:
8:00 am	Registration and Breakfast
8:30 am	Welcome and HIMSS Updates Pam Graves, Minnesota Chapter President
	Announcement of Chapter Scholarship Winner Ken Stensvold, Minnesota Chapter Scholarship Chair
9:00 am	Keynote(s) Delivered: MN e-Health Initiative: Transforming Health and Care through Health Information Technology Marty LaVenture Planned: MN e-Health Initiative: A Roadmap for the Future of Health Care Johanna Berg, Chief Information Officer of the Minnesota Department of Human Services
10:15 am	BREAK
10:30 am	Welcome Steven Parente, Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the Carlson School of Management, University of MN
10:45 am	Keynote: HIMSS Payer / Life Sciences Initiative HIMSS Jeff David, Senior Executive, HIMSS National
12:00 pm	LUNCH
1:00 pm	Breakout 1 Communication, Education, and Collaboration to Implement the Minnesota eHealth Initiative Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing	Breakout 2 Selecting and Rolling Out an Ambulatory EMR to Community Physicians in the New Regulatory Framework Jeff Ganniban, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP	Breakout 3 Connecting to NHIN – A NE Minnesota RHIO Experience John Fraser, CEO, MEDNET USA	Breakout 4 Technology and Integration Issues Associated with Health Savings Accounts Dean Mason, Utah Public Policy Association
2:00 PM	BREAK
2:15 PM	Breakout 1 Funding Your Minnesota Health IT Project Michael Paddock, CEO, Grants Office LLC	Breakout 2 Financial Impact of Medicare’s Quality & Patient Safety Policies, MS-DRGs, POA and VBP….OH MY! David Hochheiser, Financial Impact of Medicare's Quality and Patient Safety Policies	Breakout 3 Braving the perfect storm: Medicaindependent archiving of medical images Joerg Schwarz, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Sun Microsystems	Breakout 4 Leverage your EMR Investment with an Enterprise Data Management Program Jim B-Reay, Vice President, Healthia Consulting
3:15 PM	BREAK
3:30 PM	Breakout 1 EMR Challenges and Lessons Learned Alan Ambramson, CIO, HealthPartners Ray Gensinger, CMIO, Fairview/University Hospital	Breakout 2 Real-time Adjudication: Current and Future Mike Baker, Program Manager, UnitedHealthcare	Breakout 3 Multi-modal Communications: Challenges and Opportunities Mark Wechsler, Healthcare Practice Director, Avaya, Inc.
4:30 PM	CLOSE