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Want to meet, discuss and network with others in the healthcare IT field? Then join us on Monday, November 9 for a meeting of innovative minds.

OSU Medical Center’s Center for IT Innovations in Healthcare (CITIH) is hosting their third annual healthcare IT summit in Columbus, OH. We’re building on last year’s hugely successful event and providing topics that are highly relevant to what you’re dealing with today.

Listen and participate in panels discussions:
• Roles of Information Technologies in Health Care Reform
• Industry Leadership – Stimulus Funding and its Impact to the Organization
• CIO Roundtable: Strategies to Lead Healthcare Organizations Toward Innovation and Process Management

Our keynote speeches will be delivered by John Glasser from Partners Healthcare and Lynn Vogel from MD Anderson and you will not want to miss them.

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Summit Agenda

Proposed agenda, subject to verification.

7 – 8 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 a.m. Healthcare IT Innovations Summit Kick-Off
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Welcome from OSU Leadership

Dr. E. Gordon Gee
President, The Ohio State University

8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Keynote Speech

Lynn Harold Vogel,

PhD, FHIMSS, FCHIME
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Panel Discussion:

Roles of Information Technologies in Health Care Reform

A very important topic in the current health care reform debate is what roles information technologies should play to save lives, improve outomes, and reduce costs. It is essential that health IT be leveraged as solutions in transforming healthcare and empowering providers and consumers in their healthcare decisions. To ensure that health IT is appropriately addressed in the current healthcare reform policy debate, careful considerations should be made to understand what IT systems, tools, and policies are needed to make health care reform a success.

The health care reform and healthcare IT panel includes speakers representing views from the government, non-profit, industry, provider, and patient advocacy groups on how the potential benefits of HIT can be realized; what are some of the facilitating conditions and success factors; what HIT tools or systems are most critical to warrant public investments.

Confirmed speakers: O.K. Baek, Nancy Davenport-Ennis, Clay Marsh, MD, Rex Plouck
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m – noon

Panel Discussion

Industry Leadership – Stimulus Funding and its Impact to the Organization

The stimulus package prompted a flurry of proposals from industry and academic organizations to compete for federal money set aside by Congress to build quality and efficiency in health care. In the healthcare IT area, while “Meaningful Use” has been one of the most critical decision points in ARRA, short term efforts largely focus on a combination of products, especially those related to electronic health records. In the long run, the focus is likely to shift to more comprehensive EHR, resulting in a potential framework change for software companies and provider organizations to develop and acquire technologies that are interoperable with certified EHR(s) and consistent with healthcare IT standards. Joining this panel is a group of thought leaders in healthcare IT. They will focus their discussion on the impact of stimulus funding to the technology development pipeline and the application of such technologies in the healthcare setting.

noon – 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 p.m. Keynote Speech

The HITECH Agenda

John Glaser PhD
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Coffee Break
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. CIO Roundtable:
Strategies to Lead Healthcare Organizations Toward Innovation and Process Management

In many healthcare organizations, CIOs increasingly play a role of change agents by leading innovation and new technology development. Effective CIOs are also thinkers, strategists and chief innovation officers. With ARRA’s strong emphasis on the importance of IT in advancing the performance and quality of health care, CIOs in healthcare organizations increasingly are asked to contribute to process, efficiency and quality improvement initiatives. As a result, there is neither a better time nor opportunity for the CIO to focus IT development efforts on the areas that will produce the greatest return. Participating in a lively discussion is a distinguished group of healthcare CIOs as they share their insight on the effective leadership of their IT organizations, and their approach to leveraging investments and resources for the future.

Confirmed speakers: Herb Smaltz, John Glaser, George (Buddy) Hickman, Michael Krouse

3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Open QA – Questions from the Audience

4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Networking Reception