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Monday, June 25

Business Intelligence: The Big Picture

How do we define business intelligence? Hear from top executives in the industry on the benefits of implementing business intelligence tools, success factors and lessons learned in implementation.

Learning objectives:

• Define Business intelligence
• Describe methodology(s) for implementation
• Restate the benefits of implementing business intelligence tools
• Identify success factors and lessons learned in implementation

Privacy and E-Health: Current Issues, Future Implications

With increasing use of EHRs access to healthcare information provides greater need for protecting patient data. Hear about the impact that EHRs have on improved quality patient safety and quality outcomes.

Learning objectives: 

• Describe privacy concerns around medical privacy issues raised by new technologies
• Apply analysis learned about data protection under the Privacy Act
• Define how E-Health has changed patient care

Speaker:
Anna Slomovic, PhD
Chief Privacy Officer
Revolution Health
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The High Availability Model: It's Not Just About Disasters

Healthcare organizations rely heavily on technology as they begin to implement the EHR. It becomes more of a challenge to protect the availability and integrity of these systems. Learn from the best practices of one medical center on how to implement security that will stay ahead of the latest threats.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the difference between high availability and disaster recovery
• Explore security measures that enable a more proactive health system
• Understand best practices in implementing secure, available systems.

Speaker:
Daniel Morreale
Divisional Vice President & CIO, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center
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Disaster Recover Costs and Impact on Patient Care

Even though the events of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina should have been wake-up calls, many organizations still lack formal disaster recovery planning. A good disaster recovery plan for IT must address the priorities and the needs of patient care and business operations.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the use of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to determine patient care and business operations needs
• Describe the key concepts such as: Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and their roles in determining an appropriate disaster recovery strategy
• Express the pros and cons of the various strategies
• Evaluate recovery costs versus recovery time
• Identify recovery strategies that support recovery time
• Describe potential solutions such as virtualization for reducing costs

Tuesday, June 26

Privacy and Security: HIPAA 10 Years Later

It has been more than 10 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, yet many healthcare providers remain unclear about the intersection between HIPAA and how its provisions interact with other state and federal privacy laws.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand some of the factors that make HIPAA so difficult to implement
• Explore HIPAA’s impact on state and federal privacy laws
• Explore the future of privacy laws in the US.

Speaker:
Helen Mac Murray
Partner
Mac Murray, Cook, Peterson & Schuster
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Implementing IHE Framework

Explore the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) as a cost eff ective model for interoperability, hear examples and lessons learned.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of a national vision of connected and interoperable healthcare infrastructure
• Explore the framework’s design in passing vital health information seamlessly
• Understand the role of IHE in driving the adoption of standards

Speaker:
Dr. Elliot B. Sloane
Villanova University
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Improving Healthcare Quality and Transparency: Connecting for Health Common Framework Model

This presentation will describe how the Connecting for Health Common Framework approach to health information sharing, which is defi ned by a decentralized architecture, common standards, and explicit information policies that protect patient privacy, can be used to improve healthcare quality and transparency.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the challenges of achieving a common infrastructure, standards, and information policies among the domains of research, quality and transparency, and public health
• Recognize how a federated, decentralized infrastructure can provide an effective national approach to achieving commonality across these sectors
• Restate the information policies that are needed to enable a network of networks to securely share information, and how these policies apply to the aggregation of data sets for the purposes of research, quality measurement and transparency, and public health