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Denni McColm CIO, Citizens Memorial Hospital

Thomas B. Valuck, MD, MHSA, JD
Medical Officer and Senior Adviser to the Director of the Center for Medicare Management, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Peter Orszag, Ph.D.
Director, Congressinal Budget Office

Fiscal Fitness Takes a look at ROI measures, national reporting efforts, leveraging IT to avoid adverse events, pay for performance, EHR impact and federal funding. interactive, discussion based sessions

Monday, June 9
10:30am - 11:45am	EMR ROI: Successes and Surprises Citizens Memorial Healthcare (CMH) will discuss the successes and surprises resulting from the implementation of a fully electronic medical record system across the continuum of care in southwest Missouri. The CMH EMR is the sole source of care information for the organization’s 74-bed acute care facility, 5 long term care facilities, 15 physician offices and the CMH home care agency. The investment in the EMR has enabled CMH to achieve numerous strategic objectives and has had a positive return for the organization. Denni will discuss some of the specific quantifiable returns, the difficult-to-quantify returns and the returns that have yet to materialize from the EMR project. An understanding of the experiences of a rural health care system in achieving and measuring a return on investment resulting from an EMR implementation. Identification of quantifiable returns and difficult-to-quantify returns related to the EMR implementation. Recognition of some benefits that may be commonly expected, but don’t always materialize with an EMR implementation. Speaker: Denni McColm CIO, Citizens Memorial Hospital View Bio >>
11:45-1:00pm Networking Lunch
1:00pm - 2:15pm	National Efforts in Reporting Quality This session is the first of two consecutive sessions that will address current initiatives in quality reporting measures. Dr. Nedza will first discuss national efforts to develop quality measures followed by a discussion regarding the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' initiatives in physician quality reporting and hospital performance-based payment provisions. Speaker: Susan M. Nedza, M.D., M.B.A., FACEP Vice President of Clinical Quality & Patient Safety American Medical Association View Bio >>
2:15pm - 2:30pm Break
2:30-3:30pm	Measuring and Increasing the Value of Healthcare Persistent quality problems in the face of rapidly growing costs in our healthcare system raise questions of value. Measurement can help understand the issues and the use of measurement data can help address the challenges. New initiatives are underway across the healthcare system to measure quality and cost of care, to publicly report the measurement results, and to pay healthcare providers on their performance. The presenters will discuss: National efforts to develop quality measures; CMS’ initiatives in physician quality reporting, including registry and electronic health record reporting options; and CMS’ initiatives in hospital performance-based payment, including the hospital-acquired conditions payment provision and the associated present on admission reportring indicators Speakers: Daniel H. Green, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Medical Officer, OCSQ, Quality Measurement & Health Assessment Group Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service Thomas B. Valuck, MD, MHSA, JD Medical Officer and Senior Adviser to the Director of the Center for Medicare Management, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services View Bio >>
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45pm - 5:00pm	Use of IT for Precision Quality Measurement and Focused Quality Improvement Simple quality measurement methods using IT are often inaccurate because they do not capture medical reasons (e.g., contraindications and adverse effects) and patient reasons (e.g., refusals, inability to afford treatments and tests) for not performing a recommended test or for not prescribing a recommended medication. Inaccuracy in quality measurement limits the ability to conduct quality improvement activities because, for many measures, the majority of patients identified as having a quality deficit are incorrectly labeled. This session will describe the rationale, design, and early results from the UPQUAL study, a demonstration project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that has created an IT solution for capturing quality information as part of physicians’ routine workflow and using this information for focused quality improvement activities, including patient outreach and physician academic detailing. To understand the need for highly accurate quality measurement systems embedded within EMRs To learn about the principles of designing a comprehensive quality improvement program using the information obtained from the quality measurement tools Speaker: David W. Baker, MD, MPH, FACP Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University View Bio >>

Tuesday, June 10
9:45am - 10:45am	The Impact of EHRs on Financial Health Congressional Budget Office Director, Peter Orszag, will discuss a soon to be published CBO report which examines health information technology's (HIT) effects on cost and quality. Discuss how CBO views the budgetary and other effects from expansions in HIT Review empirical literature on HIT effects Speaker: Peter Orszag, Ph.D. Director, Congressinal Budget Office View Bio >>
10:45am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm	Funding Your Health IT Project: Where is the Funding? Grant funding for health IT projects represents a significant opportunity to build a dependable revenue stream that will support the rollout of cutting edge technology projects from electronic health records and telemedicine to emergency communications and infrastructure. The most common barriers to accessing this funding fall into two categories: a lack of timely information about available funding opportunities and a lack of competent grantwriting resources. This session will cover both areas. After a brief overview of funding sources, we will discuss some specific health IT funding opportunities that are available right now and review the most relevant sources of grants information. The presenter will discuss qualifying criteria that help discern which grants are the most desirable. Lastly, he will outline the grantwriting process and review tips to help make your proposals more successful. Recognize common sources of funding opportunities, including specific Federal and State funding sources that fund healthcare IT projects Know where to find relevant, current funding information Approach any grant seeking effort armed with tips to make them more successful Speaker: Michael Paddock Chief Executive Officer, Grants Office View Bio >>
12:00-1:00pm Lunch

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Fiscal Fitness

Takes a look at ROI measures, national reporting efforts, leveraging IT to avoid adverse events, pay for performance, EHR impact and federal funding.

Monday, June 9

Tuesday, June 10

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