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Speakers
Deven McGraw Chief Operating Officer, National Partnership for Women & Families
Joy G. Keeler, MBA, FHIMSS Principal, Health Information Technology MITRE Corporation
Vish Sankaran Program Director, Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Rights, Access, and PrivacyExploring current issues as IT delivers information, access and attention to the mainstream. Benefits and possible consequences of online record-sharing.
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Monday, June 9 |
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| 10:30am - 11:45am | Consumer-focused Privacy & Security Policy Information technology holds great promise for improving health care quality, reducing errors, and empowering consumers, but the electronic exchange of personal health information among health care providers and private sector companies poses new questions about privacy and security that are not adequately addressed by current law, There is great interest in moving forward to aggressively implement these new technologies - but the failure to satisfactorily resolve the privacy and security issues is significantly slowing our progress. There is an urgent need to develop and implement privacy and security policies that earn consumer trust and facilitate the flow of information for a broad range of health care purposes.
Deven McGraw Chief Operating Officer, National Partnership for Women & Families View Bio >> |
| 11:45-1:00pm Networking Lunch | |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm |
Retail clinics have changed the way healthcare is delivered, offering choices to patients that just a few years ago were not an option. As consumerism rises and the focus shifts toward convenience and affordability, questions concerning connectivity, quality care, and patient safety also rises. During this session, you will hear a provocative discussion between an executive within a health system which operates it's own retail clinics and a small practice physician who will offer a contrasting view of the retail clinic arena. Facilitator: Speakers: |
| 2:15pm - 2:30pm Break | |
| 2:30-3:30pm |
During this session, Dr. Parkinson will offer his description of the typical healthcare "consumer." He will share his experience within a non-traditional, virtual medical practice which targets the 18-40 year old healthcare consumer and describe how technology has enabled him to administer care that affordable and assessible.
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| 3:30-3:45pm Break | |
| 3:45pm - 5:00pm | Supporting Americans in Need: Connecting Public and Private Health Organizations throughout the Continuum of Care Federal programs that use health information to assist those in need are adopting new health IT solutions to serve groups such as our wounded service personnel and applicants for Social Security disability benefits. This session will focus on collaboration between the federal government and private medical systems to support the secure exchange of interoperable patient health information between organizations such as the DoD, VA, SSA and medical treatment facilities that serve the general public. The Federal Health Architecture, within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, advances this collaborative process across 20 federal agencies to meet the health information needs of our wounded service personnel, disabled Americans and the families of both. Speakers: Vish Sankaran
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Tuesday, June 10 |
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| 9:45am - 10:45am |  Personal Health Records: Exciting Prospects, Unanswered Questions “Personal health records” (PHRs) have received significant media attention following the recent launch of competing websites by Microsoft and Google that allow consumers to gather, store and share health information online. The concept of a personal health record is not new – in its simplest form it can refer to any health information maintained by an individual. Advances in computerized data collection, storage and retrieval, the rise of the Internet, and the increasing embrace of health information technology at all levels over the past decade, however, have stretched both the definition of PHRs and the implications of their use. In this presentation, faculty from the University of Pennsylvania Health System and The Wharton School will raise provocative questions and lead discussion about the impact of PHRs on clinical care, research, and public health, with special consideration given to the privacy, confidentiality, and legal liability concerns that they raise.
Speakers: Arnold J. Rosoff Mark G. Weiner |
| 10:45am - 11:00am Break | |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Despite the great optimism expressed for PHRs, consumer adoption rates of these tools remains low. This session will draw from both the speaker’s research for his book on consumer directed health care and other recent reports on the subject. It will place PHRs in the broader context of “consumerism” in US health care and will discuss the key issues associated with consumer use of PHRs. It will conclude with a series of suggestions and recommendations for provider organizations considering PHRs or other consumer-centric HIT tools. Speaker: |
| 12:00-1:00pm Lunch | |