MS4 & Vision – Vision User Group Conference 2010 – In Full Swing

TThe healthcare system is undergoing significant change. New payment models are driving more accountability for hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers. Many health systems have initiatives well underway to prepare. This presentation will provide an update on private and public sector initiatives, the strategic implications to providers, implications to care delivery models, and the HIT implications.

This session will cover the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) aspects of the American Recovery and Reimbursement Act (ARRA). It will include information that affects hospitals, tell them about the Medicare and Medicaid incentive program, and explain what the Meaningful Use Rule expects them to demonstrate and attest to meaningful use to receive incentive payments.

The discussion will provide insights gained from participation on the HIT Policy Committee Meaningful Use Workgroup on what future stages of Meaningful Use may hold.

Hear about Siemens’ response to the requirements for quality measurement across a broad array of fronts including Stage Two Meaningful Use, Hospital Acquired Conditions, Readmissions, Patient Safety including Never Events as well nursing and physician quality perspectives. The presentation addresses the complexities of extracting, storing and analyzing data, both structured and unstructured data utilizing an enterprise-wide data warehouse and describes automated data abstraction from heterogeneous sources. It will provide customer examples and feedback about quality measurement requirements and describe Siemens approach to this challenge of quality reporting.

Accurate, accessible patient data is a vital part of providing the highest quality, and most cost-effective patient care. Whether Enterprise Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), or a community hospital, all are being challenged to exchange and use data from various sources. Through Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) patient clinical information is brought together to provide more comprehensive access for healthcare professionals and patients.

In this session we will review the critical components of a successful HIE as well as Siemens’ strategic development plans for broader interoperability.

Meaningful Use, starting with Stage One, focuses on the increase of quality, safety, efficiency and the reduction of health disparities. An effective medication management process is needed to meet many of the objectives corresponding to this key outcome of ARRA.

The medication workflow involves three primary care givers who all play an important role in medication management. These are the physician, the nurse, and the pharmacist. This is more than just an IT project!

Presentation will include:

• What a CPOE install involves
• Resources, effort, governance
• Requirements for successful CPOE for Meaningful Use
• Next steps, Q&A

In about 18 months, life as we know it will change as the United States moves to ICD-10-CM/PCS. This session will provide an update on where we are as an industry and where you should be as a provider. Hear first hand how one organization has approached ICD-10 readiness from the HIM and IT perspective.