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Track Coordinator: Brenda Olson, Great Plains Health Alliance

Client Co-chair: Lois Warrick, Asanta Health System

Siemens Co-chair: Gaylene Gladden, Siemens, MS4

All MIRA sessions qualify for continuing education units (CEUs) with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). See the session monitor at the conclusion of each presentation to receive the CEU certificate.

Monday April 23, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
M01 MIRA FOCUS GROUP UPDATe – brighter ideas
Gaylene Gladden, Senior Product Analyst – Siemens Healthcare, MS4
Shelley Harward, RHIT, Systems Analyst – CACI

Join us for a review of focus group goals and our accomplishments. Hear how your peers have tackled tough issues through best practices as we discuss MIRA Auditing, MIRA Security, pros and cons on ways to rebuild a unit record, Unit Consolidation tips, and much more!

AUDIENCE: All MIRA users

Monday April 23, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
M02 NEW RELEASES AND ICD-10
Brenda Olson, Vice President for Health Information Management – Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc.
Gaylene Gladden, Senior Product Analyst – Siemens Healthcare, MS4

Come hear about the enhancements in update 32.10 (Summer 2012) and discuss preparation and file maintenance for ICD-10 for MIRA.

AUDIENCE: All MIRA users

Monday April 23, 2012 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
M03 privacy andminstation / cart
Pegge Szych, Project Lead – Combinatorics Consulting Company
Brenda Olson, Vice President for Health Information Management – Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc.
Gaylene Gladden, Senior Product Analyst – Siemens Healthcare, MS4

Learn about major enhancements to the Privacy Administration module including revisions to the requestor demographic information, the ability to track amendments, restrictions, and communication accommodations. We will also be showing CART (Claims Auditing and Reporting Tool), which is a web product that tracks audit details starting with the receipt of a request letter to linking it with Privacy Administration.

AUDIENCE: All MIRA users

Tuesday April 24, 2012 10:30 am – 11:30 am
M04 changing processes to a paperless world
Pegge Szych, Project Lead – Combinatorics Consulting Company
Brenda Olson, Vice President for Health Information Management – Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc.
Charmaine Vinton, Director, Medical Information – Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Are you interested in going paperless in the near future? Join us in an interactive discussion on how going from paper to electronic may affect your processes. Topics will include loose paper filing, moving employees to a virtual workspace, what processes will have more/less quality control, and the affects it will have on employees. If you are planning on making this move, please bring questions that you have for the discussion.

AUDIENCE: General education session for anyone interested

Tuesday April 24, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
M05 beginning mira
Pegge Szych, Project Lead – Combinatorics Consulting Company
Charmaine Vinton, Director, Medical Information – Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Learn about the MS4 MIRA product at the introductory level. Basic usage concepts will be discussed as each module is displayed using the IBM iSeries. This session is geared toward the attendee who is new to the product or those individuals who need refresher information.

AUDIENCE: Beginning

Tuesday April 24, 2012 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
M06, H06 REGULATORY UPDATE – THE CLOCK IS TICKING: ARE WE READY FOR ICD-10?
Gretchen Keller, RHIA, Director, HIM/IS – Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center
Denise Dunyak, MS RHIA FAHIMA, Marketing/Business Manager – Siemens Healthcare

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.

AUDIENCE: All attendees

Wednesday April 25, 2012 8:00 am – 9:15 am
M07 CPT – BEST PRACTICES
Shelley Harward, RHIT, Systems Analyst – CACI
Brenda Olson, Vice President for Health Information Management – Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc.
Pegge Szych, Project Lead – Combinatorics Consulting Company

Join a discussion about CPT4 billing issues. Learn how they relate to each other and how they affect HIM processes with other departments. Topics include CPT4 coding issues such as late codes, edits on the claim, working across departments with NCCI edits, working with pre-billing billing edits, and encoder issues. This session is designed for interactive discussion of the issues YOU are dealing with so, please bring examples to further the dialogue surrounding CPT4 coding and MS4.

AUDIENCE: All users performing coding and working with CPT4 codes in the MS4 abstract

Wednesday April 25, 2012 9:30 am – 10:45 am
M08 electronic Records – lessons learned
Gretchen Keller, RHIA, Director, HIM/IS – Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center Brenda Olson, Vice President for Health Information Management – Great Plains Health Alliance, Inc. Charmaine Vinton, Director, Medical Information – Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

In this session the panel will talk about how they are utilizing various clinical systems in HIM to include effective ways to ensure HIM processes are working correctly. Best practices about ways to encourage involvement with clinical development will also be discussed.

AUDIENCE: All MIRA users