EMR Adoption Summit

By now, everyone involved in healthcare is familiar with the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (ARRA), as well as most of the buzzwords generated from this program, namely, meaningful use. Interest and curiosity have escalated concerning the relationship between ARRA funding requirements and hospitals’ use of electronic health records (EHR) technology.

HIMSS Analytics began tracking hospitals Electronic Medical Records (EMR) progress and developed the EMR Adoption Model, which rates facilities in the journey to become completely paperless. The model utilizes 8 stages to represent the cumulative levels of EHR implementation.

Using this model as a guide can position hospitals effectively to benefit from the ARRA funding.

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Topics to be covered:

Documentation – learn how to produce the data – including the problem list, medication list, allergies, demographics, vital signs and smoking status – that has been documented on 80% of unique patients.
Medication Loop / CDS – discussions concerning CPOE, CDS rules, drug/drug and medication reconciliation.
eFormat Output – review the desired output, including the medical record and discharge summary in electronic format for 80% of patients who request it.
Exchange – learn how to demonstrate one test of CCD/CCR exchange, immunization, reportable lab and syndromic surveillance reporting.
Certification – hear from a CCHIT Commissioner regarding software certification.
Quality Measurement & Reporting – learn how to prepare the expanded and parallel reporting that is proposed.

Hear from these facilities that have already achieved Stage 6 (and 7!)...

Dave Dawdy, CIO

Phelps County Regional Medical Center, Rolla, MO

Following college graduation, David began his I.T. career in programming and worked in the insurance and packaging industries. His technical support activities led him into healthcare where he implemented mainframe HBO systems prior to working with the healthcare team at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Illinois implementing the MEDITECH Magic System. He is currently Chief Information Officer/Administrative Director at Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla, MO where he is responsible for Health Information Management, Information Technology, Physician I.T. Services and Voice Communications.

David is a member of CHIME and HIMSS and chairs the Physician Advisory Committee and the Information Technology Steering Committee for Phelps County. Phelps County Memorial Medical Center was awarded the Most Wired for Small and Rural Hospitals in 2007 and recently achieved the HIMSS Stage 6 Designation using the MEDITECH Magic product and has implemented Magic 5.6.4 to facilitate the organizations Compliance with the ARRA.

Jennifer Laughlin, CIO

Watertown Regional Medical Center, Watertown, WI

Jennifer Laughlin is the vice president and CIO of UW Health Partners-Watertown Regional Medical Center in Watertown WI. While also serving as the current HIPAA Privacy for the organization, she is also responsible for the information services, medical staff services, marketing and business development, radiology, and health information and serves as the primary contact for the medical staff.

Prior to her appointment as vice president and CIO, she held the title of director of medical staff services. Her positions in the health care industry in WI also includes supervisor of medical information services at Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls.

She is an active participant in a number of professional organizations on both the national and Wisconsin levels. Nationally, she is a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the National Association of Medical Staff Services (NAMSS), the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the Health Information Management Services Society (HIMSS). In Wisconsin, she is the Past-President of the Wisconsin Health Information Management Association (WHIMA), and active in the Wisconsin Association of Medical Staff Services (WAMSS) and the HIPAA Collaborative of WI (HIPAACOW). She was most recently appointed to the CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) Board of Commissioners, where she will serve a two year term. She has also received numerous awards during her career.

Ms. Laughlin is a registered health information administrator and earned both her BS in Health Information Management and her MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Denni McColm, CIO (Facilitator)

Citizens Memorial Healthcare, Bolivar, MO

Denni McColm is Chief Information Officer for Citizens Memorial Healthcare. Denni has been with Citizens Memorial since 1988, serving as Director of Human Resources and Director of Finance before moving into the CIO role in June, 2003. Denni served on the HL7 EHR Draft Standards workgroup in 2004, as a Commissioner on the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) from 2006 – 2008, and currently serves on the Missouri State Health Information Exchange Business & Operations Workgroup.

Citizens Memorial was honored with the HIMSS Davies Award in 2005 for excellence in the implementation of electronic medical records. CMH was been named to the Most Wired List-Small & Rural Hospitals in 2005-2007 and on the Most Wired-Top 100 Hospitals list in 2008 and 2009. Citizens has been confirmed as a Stage 7 hospital using the HIMSS EMR Adoption model.

Michelle Glenn, Senior Director, Product Management

HIMSS Analytics, Chicago, IL

Michelle Glenn is Senior Director, Product Management, for HIMSS Analytics, a leading market research firm in the health information technology market and a wholly owned and not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Ms. Glenn has 12 years of experience researching and analyzing the health information technology market, including building products around health IT data. She joined HIMSS Analytics in 2004 as Director, Product Management; she was promoted in 2007 to the Senior Director position. In that capacity, Ms. Glenn led the product development efforts behind the evolution of the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. As the HIMSS Analytics Database expert, she was instrumental in the development of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model algorithm.

Before coming to HIMSS Analytics, Ms. Glenn joined HIMSS in 2002 as Product Manager for the HIMSS Solutions Toolkit, a web-enabled database product with more than 200 data tables that contained market and product intelligence for the healthcare information technology industry. She previously worked for Sheldon I. Dorenfest & Associates as Product Quality Manager for the IHDS+ Database, which was acquired by HIMSS in 2004. Related experience includes sales and marketing in the diagnostic imaging industry. Ms. Glenn holds an MBA from DePaul University in International Business, with a concentration in Marketing, and a BA in English Literature from Lewis and Clark College.

Dates: March 22-24, 2010
Location: The Westin Chicago North Shore, Wheeling, IL (near Chicago)

Generously sponsored by

MEDITECH 6.0 Summit