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Welcome and Opening Remarks
David H. Snyder, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, 07-08 MS-HUG Chair AVP of Information Systems Albany Medical Center |
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am |
Opening Keynote: Supporting and Improving Care through Software
Grad Conn
Senior Director, Product Marketing
Health Solutions Group
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft believes that software can play an important role in transforming the health system. Come learn more about hospitals who are creating long term care relationships and developing community outreach programs with Microsoft’s HeathVault and the Microsoft Health Enterprise solutions.
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| 9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Break |
| Developer Track |
IT Pro Track |
| 9:15 am – 10:00 am |
Using Microsoft Technologies to Create a Patient Education, Information and
Entertainment System
David Higginson
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Russ Hopkins
Senior Programmer, Systems Development Group
Arkansas Children's Hospital
Arkansas Children's Hospital has developed an innovative bedside education, information and entertainment system (CarePoint). Patients can access a wide range of multimedia entertainment, while physicians can access the patient’s medical records. The CarePoint system is comprised of a touch screen, LCD monitor, Microsoft Media Center and Xbox gaming system. See a live demonstration on the future…and the potential of bedside technology.
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Project ECHO: Innovative Care Delivery Model Leveraging Knowledge Networks for the Treatment of Complex Diseases in Remote Rural and Under Served Communities
Praveen Soti, MD, MBA
Principal, Healthcare and Life Sciences Consulting
Infosys Technologies
Sanjeev Arora, MD
UNM Health Sciences Center
Rural healthcare providers have limited capabilities in treating chronic diseases. Project ECHO was developed to solve this problem by creating a Web based Clinical Management tool. Learn how a simple, integrated solution can impact an isolated setting – and how Microsoft technologies took top honors for a Global Award Winning Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare. |
| 10:05 am – 11:00 am |
Treatment Pattern Discovery from UB-92 and HCFA1500 Data
Daniel Sullivan
Systems Architect
Enablecomp
How do you apply process analysis techniques to clinical behavior? This has been a long-term problem, but today has a viable solution. By analyzing billing information, a model can be built to improve treatment and reduce costs. This session has a solution model that you can adopt for your organization. In addition, you will learn candidate models for treatment pattern analysis and how to transform medical billing data into useful data mining information.
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Taming the Healthcare PC
Edwin "Ed" Simcox, JD
Director of Enterprise Technology
Clarian Health Partners
Clarian Health needed a solution to better manage their 12,000 PCs with 400 client applications at 124 locations. The solution? Microsoft's MDOP technologies, including Softgrid and Advanced Group Policy Manager. Clarian was able to realize many benefits including fewer PC and application headaches, increased clinician satisfaction and lowering costs.
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| 11:00 am – 11:15 am |
Break |
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm |
Decision Support and AI Integration
Jeffrey H. Axt, MBA-TM
IT Project Manager
Hospital for Special Care
In this session, discover how a Clinical Decision Support system was enhanced with.an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help with a difficult-to-diagnose condition. Join the presenters, a neuropsychologist and an IT project manager, and learn how they created an innovative system to address this complex diagnostic problem. And learn how MS-Access enabled a quick turnaround from design to functioning application.
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Collaborative Technologies and the Joint Commission
Craig Yellick
Vice President and Senior Software Architect
Alto Consulting & Training
Duke Kasprisin, MD
Chief Medical/Scientific Officer
Biomedical Synergies, Inc.
This session demonstrates how Microsoft's collaborative technologies like SharePoint enable
organizations to efficiently gather, improve, and share information. See how workflow-based procedures can be used to implement best practices with actual case study examples. Gain a deeper appreciation of the value collaborative technologies bring to healthcare organizations in terms of data and process integration.
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| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
Overcoming Barriers to Technology Use in Medical Office Based Settings
Neil R. Silva, MD
University of Virginia Student Health
Microsoft SQL Server Express helped to develop a ‘physican friendly’ database of commonly used medications in an office setting. One of the reasons for its success was creating an application that would work within a physicians’ frame of reference – regardless of tech expertise. This case study is a perfect example of how the IT and medical professional approaches differ with respect to the EHR…and how to overcome them.
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GuideView: Multi-Platform System for Interactive, Multimodal Presentation of Clinical Advice
Sriram Iyengar
Assistant Professor of Health Information Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center and Informatics Research Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jose Florez-Arano, MS, MD, PhD Student
School of Health Information Sciences
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
For areas where physician availability is low, the need for medical guidance technologies is high.
GuideView is a system that enables interactive, structured, multimodal delivery of clinical advice via voice, pictures, video, and animation. Developed mainly using Microsoft's Visual Studio,(IS THIS RIGHT?) GuideView is multi-platform, executing on desktops, the web, Pocket PCs, and Windows Mobile cellphones.
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| 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm |
Break |
| 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm |
Service Orientation in Healthcare using WCF
Rich Maines
Principle Software Engineer
Mediserve Information Systems, Inc
Healthcare systems must adapt to real-world conditions in a constantly changing environment. Service orientation offers a nimble and flexible way to support this dynamic environment. . This session will help you understand how this approach using WCF can lower TCO, improve quality care and safety, reduce costs and leverage legacy systems.
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Healthcare Business Intelligence Powered by Microsoft Dynamics GP
William Bercik
Director of Healthcare Solutions
ePartnersMD
Matthew Grover, MS
Practice Director, Northeast Region
Application Services
Imagine if your CFO could review accounting metrics in real time from their Microsoft Outlook. ePartner already has a solution for that. Learn how your organization can leverage its business intelligence with built-in key performance indicators (KPIs). Using tools like Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, data can be pulled from multiple departments and then analyzed against specific KPIs. Healthcare organizations can now leverage a balanced scorecard approach. |
| 3:20 pm – 4:15 pm |
Automated Patient Transportation Call System
Wesley Stahler, MCSD
Team Manager Enterprise Application Development Team
Ohio State University Medical Center
Andy Klare
Senior Systems Consultant Enterprise Application Development Team
Ohio State University Medical Center
In this session, learn how Microsoft’s Speech IVR system streamlined Ohio State University Medical Center’s (OSUMC) patient transport system. The new speech-to-text solution is responsible for reduced FTEs, improved on-time delivery and less staff. OSUMC is looking at future applications such as the help desk password reset and bed capacity management.
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Launching First Live Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the State of Maryland
Ken McCormick
Director, Information Technology
St Agnes Healthcare
Michael Penn, MBA
Senior manager of Information Technology for Health Services and External Integration
Erickson Retirement Communities
Prem Urali, MS, MBA
President and CEO
HealthUnity Corporation
Erickson Health is the nation’s largest integrated healthcare and wellness system for older adults. Erickson Health needed an efficient way to exchange patients’ health information throughout their network of clinics and affiliated hospitals. Learn how a Health Information Exchange (HIE) was successfully established using Microsoft’s healthcare focused technologies. The lessons learned along the way form the foundation of how a sustainable model was built around this organic RHIO.
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| 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm |
Break |
| 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Closing Keynote: Why Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the Healthcare Industry?
Paul Smolke
Director Health Industry Solutions
Worldwide Public Sector
Microsoft Corporation
Sumit Vimani
Senior Independent Software Vendor Technology Specialist
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
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