Tuesday, August 21, 2007
8:00 am - 9:00 am |
| Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
David H. Snyder, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, MS-HUG Chair AVP of Information Systems Albany Medical Center |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am |
Opening Keynote: Accessible Computing: The Challenge to Do More
Bill Crounse, MD, Director Worldwide Health Microsoft Corporation
The numbers may surprise you. Depending on how its defined, up to 50 million Americans and more than 650 million people worldwide are affected by one or more physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities. That alone justifies concern about the growing need for more accessible computing in a world and workplace that is increasingly reliant on computer technology. But moving beyond disabilities, we find that even many able-bodied people are challenged by computer systems and technologies that are simply too hard to use. For example, it is widely recognized that computer data input remains a significant barrier to the adoption of IT solutions by clinicians and other healthcare workers.
In his opening keynote, Microsoft worldwide health director, Bill Crounse, MD, examines some of the accessibility innovations in Windows Vista that are making it easier for people of all ages and abilities to use computer technology, and the opportunities for Microsoft and the worldwide development community to do even more. |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Break |
| Developer Track |
IT Pro Track |
Health Plans |
Life Sciences |
| 10:15 am – 11:15 am |
Winning Trust, Minimizing IT Resources: Key to Forming RHIOs
Mark Singh President Clinicore Solutions
Kathleen Sullivan CEO Salient Health Solutions/SEMRHIO Consultant
Learn how by using a “push” model and BizTalk “Hosted-Integration-Services” , SEMRHIO was able to develop a model that gained trust and minimized local hospital IT resources. This succeeded in getting competing community hospitals with affiliations with the major medical centers in Boston to join in forming a RHIO.
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Protecting Patient Data: Nation’s Top 100 Hospital Shares Secrets
Christopher Paidhrin Chief Security Officer Southwest Washington Medical Center
This session will stimulate conversation through a review of a particularly demanding case study and show attendees how single sign-on technologies improve employee productivity and strengthen an organization’s overall security. This presentation will also discuss how Microsoft technologies played a key role in transforming Southwest Washington Medical Center into a more secure hospital. |
True Health Plan Business Applications: Inter-plan EDI Routing and Enterprise Health Plan Messaging
Reginald Robinson Architect MidTech Partners
Jeff Langford Solutions Architect MidTech Partners
A look at Health Plan business solutions designed to evolve from a piecemeal solution paradigm into true Business Application solutions. By enriching and tapping into message streams, incorporating complex workflow, incorporate sophisticate rules engines capabilities as well as translation and mapping capabilities, a solution for BCBS Inter-Plan Processing will detailed.
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Saving Lives with PKI and SAFE Digital Signatures
Peter Hesse Lead Developer Microsoft
This session will describe the use of PKI and the SAFE standard in the life sciences industry for the purposes of digital signatures, digital certificate based authentication and how Office 2007 and Certificate Lifecycle Manager can be utilized.
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| 11:15 am to 11:30 am |
Break |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
Reference Implementations for Healthcare: HCE and iHE XDS.b
Roberto Ruggeri Senior Technical Strategist for Microsoft Worldwide Health Microsoft Corporation
Randy Fusco Technical Strategist for Microsoft US Health Providers Microsoft Corporation
The efficient transfer of health information between and amongst healthcare providers is one of the greatest challenges the health sector faces. The Health Connection Engine facilitates the interoperability between multiple systems by abstracting the interfaces used to connect them and by providing a rich and extensible adapter framework on the Microsoft platform. The new integration profile XDS.b is based on a use of the Web Services and ebXML Reg/Reg standards that is consistent with the current developments and best practices in the industry. This session will outline reference implementations for healthcare with HCE and the work done on the XDS.b profile with iHE.
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Securing Data in a Mobile World
Lester Flammer, Managing Partner The Vantage Group, LLC
How can you best secure EPHI and other sensitive data on laptops, tablet PCs, PDAs, and smart phones? Is EFS sufficient to meet your objectives? Should you wait for VistaLonghorn providing disk encryption with Bitlocker and device control through Group Policy Objects? What other technologies should you consider.
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An EMR to Support Patient Care and Research in HIV/AIDS
James Willig Fellow, Infectious Disease University of Alabama - Birmingham
Jerome Carter Chief Executive Officer NT&M Informatics, Inc.
In 2000 the University of Alabama at Birmingham 1917 HIV/AIDS Clinic, set out to build an Electronic Medical Record system that was optimized for patient care and outcomes analysis. After nearly four years of use a significant impact has been found in researchers’ ability to engage in complex outcomes analyses.
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Microsoft Office Groove Based Electronic Clinical Trial Management System
Mike Jenkins General Manager Quilogy Healthcare Practice
Kousick Biswas Biostatistician, Perry Point Cooperative Studies Coordinating Center
Microsoft Groove based electronic clinical trial management solution allows users to submit trial forms across internet/intranet firewalls and also allows offline submissions. All data storage and transfer is 192 bit encrypted and FIPS 140-2 certification compliant. Complete auditing and digital signatures are other supported features of the solution.
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| 12:30 am - 2:00 pm |
Lunch and Exhibits |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Improving Patient Safety Using the Microsoft Common User Interface (MS-CUI)
Andrew Kirby Director of Solutions Development Center Microsoft Corporation, UK
This session is an introduction to design guidelines and software components that make up the Microsoft Health CUI and how they can be used to build safer, usable and more compelling healthcare applications.
- An overview of the Microsoft Health CUI and how it can be used.
- Understand how the design guide and software components are developed.
- Learn how you can join the Microsoft Health CUI community project.
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Healthcare Interoperability and Standards with Microsoft Office 2007
Brian Levy, MD Chief Medical Officer Senior Vice President Health Language
Word 2007 serves as a platform for the conversion of health care related text such as physician notes into codified data. This project demonstrates the ease of extending the Office Doctor platform with an external application to allow health professional to codify unstructured data.
- Demonstrate that Office Doctor 2007 is readily extensible to include other components.
- Review the technology solution steps taken to embed an application into Office Doctor 2007.
- Realize that Java-based technologies can also be accessed through .Net into Office 2007.
- Learn the benefits of indexing unstructured text in Office 2007 into standard codified terminologies.
- Present a workflow for the clinician in Office Doctor 2007 to convert unstructured text into terminology standards.
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Automating Hospital-Based Pay-For-Performance Measurement and Reporting
Michael Dominguez, MD Medical Informatics Officer University Health System, San Antonio, TX
Pay-for-performance programs (P4P) are a proven method for improving quality, safety efficiency and regulatory compliance. Learn how one hospitals is using Microsoft products and technologies to automate P4P measurement, analysis and reporting.
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Scientist Workbench: Fostering Innovation Management in Drug Discovery
Hong Choing Architect Advisor, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences National Architecture Team
Rudy Potenzone, Industry Technology Strategist for Pharma, Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Industry Unit, EPG, Microsoft
For scientific research in the life sciences today, effective information management is critical to remain competitive. The ability to effectively collect, store, validate, analyze and share (CSVAS) complex data can provide strong advantage to a research or development team. In this session we will discuss architecture concepts of CSVAS as it applies to Life Sciences and how it could be used to help simplify both the day to day activities of the working scientists in cross functional and globally placed teams as well as project management and decision support in innovation portfolio development.
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| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
What’s New in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
Stuart Landrum Program Manager, BizTalk, Microsoft Corporation
BizTalk Server 2006 represents the next release in Microsoft’s long-term strategy to enable the connected enterprise. It builds on the existing integration capabilities, which make it easier and less expensive to connect systems within an organization, as well as those of partners and customers. With this release, out of the box connectivity with the enterprise is provided through the broadest industry support of WS* protocols, the edge via Microsoft BizTalk RFID and support for integrating business partners though EDI. |
Microsoft SoftGrid and the Desktop Optimization Pack
Gavriella Schuster Senior Director Windows PMG Microsoft Corporation
In this session we will overview the customer value and benefits of the 5 technologies within the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack with a particular focus and demonstration of the SoftGrid Application Virtualization technology and how it has already helped several customers in the Healthcare Industry.
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Understanding and Managing Provider Contract Management Process Maturity
Robert Loeng Vice President Health Plan Product Market, Kryptiq Corporation
Curtis Rayer Director Health Plan Product Marketing, KRYPTIQ Corporation
Health plans continually struggle to efficiently manage provider contracting processes. Sarbanes Oxley, prompt-payment legislation, and initiatives like CDHC add additional layers of complexity and risk to already complicated processes. This session will enable health plans to define strategies for better evaluating and managing provider contract management challenges.
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TBD |
| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Break |
| 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm |
Closing Keynote: Using IT to affect efficiency and safety changes in the perioperative process
Paul St. Jacques, MD Associate professor and Director of Perioperative informatics Vanderbilt University
Implementation of robust IT infrastructure and applications is critical for management of surgical efficiency and safety improvements. However, the perioperative enterprise has been one of the most critical and yet difficult environments for health IT design and implementation. New technologies can provide much more than simple codification of existing data. Smart alerts, decision support and real time data delivery to mobile clinicians provide unique opportunities to drive intelligent process improvement.
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| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm |
Reception |
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
8:00 am - 9:00 am |
| Continental Breakfast and Exhibits |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am |
Welcome: Opening Keynote Session: The Physician Computer Connection: 25 years of “Progress”
William Bria, III, MD, FCCP, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriner’s Hospital for Children
This presentation is designed to help healthcare information leaders get their organizations motivated, aligned and moving forward in placing the EHR will be discussed, and what has and has not worked in an experience that spans the last 25 years of informatics in America.
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| 9:45 am - 10:00 am |
| Break |
| Developer Track |
IT Pro Track |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
Clinical Messaging in a Services Oriented Architecture
Robert Long Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Visiphor
Bob Gill Business Associate Healthcare, Visiphor
Visiphor is developing a health connection engine based on the ESB Guidance toolkit and previous experience with clinical integrations on the BizTalk Server. The session will cover the core features/benefits of the platform and demonstrate a live clinical messaging product which utilizes dynamic service invocation to support clinical messaging.
Learn how to develop an integrated Healthcare environment that supports dynamic updates of business logic and schema versions.
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Radiology Order Entry System Using ASP.NET & SQL2005 Technology
Marcus Stout Manager Radiology Order Entry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Steve Graham Lead Developer, Partners Healthcare
At Massachusetts General Hospital a Radiology Order Entry system was developed using Microsoft.NET, ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The system provides dynamic order entry and scheduling features to request outpatient radiology exams. The system includes XML interfaces to medical decision support algorithms and interfaces with billing and insurance system.
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| 11:00 am to 11:15 am |
Break |
| 11:15 am – 12:15 pm |
Service Standards in Healthcare: Providing a Pipeline for Architectural Components
John Koisch Veterans Administration Integration Architect
The Healthcare Service Specification Project provides unique collaborations between Service Development Organizations in crafting service specifications. Using sound SOA architectural and design principles, its members are creating components that are finding a place in large health organizations and helping to influence tomorrow's technologies today.
By the end of this session, participants will understand the HSSP process for crafting service specifications with various SDOs.
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Utilizing Microsoft Technologies to Facilitate Patient Satisfaction and Hospital Efficiency
David Higginson Vice President, Chief Information Technology Officer, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Russ Hopkins Senior Project Manager, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Arkansas Children's Hospital will present a detailed look at how the Systems Development Group utilizes Microsoft products to develop customized software/hardware systems that improve patient satisfaction and streamline hospital functions in clinics, emergency rooms and in the units.
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| 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch and Exhibits |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm |
Sepsis Screening Tool: Improving Patient Safety Using Windows Workflow
Jeff McGeath Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Accent on Integration
Lisa Weavind, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care, Vanderbilt University
This session will help audience members learn how Accent on Integration’s Patient Safety Screening Tool for Sepsis leverages Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to address process improvement initiatives centered on patient safety.
Learn how Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms can be applied in a clinical quality improvement initiative to reduce patient mortality.
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2 Years Later: Emerging Health Information Exchanges
Carlotta Gabard Executive Director, Ann Arbor Area Health Information Exchange
Alex Lippitt Director, Communication Solutions, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems
We will describe what we have learned since participating in the “Electronic Health Record (EHR) Vendor Interoperability” panel in the 2005 MS-HUG Tech Forum:
- Ann Arbor - Then and Now
- EHR Vendor Interoperability
- HIE Sustainability
- Resolving key HIE issues
- Architectural framework
At the end of this session attendees will be able to understand what it really takes to get to a sustainable HIE – the option.
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| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm |
Break |
| 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm |
Healthcare Enterprise Business Intelligence and Care Management Using Microsoft
Chuck Siemon Chief Information Officer, Whole Health, Management, Inc.
Abbas Kurawarwala President, CitiusTech, Inc.
We discuss the entire project life cycle – Vision, Requirements, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment – of a Data Warehouse Solution that addresses the business and clinical needs of a Leading Provider of Outpatient and Wellness services. Highlights include use of latest Microsoft Technologies and the HL7 Reference Information Model.
Learn how to use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services to build a comprehensive enterprise wide reporting and analytics solution in the healthcare provider environment.
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Privacy Preserving Data Analysis
Denny Lee Microsoft Senior Program Manager SQLCAT Best Practices Team, Microsoft Corporation
The revelation of Governor William Weld's medical records on masked data epitomizes the fact that as we collect more data, there will be more privacy concerns. To counteract this, we are showing a case study and research to insure individual privacy while minimizing the effect on analysis. Learn about privacy issues within an analytics environment.
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| 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
Break |
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm |
Closing Keynote: A Connected Approach for Improved Health
Davide Vigano GM, Enterprise Marketing, Microsoft Health Solutions Group
Meera Kanhouwa, MD, MHA, FACEP Physician Executive, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation
We face a future in which the volume of health data will increase exponentially with amazing implications for the delivery of healthcare. Software solutions that manage and surface this information are critical, and are strategic to the future of the industry. In this session we will discuss these societal health trends and discuss the software solutions being developed by Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group to address the gaps in the market. The discussion will look at Azyxxi, which is being developed and deployed to address the clinical and business requirements of healthcare professionals in the enterprise, and Medstory, recently acquired technology that is being developed to address the broader population’s need for tools that enable improved personal health.
- Learn about Microsoft’s growing commitment to health
- Learn how Microsoft is responding to the health industry’s pressing challenges
- Learn how Microsoft is approaching the consumer health market
Learn how Azyxxi is being used to address a wide range of clinical and operating needs in the hospital enterprise |