Physicians

Description:
The 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure subject all electronically stored data to discovery in civil proceedings -significantly impacting how organizations define and manage their electronic records.

Cosponsor:
AHIMA

Speaker Information:
Jerome Carter, MD
Chief Executive Officer, NTM Informatics, Inc.
Cecilia Backman, MBA, RHIA, CPHQ
Senior Systems Analyst, Siemens Health Services

Level:
Introductory

Objectives:

• List the key e-Discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Discuss the impact of e-Discovery on defining the legal electronic health record and legal hybrid paper-electronic record
• Describe how e-Discovery will impact the interactions and responsibilities of Information Technology and Health Information Management divisions in managing electronic records.
• Describe how the new developments in HIPAA case law and e-Discovery place new burdens on CIOs, CMIOs and senior executives in the context of managing disparate data types and sources which were not traditionally considered to be part of an organization's "defined" legal health record.
• Describe the administrative and technical challenges faced by CIOs, CMIOs and senior executives in formulating new strategies for addressing issues such as records retention and destruction, inter-department cooperation, data archiving, disaster recovery, system obsolescence and responding to electronic discovery requests.

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 104 b

Description:
The evolution of electronic charge capture from downloadable PDA software to mission-critical enterprise systems means that point-of-care revenue optimization is readily available, maximizing the confluence of patient, provider and chart.

Speaker Information:
David Delaney, MD
Chief Medical Officer, MedAptus

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Identify the manual steps involved in the outpatient billing process as well as the associated risk of revenue loss
• Define traditional techniques employed by billing offices to attempt to stem revenue loss, largely comprised of people, processes, audits and education, and the challenges they each yield
• Describe technology solutions currently available to simplify coding and billing at the point-of-care as well as key features that support real-time revenue optimization
• State benefits of data-mining at the point of care including instantaneous correction prior to claims creation and firsthand knowledge of medical decision making
• Identify key measures of success from a large institution's experience with revenue enhancement via data-mining in order to apply the measures to their own revenue cycles and any under-performing departments

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 104 b

Description:
This exciting education opportunity will help you understand how to improve difficult-to-use EMR systems, allow you to see demonstrations of future EMR prototypes, and learn how to advance innovation within your own organization.

Speaker Information:
Lyle Berkowitz, MD
Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Hear about the history of EMR development in America and why the current EMR chart-based paradigm is flawed
• Explain how to use workflow and technology changes to improve current EMR systems
• Learn how to increase and improve innovation within your organization

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 104 b