Medical Technology Summit

Sponsored by

Southwestern Virginia Technology Council

October 1, 2009

Keynote speaker: U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra

Medical Technology dynamo and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, spoke at our first Medical Technology Summit in 2008 and he'll be joining us this year as well!!

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David Catell-Gordon, Director of Rural Network Development at the University of Virginia Health System’s Office of Telemedicine will showcase the use of telemedicine in the Commonwealth. What does telemedicine involve in 2009? How might UVA's telemedicine initiatives impact patients and physician organizations within the region? What role will this technology play in the next five years?

The Intel Health Guide is tailored to the needs of the aging population. It features large fonts and a user-centric design. The Guide is a central home health station, capable of connecting other measuring devices wirelessly, including blood pressure monitors, glucose meters, pulse oximeters, peak flow meters and weight scales. The devices also provide audio and visual reminders for patients and even connect them to providers via video conferencing. Intel will demonstrate the Guide, provide an overview of implementation strategies and share their expansive vision for home health care.

Pam Canter, Care Coordination/Home Telehealth Care Manager of the Mountain Home Home Health Program will provide an overview of VA project, which currently serves 400 veterans. She will provide cost/benefit analysis of their program as well. The VA uses the Health Buddy system.

David Selig, Chief Executive Officer for the Community Care Network of Virginia maintains a "server farm" supporting ASP installations of eClinicalWorks. David will demonstrate how a hosted EMR system works and outline the benefits and challenges of contrasted with the traditional practice installation model.

Nick Ulmer, MD FAAFP CPC

Dr. Ulmer, a practicing physician in South Carolina, will share caveats gained from EMR implementation from two small rural practices. He will overview the systems efficiencies realized as well as cost savings and other revenue enhancements seen because of the implementation of this "tool". Actual effects on staffing, coding efficiencies and assistance, data mining, and public relations with patients are among the topics to be covered in this session.

Erik Rolf, Deliberare (Mendota, VA)

Erik Rolf, CISSP, will lead attendees through a self evaluation using surprising real life examples of enterprise vulnerabilities. As Erik steps through his presentation, each attendee will complete a self-assessment card to better understand their organization's vulnerabilities. l

Dr. Steven Adkins & Chip Childress, Holston Medical Group

Upgrading to a new EMR version is like changing the tires on a moving car. Underestimating the challenge can cripple your practice. Holston Medical Group recently upgraded the EMR used by 150 physicians, in 23 locations. They will share tactics and lessons learned.

For clinics of all sizes, the key to sustainability is efficiency. Every aspect of patient flow should be optimized to provide both improved convenience and privacy for the patient, and improved financial performance for the clinic. NCR's MediKiosk allows patients to confirm scheduled appointments, check-in and schedule subsequent appointments as well as pay co-payments with a credit card. Intelligent kiosks are now commonplace in airports and ubiquitous in banking. Stuart Gaddy from NCR will outline the advantages and challenges of kiosk implementation.

Wesley Combs, LucentGlow

A stand-alone EMR system is a great way to generate extra work. Capturing lab results, connecting billing systems, manually issuing patient orders is all great fun but it can get in the way of seeing patients. System-to-system processes are the difference between a fully developed Return-On-Investment and an unrealized one. There are a number of messaging architectures, and this is one area of your infrastructure where Open Source is ready for the enterprise.

Tom Deaderick, OnePartner, will briefly review the rationale for a comprehensive backup strategy. Without an effective recovery strategy, any organization is simply one bad day away from catastrophe. 60% of businesses that experience such a catastrophe go out of business in the subsequent year - Tom will bring your backup strategy to the forefront for a few minutes and then introduce you to solutions provided by businesses in the region. The ten minute review is followed by ten minute solution presentations by each provider.

1. Donald Purdie, Data Ensure
2. Chase Boles, BCTI
3. Chad Sorrell, TCIM
4. Tom Deaderick, OnePartner ATAC data center

CareSpark has grown from a shared dream by a few of the region's health care leaders into a nationally-recognized Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). The board members and founding visionaries of CareSpark will join Executive Director, Liesa Jenkins to create a one of a kind opportunity to learn all about this critically important program. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to understand the initial insights, gain an appreciation of the technical challenges, learn how they can contribute to the CareSpark health network and learn everything they need to know about one of the region's most important health care achievements.