Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Integrated Medical Home program at the National Naval Medical Center leverages personal health records and e-connectivity to support a chronic/primary care model that is capable of sustaining quality healthcare and accentuates prevention and wellness.

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is reached the decade milestone. A vision of a connected and interoperable healthcare infrastructure is one of the most significant healthcare industry efforts of the 21st century. Since 1998, IHE functioning as an international consortium of healthcare professional organizations and industry, has worked collaboratively to foster adoption of standards-based solutions to information sharing in healthcare worldwide.

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM 

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM This session will explore the experiences of several health plans leveraging administrative transactions to deliver clinical data. Provider response, obstacles, impact on quality and opportunities for health information exchanges will be evaluated and discussed.

Sunday, February 28, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Learn and discuss how to leverage the approved HITSP Remote Monitoring specifications to improve patient care. When done properly, these investments also will facilitate more reliable, safe, cost-effective, and secure interoperable health data collection, sharing, and decision support for EHR, EMR PHR, health information exchange and health Internet applications.

Saturday, February 27, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMPatient-centric, longitudinal and automated quality measurement is an essential component of meaningful use. This requires the development of standardized quality data sets and work flows that enable automation of quality measures through electronic health records. This session will explore national priorities and goals related to meaningful use of EHR data for purposes of quality measurement and performance improvement. The presenter will review the requirements for enabling automated quality measurement as a by-product of EHR data capture. Examples showing how standardized quality data sets can enable the power of the EHR in quality measurement will be presented.

A study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that within 24 of the 43 reporting states in the study, two large insurance payors had a combined market share of 70 percent or more, and that overall competition in the health insurance industry is decreasing.

While finalizing the definition for meaningful use remains a contentious and sometimes unclear issue for many providers, there is a unified vision of using health IT systems for better communication and sharing of data within healthcare facilities and between varied provider settings.