Long-Term Care Health Information Technology Summit

June 9-10

Baltimore's Tremonts Historic Venue and All-Suite Hotel

Baltimore, MD

Keynote Presentations
The 2006 LTC HIT Summit kicks off with strategic partners reporting their progress and priorities for key action items based on the Road Map for Health IT in Long Term Care.

• Designing the Road Map, Linda Kloss, CEO, American Health Information Management Association

• Update from the Government, Connie Chang, Director, Office of Technology & Policy

Business Case and Funding Panel
Health Information Technology is all about raising the quality of care and lowering care costs.  Will there be winners and losers? This session lays out the business case facts, questions and opportunities so you can judge the return on investment.

• Business Case Research, Jennie Harvell, ASPE

• Capital Hill Update/HIT Funding Legislation, Don Asmonga, AHIMA

• CMS Pay for Performance, Mark Wynn, CMS

• Medicaid Reimbursement Opportunities, Susan Fox, Fox Systems

Research and Benchmarks Panel
A key recommendation from the 2005 Roadmap was the need to disseminate information on research and benchmarking for LTC HIT. This session will focus on the current activities as well as identify future needs that will continue the push toward HIT adoption.

• QIO Initiatives & LTC, Dave Adler, AHQA

• EHR & Telehealth to Improve Quality, Cindy Clark, VNA Western PA

• Process Redesign, HIT & Improved Outcomes, Siobhan Sharkey, Health Management Strategies

• Partnering with QIO’s to Disseminate Information, Sandy Hudak, Health Management Strategies

Research and Benchmarks Panel

A key recommendation from the 2005 Roadmap was the need to disseminate information on research and benchmarking for LTC HIT. This session will focus on the current activities as well as identify future needs that will continue the push toward HIT adoption.

• Current State of HIT Efforts in LTC Settings, Roxanne Tena-Nelson, Continuing Care Leadership Coalition

• CAST EHR/PHR Benchmarking Subgroup, Nancy Stoddard, The Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System

• Data Exchange Between Physician & Homecare Providers, Tom Cheek, VNS New York

• Pay For Performance Study & HIT Readiness, Jonah Frohlich, California HealthCare Foundation

Chronic Care and Wellness Management Panel

Whether a person is healthy or receiving care, they have to have clinical trending information available when required for care or to stay healthy. This session will discuss how Health Information Technology (HIT) provides the tools and intelligence to manage chronic care (co-morbidities) and wellness throughout the spectrum of LTC.

• Definitions and Status, John Derr, Foundation for Advancement of Care for the Elderly

• Demographics & Importance of LTC, Joanne Lynn, MD, CMS

• Telemedicine and IT Studies, Liz Powell, VNA

• Clinical Trending Through HIT, Cheryl Phillips, MD, AMDA

• HIT and the Best Medicine Care, Diane Tobias, Pharm D

Content and Interoperability Standards I Panel

Aging Services care settings participate in a complex, interactive, and sometimes fragmented continuum of care.  The needs of our customers demand a holistic approach that will ultimately be realized only with comprehensive Personal Electronic Health Records capturing and sharing person-centered health, functional and wellness content and supporting care planning and coordination.  This panel will investigate a variety of approaches to documenting content to the health record with strategies that support re-use, sharing and decision support.

• Using Omaha Terminology, Dr. Kathy H. Bowles, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

• International Usage of Standardized Assessment for Care Continuums, Mary James, InterRAI

• Standardizing Standard Assessment Tools, Jennie Harvell, ASPE and Mark S. Tuttle, Apelon

• Position Aging Services, Peter Kress, ACTS Retirement-Life Communities and CAST

Content and Interoperability Standards II Panel

The adoption of common electronic document standards can drive significant benefits to aging services consumers and  the care settings that support them.  Significant uses of such documents include care attachments, required assessments and data sets, and Information Sharing with Consumers, RHIOs and Provider to Provider.  This Panel will include updates on the status of the Continuity of Care Document standard, Regulatory assessments, RHIOs and discussion of the broader uses and implications of electronic document standards.

• The Continuity of Care Record and the EHR, Liora Alschuler, Alschuler Associates, LLC

• The Future of CMS Assessments & HIT, Jeffrey A. Kelman, M.D., CMS

• Care Settings & RHIOs, Jeff Odell, MedVirginia

• Uses for Electronic Documents in Aging Services, Peter Kress, ACTS Retirement-Life Communities and CAST

E-Prescribing and Medication Safety Panel

E-prescribing is thought to be the stepping stone to the EHR. Hear the latest developments and progress on e-prescribing and medication safety initiatives.

• Medication Safety & HIT, Carla Saxton, ASCP

• NCPDP LTC e-Prescribing Workgroup & CMS e-Prescribing Grant Mike Bordelon, Chair, NCPDP LTC e-Prescribing Workgroup, Achieve Healthcare Technologies

• Integrating the Consulting Pharmacist, Jeannine Powell, Chair, NCPDP Consultant Workgroup

• Integrating Functionality into EHRS Standard, Michelle Dougherty, Co-Chair, NCPDP/HL7 LTC Workgroup

Emerging Issues Panel

With an eye toward the future, this panel discusses emerging HIT issues to get summit participants thinking not only about immediate steps, but also what’s on the horizon.

• PHR Definitions/Foundation, Jill Burrington-Bronw, AHIMA

• PHR Standards, Steven Labkoff, Pfizer Human Health

• EHR & PHR – A Provider’s Perspective, Daniel Wilt, Erickson Retirement Communities

• Disaster Preparedness and HIT, Gary Schnerr, New Jersey Health Care Association