Preparing for Future Technology in a HITECH World

Bridging Strategies Around Meaningful Use and Real Life Experiences Deploying Clinical Automation

Conference Details

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The C/NF HIMSS Chapter is committed to your advancement and provides a number of outstanding learning and networking opportunities. Join us for our upcoming fall session to learn how Health IT can contribute to improving quality and safety in health care, while qualifying for the ARRA stimulus investment.

Come join over 100 executives and professionals within our state chapter and attend this important event. Space is limited, so please register to attend and visit one of Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in 2009- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

Topics that will be covered during our meeting include:

• Meaningful Use: The Marriage of EMRs and Quality; Understanding the Operational, Financial, and IT Implications of Meaningful Use to Health Systems and Physicians
• EMR Alignment & Implementation Strategies for Community Physicians: Strategies that Can Be Used to Subsidize Physician Office's EMR Systems within Safe-harbor Exemption Regulations
• The Paperless Tampa Program: The Implementation of
  E-prescribing to Private Practice Physicians
• Medication Reconciliation: Ensuring Patient Safety Without Impacting Patient Flow

TIME	Speaker
8:00am - 8:45am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am	Opening Remarks
9:00am - 9:50am	Pam Arlotto, Former HIMSS President and Advisor to CCHIT
9:50am - 10:40am	Dr. Bruce Flareau, VP of Physician Alignment and CMIO of BayCare Health System Lindsey Jarrell, Senior VP and CIO of BayCare Health System
10:50am - 11:00am	Johan Lidros HIMSS Membership Chair, Membership Update
11:00am - 11:50am	Dr. Jay Wolfson, Professor of Public Health and Medicine; Associate VP of Health Law, Policy and Safety for USF Health of University of South Florida
11:50am - 1:00pm	Networking Lunch
1:00pm - 1:50pm	Stephen Patterson, MD, Associate Member, Chief Medical Information Officer and Medical Director of Infusion Center of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Margaret Breland Watkins, Manager of Clinical Operations of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
1:50pm - 2:00pm	Closing Remarks