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Friday, October 31, 2008
"Advanced Wireless Technologies in Healthcare: Application and Impact"

A CIO's Vision for Wireless - Then and Now
Bill Greskovich, VP of Operations and Chief Information Officer, St. Agnes Healthcare
Capturing Clinical Contact: A Case Study from an Acute Care Provider
Deborah Johann MSN, RN-BD, Director of Clinical Informatics, Suburban Hospital
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Christiana Care’s Use of Wireless in the Emergency Department
Christopher Konen, Project Manager, Information Technology Department, Christiana Care Health System
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Security and Privacy Issues Related to Wireless Technologies
Steven J. Fox, Post & Schell, PC Washington, DC
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Wireless Documentation and Paging using Speech Recognition in Long Term and Acute Care
Marta DePaul, MBA, Business Development Manager, Vocollect Healthcare Systems and Debra Wolf, RN, MSN, PhD, Associate Professor, Slippery Rock University
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Wireless Point of Care – Specimen Collection, “Fitting the Pieces Together” Leading the Way in Quality of Care: Wireless Transmission of 12-Lead ECG’s From Ambulance to ER
Laura Jones, Senior Analyst, Frederick Memorial Healthcare System
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Tanya Miller, Senior Analyst, Frederick Memorial Healthcare System
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The Implementation and Evolution of Wireless Network Services at LifeBridge Health
Kimmith Jones, MS, RN, CCNS, Advanced Practice Nurse, Critical Care
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Mike Eby, MBA, LifeBridge Health Network Manager Sinai Hospital Baltimore, MD
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Friday, April 25, 2008
"The Electronic Health Record: We Have the Data, Now What?"

Use of Data to Improve Patient and Clinical Care
Mark Smith, MD, MedStar Health

Creating a Successful Clinical Reporting Tool
Bob Aarhus, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, Program Manager, Resources Information Technology Program Office
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After the EHR: Improving Quality and Safety
Buddy Gillespie, Chief Information Officer, WellSpan
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The Use of Clinical Data for Risk Management Purposes
Larry Smith, MedStar Health
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Pay for Performance: A Payer's Perspective
John Shematek, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CareFirst BlueCross and BlueShield
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Pay for Performance: A Provider's Perspective
Barbara Epke, Senior Vice President, Sinai Hospital
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Friday, January 25, 2008
"The Acute Care Electronic Medical Record: State of the Industry, Implementation Experiences and Best Practices"

State of the Industry According to the HIMSS EMR Adoption Model
Jack Price, Vice President, Healthcare Organization Services HIMSS and HIMSS Analytics
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The EMR Journey at PRMC
Ray Adkins, Chief Information Officer Peninsula Regional Medical Center and Chris Snyder, Chief Medical Information Officer, Peninsula Regional Medical Center
The Impact of the Electronic Discovery Rules on the Preservation and Production of Electronic Medical Records
Nicole Nesbitt, Partner, Goodell, DeVires, Leech and Dann, LLP
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Best Practices of an Acute Care EMR Implementation: The 2007 Davies Award Winner
Susan Heichert, Vice President, Health Information and Systems, Allina Hospitals and Clinics
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The EMR Journey at LifeBridge Health
Karen Barker, Chief Information Offficer, LifeBridge Health and Dr. Bill Jaquis, Chief of Emergency Medicine, LifeBridge Health
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Tuesday,January 15,2008
"Maryland Advocacy Day in Annapolis"

Maryland Healthcare Priorities and How Health IT Supports and Efficient and Effective Delivery System
Secretary John Colmers, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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The EHR Task Force Update
Dr. Peter Basch, Chair of the Maryland Task Force on EHR's
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Bridges to Excellent and the Health Information Exchange Program
Dr. Jon Schematek, CareFirst Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
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Strategic Interaction
Angela Taylor, Soapbox Consulting
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
"Providing Continuity of Care while Protecting Privacy of Data in Motion"

The Independent Health Record Bank Act--Status in the 110th Congress
Jeff Bloemker, Federal Government Affairs specialist, Cerner Corporation
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Security of Data in Motion
Sandy Phillips, National Coordinator, Health Information Exchange, Perot Systems
Interdisciplinary Medication Reconciliation Efforts at an Integrated Healthcare Delivery Network
Dr. Alexander Turchin, Senior Medical Informatician, Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners Healthcare
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Creating a Wall of Knowledge at New York Presbyterian Hospital: A Case Study
Abigail Suberman, Director of Technology Strategy, New York Presbyterian Hospital; and Phil Brezezinski, Vice President, Healthcare Systems, LiveData, Inc.
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High-tech, High-quality, Cost-effective Home Health Care
Julia J. Hopple, VNA President/WellSpan Vice President, VNA Home Health
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Kaiser's Personal Health Record
Dr. Jay (Tom) Rorick, Baltimore Area Medical Director, DC/Southern Marylane area of Kaiser Permanente
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Moving Data at Discharge
Eric Nathanson, Senior Project Administrator/Operations Integration, Johns Hopkins Health System
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Friday, October 12, 2007
"The Multifaceted Ambulatory EHR: Perspectives from Government, Enterprise, and Private Practices"

The Ambulatory EHR: State of the Industry. The Ambulatory EHR Landscape in Maryland
Peter Basch, MD, FACP, Medical Director Ambulatory Clinical Systems, MedStar Health
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Rex W. Cowdry, MD, Executive Direcor, Mayland Health Care Commission
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Toward Quality Care (A HIMSS Davies Award Winner Presentation
Jim Morrow, MD, North Fulton Family Medicine
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Maryland Case Studies
Tina Whims, Frederick Memorial
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Mary Jane Kamps, CIO, Union Hospital
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Jim Stalder, CIO, Mercy Medical Center
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Recently Implemented Ambulatory EHR: A physician's Perspective
Manish Kohli, MD, MPH, MBA, Medical Director, Clinical Information Systems, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
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Legal Implications of the Ambulatory EHR
Steven Fox, Esquire, Pepper Hamilton, LLP
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