Symposia

5010/ICD10 (Full-day)
With 5010 conversions scheduled to occur no later than January 1, 2012, this symposium brings together industry leaders (CMS, X12 and others), provider organizations, clearing houses, payers and vendors to propagate best practices for the testing and implementation of 5010. Plan to share and exchange information with your peers.

Achieving Meaningful Use: From Theory to Practice (Full-day)
This full-day symposium will focus on sharing proven methodologies, processes, activities, and techniques that have contributed to achieving meaningful use in the enterprise setting. CIOs and their clinician leadership will share real-world success stories and lessons learned from their own journeys to achieve Stage 1 of meaningful use regulations.

ARRA Usability (Full-day)
This symposium will address topics contributing to EMR usability from the developer and system analyst perspective involving human factors engineering, cognitive task analysis and design. EMR usability principles which affect efficiencies and patient safety in order to drive adoption of HIT and the achievement of meaningful use will be reviewed. Planning partner organizations include: AHRQ, AMIA, NIST and ONC.

Clinical Engineering & IT Leadership (Full-day)
The Clinical Engineering & Information Technology Symposium will address the integration of medical devices and the EMR from a practical, timely and patient centered perspective. Topics will address the pitfalls of device integration; Meaningful Use device connectivity issues; accuracy of medical device data into the EMR and medical device integration across care settings including the medical home.

HIE (Full-day) There are more Health Information Exchanges and Regional Health Information Organizations throughout the country than ever before; but, where are we as an industry with implementation? This day-long symposium will feature views from the federal and state perspectives on the intricate relationship between national and state-level programs and their reciprocal impact on one another.

Nursing Informatics
The Nursing Informatics Symposium will address the inroads to quality that informatics has made a decade after the ground breaking IOM Report, "Bridging the Quality Chasm." This one and a half day unique event will offer an opportunity for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, focusing on practical implications, innovations and current industry trends. The event will also address the path to ICD-10 conversion, implementation challenges, social networking innovations, the expanding role of the CNIO (Chief Nursing Informatics Officer) and implications of Meaningful Use. The HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community reception will be held directly after the Saturday program and is open to all attendees. NEW this year: View poster sessions featuring successful projects and key takeaways for your informatics practice. Attend both days and receive a discount on registration. Can’t attend both days? Separate pricing per day is available.

Physicians’ IT (Full-day)
This one-day symposium designed by and for the physician IT community will focus on sharing proven methodologies, processes, activities, and techniques that have contributed to achieving meaningful use from the provider's perspective.

RFID & RTLS in Healthcare (Full-day)
This program will focus on the many applications of RFID and RTLS technologies in the health care, assisted living, and nursing home industries. Education and training are the keys to the successful adoption of these technologies. This symposium, with its experienced industry faculty and its case studies and discussion panel, will give attendees the essentials they will need to explore these technologies for their facility. RFID and RTLS, when fully understood and implemented, can deliver a real return-on-investment in many departments of a health care facility.

Secondary Use of Data (Full-day)
With data flowing locally, regionally, and nationally, this symposia will focus on the secondary use of data for Public Health, Quality Management and Research Audiences.