HRSA Regions 1 & 2
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

8:30 – 9:00

Check-in and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10

Welcome and Workshop Overview
Neil Calman, MD, President & CEO
Institute for Family Health

Session I: EHR Implementation

9:10 – 9:25

HRSA Welcome
Johanna Barraza-Cannon, MPP Director, Division of Health Information Technology Policy, HRSA

10:00 – 10:45

Organizational Readiness
Weston Willett, Chief Information Officer, IFH

10:45 – 11:00

Break

11:00 – 12:00

Product and Services Assessment
Neil Calman

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 3:00

EHR Implementation – First Steps
Alison Meyers, Systems Manager
Kathy Cresswell, Director of Business Operations, IFH

3:00 – 3:15

Break

3:15 – 4:15

EHR Implementation and Practice Management Issue: PMS,
EHR or both?
Michelle Surinach, Assistant Vice President for Practice Administration, IFH

4:15 – 4:45

Discussion and Questions

5:00 – 7:00

Cocktail Reception

8:30 – 9:00

Check-in and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30

EHR Implementation – A Physician’s Perspective Issues
Robert Schiller, MD, Vice President for Medical Affairs, IFH

10:30 – 10:45  

Break

10:45 – 12:30  

Now That You have an EHR: Optimization
Stephnie Cargill-Skeeling, RN, IT System Analyst and Rachel Berg, IT System Analyst, IFH

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

Session II: Meaningful Use of EHRs

1:30 – 2:00

Introduction to Advanced Use Topics
Presentation by Neil Calman

2:00 – 3:30                  

Quality Improvement : Using data for better outcomes
Pam Ferrari, RN, Open Door Family Medical Centers
Kwame Kitson, MD, VP for Quality Improvement, IFH
Elizabeth Molina-Ortiz, MD, Diabetes Medical Director, IFH

3:30 – 3:45

Break

3:45 – 4:45                  

CHCs and Public Health HIT Partnerships: The New York Experience
Joe Lurio, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, IFH
Winfred Wu, MD, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

8:30 – 9:00

Check-in and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10

Day 3 Overview
Neil Calman

9:10 – 9:45

HRSA/OHIT Priorities and Resources
Cheryl Austein-Casnoff, Associate Director
Office of Health Information Technology, HRSA

9:45 – 10:45

Quality Improvement: Alliance of Chicago
Fred Rachman, MD, Chief Executive Officer
Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services

10:45 – 11:00  

Break

11:00 – 12:30  

What is Meaningful Use? A Panel Discussion
Cheryl Austein-Casnoff, Neil Calman, Fred Rachman

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:00      

Quality Reporting: How to Get the Data You Want
Michelle Pichardo, MPH, IFH

2:00 – 3:00

Patient Portals: Engaging Patients
Adam Szerencsy, MD, Medical Director, Urban Horizons Health Center - IFH

3:00 – 4:30

Models of Health Information Exchange: A Panel Discussion
Neil Calman; Lindsay Farrell, MBA, President & CEO, Open Door Family Medical Centers; Tom Morrison, JD, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, NaviNet; William Yasnoff, MD, President & CEO, Health Record Banking Alliance

4:30 – 4:45

Wrap-up and Evaluation