AHIMA's Annual Convention & Exhibit: HIM Without Walls: Realizing Our Vision
Convention to explore the role health information plays in healthcare today
The Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use, HIPAA, and of course, ICD-10 are changing healthcare. Central to healthcare recently is health information. It is used throughout healthcare organizations to inform decisions on patient treatment plans, staffing, quality reporting, reimbursement, and financial planning, among other areas.
At the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) 87th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, health information management and technology professionals, government leaders and healthcare executives will gather in New Orleans to address how this information is transforming the healthcare industry, Sept. 26-30, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Selected presentations on key topics are listed below:
ICD-10
Preparing for Improved Quality Measurement, Reporting and Tracking in an ICD-10 World presented by Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA,FHIMSS, senior director of HIM Innovation for Nuance Communications Healthcare; and Catherine Gorman-Klug, RN, MSN, CPM, clinical documentation product manager for Nuance Communications, Inc.
In this session, attendees will learn how to evaluate the impact ICD-10 will have on their quality measure data and formulate a response plan to ensure compliance with a growing list of quality initiatives, core measure sets, and reporting agencies.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the La Nouvelle Ballroom
Information Governance
Legal Considerations and Applications of Information Governance for Healthcare presented by Deborah Green, MBA, RHIA, executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer of AHIMA; Ronald J. Hedges, J.D., principal of Ronald J. Hedges LLC; and Lydia Washington, MS, RHIA, CPHIMS, senior director of practice excellence at AHIMA
During this highly informative session, participants will learn how to recognize the importance of AHIMA’s Information Governance Principles for Healthcare and how these might be interpreted and applied by legal support personnel and attorneys to benefit healthcare organizations in the context of EHR and ESI. The session leaders will take attendees through the function of AHIMA’s Maturity Model and how healthcare providers can use it to conduct self-assessments related to regulatory investigations or litigation.
Date: Monday, Sept. 28, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in rooms 288-290
Patient Generated Health Data and How to Handle in HIM presented byRita Bowen, MA, RHIA, CHPS, senior vice president of HIM and privacy officer of Health Port
The objectives of this session are to help attendees define patient-generated health data (PGHD) and identify its most popular sources; recognize key technical and procedural concerns surrounding the upload of PGHD into EHRs and other systems including information integrity, privacy and security; to review AHIMA’s Practice Brief “Including Patient-Generated Health Data in Electronic Health Records,” and discuss new HIM policies and procedures that must be developed to accommodate new data inputs from patients. Additionally, attendees will be able to list key technical requirements for safely uploading PGHD, such as data transmission, data integrity, and patient education.
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 8 to 10 a.m. in rooms 278-280
Patient Portals
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Implementing a Patient Portal presented by Patricia Coffey, RHIA, director, Medical Record Department at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and Marisa Starr, RHIA, section head, Medicolegal Section at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
The audience will learn about the approach used at the NIH Clinical Center to implement and manage the hospital's patient portal, which went live July 2013. The key to a successful implementation was the integration of a multidisciplinary approach.
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 10 to 11 a.m. in rooms 288-290
EHRs
Facing the Challenge of the “Evolving Medical Record”- The “EMR” of the Future and the HIM to Support It presented by Lynn Kosegi, director of solutions realization, M*Modal
The audience will understand the need for the medical record to evolve as healthcare delivery changes, as patients demand more transparency and become better-informed consumers and as patients and providers adopt new technology and new forms of communication.
Date: Monday, Sept. 28, 1 – 2 p.m. in rooms 243-245
Using an Electronic Health Record for Clinical Research presented by Jon Walter McKeeby, DSc., MBA, MS, CIO of the Department of Clinical Research Informatics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center; and Patricia Coffey, RHIA, director, Medical Record Department at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
This session will compare the functions of the EHR and a Clinical Research System, and outline the features of a clinical-friendly system versus the requirements of a Clinical Research System. Attendees will learn how knowledge and wisdom can be extracted from the EHR and Clinical Research System to enhance the EHR, following a progression of data to information to knowledge to wisdom.
Date: Monday, Sept. 28 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in rooms 243-245
Privacy and Security
Cyber Security Trends in Healthcare: Threats, Regulations and Best Practices presented by Mac McMillan, FHIMSS, CISM, CEO Cynergis Tech, chair of HIMSS Privacy and Security Task Force
This presentation will examine how and why healthcare information is targeted by attackers; how the cyber security threat landscape has affected legislation such as HIPAA, Meaningful Use, and the Final Omnibus Rule; and how Health Information Managers in a healthcare organization have a vital role to play in protecting patient data in the age of increasing cyber security threats.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in rooms 288-290
Analytics
Predictive Analytics in Action: Harnessing Data to Improve Population Healthpresented by Peggy Lynahan, manager for Population Health, Christiana Care Health System
Attendees of this session will learn how CCHS successfully developed a technological infrastructure capable of supporting interoperability, information sharing, and predictive analytics for critical patient data across a full continuum of care. The presentation will highlight the critical of role of the use of data in reinforcing quality-driven care, specifically by leveraging such data to analyze, predict, and proactively manage patient health outcomes.
Date: Monday, Sept. 28, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in rooms 294-296
Standards (Interoperability)
Achieving Interoperability Across Health Information Systems Through Standards presented by Anna Orlova, PhD, senior director of AHIMA and Michael Glickman, MSE, president, Computer Network Architects
The main objective for attendees of this session is to understand health information technology standards and the role of HIM professionals in guiding the development of these standards. To further this learning, attendees can expect to come away with an understanding of the concept of health information systems interoperability.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1 – 2 p.m. in rooms 293-294
Data Standards
Big Data and HIM: Revolution or Evolution presented by Susan White, PhD, RHIA, CHDA, associate professor - Clinical in the Health Information Management and Systems Division at The Ohio State University
Gain a deeper understanding of how traditional HIM skills may be used in data analytics and the use of big data. This session provides an understanding of the limitations of big data in healthcare and a list of skill sets and resources that may be used to develop analytic skills.
Date:Wednesday, Sept. 30, 8 – 9 a.m. in rooms 271-273
About AHIMA
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) represents more than 101,000 health information professionals in the United States and around the world. AHIMA is committed to promoting and advocating for high quality research, best practices and effective standards in health information and to actively contributing to the development and advancement of health information professionals worldwide. AHIMA’s enduring goal is quality healthcare through quality information. For more information, visit www.ahima.org.
Source: The American Health Information Management Association