Conference Schedule

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
4:00pm - 7:00pm Registration
Thursday, October 23, 2008
7:00am - 7:00pm Registration
7:00am-8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 9:30am Opening Keynote Address
Paul Sikora: 1500 Systems & Counting - The Experience of a Health Care Enterprise Heavily Virtualized
Continental Breakfast
9:45am-11:45am Morning Workshops
9:45am-11:45am Technology Virtualization: Now that you’ve started – what next?
Paul Sikora, UPMC and Daniel Herman, Aspen Advisors

How to Recruit and Retain a Quality Virtual Team
Barb Bartlein, The People Pro
11:45am-1:45pm Lunch and Vendor Showcase
1:45pm-3:45pm Afternoon Workshops
1:45pm-3:45pm Improving Quality of Care, Patient Safety and Clinical Productivity Through Advanced Unified Communications and Mobility Solutions
Jim Hart, The Burwood Group
Pat Becker, University HealthSystem Consortium
Suresh Krishnan, Northwest Community Hospital
Matt Sterling, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Setting Healthcare IT strategy in a Web 3.0 world
David Oakley, Florida Hospitals and Marc Danziger, The Revere Group
3:45pm-6:00pm Vendor Showcase
6pm-7:00pm Vendor Showcase Cocktail Hour
7:00pm-8:30pm Keynote Address & Dinner
Barbara Bartlein – Balancing Act
Dinner
8:30pm-9:00pm Door Prize Drawing & Give Away


Friday, October 24, 2008
7:00am-11:00am Registration
7:00am-8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00am-10:50am Breakout Sessions
Session Tracks Track 1: Virtual Infrastructure Track 2: Virtual Workforce Track 3: Virtual Patient Experience
8:00am-8:50am Connecting Health Information Technology to the Point of Care: The IHE Method
Marcia Veenstra, CPMRC and Audrey Dickerson, HIMSS
Informational Gaps and a Virtual Workforce
Lal Puri, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Jim Tantaro, Maron Structure Technologies
Empowering the Patient – How IT Adoption Affects the Patient Experience Through the IOM’s Six Aims and the AHA’s Pursuit of Excellence
Jim Brockschmidt, American Hospital Association Solutions
8:50-9:00am Break
9:00am-9:50am Server Virtualization and Consolidation Using HP Blades and Vmware
Chris Fallin and Scott Johnson, Ministry Health Care
The Remote Employee: How Does This Work?
Janet Manderscheid, Marshfield Clinic
The Virtual Patient Experience Through the Patient Portal: Are You Ready?
Kathleen LePar, Beacon Partners
9:50-10:00am Break
10:00am-10:50am Comprehensive Image Enablement of EMR Systems, Integration of “lightweight” PACS Digital Images within an EMR
Rob Raschke, Aurora Health Care and Katie Brahm, TeraMedica
The Virtual Health Information Management Department: The eHIM “Storefront” Model
Darice Grzybowski, HIMentors
Pediatric Patient Education Online
Carol Crabtree, University of Kentucky
10:50-11:00am Break
11:00am-12:00pm Closing Keynote
Denise Webb - Wisconsin eHealth Initiative
Lunch
12:00pm-12:30pm Door Prize Drawing & Give Away