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Closing Keynote
UC San Diego Health System: Transforming Healthcare Delivery while Maintaining Financial Excellence

Lori Donaldson,
Chief Financial Officer,
UC San Diego Health System

*Qualified individuals receive complimentary registration. Non-qualified individuals can register for $99.00 HIMSS members/$119.00 non-members.

Time: 2:15-3:15 PM

The rush is on to automate care delivery organizations. Numerous surveys have documented that the vast majority of healthcare organizations, including ambulatory clinics and hospitals, have yet to implement comprehensive electronic medical record systems. HIMSS Analytics data shows that that’s not completely true in the hospital environment, but by any measure, there’s much work to be done.

David E. Garets, FHIMSS
President & CEO, HIMSSAnalytics; Executive Vice President, HIMSS
Blaine, WA
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Time	Session	Speaker	Description
9:00 AM CT	Opening Keynote
10:00 AM CT	ICD-10: A Roadmap for Success	Garri Garrison, Director Acute Care Consulting 3M Health Information Systems Atlanta, GA Provider Presenter TBD	Much more than a coding update, ICD-10 will touch every aspect of your business. Learn how to address physician documentation issues, IT readiness, transition budgeting, payer integration, and claims impact.
10:00 AM CT	How Providers Should Prepare for HIPAA/HITECH Compliancy in Banking Relationships	Richard Marks, President Patient Command, Inc. McLean, VA John Phelan, PhD Technology and Management Consultant Milliman Seatle, WA	Learn about regulatory impacts on banks and financial institutions in the new “era of ARRA” and hear highlights of a new compliance guide issued by a multi-industry collaborative comprised of EHNAC (Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission), HIMSS, NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association, and WEDI (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange).
12:00 PM CT	Transparency, Consumerism and the Patient: Using Pricing Transparency to Empower Your Organization	Leslie Richard Corporate Director of Revenue Cycle Management Centura Health Denver, CO Tim Estes Chief Executive Officer Financial Healthcare Systems Denver, CO	This presentation will help you understand what transparency means to healthcare providers, payers and patients. It will define the concept of pricing transparency, identify elements in transparency programs, using process development, training and technology to create credible estimates
12:00 PM CT	Designing the Healthcare Financial Network of the Future	Marion Manchester SVP, Division Manager - Health Care, Treasury Services Wells Fargo Hartford, CT Linda Swadener, FACMPE Senior Director, SE Business Service Center MedQuest Associates, Inc. Atlanta, GA	Fundamental industry challenges are siphoning billions in resources each year due to complexity and redundant, paper-based processes in our healthcare payment system. This session will explore critical infrastructure issues linking banking and healthcare transaction technologies that can foster greater efficiency, visibility into payments by businesses and consumers and the advancement towards a more real time manner for moving some $2.5 trillion in healthcare payments in America.
1:00 PM CT	Increased Revenue Cycle Technology=Greater ROI + Added Jobs: The BayCare Health System Story	Marty Callahan Vice President of Healthcare Information Systems TransUnion Chicago, IL Lou Ann Watson Manager of Medical Assistance BayCare Health System Tampa, FL	Throughout a comprehensive medical assistance program, BayCare Health System is supporting uninsured residents in the Tampa Bay area of Florida one patient at a time with the assistance of TransUnion. Attend this session to learn about the success of this program for the Health System
1:00 PM CT	Advancing Towards the Health-Wealth Paradigm	Dean Mason Chief Executive Officer HSA Bank Sheboygan, WI Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH Medical Director, Employee Health Plan / HR Benefits, Vanderbilt University and Medical Center Assistant Professor Division of Public Health /Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN	Medical consumerism is a powerful force that is manifesting in multiple forms from retail healthcare to use of Health Savings Accounts, medical tourism and more. This session will provide an update on the status of HSA growth in America and the experience of the account holders to improve their health.
2:30 PM CT	Planning, Design and Construction Value Comparison: A Hospital Management Tool for Success	Alan Burcope Vice President HBE Corporation St. Louis, MO Provider Presenter TBD	How do you affect the Planning/Design/Construction Process to incentivize performance, create value and better serve the interests of your healthcare organization? Intervention allows you to demand the value that is increasingly demanded of you.
2:30 PM CT	Are Your Physicians Ready for reform?	John Freedman Founder/Principal Freedman HealthCare LLC Newton, MA Steve Belof Director Belof Group Natick, MA Dr. Bruce Pokorney Lancaster, PA	Reform will bring wrenching changes to organizations, unless they are prepared. This workshop will explore your readiness to become an Accountable Care Organization, with a focus on how prepared your clinical and administrative staffs are for change.
3:30 PM CT	Leveraging Interactive Analytics for Improving Healthcare Management Efficiency	Chip Jackson Senior Director Oracle Plano, TX Suzanne Lestina Director of Revenue Cycle-MAPPS The Healthcare Financial Management Association Westchester, IL	Oracle and the Healthcare Financial Management Association will share industry best practices for bringing benchmarks and analytics to executive leadership for prioritizing financial strategies and insight to peer performance
3:30 PM CT	Managing the Medicaid and Charity Care Patient Population	Faith Polk Medicaid Program Administrator Detroit Wayne County Health Authority Detroit, MI Enrique Balaguer Senior Vice President TransEngen, Inc. Norwalk, CT	With uncompensated care soaring and increased government scrutiny, effectively managing the Medicaid and charity care patient population is paramount to a hospital’s bottom line and perception with the community

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Time	Session	Speaker	Description
9:00 AM CT	Reducing Costs and Generating Revenue in 2010 and Beyond	Niklaus Fincher Vice President Purchased Services Sales and Capital VHA Inc Irving, TX	Discover new and surprising areas of opportunity to reduce costs and generate additional revenue for your organization. Using examples from actual hospitals, we will share insights and discuss trends.
10:30 AM CT	Eight Steps to Optimal Audit Management	Dawn Crump, MHR, SSBB Network Director of Compliance, SSM Health Care St. Louis, MO Lori Brocato Product Manager HealthPort Alpharetta, GA	From responding to requests for Medical Records to initiating appeals, this presentation will give you the steps to follow in order to optimally manage your audits
11:30 AM CT	Effective Physician Health system Transactional Due Diligence	Roger Logan Corporate Vice President, Catholic Healthcare Partners Cincinnati, OH	This presentation focuses on the essential requirements of conducting an effective due diligence effort involving physician-health system affiliation arrangements in a world of intense regulatory, legal and compliance scrutiny.
1:30 PM CT	UC San Diego Health System: Transforming Healthcare Delivery while Maintaining Financial Excellence	Lori Donaldson Chief Financial Officer UC San Diego Health System San Diego, CA	Our closing keynote will discuss the UC San Diego Health System’s journey to achieving recognition as a Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospital and leadership’s plan to sustain high levels of financial performance while embarking on the largest expansion in the system’s history.