Mark your calendars for NMIS 2009 to be held September 9 - 11
Northwest Health Information Technology Award
The annual INHS Northwest Health Information Technology Awards were presented at NMIS to recognize exceptional leadership and commitment to improving health through Health IT. To see 2008's winners
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NMIS 2008
Thank you to all who attended this year's conference. NMIS 2008 was presented by Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS)
in partnership with The National Center for Health Care Informatics (NCHCI)
and The National Rural Health Resource Center (NRHRC)
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This year's NMIS was a showcase of innovative health information technology featuring national and regional speakers focused on health IT, patient outcomes, safety, equipment and software purchasing, training and HIPAA issues.
The NMIS workshops included:
- Current trends in health IT
- Implementing health information exchange and promoting electronic medical record adoption
- Changes in IT and its impact on health care
- Value-based purchasing
- Current applied research into the impact of health IT on health care outcomes
- Rural health IT focus
- Making decisions about health IT
- Financing health IT
- Implementing health IT
- Legal issues related to acquisition and use of health IT
Speakers
National and regional speakers included:
- John Tooker, MD, President, American College of Physicians
- John Glaser, PhD, Partners Health Care
- Micky Tripathi, PhD, Mass. eHealth Collaborative
- Mark Levine, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Denver Region, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Keynote: Lee Woodruff, ABC correspondent
- And more
Who Should Attend?
This conference is for any individual or organization interested in the use of information technology in health care, with emphasis on the health care delivery system in the Northwest.
- Hospital administrators
- Physicians
- Medical clinic staff
- Researchers
- Chief information officers
- Health information technology staff
- Public health officials
- Health insurers
- Health policy planners
- Information technology vendors
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INHS Customer Conference and Workshop
A full day, September 8 was devoted to INHS customers who wanted more information and training, including learning about new activities, programs and tools from both INHS and Meditech.
Workshops Included:
- Physician Office Centricity EMR and Practice Management
- Computer-based training products
- Physician office EMR complimentary products
- Physician/hospital office interface
- Nursing module in Meditech
- Bedside medication verification
- Emergency department management
- Provider order management
- Materials management
- Bed board management
- Imaging and therapeutic services
- Planning a telehealth-based training program
- Using telehealth for patient consults
- Using the Northwest TeleHealth Resource Scheduler
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Networking
Networking with peers is a big part of NMIS. The sessions and social gatherings provide valuable opportunities to meet potential partners, mentors or collaborators for your upcoming projects. NMIS brings together several hundred individuals and organizations who are interested in moving ahead in the critical arena of health information technology.
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Keynote Speaker
Lee Woodruff knows that life changes in an instant. One minute, you're a successful freelance writer and businesswoman, mother of four children, and wife of Bob Woodruff, the newly appointed co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight. The next minute, your life turns upside down when your husband is severely wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq while anchoring a broadcast.
Woodruff spoke with grace and humor about her own family's experience as patient and family, and how they chose to attack the crisis that befell them, resulting in a life-changing journey of love, healing and miracles for her whole family.
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Exhibitors/Sponsors
NMIS exhibitors showcased the latest in health IT products and services.
Our sponsors can be found here
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