NMIS 2008 - Improving Health Outcomes Through Health Information Technology
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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Insights to Guide Your Planning
Keep updated about health care IT advances, legislative activities and how this applies to physicians, clinics and hospitals.
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.
Planned workshops include:
- 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
Expect to hear national and regional speakers including:
- 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 devoted to INHS customers. Explore real world solutions on this day devoted to INHS products for users who want more information and training. Learn about new activities, programs and tools from both INHS and Meditech.
Planned Workshops Include:
- 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
Tap into the power of networking with peers. 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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Northwest Health Information Technology Award
New this year, this award seeks to recognize exceptional leadership and commitment to improving health through Health IT. The winner will be announced at the NMIS conference. Nominations are now being accepted through July 15, 2008. To nominate your project or someone you believe deserves this award
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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 speaks 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 will showcase the latest in health IT products and services.
Our sponsors can be found here
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