Just as there are tons of education sessions at HIMSS10 addressing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Meaningful Use criteria, there is a good representation of interactive programs and events in the Exhibit Hall.
From the Interoperability Showcase to the Product Pavilion, learn how products and services will help providers achieve ARRA’s meaningful use. Here are just a few of the events to check out when you’re in the Exhibit Hall.
Every day the Interoperability Showcase in Booth 233, Hall C, will highlight real-world applications of the new required metrics. You can see how Meaningful Use will impact the latest standards-based connectivity in various simulated healthcare environments.
“Meaningful Use When It Comes to Medications in the Workflow: A Town Hall,” on Monday, March 1, from 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM, provides an interactive session for attendees at Booth 8069. Sponsored by First DataBank, this ARRA Product Pavilion session looks at what constitutes Meaningful Use in the area of medications. Virginia Halsey, product management director for NDDF Plus, First DataBank, will offer tips and decision points to help providers and other staff achieve true meaningful use out of their health IT systems.
“The Role of HIE in Meaningful Use – Connecting to Your Ambulatory Physicians Disparate EMRs,” on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, from 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM, is another Product Pavilion session. Sponsored by Axolotl, the Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record session will be held at Booth 3348.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM, addresses the ARRA and Meaningful Use policies regarding adequate privacy and security protection for personal health information (PHI). Chris Bidleman, director of Healthcare for Novell, will demonstrate methods for securing electronic PHI, managing access rights and achieving best practices. Novell, which is sponsoring this American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Product Pavilion session at Booth 8069, will highlight how its solutions achieve compliance.
Attendees who check out “Meaningful use in real time: flexible health information exchange solutions to empower physicians,” on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, from 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM, will see how Meaningful Use criteria can be achieved in actual healthcare environments. Sponsor Medicity will demonstrate clinical data exchange with its vendor-neutral health information exchange technology. Greg Miller, senior vice president of Medicity, will lead the Clinical Informatics Product Pavilion at Booth 8908.