ATLANTA — Now that the federal government has released the long-awaited Meaningful Use criteria, there are still a lot of questions to be answered and explanations and clarifications to be given about the complex rules.
HIMSS10 is the perfect venue to get educated on what the Meaningful Use criteria means in the real world. Some 32 education sessions are devoted to this topic. Here are just a few that are worth checking into:
Opening Keynote Address: Quality, Safety and Meaningful Use in Healthcare Technology: A Message from ONC, on Sunday at 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM in Room B312, looks at the two national program initiatives to improve quality and promote the adoption and meaningful use of health IT. David Hunt, MD, CMO and acting director of the Office of Health Information Adoption for ONC, will lead the examination of the current national healthcare policy for quality and safety and IT. This session, Event PHY-2, is part of the Physicians’ IT Symposium. Note that there is a $275.00 fee to attend this keynote.
Implications of ARRA for Clinical Decision Support, Event 30, on Monday at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in Room B313b, looks at the relationship between clinical decision support and the demonstration of Meaningful Use under ARRA. Loran Hauck, MD, senior vice president of the Office of Clinical Effectiveness and CMO of Adventist Health System; and Scott Weingarten, MD, president and CEO of Zynx Health, will discuss the potential implications of this relationship.
ARRA and EMR Usability: What Providers Need to Know, Event 57, on Monday at 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM in Room C208, examines how Meaningful Use is dependent on adequate EMR usability. Jeffery Belden, MD, associate professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, and Janey Barnes, human factors specialist for User-View, will help attendees go through a usability checklist that providers can deploy either during the due-diligence process or implementation phase, with the goal of achieving efficiency, effectiveness and usefulness.
HITSP Town Hall: Using Harmonized Standards in the Era of Meaningful Use, Event 81, on Tuesday at 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM in the Georgia Ballroom 3, will release the results of HITSP’s 2009 work. John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CIO of Harvard Medical School, will discuss how HITSP’s work products will help users qualify and demonstrate Meaningful Use of their health IT tools.
In upcoming Destination HIMSS10 posts, we’ll look at the exhibition sessions that focus on ARRA.