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Information Technologies for Healthcare:  Barriers to Implementation

A Workshop Sponsored by: the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Concurrent Engineering Research Center, and the Lane Department of CSEE West Virginia University

NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland
August 1-2, 2002 
  

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Thursday, August 1

8:00 – 8:30:  Morning Refreshments

8:30 – 9:00:  Introductions & Welcome

Ms. Lisa Carnahan (NIST/ITL) and Dr. Ram Sriram (NIST/MEL),

Dr. Arden Bement,   Director , National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dr. Susan Zevin, Acting Director, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST

Dr. Dale Hall, Director, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, NIST

9:00 – 11:00:  IT Issues:  Setting the Stage

Some    Research Issues Relevant to Implementation of IT in Health Care: An NLM Perspective
Dr. Milton Corn, MD, Director Extramural Programs, National Library of Medicine
Dr. Blackford Middleton, MD, Director, Clinical Informatics Research & Development, and affiliations are
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,Partners HeatlhCare System

Dr. Martin Harris, MD, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Implementing Collaborative Technology for Healthcare:  Lessons Learned

Mr. Jack Corley, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Institute

Through the Liquid Crystal Diode Ball:  The Future of Wireless Medical Applications

Dr. Kenneth C. Curley, MD, Clinical Technology Analyst, U.S. Army  Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC)

IT for Healthcare:  Why Is It Taking So Long

Dr. Richard Johannes, MD, Vice President of Medical Affairs, Cardinal Health-MediQual

11:00  – 11:15:  Break

11:15 – 12:45:  Interoperability Standards and Integration

Future Interoperability Requirements for Providers

Mr. Peter Barry, Peter T Barry Company, Co-chair, WEDi/SNIP ID & Routing Group

Standard Implementation:  Achieving Cost Reduction and Improving Quality Through Standard Conformance

Ms. Ioana Singureanu, Eversolve, Co-chair, Conformance Special Interest Group, HL7

Standards for Electronic Pharmacy Transactions

Ms. Lynn Gilberton,  National Council for Prescription Drug Programs

Integrating so-called Mundane Biomedical Information with Clinical Genomics

Prof. Yves Lussier, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University

12:45 – 1:30:  Lunch

1:30 – 2:05:  Terminology and Interoperability Standards  

From Terminology Integration to Interoperability

Dr. Olivier Bodenreider, MD, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine

Reducing Terminological Ambiguity: Towards Standard Metrics for Semantic Distance

Dr. Vipul Kashyap, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine

2:05 – 3:00:  Standards for Electronic Medical Records

Electronic Medical Records:  Where Are We and Where We Should Be

Prof. Ramana Reddy, Professor of Computer Science, West Virginia University

The Barriers to Electronic Medical Record Systems and How to Overcome Them

Dr. Clement McDonald, MD, Director of the Regenstrief  Institute, and  Faculty Member Indiana University School of Medicine

HL7: A Changing Pathway from Messaging to the Electronic Health Record

Dr. Ed Hammond, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Medical Informatics, Duke University (Video Presentation)

3:00 – 3:40:  HIPAA Issues and Compliance

HIPAA TCS Implementation Barriers Facing the Small Vision/Eye Care Provider

Dr. Christopher J. Feahr, Doctor of Optometry.

Who Will Certify HIPAA Compliance?

Prof. Roy Rada, MD, Ph.D., Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 3:30 – 4:00:  Group Photo/Break

4:00 – 5:30:  Discussion of Issues and Workgroup Set-up

5:30:  Adjourn

Friday, August 2

8:00 – 8:20:  Morning Refreshments

8:20 – 8: 30:  Logistics

8:30 – 10:00:  Breakout Sessions

10:00 – 10:15:  Break

10:15 – 11:15:  Breakout Sessions (ctd)

11:15 – 12:00: Reports from Working Groups

12:00:  Lunch/Workshop Adjourns