September 25 and 26, 2014Macon, GA

HIPAA and Health ITWorkshop

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

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Attestation Support SessionEPs and EHs

Tuesday, Oct 21 at 12:30

With Jewise Davis, HP and Jesus Ruiz, Reimbursement Solutions Group, Mark

Renfro, HomeTown Health

UPCOMING HealthIT Lunch-N-Learn Webinar

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Health IT Breakout Session On November 11th.

Agenda – HIPAA Workshop1:00PM Welcome and Introductions Kathy Whitmire, HTH Managing Director

1:15PM Security Assessment Robert Morris, ION IT Group

2:15PM HIPAA Security ComplianceOverview and Update on Security Breach and Importance of Compliance

Michele Madison, Morris, Manning and Martin LLP

3:15PM Disaster Recovery & Data Back-up Solutions

Mark Renfro, HomeTown HealthDon Kinser, EDI, Limited

4:00PM MU2 Requirements – Overcoming Challenges of Patient Portals and Secure Messaging, Current Issues

Panel: Mary Pizzino, Effingham Health SystemJuanita Wren, Morgan Memorial HospitalKeith Lovering, Miller County Hospital

4:45PM ICD-10 Update Kathy Whitmire

5:30PM Adjourn

6:00PM Networking Reception

Security Assessment

Robert Morris has 25+ years of professional experience (17 of those in healthcare) in IT Engineering / Network / Security and Application Services, and 20+ years of general business, budget management, and senior operations experience. Specialties: Extensive HIE and EMR Experience, Automated Desktop and Server repair, IT Network Managed Services, Product Development Services, Business Analyst, IT Network Services Support and repair, Network/System Design and Implementation, Firewall Installation and Monitoring, Network and Physical Security Services, Microsoft Licensing, Email/Exchange Hosting, SPAM Filtering, Off-Site Backup, Web Application Development and Integration, Telecommunication Services.

Overview and Update on Security Breach and Importance of Compliance Resources, Meaningful UseMichele Madison, Partner, Morris, Manning & Martin Michele Madison of Morris, Manning & Martin is a partner in the firm’s Healthcare Practice, where she provides general legal advice to health systems in various regulatory and business matters. She also works with information technology companies and advises clients on compliance with regulations and industry standards. Michele has specific experience in negotiating contractual agreements between healthcare providers and service providers, interpreting and advising health systems on regulations applicable to the healthcare industry, and providing regulatory advice with a focus on Stark, Anti-Kickback and HIPAA. She also has key experience and expertise in Compliance programs providing advice for compliance with state and federal regulations and regularly drafts and negotiates agreements with hospitals, physicians, managed care organizations and ancillary service providers, as well as contractual agreements for vendors with an emphasis on information technology, purchasing and lease agreements. Michele also works with electronic medical record vendors and personal health record providers. She is a graduate of Georgia State University and The University of Georgia School of Law.  

Disaster Recovery and Data Backup

Don Kinser, PE, MBA, CPHIMSEDI Principal-in-Charge Don founded EDI, Ltd. in 1986 and currently serves as President and CEO. Don is an active participant in the American Society of Hospital Engineers and the Health Information Management Systems Society. He is an avid learner, and his research on new healthcare technologies and market developments makes him a respected leader in the healthcare IT industry. Don’s passions include Healthcare IT and the realization of better medical outcomes and improved healthcare delivery through IT adoption. Don works with healthcare clients in the early phases of a project to help them articulate and realize their technology vision and strategy. Don has served as Project Manager and Principal-in-Charge of large healthcare projects since the early 90’s. His knowledge of the entire healthcare workflow, the belief that technology improves healthcare delivery, and his education as a traditional mechanical engineer make him an ideal principal-in-charge.

Disaster Recovery and Data Backup

Mark Renfro is Health Information Technology Director at HomeTown Health and HealtHIE Georgia and the GA-HITEC project director. Mark has 12 years of leadership experience in building rural healthcare information networks. He has over 30 years’ experience in health information systems and management. He currently serves as Managing Director for HealtHIE Georgia. Under his direction over the past 12 years, Great Plains Healthcare Alliance has become the most robust, comprehensive rural healthcare information network in the nation. He has served on the board of the Florida HIMSS. He also has served as President of the Florida HIMSS Chapter. In addition while President, the National HIMSS bestowed upon the Florida Chapter, the Small Chapter of the Year Award in 2011. Before coming to the Georgia he directed the Northeast Florida Physician Healthcare Information Network (NEFRHO). He also served as Vice President of Marketing and Customer Support for various Health Information Systems businesses.

MU2 Requirements – Overcoming Challenges of Patient Portals and Secure Messaging, Current Issues

Mary Pizzino, Effingham Health System

Juanita Wren, Morgan Memorial Hospital

Keith Lovering, Miller County Hospital

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ICD-10 UpdatesKathy WhitmireKathy directs the management and education services offered to HomeTown’s hospital members and their affiliated clinics and physician practices. Kathy saw the need for revenue cycle and reimbursement education as a key to the survival of rural hospitals soon after she began working with HomeTown Health in 2000 and has since led over 100 training boot camps and workshops, 26 Rural Hospital Conferences, 250 Medicare and Medicaid Webinars, and on-site hospitals trainings. She has developed and taught education programs in the following categories the HIPAA, HITECH/EHR Implementation Education, Business Office/Revenue Cycle Performance Improvement, Part A and Part B Medicare Reimbursement and Compliance Education, Benefits of Critical Access Hospital/Cost based Reimbursement, RACS - Recovery Audit Contractors, Healthcare Reform – Affordable Care act, EHR Meaningful Use Attestation, in partnership with the GA HIT Regional Extension Center, and ICD-10. Kathy and her team are currently leading 55 hospitals through a 12 month ICD-10 Readiness Program.

Agenda – HIT Forum9:00AM Welcome and Introductions Kathy Whitmire, HTH Managing Director9:15AM GA-HITEC –

Update on Regional Extension CenterHIT Resources - Meaningful Use

Carmen Hughes, GA-HITEC

10:00AM ONC Report – Discussion on how the ONC can support MU efforts with rural providers

Leila Samy, HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

10:45AM An HIE Demonstration Laura McCrary, KAHINSusan Moore, MAG

11:30AM FCC Pilot - Laying a HealtHIE Foundation for the Future

Dustin Durden – Pineland Telephone CooperativeJohn Scott - Bulloch Telephone CooperativeSteven Milner – Planters Telephone CooperativeDavid Flanders – Emanuel Medical Center

12:15PM Lunch 1:00PM GaHIN – GA Exchange Architecture & Successful

Exchange ModelsDr. Denise Hines, GaHIN

1:45PM Review Final Rule to Determine Your CEHRT Participation Options for Program Year 2014

Jesus Ruiz and Mark Renfro

2:15PM DCH Health IT Initiatives – sharing the plan for Georgia, Health IT, Meaningful Use and Medicaid Incentive Program

Stacey Harris, DCH Tracy Sims, DCH

3:00PM CLOSING REMARKS/ADJOURN Kathy Whitmire, HTH

Update on Regional Extension Center, Meaningful Use, Health IT ResourcesCarmen Hughes currently serves at the Executive Director of the Georgia Health Information Technology Extension Center. In her role, she is charged with overseeing the strategic direction and operational functions of Georgia's Regional Extension Center and providing assistance to Georgia healthcare providers and hospitals in meaningfully using EHR technology through the HITECH Act. Carmen is a results focused provider with successful track record in developing and implementing new business opportunities. In her new role with GA-HITEC, Carmen brings extensive experience in healthcare administration with a focus on the design, execution, analysis and consultation of customer and patient engagement. Carmen has been successful in leading complex operations and building and mentoring high performance teams leading to high productivity and quality deliverables. Prior to joining Morehouse School of Medicine and GA-HITEC, Carmen worked closely with Georgia hospitals and healthcare providers for over 15 years in her roles at VHA Georgia and Phoenix Healthcare Management Services.

ONC Report – Discussion on how the ONC can support MU efforts with rural providers

Leila Samy, Rural Health IT Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) represents her agency on the White House Rural Council and coordinates all the Council’s rural Health IT initiatives. Prior to creating ONC’s Rural Health IT Coordination function, Ms. Samy served as Special Assistant to the Deputy National Coordinator. In this role, Leila Samy supported and acted on behalf of the Chief Operating Officer executing and monitoring a $2 Billion portfolio. She provided management support for a number of operating divisions in technical areas that affect performance planning, monitoring, analysis and reporting. A trusted transformer, @LeilaSamy has been with HHS since 2007, building public/private coalitions, launching pilot projects and scaling successful models across the US.

An HIE Demonstration

Laura McCrary Ed.D Dr. Laura McCrary is the Executive Director of the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) based in Topeka, KS. KHIN is a Kansas non-profit organization that provides health information exchange technology services to over 800 health care organizations throughout Kansas. KHIN is a provider led and governed health information exchange and founding members include the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas Hospital Association, and the Wichita Health Information Exchange (WHIE). Laura completed Post-Doctoral work at Kansas University; a Doctorate of Education from Kansas State University and MS degrees in the areas of Mental Illness and Learning Disabilities from Kansas State University. Laura is an adjunct professor at the Rockhurst University Helzberg School of Management, she is a member of the National Policy Steering Committee for eHealth Initiative and an Advisory Board member for eHealth Exchange/Carequality.

FCC Pilot - Laying a HealtHIE Foundation for the Future

Dustin Durden – Pineland Telephone Cooperative

John Scott - Bulloch Telephone Cooperative

Steven Milner – Planters Telephone Cooperative

David Flanders – Emanuel Medical Center

GaHIN – GA Exchange Architecture & Successful Exchange Models

Denise W. Hines, DHA, PMP, FHIMSS CEO, eHealth Services Group Dr. Denise W. Hines heads eHealth Services Group and also serves as the Executive Director of the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN). Nationally recognized as an expert in state government in health information exchanges (HIE), Dr. Hines has participated in hundreds of public speaking events locally and nationally, educating providers on the benefits of electronic health record (EHR) systems, health information technology adoption, and the overall national vision for an interconnected health system. Dr. Hines was responsible for overseeing and managing the marketing and outreach recruitment of more than 5,200 healthcare providers and 56 critical access and rural hospitals, assisting these providers in meeting meaningful use requirements and qualifying for the CMS EHR incentive program. She holds a doctorate in healthcare administration and maintains certifications in project management, software development, and healthcare law. She is the past President of the Georgia Chapter of Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and represents Georgia on the National HIMSS Public Policy Committee and the National HIMSS

Review Final Rule to Determine Your CEHRT Participation Options for Program Year 2014

Jesus F. Ruiz currently is the principal owner of Reimbursement Solutions Group, LLC, an independent consulting firm established in 2011 to assist providers with all their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement needs. In the area of Electronic Health Records, Jesus has assisted a variety of providers in collecting Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments. Prior to his current venture, Jesus served as Assistant Vice President of Reimbursement and Compliance for SunLink Health Systems Inc. Jesus began his career as a Medicare auditor with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona in 1987, and since that time has held a number of reimbursement related position with a variety of providers including DeKalb Medical Center, Mariner Post Acute Care Network in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Jesus Ruiz is a licensed CPA with a Bachelor and Master’s degree in accountancy from Southern Utah University.  

DCH Health IT Initiatives Stacey Harris, a Health IT/Medicaid Manager for Georgia Department of Community Health, Division of Health IT, has 23 years of experience in health care industry including: Medicaid Policy and Medicaid Management Information Systems, health care delivery systems including hospital services, professional services, and ancillary services. She has extensive knowledge of functional requirements, data management and reporting, and claims management. Mrs. Harris has participated in the design and implementation of two MMIS and several state implementations including Managed Care, PBM, and Medical Management for the state of Georgia. Stacey’s experience along with her education, has allowed her to amass a varied array of knowledge and skills which affords her impeccable healthcare operations, strategy, technology, and health systems knowledge.

Mrs. Harris was the Georgia Medicaid Policy Lead for Georgia’s MMIS implementation in 2010 and served as the subject matter expert for multiple subsystems during this implementation. She recently retuned back to the Georgia Department of Community Health after working as a Consultant for Deloitte Consulting LLP, on the New York State Department of Health Medicaid Data warehouse project. Stacey holds a B.S. in HealthCare Management and a Masters of Health Administration both from Clayton State University.

DCH Health IT Initiatives Tracy Sims

As the Director of Programs leading the Medicaid Incentive Program for the Georgia Department of Community Health, she brings more than twenty years of healthcare industry experience including operations, quality assurance, account management and client relations. Since her employment with the Georgia Departmentof Community Health, Tracy works specifically with Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, and Medicaid programs. Additionally she has extensive experience managing large departments, leading business development initiatives and utilizes excellent communications skills to facilitate presentations and training sessions across all levels.

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