CIO Healthcare Summit Agenda
March 11 - 14, 2012

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Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIO Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the CIO Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

CIO Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

CIO Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

CIO Think Tank

CIO Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 executives to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

CIO/CTO Roundtable

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

6:30am -
2:00pm

Golf Tournament
Best Ball Golf Tournament - includes lunch

2:00pm -
5:30pm

Registration & Greeting to the CIO Healthcare Summit

4:30pm -
6:00pm

Exclusive CIO Think Tank
Pre-summit introductory discussions

Moderated by Master of Ceremonies

Vi Shaffer, VP & Global Industry Services Director for Healthcare Providers, Gartner

6:00pm -
7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00pm -
10:00pm

Welcome Dinner & Welcome Address

Presented by Master of Ceremonies

Vi Shaffer, VP & Global Industry Services Director for Healthcare Providers, Gartner

7:00am -
8:00am

Networking Breakfast

Making Innovation Real

8:10am -
8:50am

Opening Keynote Presentation

Healthcare and Cloud Computing

Presented by:

Rick Hopfer, CIO, Molina Healthcare, Inc.

9:00am -
9:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

TBD

Presentation sponsored by

9:35am -
10:05am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Healthcare vs. Mobile Computing

Healthcare solutions that are delivered via mobile technology are creating a new frontier of innovation that is driving down costs, increasing access and improving quality of care. Mobile health solutions are growing substantially and will increase threefold by 2012/2013, presenting both challenges and opportunities for healthcare information technology professionals.

In this worldwide transition of technology from stationary to mobility (i.e. laptops, smartphones and tablets), the need for a smooth and intuitive, cross-platform based, experience-driven IT solution focused on the end-user (i.e. the patients and/or the healthcare professional), have become more and more important. In order to provide a valuable user experience that is valuable for the consumers and can advance the quality of the IT organizations services, we need a new and unprecedented consumerization of IT. This session will highlight technology trends in mobile computing platforms within healthcare.

Presented by:

Richard Hutsell, VP & CIO, Daughters of Charity Health System

CIO Think Tank

TBD

Presented by:

Dr. Warren Kibbe, Ph.D., CIO, Director Cancer Informatics, Northwestern University

10:10am -
10:40am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

TBD

Presentation sponsored by

10:40am -
11:05am

Networking Break

11:10am -
11:40am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Overcoming the Secure PC Oxymoron

Gwinnett Medical Center is a multi-hospital system in one of the nation's fastest growing counties, Gwinnett County in Northeast Georgia. From 2000 to 2010, the county's population grew nearly 40% to more than 800,000. Despite this growth, the hospital had the same bed-count as the mid-80's.

Gwinnett Medical Center has embarked on an ambitious construction and expansion phase. The IT team's number one goal was how to create a scalable computer infrastructure with an intense focus on security. The IT team wanted to safeguard the hospital from being another headline fatality to stolen data. Rick Allen, Assistant Vice President of Information Services, and his team turned to virtualization and thin clients instead of PCs to protect the hospital against data breach. The combination of virtualization and thin clients means that data resides in the data center as opposed to the endpoint device itself protecting Gwinnett Medical Center from lost or stolen data, or data corrupted from mechanical failure, virus, or malicious attacks. Hear Rick Allen discuss how to safeguard patient and hospital data using virtualization and thin clients.

Presented by:

Rick Allen, AVP IS, Gwinnett Medical Center

CIO Think Tank

After the EMR: What is life like after the dust settles and the mandates cool?

This session will probe into what efforts are underway in a post-go live organization. Patrick Hale, CTO at Sparrow Health System, will look to explore if CIO's are seeing a decrease in demand or an explosion of enhancement requests. Also answering the Million Dollar Question; are CIO's budgets growing or shrinking to meet new challenges?

Presented by:

Patrick Hale, CTO, Sparrow Health System

11:45am -
12:15pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

TBD

Presentation sponsored by

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Information Overload - Cloud Data Strategies for the Data Driven Organization

In modern day healthcare, data comes in different formats, from different sources, and resides in many different places. Advanced business analytics, data mining and predictive modeling can help you remove complexity from your data acquisition process and ultimately present critical information in a way that is helpful and clear.

This session will help you to increase the quality from these services and technologies, and confirm ways of using them to their utmost capacity. Create a concrete cloud data strategy that makes getting results from your analytics tools easier and faster than ever.

12:55pm -
1:55pm

Networking Lunch

Expanding Business Impact

2:00pm -
2:30pm

Executive Exchange

2:35pm -
3:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Mobile Technology and Secure mHealth Solutions

Access to mobile technology and mHealth services are gaining priority for many clinicians and healthcare professionals, and might be essential for a successful emergency response. This session will discuss security issues, functionality, and strategies for how mobile technology and mHealth services can be used in healthcare organizations and senior healthcare.

3:10pm -
3:40pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Don’t Fear the "V": Positive Outcomes for all in the Management of Vendor Relationships

Presented by:

Daniel W. Clark, Division CIO, University Hospitals in Cleveland

CIO Think Tank

National Healthcare Cybersecurity Critical Infrastructure
Protection and Workforce Education

The National Health ISAC, a non-profit organization headquartered at Exploration Park/NASA/Kennedy Space Center is the nation's recognized Information Sharing & Analysis Center for our healthcare and public health critical infrastructure, recognized by US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), US Health & Human Services (HHS), NIST, FBI, Executive Office of the President, academia and the health sector. For each of the nation's critical infrastructures (per Presidential Directive after 9/11), there are associated sector-specific ISACs responsible for cybersecurity threat and vulnerability monitoring, two-way information sharing/alerts/advisories, best practice risk management, countermeasure solutions and education.

Working in partnership with NIST (The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education - NICE) that includes DHS, NSA, the Executive Office of the President (National Cybersecurity Coordinator), US Dept. of Education, etc., NH-ISAC is leading development of a "National Healthcare and Public Health Cybersecurity Education Framework" - defining health sector-specific cybersecurity functions, roles, responsibilities, competencies, job descriptions, career planning tools, and supported by cyber awareness and workforce education programs.

Presented by:

Deborah Kobza, CIO & Executive Director, NH-ISAC

3:45pm -
4:15pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Near and Long Term Trends Shaping Healthcare IT

The ability to stay ahead of the current trends in information technology has become a competitive advantage for hospital networks and health care companies. The ever increasing requirement for CIO's to consistently and cost effectively deliver IT services which both enable patient care and drive value within the IT organization have lent to the advent of trends such as virtualization, consolidation, centralization, cloud adoption and big data. This interactive session will help attendees prepare for the challenges associated with these trends and also explore the unique security and compliance demands faced by Healthcare CIO's. Mr. Klotz will also provide practical guidance on how to mitigate risk and increase efficiencies across the IT organization.

Presentation sponsored by

4:25pm -
5:05pm

CIO Keynote Presentation

Clinical Outcomes: Deploying Business Intelligence Solutions
that Translate Heterogeneous Data to Drive Efficiency, Quality, and Safety

The healthcare industry is facing increasing pressure to improve their use of IT to achieve quality goals. Every area of medicine has been affected by the growth in the quantity and relevance of this information (data outputs from every stage of clinical development). The widespread use of internet-based and mobile communications, cloud and SaaS models has added to this challenge. Educating physicians on the value of new drugs can result in improved quality of care and reduced cost. Translational medicine can allow scientists and clinicians to make associations between a drug and a disease earlier in the drug development process. The pace of this transition will largely depend on the ability of technology partners to offer solutions that address the unique requirements of the healthcare industry.

This keynote session will discuss how the industry must recognized the need for technologies that can mine, analyze and translate data. Predictive modeling technologies and other BI tools promise to help improve quality reach and healthcare goals; Learn how CIOs can harness the power of the available technology to upgrade and supplement existing systems, and create applications that are easy-to-use and support decision-making processes.

Presented by:

Vi Shaffer, VP & Global Industry Services Director for Healthcare Providers, Gartner

CIO Executive Visions

Advancing Patient Care through Mobile Technology

Whether it's used by patients and family or clinicians and staff, Health Information Technology (HIT) departments continue to rollout PACS, electronic medical records, and innovative computer based services. In our consumer-driven IT world, the bar keeps getting set higher - from desktops to laptops to netbooks, from Blackberrys to Iphones, work at home or work anywhere. How can we improve team collaboration, responsiveness and accuracy at the Point of Care? Flexibility is key and healthcare providers need to consider a migration from the desktop. What mobility can do for healthcare is provide event-driven, real-time notification and patient care alerts intelligently routed to the appropriate user, at the time it is most needed.

This executive panel discussion will look at mobility in healthcare from the patient, clinician and administrator perspective:

Moderator:

Vi Shaffer, VP & Global Industry Services Director for Healthcare Providers, Gartner

Panelists:

Patrick Hale, CTO, Sparrow Health System

Sri Bharadwaj, AVP IT, Molina Healthcare

6:10pm -
7:00pm

Reception

7:00pm -
9:30pm

Gala Dinner

9:30pm -
10:30pm

After Dinner Networking

7:15am -
8:15am

Networking Breakfast

8:20am - 9:00am

CIO Keynote Presentation

Transforming Healthcare Delivery: Key Health IT Capabilities to Drive Better Patient Outcomes and Enhance the Bottom Line

Aetna's Accountable Care Solutions offer innovative collaborations with providers that extend beyond contractual relationships to offer providers supplemental services to help build the necessary infrastructure for re-engineering practice models and improve patient outcomes and satisfaction. Dr. Kennedy will discuss how Aetna, through unique and proven HIT capabilities and flexible risk sharing models, is working together with providers to transform health care delivery.

Presented by:

Dr. Charles Kennedy, M.D., CEO Accountable Care Solutions, Aetna

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Establishing a Business-Driven Enterprise Architecture Program

The purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to align organizational strategy, business processes, and information technology. An effective EA practice can lead an enterprise on the road to greater collaboration, innovation, and agility. This session will discuss how many organizations face challenges in delivering or recognizing real business value from EA.

CIO Think Tank

Myths and Reality about Digital Healthcare: Security and the Cloud

We hear a lot about how various cloud solutions will promote efficiencies in healthcare and reduce costs. There is no doubt that it can... but will it? When? Will we like the result? Do we have realistic expectations? Storage and security are just two components that each healthcare organization and provider will see differently. What do you need? Can the cloud provide the security you require? Has our capability to implement new technological wonders gotten in the way of good judgment and common sense? This session will be an insightful and fun discussion if the promise of cloud solutions for healthcare providers is realistic.

Presented by:

Sri Bharadwaj, AVP IT, Molina Healthcare

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Healthcare Information Life Cycle Management

Organizations must get the right information to the right person at the right time to make the right decision. Healthcare Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) is an approach to data and storage management that recognizes that the value of information changes over time.

ILM classifies data according to its value and moves data to the appropriate storage tier or removes it. An example of this could be a surgical technique that reduces patient fatalities during brain surgery. The management requirements for this type of information would be high (peer-reviewed journal, validation and acceptance prior to publication) and the complexity also would be high (level of information gathering prior to the production or genesis of the new information). The value of the information would be extremely high, and the issue then would be the source. That would require a validated and accepted source for the information, such as a respected and well know medical journal. We can draw an initial assumption out of this concept, around the concept of information complexity versus information management.

This session will discuss how healthcare ILM can improve care delivery, reduce costs, backups, compounding effects, and improve performance for highest data tier.

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Personalized Healthcare and the Health Information Environment

Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations have the opportunity to improve health promotion and care delivery by using more individualized patient information and clinical knowledge to help promote patient-centered health and predict, prevent, aid in early detection, treat and manage diseases, in other words, personalized healthcare (PHC).

This session will discuss how the health information environment can support PHC, including the corresponding opportunities and challenges for various stakeholders.

Presented by:

Jim Crawford, VP & Southern California BIO, Kaiser Permanente

CIO Think Tank

Healthcare Data Encryption and the Cloud

This session will explore new legal and technology drivers to encrypt healthcare data, creating effective enterprise encryption strategies and balancing those efforts with data availability needs. Topics to be covered include:

Presented by:

Carl Allen, Director - Information Systems Security, Intermountain Healthcare

10:45am -
11:00am

Networking Break

Raising the ROI of IT

11:05am -
11:35am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Healthcare Clinical Information Systems: Transforming Care Delivery

From quality of care, patient safety, and "meaningful use," to pay-for-performance, operational efficiency and cost control, healthcare organizations need to consider maximizing their IT investments by spending time up front on design to achieve vision and goals.

This session will discuss how challenges, such as double recordkeeping and physician resistance, can eat away the benefits of a speedy implementation. Do you engage your clinicians? By working together to define how to deliver more efficient clinical care, improve patient safety and quality, you can transform the care delivery and streamline administrative tasks through operational changes supported by healthcare clinical Information systems (CIS).

Executive Exchange

CIO/CTO Roundtable

Harnessing Mobility and the Cloud, Securely

The rapid proliferation of mobile devices in the enterprise coupled with the easy, anytime, anywhere availability of the cloud has created new avenues for increased collaboration and productivity for employees. Though productivity gains can be substantial, so are the potential information risks posed by employee installed consumer/prosumer cloud products.

• How can today's enterprise facilitate easy access, content sharing and collaboration in an increasingly mobile world and still ensure information security and compliance are being met?
• What are the considerations when looking at cloud based products - public, private or hybrid?

Attend this presentation where we'll discuss how IT is addressing these questions and learn how you can build a comprehensive approach that covers mobile, cloud, and the enterprise within a secure and compliant infrastructure that doesn't impede on the ease-of-use and access expectations of employees.

Sponsored by

CIO/CTO Roundtable

TBD

Sponsored by

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Healthcare Communication for a Healthy Life

Modern healthcare and medicine is very different from that of just 10 years ago. From new testing techniques to surgical equipment, technology has had a significant impact on the healthcare industry. With the explosion of mobile devices such as smart phones and other forms of digital communications, a wealth of health-related information is more accessible than ever. How can we use this to our advantage and improve patient care?

This session will discuss how to use mobile healthcare technology to build relationships with our patients. By providing patient care between visits we can help them to live healthier lives.

Concluding Remarks & Takeaways

Presented by Master of Ceremonies

Vi Shaffer, VP & Global Industry Services Director for Healthcare Providers, Gartner

1:00pm -
2:00pm

Networking Luncheon