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Course H450 | 2-DAY PUBLIC SESSION | 2-DAY VIRTUAL SESSION
Healthcare IT Boot Camp

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All the information you need to integrate current technology tools with your healthcare-related business. Navigate the latest regulations and immediately boost ROI

You will leave this course with the following:

• Learn what you and your staff need to do to begin to achieve the seven-to-one ROI
• Understand why typical approaches to HIT systems need good workflow to achieve ROI
• Discover core aspects of critical hospital systems and how to overcome interoperability challenges
• Recognize the challenges of HIPAA in this new IT world
• Be aware of upcoming changes in health organizations and how to leverage them for more successful IT implementations
• Hands-on case studies that apply to real world situations

Explore various assessment and analysis tools to identify your readiness for an EHR system.

The world of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) is going through major changes. Congress recently passed the ARRA (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) and the Health Information Technology for Economy and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to drive healthcare providers to implement broader and deeper information systems to include electronic health records (EMR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The Act includes $30 billion of funding initiatives and penalties for those facilities not meeting Meaningful Use standards in future years. The government’s stated goal of the HITECH funding is to realize more than $200 billion worth of savings in order to fund the new National Health Plan. This seven-to-one expected ROI places significant pressure on providers to quickly implement complex systems. The HITECH Act will create enormous business and professional challenges plus opportunities over the
next decade.

The HIT Boot Camp presents an overview of healthcare information systems designed for medical and non-medical professionals that want to expand their knowledge of HIT and better understand why the federal government is investing billions in stimulus money to expand the deployment of HIT in all aspects of healthcare delivery.

This two-day intensive course will discuss the many critical environmental elements and how they directly and indirectly impact the design and implementation of HIT. To fully comprehend the impact of the HITECH Act, you will need to understand the history of HIT and see how past healthcare elements such as payer reimbursement systems, HIPAA, organizational structures and legacy technologies still impact today's and tomorrow’s HIT decisions. Critical elements included are:

• The basics of hospital operations and how complex coordination is crucial to achieving the seven-to-one ROI
• The variable and challenging nature of medical care and its impact on designing and deploying HIT systems and ROI
• Valuing process care coordination
• The dire need for improved workflow systems as part of HIT implementation if your facility is to achieve ROI

Immediately useful case studies and healthcare IT tools -- The course will include both lectures and case studies to help foster class participation and fortify learning. Sample cases will be:

• A strategic planning exercise to show the dramatic differences between the classic silo approach versus a patient
• service approach
• Risk assessment of Meaningful Use and ROI implications
• Reliability and recovery issues of CPOE and EMR deployment

From a technical perspective the course will discuss the potential role and feasibility of:

• Interoperability
• EHR
• CPOE
• Wireless medical communication
• Voice recognition software
• Social networks
• HL7
• HIPAA
  

Immediate Benefits of Attending This Two-Day Course

1. Learn what you and your staff need to do to achieve the seven-to-one ROI
2. Understand why typical approaches to HIT systems need effective and efficient workflow to achieve ROI
3. Discover core aspects of critical hospital systems and how to overcome interoperability challenges
4. Recognize the challenges of HIPAA and security in this new IT world
5. Be aware of upcoming changes in health organizations and how to leverage them for more successful IT implementations

This two-day seminar will cover these topics and issues:

1. The 50-year history and background of HIT. Where we started, where we are, and how we got here.
2. The structure of the health industry. Healthcare makes up more than 16% of the country’s GDP. There are many levels of health services — pharmaceutical services, physician offices, dental services, acute hospitals, rehabilitation, long term care, and home care are just a few examples. The IT needs and requirements of each of these differ greatly. Understand how this diversity impacts HIT.
3. The organizational structure of healthcare and how it impacts HIT – specifically how to address organization challenges.
4. Key contrasts between commercial IT systems and healthcare.
5. Why has the deployment of IT technology in healthcare lagged behind that of the commercial industry?
6. The impact of payment and reimbursement systems on HIT.
7. Basic elements of core HIT systems:
   • Administrative systems
   • Revenue Cycle systems
   • Clinical systems: lab, radiology, pharmacy, ED, surgery, etc.
   • Care management /documentation systems
   • Care coordination and patient flow systems
   • Decision support systems (clinical and administrative)
   • CPOE and EMR systems
   • Quality assurance, credentialing, and other support tools
8. Interoperability in healthcare. Getting core components functioning together, breaking down language, HL7 and DICOM.
9. Breaking down the wall of complexity and getting to the core issues.
10. The Chief Information Officer in a healthcare organization and focusing on the five critical elements: planning, coordinating, integrating, facilitating and implementing.
11. Process re-engineering and workflow management as it affects process care coordination and ROI.
12. ARRA of 2009 will give $30 billion towards HIT improvements, what is the totality of the impact this will have?
13. Understanding all aspects of Meaningful Use and looking forward into the next decade.
14. With the funding comes change, what are the new HIPAA and security concerns?
15. Focusing in on the disclosure, sales and accounting of protected health information (PHI)
    

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Course Outline

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I. History and Background of HIT
Where we started, where we are, and how we got here. Although most talk today about health information technology is about hot new technologies like the Internet, SOA, interoperability and Cloud computing, hospitals still run legacy systems for both administrative and clinical applications. In this course we will cover the history of the following programs:

A. Mission critical systems
B. Legacy systems
C. EMR
D. CPOE
E. Social networking
F. Infrastructure systems that support everything

II. The Structure of the Healthcare Industry
Healthcare makes up more than 16% of the country’s GDP. There are many levels of health services. IT demand for these varying types of organizations differ greatly. We need to understand how this diversity impacts HIT from the following organizations standpoint.

A. Hospitals
B. Pharmaceutical services
C. Physician offices
D. Dental
E. Emergency care
F. Rehabilitation centers
G. Long term care
H. Home care

III. Organizational Structure of Healthcare and How it Impacts HIT
Unlike the commercial industry, healthcare has unique organizational structures. You hear the complaint over and over, “If I can do my banking online, or get airline tickets online, why can’t we have all that medical information online?” It’s because Healthcare IT requirements and concerns are different than commercial IT concerns. The rules and regulations alone that exist in healthcare make HIT significantly more difficult.

A. Commercial IT vs. Healthcare IT
B. Organization challenges
C. HIPAA
D. Regulations
E. Regulation impact of HIT

IV. Financial Organizational Healthcare Overview
The financial success of a healthcare organization depends upon the quality of servers and systems provided by the IT group. IT functions include billing speed and accuracy, quality, consistency and quantity of data collected on a patient. The critical success factors for a HIT are how well it can perform these functions.

A. ROI analysis
B. Payment and reimbursement issues
C. Measuring new systems ROI
D. RACs
E. Revenue Cycle

V. Basic Elements of Core HIT Systems and How They Should Interact
Understand the importance of management and administration of all these systems.

A. Administrative systems
B. Revenue cycle systems
C. Clinical systems: Lab, Radiology, Pharmacy, ED, Surgery, etc.
D. Care management /documentation systems
E. Care coordination and patient flow systems
F. Decision support systems – clinical and administrative
G. CPOE and EMR systems
H. Quality Assurance, Credentialing, and other support tools.

VI. Interoperability in Healthcare
With healthcare organizations operating multiple information systems, how do we get them to communicate effectively? We need to break the down the wall of complexity and get to the issue.

A. Core components functioning together
B. Understanding the language
C. Health Information Exchange (HIE)
D. HL7
E. DICOM
F. IDC-9 vs. IDC-10
G. Cross sector interoperability

VII. The Chief Information Officer in a Healthcare Organization
Healthcare CIOs face intimidating challenges because of the volume of data in the industry. CIOs must work hand-in-hand with the company's top managers to develop an understanding for the organization’s information requirements and to develop an information handling system to meet those needs. The four crucial components for a CIO are:

A. Planning
B. Coordinating
C. Facilitating
D. Implementing

VIII. Process Re-Engineering and Workflow Management
Process re-engineering and workflow management aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a work process within and across organizations. It simplifies a system down to three basic components: inputs, processes and outputs. Process re-engineering works to determine the optimum level of INPUT (labor, materials, space, capital) and the optimum combination of workflow and work processes that result in OUTPUTS that meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations. Here are the core competencies of workflow management:

A. Process care coordination
B. Effective tools
C. Skills requirements
D. Workflow process issues
E. Seven-to-one ROI

IX. Federal Government and Healthcare IT
The American Relief and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides more than $30 billion in Health IT (HIT) investments. Most of the money will be available to hospitals and physicians who adopt qualified, certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) with the ability to exchange information with other sources. We will focus on the impact of ARRA and the implications of the new Meaningful Use criteria.

A. Understanding “Meaningful Use”
B. The technical side of meeting “Meaningful Use”
C. “Meaningful Use” bonus and penalty calculations
D. Government funding
E. Forecasting the next decade

X. Security and HIPAA
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) made several major changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, mandating that a new set of regulations be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. In what ARRA describes as “improvements” to existing law, covered entities, business associates and other entities will soon be subject to more rigorous standards when it comes to protected health information (PHI). All told, the HITECH Act addresses five major areas in the existing HIPAA regulations:

A. Privacy and security breaches
B. Healthcare operations
C. Business associates
D. Disclosure, sales, and accounting of PHI
E. Enforcement

 

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Who Should Attend This Course

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This workshop should be valuable to all those concerned with electronic health records. These include:

• Health administrators, executives, department heads and staff needing to expand their IT knowledge base and are seeking ways to improve operations.
• Project managers who want to gain a broader knowledge of the health organization and inter department care delivery process.
• Healthcare IT professionals that need to broaden their knowledge base for greater career opportunities