Tuesday November 7, 2006

Hosted By:
VistA Software Alliance & perotsystems

Welcome and Introduction
Claudine Beron, Chairman, VistA Software Alliance

Peter Altabef, Chief Executive Officer & President, Perot Systems

A Public Policy Update
David W. Roberts, MPA, FHIMSS, Vice President, Government Relations
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chair, CCHIT

Break - Sponsored by G.TM

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Linda Fischetti, RN, MS, Acting Chief Health Informatics Officer, Director HealthePeople

Greg Donham, Interagency Program Specialist

Innovations in Clinical Care Using RPMS
Howard Hays, MD, MSPH, EHR Project Director, RPMS Program Manager
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, Office of Information Technology

Lunch - Sponsored by InterSystems and Perot Systems

Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui
Stan Saiki, Jr., M.D. Director of Clinical Informatics at the VA Honolulu

Break - Sponsored by Trenchant Technologies

VistA Internationalization: Experience from Egypt
Omar el Hattab, MD, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor George Mason University

Quality and EHR Implementation through Collaboration, Open Solutions and Innovation
Doug Goldstein, President, Medical Alliances

Conclusion

Wednesday November 8, 2006

Hosted By:
VistA Software Alliance & perotsystems

Welcome and Introduction
Claudine Beron, VSA Chairman

Change accompanying EHR adoption, focus on clinical transformation
Kevin Fickenscher, MD, Executive Vice President, Healthcare Transformation, PerotSystems

Standard Medical Terminologies: Adoption, Localization and Deployment in Your Organization and Around the World
Tony Weida, ScD and VP of Sales & Marketing, Apelon

Patient Identification & Matching: A Data Exchange & RHIO Perspective
Nancy Kolo, Senior Technical Consultant, Initiate Systems

Break - Sponsored by VistA Software Alliance

Solutions for Healthcare Information Systems
Alex Hill, VP of Business Development, CAV Systems

Lunch - Sponsored by PerotSystems

VistA Roundup
Roger Maduro, Managing Director
Linux Infrastructure (LxIS)

VSA - Strategic Plan: Updates from Shepherd Meeting
Claudine Beron, VSA Chairman & Barbara Boykin, VSA Chairman emeritus

Break - Sponsored by PerotSystems

VSA - Strategic Plan: continued
Claudine Beron, VSA Chairman & Barbara Boykin, VSA Chairman emeritus

Sales Strategies – Overcoming Objections
Claudine Beron, VSA Chairman facilitating