24 Leading Experts from OASD/HA, DVA, HHS, EHR Way Ahead PO, DHIMS, Navy BUMED, NMISSA, MAMC/WRMC, TATRC, Army EMS PO, AFMS, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Harris, CSC, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, NeHC, Vangent, CliniComp, GlobalMedia, eMIDS, and Netspective examine:

• The Latest Information on OSD/Service Health IT Needs, Initiatives, Roadmaps and Plans
• Interoperability Challenges and Emerging Solutions — The Way Ahead
• Connecting EHRS from the Battlefield to the Garrison
• Deploying VLER — Challenges and Lessons Learned
• Implementing SOA in Legacy and Future Sites and Systems
• Health Portals, Data Mining, Mobile EHRS, Bandwidth, Standards, ICD Coding Changes … and more

Special Presentations by:

• VADM (ret) Michael Cowan, MD - Director, Deloitte Consulting; 34th Surgeon General, USN
• Dr. Peter Levin - Chief Technology Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

About The Conference

Military EHRS — Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? - How Will We Get There?

The DoD has been at the forefront of developing and installing Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRS), serving over nine million patients, one hundred thirty thousand Medical Health System (MHS) staff, over four hundred medical clinics and more than sixty military hospitals. Health care professionals in all fixed military medical facilities and in many deployed environments have access to EHRS. (By contrast, less than ten percent of US non-military hospitals have even a basic electronic records system.) However, there have been bumps in the road: concerns have been raised about the reliability and ease of use of DoD’s EHRS and whether it is productive and cost-effective. There have also been problems in getting DoD systems to interoperate efficiently with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ EHRS.

This outstanding conference brings together the experts from government and industry who are defining and developing the solutions to these and other issues and who are modernizing the military Healthcare IT infrastructure and developing the next-generation Military EHRS.

• What are the goals and objectives of the DoD EHR Way Ahead Program?
• What is the future of AHLTA? What are the lessons learned in EHR implementation? VLER installation?
• How will the introduction of Service-Oriented Architecture tools and technologies facilitate interoperability among DoD and VA EHR Systems?
• How do you measure EHRS effectiveness? Ensure security and privacy? How are Web-based hosting and Cloud Computing changing the approach to EHRS?
• What new capabilities are being developed in EHRS data mining and global, mobile EHRS?
• How do we tie military and private systems into the National Healthcare Information Network?
• What new opportunities and projects will becoming available?

These and many other critical questions will be addressed during this outstanding two-day event.

Our Distinguished Panel of Experts

• VADM (ret) Michael Cowan, MD - Director, Deloitte Consulting; 34th Surgeon General, USN
• Dr. Peter Levin - Chief Technology Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Dr. Allen Middleton - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Budgets and Financial Policy, OASD/HA
• RADM Theresa Cullen, MD - Assistant Surgeon General/CIO, Indian Health Service, HHS
• Brig Gen (ret) Tom Verbeck - Chief Technology Officer, Health IT, Northrop Grumman
• CAPT Michael Weiner, MD - Director, EHR Way Ahead POCOL DaCosta Barrow Program Manager, DHIMS
• CAPT Robert Marshall, MD - Chief Medical Information Officer, BUMED, US Navy
• CAPT Tina Ortiz - Commanding Officer, NMISSA
• Mr. Richard Barnhill - Deputy Chief and Program Manager, Clinical Informatics, MAMC/WRMC, Army Medical Command
• CDR Steve Steffensen - Chief Medical Information Officer, TATR
• CDr. Adam Darkins - Chief Telehealth Consultant, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Mr. James Aplin - Director, Army Electronic Medical Systems Program Office
• Col Jesus Zarate - Director, Air Force Medical Service
• Dr. Samuel Shekar - Chief Medical Officer, Health IT Programs, Northrop Grumman
• Dr. Barclay Butler - Vice President, Military Healthcare Solutions, Harris Corp.
• Dr. Robert Wah - Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CSC
• Mr. Rich Budka - Director of Advanced Concepts, Lockheed Martin IS&GS
• Ms. Kristine Anderson - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Mr. Alan Portela - President, CliniCompMr. Joel Barthelemy Managing Director, GlobalMedia Group
• Mr. Erick Peters - Director of Architecture & Technology/Clinical and Infrastructure Solutions, Vangent
• Mr. Shahid Shah - Chief Executive Officer, Netspective Communications
• Mr. Jay Culver - Global Sales Director, GlobalMedia Group
• Mr. Aaron Seib - Chief Executive Officer, National eHealth Collaborative
• Mr. Jerry Buchanan - Senior Engineer, eMIDS

Location

Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport
1480 Crystal Drive,
Arlington, VA 22202
Tel: (703) 416-1600 or 1800-2CROWNE

Attendance is limited to US, NATO, and allied countries only.

We reserve the right to alter the published program if necessitated by circumstances beyond our control. The material presented in this program is based on unclassified technology and unclassified technology application areas.

Attendee accommodations must be arranged directly with the hotel.