National Health IT Week
September 10-14, 2012
The Seventh Annual National Health IT Week 
was held September 10-14, 2012. Health IT Week brought together the health IT community under one umbrella to raise awareness about the power of health IT to improve the quality, safety, and cost effectiveness of health care.
The events of the week provided a key opportunity for key stakeholders—vendors, provider organizations, payers, pharmaceutical/biotech companies, government agencies, industry and professional associations, research foundations, and consumer groups—to work together to highlight critical issues and advance a shared vision of improving the nation's health and health care through health IT. During Health IT Week, ONC developed a specific theme upon which to build each day's events.
Health IT Events and Initiatives
Health IT Blog Carnival
The Health IT Blog Carnival
was an open call for health care and IT industry bloggers, providing them with opportunities to comment on the impact health IT will have in 2013. Tuesday: Improving Patient Care Through Meaningful Use
ONC - HRSA Webinar Demo of the New ONC Privacy and Security Training Game and Program Update for Safety Net Providers
Tuesday, Septeber 11
10:00am - 11:00am ET
This webinar featured a new training tool from the ONC Privacy and Security Group. ONC demonstrated an interactive training game for providers and staff on the "do's and don'ts" of privacy and security issues regarding health IT. This training tool can be used to help fulfill providers' HIPAA privacy training requirements. In addition, ONC provided a privacy and security update on recent program changes and how they affect safety net providers.
Presenters:
- Laura Rosas, JD, MPH, Policy Analyst, ONC
- William Phelps Policy Analyst, ONC
Dashboard
- ONC announced the availability of a new Health IT Dashboard. The Dashboard presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs, and research activities related to health IT. Visit the dashboard.
PCPCC Advancing Primary Care through Health IT
Tuesday, September 11
2:00pm - 3:30pm ET
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) held a webinar entitled "Advancing Primary Care through Health Information Technology." The webinar featured speakers from CMS, ONC, and NCQA, who discussed various aspects of health information technology and the patient-centered medical home.
Presenters:
- Richard Baron, MD, MACP, Group Director, Seamless Care Models, CMS Innovation Center
- Jacob Reider, MD, Acting Chief Medical Officer, ONC
- Mat Kendall, Director of Office Provider Adoption Support, ONC
- Johann Chanin, Director in Product Development, NCQA
Wednesday: Privacy and Security
NeHC Privacy and Security Programs
Wednesday, September 12
ONC's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) announced the release of its first Web-based security training module, CyberSecure: Your Medical Practice. The security training module uses a game format that requires users to respond to privacy and security challenges often faced in a typical small medical practice.
11:00am - 12:00pm ET
As part of Health IT Week
, National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) offered a series of programs with ONC to highlight various initiatives, including those related to privacy and security. Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer at ONC, kicked off the program and Laura Rosas, Privacy and Security Professional at ONC and Will Phelps, HIT Cyber Security Program Officer with HHS, provided an interactive demonstration of Cybersecure: Your Medical Practice, a new avatar-based game meant to enhance organizations' understanding of privacy and security.Faculty:
- Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer, ONC
- Laura E. Rosas, JD, MPH, Privacy and Security Professional, Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, ONC
- Will Phelps, HIT Cyber Security Program Officer, US Department of Health and Human Services
URL: http://www.nationalehealth.org/HITWeek-Security
Thursday: Standards, Interoperability, and Health Information Exchange
NeHC Standards & Interoperability Framework
Thursday, September 13
1:00p - 2:30pm ET
The National eHealth Collaborative
(NeHC) offered a program with Deputy National Coordinator David Muntz and Director of the Office of Science and Technology, Dr. Doug Fridsma. The program featured a discussion on the progress of the Standards and Interoperability Framework. Dr. Holly Miller from MedAllies, Inc. and David Tao from Siemens Healthcare discussed the S&I Framework from the perspective of a provider and a vendor respectively.
Faculty:
- David Muntz, Principal Deputy National Coordinator, ONC
- Dr. Doug Fridsma, Director, Office of Standards and Interoperability, ONC
- Dr. Holly Miller, Chief Medical Officer, MedAllies, Inc.
- David Tao, Senior Key Expert and Interoperability Champion, Siemens Healthcare
URL: http://www.nationalehealth.org/HITWeek-Standards
Friday: Quality and Health IT
NeHC Quality in Health IT Webinar
Friday, September 14
11:00am - 12:00pm ET
For the final webinar of the HIT Week Program Series
, National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) provided a program featuring Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, and Dr. Patrick Conway, who discussed how ONC, AHRQ, and CMS are collaborating to leverage health IT to improve healthcare quality. Speakers provided a vision for the quality measurement enterprise of the future as well as the necessary steps to transition to health IT-enabled measurement, reporting and feedback that drives improvement in care and outcomes. They also identified challenges moving forward in realizing this vision, including the need for continued public-private collaboration to continuously evolve and improve the enterprise. Faculty:
- Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC
- Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Dr. Patrick Conway, Chief Medical Officer, Director, Office of Clinical Quality Standards and Quality , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
URL: http://www.nationalehealth.org/HITWeek-Quality
HRSA Leadership Tips During a Health IT Implementation Webinar
Friday, September 14
2:00pm - 3:30pm ET
This webinar focused on the importance of leadership in successfully steering an organization through a health IT implementation. It featured established leaders who have conducted more than 70 health IT implementations in health centers, rural health clinics, and critical access hospitals. The presenters also focused on how leadership is important in helping staff, clinicians, patients, a safety net providers' board, and partners adjust to and overcome the barriers that typically accompany a health IT implementation and impede success. Lastly, the presenters provided leadership examples of unique health IT implementation situations such as meeting meaningful use objectives, changing vendors, and implementing health IT in multiple provider sites. Presenters included:
- Terry Hill, MPA, Executive Director and Joe Wivoda, Chief Information Officer
National Rural Health Resource Center - Greg Wolverton, Chief Information Officer
White River Rural Health Center, Arkansas - Doug Smith, Executive Director
Greene County Healthcare, North Carolina
- Terry Hill, MPA, Executive Director and Joe Wivoda, Chief Information Officer
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HIMSS "Health IT is..." Twitter Chat
Friday, September 14
On Friday, September 14, @HIMSS
and @HealthStandards moderated a #HITsm Twitter chat on National Health IT Week at 12 noon ET.
Celebrate in Your Hometown
Other Health IT Week resources included a list of 10 ways to get involved
, whether externally in your community and/or by communicating the value of health IT within your own organization. View a full list of National Health IT activities that took place across the U.S.
See a list of partners on the National Health IT Week website Partners page
