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OpenHRE Community Connect ^sm

^{Improving Community Health with Information Exchange}

From Browsersoft Inc:

Date: Tuesday, 12/12/2006

Time: 8am to 3pm Central

Conference Fee:

$ 50.00 Each Person

Communities Working Together to Improve Health with Information Exchange.

Join us at the City of Kansas City Missouri Health Department to explore valuable lessons learned from communities implementing Health Information Exchange initiatives. Sessions will highlight the value these communities have realized and envision by working together, sharing resources, and building upon the open source model with OpenHRE to achieve quick and affordable results. Together with the audience, we will create a “community of interest” focused on achieving the benefits of health information sharing.

Location Details

City of Kansas City, MO.,

Health Department

2400 Troost Avenue

Kansas City, MO 64108

Phone: (816) 513-6008

www.KCMO.org/health

Introduction: Joe Brisson, VP Client Services, Browsersoft Inc.

"Where we’ve been, where we are, where we are going."

Joe Panther, Executive Vice President, Browsersoft Inc.

8:00 - 8:30: Introduction and OpenHRE™ Background

8:30 - 09:00: ARCH Health Information Exchange

"Second time 'Round: Mendocino SHARE to Alliance for Rural Community Health HIE". Experiences, lessons learned, and still to learn on our second generation HIE.

Greg Wenneson, IT Director / Project Manager

Alliance for Rural Community Health, Mendocino, CA

MeDHIX: "A Health Information Exchange for Safety-Net Patient Populations." The unique challenges, environmental constraints and lessons learned through the journey to implement a health information exchange between safety-net clinics and local health providers.

Tom Lewis, MD CIO Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, MD

Leta Kajut, RN MeDHIX Project Manager

9:00 - 9:30: The Metro DC Health Information Exchange

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch: Collaboration/ Results / Discussions

"Free Open Source Solutions for the 7th Largest City in the Country."

Alesha R. Adamson, MS Director of Technology

Access to Care for the Uninsured, San Antonio TX.

9:30 - 10:00: Access to Care for the Uninsured (ACU)

10:00 - 10:30 Kansas Statewide Diabetic Data Aggregation

"Setting the Foundation for Health Information Exchange -Aggregating Data from Rural Clinics throughout Kansas"

Marti Macchi, Director of Special Studies

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Opportunity for all participants to describe their goals, objective, hopes, strategies, and perceived risks – benefits – costs – impediments for their own health information exchange projects.

10:30 - 10:45 Break

Common areas of interest and collective development opportunities identified by Presenters. User panel to present with interaction from audience.

10:45 - 12:00 Informal Presentations by Attendees

1:00 - 2:00 OpenHRE Technical Review

High Level Overview of Updated Architecture, New and Planned Capabilities - NHIN/ Other Demonstrations

Don Grodecki, President, Browsersoft Inc., Chief Architect, OpenHRE

Scott Tran, Lead Developer, OpenHRE

Users and Browsersoft Staff take questions and seek new perspectives from the audience. Develop action items and initiate planning for the next user group.

2:00 - 2:45 Final Panel Q&A / Seeking Your Input