8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome

8:15 VA/DOD Interoperability Ventures

• Managing interagency polices and operations
• Identifying individual impediments and challenges

Doug Felton
Acting Manager, Program Operations, DoD/VA
Interagency Program Office

9:00 End-User Perspective On AHLTA

• Clinical application challenges
• Meeting the functional needs of the end-user

Col Page W. McNall, USAF, DC, CMIO
Chief Dental Officer
Defense Health Information Management System

09:45 Army Functional Perspective

• Update from an “end- user” perspective towards the MHS EHR
• Future needs and challenges for EHRs and a VLER
• Functional Army perspective on the “next steps”

LTC Nhan Van Do, USA, MD, MD, MS FACP, OTSG, OCMIO, Chief, Business Process Management
CMIO
MEDCOM

11:00 A Functional Perspective On The MHS Electronic Health Record: Navy Perspective

• The MHS EHR and the VLER in relation to the patientcentered medical home
• Functional needs and current challenges
• Functional Navy perspective on the "next steps" for EHRs and a VLER

CAPT Robert C. Marshall, USN
Director, Clinical Informatics
The Bureau of Navy Medicine

11:45 MC4 - Improved Medical IM/IT Use Through Lessons Learned, Collaboration & Future Technologies

• The future: New technology, pilot programs and enterprise efforts focusing beyond the current war
• Lessons learned & challenges from MC4 use, training and support in theater
• Better preparing for the deployment of war fighters using medical IM/IT solutions

LTC William E. Geesey, USA
Product Manager
Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4)

1:30 Live Demonstration: Successful Strategies For The Development Of EHR Solutions, And Update On The Personal Health Record Pilot Project From Madigan Army Medical Center

• Strategy for development of EHR solutions, information exchange, and interoperability between the DoD and VA and purchased care providers
• Update on the PHR Pilot

2:15 Implementation And User Acceptance In The Real World

• Physician cooperation and managing change
• Big Bang vs. Incremental
• Resolving Conflict

Tom Arnold, MBA
Senior Project Manager at DSS Inc.

3:15 SOA And The Integration Possibilities Of New Architectures In Electronic Health Records

• The future of information sharing between federal agencies – our BHIE program with the VA & DoD and its relationship to NHIN
• Unleashing the power of data repositories through SOA, web services, and informatics tools
• Developing business processes and use cases to support health care process reengineering: the medical home construct and telemedicine

Mr. Bill Oldham
Chairman and CEO, Evolvent
co-author of Securing Business Intelligence - Knowledge and Cybersecurity in the Post 9/11 World

4:00 Focus: Standards And Meaningful Use

• Current debate on meaningful use
• Where the current gaps are
• Federal NHIN Connect Overview

Ms. Nancy Orvis
Director, National Standards Participation and Health IM-IT Integration
Information Management Support Office MHS

4:45 End Of Main Conference