8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:15 Keynote: Veteran’s Affairs: Current Initiatives Within The VA For Health IT

Dr. Paul Tibbits, SES
Deputy CIO, Office of Strategy, Architecture, and Design
Dept of Veteran Affairs

9:00 The Military's Electronic Health Record: Where We Are And Where We're Going

• Understand the current state of the military's electronic health record (EHR)and the benefits it provides.
• Examine the lessons learned from global EHR implementation and determine how they can be used in the way ahead
• Next steps for FY’11 and beyond

CAPT Michael S. Weiner, MC, USN
Director, EHR Way Ahead
Military Health Service (MHS)

09:45 Navy CIO Perspective: Current Challenges And Future Needs

• Lessons learned to be applied toward future initiatives
• Challenges faced with AHLTA- image sharing and security
• Future path for joint interoperability needs, and the Navy challenge for a VLER

Mr. Verlin Hardin
CIO
The Bureau of Navy Medicine (BUMED)

11:00 Callout IHS CIO Perspective Update From The Indian Health Services

RADM Theresa Cullen, MD, MS
U.S. Public Health Service CIO
Indian Health Service

11:45 Army CIO Perspective: Army’s Perspective On DoD’s EHR Journey

• Army’s vision of a knowledge driven organization
• Current perspective on a VLER and the NHIN
• Challenges and roadmap ahead

COL Hon S. Pak, USA, MC
CIO
Army Medical Department (AMEDD)

1:30 Afternoon Keynote: Joint Venture And Integrated Site Progress Report

• Challenges faced and lessons learned from Phase III implementation for North Chicago VAMC and Naval Health Clinic Great Lakes
• Integration process of the IT systems

CAPT Michael Beardsley, USN
Commanding Officer
Naval Health Clinic Great Lakes

2:15 FDA Focus: Medical Device Integration And Regulation: Perspective From The FDA

• Identifying and Complying with FDA regulations for medical device interoperability
• Accountability and “ownership” for interoperability safety issues

Dr. Sandy Weininger
Center for Devices and Radiological Health U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(CDRH) /OSEL/DESE

3:30 Current Testing And Certification Criteria From NIST

• Research activities and collaborations in support of standards and testing necessary for “meaningful use”
• Nationwide collaboration efforts and priorities

Bettijoyce Lide
Scientific Advisor and Program Coordinator for Health InformationTechnology
National Institute of Standards& Technology

4:15CDC Focus: Update On Current HIT Initiatives From The CDC’s Public Health Informatics And Technology Program Office

• Advancing IT to aid in the detection and management of diseases and syndromes in individuals and populations
• Developing and maintaining IT applications to meet cross-cutting CDC programmatic requirements
• Creating and maintaining national standards for surveillance and messaging functions

Mr. Walter Harris
Acting Director, Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

4:45 Closing Session: Meeting Current IT Operational Challenges And Advancing HIE: The NCI Perspective

Dr. Caterina Lasome
COO, Center for Biomedical Informatics &IT
National Cancer Institute

5:30 End Of Day One