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CtHIMA’s All-Day Session on Leveraging and Managing Your Data to Better Achieve Goals
May 22, 2019 @ 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Agenda
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Founder’s Hall Pavilion
Middlesex Community College
100 Training Hill Rd.
Middletown, CT 06457
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration and Breakfast Provided by Iron Mountain |
9:00 – 10:30 | Introduction to Project Management
Cindy Zak MS, RHIA, PMP, FAHIMA; Executive Director, Revenue Services at Yale New Haven Health Presentation Download: Introduction to Project Management Focusing on planning, managing and organizing the available resources. Objectives and goals of the organization can be achieved in an efficient manner through proper project management. A project manager can help forecast risk that might arise during the production process and ensure that these risks are addressed with a proper plan. <span style="background-color: #fea; display: table; width: 100%; padding: 5px; font-weight: bolder; color: #3875d7;">Show Cindy Zak's Bio</span>![]() |
10:30 – 12:00 | Information Governance: A Best Practices Approach to Mitigating Risks and Improving Resilience
John Moynihan, CPHIMS; Healthcare Business Development at Iron Mountain Presentation Download: CTHIMA IG Resiliency Information is one of any Healthcare Organization’s most valuable resources and needs to be treated as such. With the complexity found within the Healthcare industry, including the frequent changes in regulation, care delivery models, concerns for patient safety, and the need for greater transparency, how you manage your information has a direct impact on your organization’s success. ![]() Healthcare Business Development at Iron MountainJohn has over 20 years of experience in the Healthcare space. As part of Iron Mountain John is helping to expand their Healthcare market share by promoting and educating customers on Information Governance best practices that will help organizations manage and secure their records through a lifecycle that includes extended periods of digital transformation. Prior to this John was Manager of the Healthcare Vertical at Extreme Networks where he helped to define and prioritize new strategic initiatives within the Healthcare vertical globally for Extreme Network’s visionary software-driven networking solutions. Before that he was responsible for supporting all aspects of sales enablement and demand generation for the sales organization of UNIFY (FKA Siemens Enterprise Communications) including defining the market position for UNIFY’s’ award winning portfolio of Communication & Collaboration products across the Healthcare and Manufacturing verticals in North America. John also spent six years as the Chief Technology Officer for Specialists On Call. He helped establish this start-up, concept, telemedicine business and turned it into the largest emergency telemedicine practice in the U.S. with over 60,000 emergency consults per year in hospitals across the United States. He designed an innovative IT infrastructure to support the telemedicine practice with robust, secure, video conferencing, PACS, EMR, and CRM technologies which received an exceptional rating on the IT infrastructure from The Joint Commission. |
12:00 – 12:30 | Lunch with CtHIMA Updates from Jim Donaher, CtHIMA President and Karen Lawler, Past-President CtHIMA and Chair of the CtHIMA Nominating Committee |
12:30 – 1:30 | Predictive Analytics in Healthcare
Mary Lyon, Vice President, Integrated Health Information, Connecticut Hospital Association Presentation Download: Predictive Analytics in Healthcare Predictive analytics is the process of learning from historical data to make predictions about the future. For health care, predictive analytics will enable the best decisions to be made. |
1:30 – 2:30 | Healthcare’s Top Ten Challenges for 2019
Karen Lawler, RHIA, CHPS, FABC; Corporate Director Health Information Management and Privacy Officer at the Hospital for Special Care Presentation Download: Top Ten challenges in Health care and the HIM professional For more than 10 years, the Healthcare Executive Group has annually queried its members to see what’s keeping them awake at night. The effort has provided insight into primary opportunities, challenges and issues currently facing healthcare executives and a potential roadmap for HIM professionals. <span style="background-color: #fea; display: table; width: 100%; padding: 5px; font-weight: bolder; color: #3875d7;">Show Karen Lawler's Bio</span>![]() |
2:30 – 3:30 | Risk Adjustment Methodologies in Healthcare Today
Jim Donaher, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P; Clinical Content Development Analyst at 3M HIS Presentation Download: Risk Adjustment Methodologies We are all familiar with the HCCs, but are we aware there are more than one set of HCCs? How were the risk methodologies developed and where are they going? Quality data can help us better understand and show our patients’ risk. Examining the data can identify opportunities for improvement. <span style="background-color: #fea; display: table; width: 100%; padding: 5px; font-weight: bolder; color: #3875d7;">Show Jim Donaher's Bio</span>
James Donaher, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P. While a student earning my bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and in Foreign Languages at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; I worked in scientific research laboratories and in behavioral health facilities providing direct patient care where I paid very close attention to the documentation! After graduation I continued my work at a lab in New Jersey before accepting an editorial assistant position in medical publishing at Arco Publishing in New York City. I later returned to Connecticut to again work in behavioral health facilities before deciding to return to college for a degree in Health Information Technology at Briarwood College in Southington, Connecticut. After graduation from Briarwood I took a position as an inpatient and ambulatory coder at Waterbury Hospital. I then went to Hartford Hospital where I was the inpatient coding and compliance manager. Next came New Milford Hospital overseeing all areas of coding followed by ICD-10 trainer/educator for Western Connecticut Health Network. I then returned to Waterbury Hospital to build up their CDI program before finally landing where I am today at 3M Health Information Systems working as a clinical content development analyst for various components of various groupers as well as for IR-DRG. I have also served as both Director and President on the CtHIMA Board and am a member of the Advisory Board for HIM at Middlesex College in Middletown, Connecticut. I also teach Medical Coding and Billing at Naugatuck Valley Community College at both their Waterbury and Danbury campuses. |
6.5 CEUs will be offered for this full day session.
Pricing:
- $100.00 for members
- $125.00 for non-members
- $25.00 for students
Pricing includes a light breakfast with coffee and individual boxed lunches from Bourassa Catering of Wallingford.
Please click here to register for this event.
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