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Program Agenda

1 - 3 p.m. EST

This session will explain to health information management (HIM) and quality professionals how the data that they share with one another is critical to portraying the hospital’s quality of care.

With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the New York State Department of Health, and others relying on coded data to drive their “report cards” on institutions’ quality of care, it is critical that HIM and quality professionals work together to understand the intricacies of the data.

This session will focus on pay-for-performance initiatives, which are driven by coded data, and the importance of hospital-acquired conditions in quality and reimbursement.

Who Should Attend

• Health Information Management
• Coding
• Quality

What You Will Learn

At the conclusion of this program, you will understand:

• data sharing between the HIM and quality departments;
• how CMS and others are using HIM data to drive quality reporting;
• how reimbursement is, and will be, impacted by HIM and quality data; and
• the importance of interaction between HIM and quality data.

Faculty

Eric Niehaus, Vice President, HANYS Solutions

Mary Therriault, Senior Director, Quality and Research Initiatives, HANYS

Registration Deadline/Cancellation

The registration deadline is May 4, 2010. Cancellations—less a 25% cancellation fee—will be accepted until April 26, 2010. Cancellations after that time are not eligible for a refund. Substitutions are always encouraged, even at the last minute.

Questions regarding registration can be directed to Joan Stewart, Registration Coordinator, at jstewart@hanys.org.

Continuing Education Credits

This activity will be submitted to the National Association of Healthcare Quality for 2 CPHQ CE credits.

The Healthcare Education and Research Fund is authorized to award 2 hours of pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward Category II credit should indicate their attendance when submitting application to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.

This program has been approved for 2 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

Materials

Program materials, login instructions, and sing-in sheets will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the webconference.