Moderator
Janet Marchibroda
10/7/2008

Hello and welcome. So this is the basic session. So, Implementing E-prescribing: The Basics. So, check around, make sure you’re in the right room. I know there’s a lot of us that have joined this session as we embark on this journey to implement e-prescribing. My name Janet Marchibroda and welcome. I am really excited about hearing from our panelists today. We’re going to truly learn about the basics, nuts and bolts from a policy stand point and we’re also going to talk about, okay how do we apply policy as we’re implementing this in our practices and we’ve got four terrific panelists. But before I am going to introduce them all, but before I do so, I do have some housekeeping that I want to share with you. CME credits will be offered, so make sure you turn in your forms by the end of the day. This session is being taped, so speak loudly into your mics when you do your questions. And then all presentations, we’ve got some that we’re sharing with you, all of them will be available online if you’re thinking about taking notes. So let me introduce our four speakers. Our first one is Ben Sasse and Ben is the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation for the Department of Health and Human Services. It’s a position that he served since 2007 and continues to serve as counselor for policy and strategic initiatives to Secretary Leavitt, including those related to health IT. He oversees policy, legislative development, research and strategic planning, economic analysis and policy coordinator functions for the department and he also leads several priority projects across the 11 operating divisions with the special focus on Medicare, Medicaid and the Food and Drug Administration and there’s a lot going on there as well, very exciting. He’ll be followed, he and Dr. Michael Rapp are going to do - spend about 30 minutes with us. Dr. Rapp is the Director of the Quality Measurement & Health Assessment Group at CMS. This group is responsible for evaluating measurement systems to assess healthcare quality in a broad range of settings including hospitals, physician offices and prescription medications in nursing homes. He also practices, he is an emergency physician and was an active clinical practice until taking his position as CMS including most recently as a member of the George Washington University medical faculty associates. I know we’ve seen a lot of leadership in that practice in Washington around health IT. For 18 years, he actually served as the chairman and medical director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Arlington Hospital as well and has served on the board and as president of the American College of Emergency Physicians and for those of you that don’t this, ACEP has really been a pioneer in using health IT. It’s interesting. If you do an analysis of all the folks and informatics jobs across the U.S., you’ll see a number of them are actually emergency docs. So, we’re excited about hearing his remarks. Our third panelist, Holly Miller. I am really excited about this one because we’re going to hear about nuts and bolts and how we make all of this work. She is actually the chief medical officer at the University Hospitals and Health Systems Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio and there’s has been a lot going around collaboration in the hospital systems in Northeastern Ohio that I know many of you are aware of. It’s a community-based system which serves patients at more than 150 locations throughout Northern Ohio. And she is a senior clinical executive for IT and information systems, supporting a whole range of stakeholder s. And then finally, our fourth panelist today is Dr. Daniel Green. He is the Medical Officer at CMS’s Office of Clinical Standards and Quality. He is currently serving in the Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group also working on PQRI and I know that something that many of us are following very carefully, also registry use for reporting quality information, a big area of focus and health care in our country, e-prescribing of course and health IT among other projects. He is actually a Board Certified OB/GYN, graduated from Georgetown, also local and completed his residency in 1992 at the University of Maryland.