A basic understanding of the complex transaction ecosystem is required to begin the medical banking journey. This session will provide an overview and isolate current industry “speed bumps” that are impacting the market evolution of a digital processing platform; including competitive, technology and policy issues. We'll also review the current environment for transitioning towards ICD10 and 5010.

Sunny Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Edifecs, Bellevue, WA

Joseph Nichols MD, Medical Director, Edifecs, Bellevue, WA

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How did ARRA impact the business risks in medical banking? Have the lines blurred between the HIPAA-defined business associate and clearinghouse? Could this impact business investment in improved transaction processing?

Mary Rita Hyland, Vice President, Government Relations, SSI Group, Mobile, AL

Richard Marks, Attorney-at-Law, Visiting Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences, Media Studies Department, University of Virginia, Alexandria, VA

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What does the data say about the growth rate of Health Savings Accounts? Given the environment for health reform, what is the prognosis for consumer-driven healthcare programs? What are firms doing now to capture the evolution of the “health-wealth” mindshare of consumers?

Dean Mason, Chief Executive Officer, HSA Bank, Sheboygan, WI

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HIMSS2010 Keynote in Georgia World Congress Center

Dan Hesse, Chief Executive Officer, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Overland Park, KS

Registration for the Institute will be at the Georgia World Congress Center. Registrants and pre-registered attendees move to The Omni Hotel, right across the street from the Georgia World Congress Center.

The creation of the new HIMSS Medical Banking Project has created a much improved educational platform for advancing the medical banking industry. Hear the founder of MBProject discuss plans for this new operating division of HIMSS, including implementation of a global strategy for change and innovation followed by a Call to Order, presentation of MBProject's Person of The Year Award and special recognition of our Educational Grantor by the President of the new HIMSS MBProject Advisory Council.

John Casillas, Chair, HIMSS MBProject Advisory Council; Senior Vice President, HIMSS MBProject, Business and Financial Information Systems, Chicago, IL

Maureen L. Turo, President, HIMSS MBProject Advisory Council; Vice President, Healthcare Market Specialist, MS, CTP, BNY Mellon Treasury Services, Pittsburg, PA

Moving financial and clinical transactions will require heavy lifting to achieve universal standardization. What are the core transactions and who are the players evolving the “DNA” of the transaction ecosystem?

Gwendolyn Lohse, Managing Director, Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE), Council on Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), Washington, DC.

Jay Eisenstock, Manager, Provider eSolutions, Aetna, Inc., Middletown, CT

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A review of the key privacy and security provisions that have been added to HIPAA-based federal data privacy protection requirements under ARRA / HITECH, followed by an assessment of how to operationalize provisions by a well respected industry veteran.

Lisa Gallagher, Senior Director, Privacy and Security, HIMSS, Chicago, IL

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We will hear an overview of the restructuring of MBProject workgroups into three taskforces, the status of a new "DRI Tool" program that simplifies administrative complexities in the claim process, as well as an inside view of the initiatives of two HIMSS Steering Committees - Financial Systems and Health Information Exchange. Attendees will be challenged to get involved in shaping the future by participating in these efforts.

Scott Krah, Director of Banking Services, Ingenix/CareMedic, Decatur, GA

Joseph Miller, Director, E-Business, AmeriHealth Mercy; Chair, Financial Systems Steering Committee, HIMSS, Chicago, IL

John Kansky, VP Business Development, Indiana Health Information Exchange: Chair, HIE Steering Committee, HIMSS, Chicago, IL

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Legislative provisions in the health reform bills will shape and impact the medical banking industry. This session will provide an overview of the health reform battle shaping up in DC as well as drill down to the provisions in the legislation that will impact medical banking.

David Roberts, Vice President, HIMSS Government Relations, Washington, DC

Miriam Paramore, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Government Relations, Emdeon, Nashville, TN

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5:00 - 8:00

BANCTEC NETWORKING GALA at OMNI HOTEL

Lessons Learned From The Road: The Point & Click Expedition & Presentation of Awards

In 2009, MBProject set out on an ambitious agenda to catalogue how firms are bringing healthcare online. Dubbed “Banks, Hospitals and People: The Point & Click Expedition”, the national tour, featured in the Nov-Dec 2009 Journal of AHIMA, sought to provide a venue for sharing insights straight from the innovators of the medical banking domain. Nuggets of wisdom, road warrior stories and how the tour influenced the creation of a new action report for the industry will be shared. We will also present the Tour Awards!

John Casillas, Senior Vice President, HIMSS MBProject, Financial and Information Systems, HIMSS, Chicago, IL

>> See John's Tour blog and share your comments...more

The Impact of Health Reform Legislation on Health Savings Accounts

As health reform legislation takes shape in DC, proponents of consumer driven health care have kept a close eye on potential impacts on Health Savings Accounts. Regulatory impacts and quickly evolving legislative issues will be discussed by a former economic advisor to President Bush. The latest trends in consumer driven health plans will also be presented.

Roy Ramthun, President, HSA Consulting Services, LLC, Silver Spring, MD

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>> See Roy's latest Dr. HSA Column (syndicated in a number of blogs including health care activist, John Goodman)...more

A remarkable health care lending opportunity is evolving as ARRA and the HITECH Act take hold in the marketplace. As this occurs, banks will find increased exposure to health information technology (IT) assets, including significant implementation costs. While it is estimated that ARRA provides over $20 billion in government assistance for this new health care IT spend, implementation challenges around core systems are not uncommon and can potentially impact the solvency of health care organizations. The "era of ARRA" entails new credit risks for banks, other lenders and leasing companies. We'll examine the issues, get reaction from the audience and begin to work on a much needed industry tool kit that helps to provide guidance for the medical banking community.

Patricia B. Wise, RN, MS, MA, FHIMSS, Col., USA retired, Vice President, Health Information Systems, HIMSS, Chicago, IL

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The data collected by HIMSS Analytics, representing over 5,100 hospitals, reveals that administrative systems will undergo significant transformation over the next 3-5 years. This could provide the background for changing well established business practices in patient accounting to bank-enabled revenue cycle solutions. A review of the data will help to create a clear strategy to engage this emerging opportunity. The session is followed by a discussion of metrics that need to be gathered in order to assess the state of the medical banking industry.

Michael Davis, Executive Vice President HIMSS Analytics, HIMSS, Chicago, IL

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Since 2001, when MBProject began to create industry focus on specializing banking systems for health care, a number of banks have implemented solutions. The senior banker’s panel will take up this evolving area within the context of the global credit squeeze, discuss the current spend for specializing services into healthcare, the general areas where this spend is occurring (specialized lockbox, point of service payment processing, card programs, HSAs, etc), how banks are reacting to the complexity of this nascent marketplace and what future spending patterns might be.

Moderator: BP Fulmer, President Emeritus, Medical Banking Institute; Managing Partner, ExchangeEDI, Cartersville, GA

Ralph Bernstein, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Strategy, US Bank, Minneapolis, MN

Daniel J. McCarty, CCM, Executive Vice President, Treasury Management Services, Comerica Bank, Detroit, MI

Peter Wheeler, SVP, Sales Director - Healthcare, Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC

Proposed legislation seeks to adopt standards for electronic funds transfer (EFT) and the electronic remittance advice (ERA). The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT, offers a high availability platform that can handle large volume messages. Can it help to advance healthcare to an electronic processing environment? We will examine SWIFT. capabilities followed by a call to design a demonstration project.

Fred Slavin, Regional Manager, SWIFT Americas, New York, NY

Peter Lang, President & Principal Consultant,Trellis Integration Partners, Redmond, WA

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>> See the SWIFT website...more

Exhibit Hall Tour - Exhibition Hall - Georgia World Congress Center

Tour participants will meet in Lobby C, Registration Desk at 1:45pm. The Tour will include a walk around the popular “IHE Showcase”. Participants are invited to learn about the HIMSS tradeshow, a unique and high value program for engaging decision makers and advancing strategic plans.