THIRD NATIONAL MEDICAL BANKING INSTITUTE

NEW!! Our workgroup sessions will be facilitated by Vanderbilt Center for Better Health

Thursday, February 24, 2005

7:30 - 8:30

Registration

8:30 - 9:00

Welcome and Industry Updates/Announcements **

Alan Goldberg, JD, Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Washington, DC; Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland School of Law (Baltimore) and Suffolk University Law School (Boston) presenting a course in eHealthcare, Privacy and Technology

9:00 - 9:45

KEYNOTE: Regional Health Information Organizations - Challenges & Opportunities
A successful healthcare financing marketplace will require efficient access to comprehensive healthcare information, aligned incentives, and an interactive. more 

Mark Frisse, MD, MSc, MBA, Director, Tennessee Volunteer eHealth Project, Vanderbilt University; Accenture-Endowed Faculty Chair, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, Nashville, TN

9:45- 10:15

A Vision For Building Our National Healthcare Information Network
Senate Majority Leader and physician, Dr. William H. Frist, has articulated a vision for electronic healthcare in a policy speech to the National Press Club and more recently, in an article that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Join his health policy advisor to explore...more

Elizabeth P. Scanlon, Health Policy Advisor, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, Washington, DC

10:15 - 10:30

BREAK

10:30 - 10:45

A Medical Banking Road Map for America
Medical banking ideas are starting to transform thinking in useful and creative ways but we have miles to go. This session will review the purpose of the Institute, the workgroups and... more 

John Casillas, Chair, Third National Medical Banking Institute; Executive Director, The Medical Banking Project, Franklin, TN

10:45 - 12:00

CONCURRENT SESSION #1
All attendees will break up into the workgroups they have selected to develop recommendations that will become part of the final report: A Medical Banking Road Map for America.

1.01: Workflow Automation Council Workgroup
1.02: HIPAA Compliance Workgroup
1.03: *Cyberwar Workgroup - CANCELLED

*Note: Our workgroup leader, a military intelligence expert, is unable to lead out at this session but will be providing a Final Report on February 25 during Friday afternoon Final Reporting sessions.

12:00 - 1:00

LUNCH

CROSS-INDUSTRY REACTOR PANELS (Invited by Institute Committee)
Moderated by John Casillas, Chair, Third National Medical Banking Institute

1:00 - 1:45

Regulatory Panel: HIPAA, GLB and FACTA Impact on Banking Services
In the dawning of a new generation of "medical banking" services that offer cross-benefits to healthcare providers, health plans, banks and many others, regulators still appear...more

Alan S. Goldberg, JD, Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Washington, DC
Debbie Larios, JD, Miller & Martin, Nashville, TN

1:45 - 3:00

Technology Panel #1: Emerging Best Practices in Medical Banking  
(30 minute presentations followed by Q&A)

CAQH Eligibility and Benefits Operating Rules Initiative

Similar to operating rules governing interoperability for ATM transactions, CAQH is facilitating a multi-stakeholder effort to develop business rules that govern the exchange of eligibility and.more

Carl Volpe, PhD, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, WellPoint, Inc.

Transaction-Based Business Intelligence - Leveraging HIPAA to Gain Value from Transaction Data
Precious resources have been diverted to achieve "compliance", but the return on investment has been elusive.  For many in the healthcare industry the concept of "Administrative. more 

Joseph Nichols, MD, Director of Healthcare Solutions, Edifecs, Redmond, VA  

3:00 - 3:15

BREAK

3:15 - 4:00

Electronic Payment:  Veterans Health Administration's Award-winning Project Pays Off
As 835 healthcare volumes grows and begins to replace the paper remittance process between healthcare payers and providers, there is an increasing need to. more 

Barbara C. Mayerick, Director of Business Development, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC

Co-Presenter:  
Jeffrey W. Troutman, CCM, Sr. Vice President and Marketing Manager, PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, PA

4:00 - 5:15

Technology Panel #2: Cross-Industry Medical Banking Models & Case Studies
(30 minute presentations followed by Q&A)

Using Kiosks to Redesign Patient Access and Flow
The concept of replacing registrars (intake personnel) with kiosks with ATM functionality is relatively new.  Kiosks started with banking, moved on to check-in at airports. more

David Harris, CMPA, MBA, CHE, National Revenue Cycle Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, New York, NY  

An Open Framework for eBusiness Processes

The session will provide an overview of concurrent standards work in the healthcare and financial areas. We will briefly describe how each of the eBusiness formats (HL7 for Healthcare... more

John C. Hardin, Chief Information Officer, Crossconnections.ws, Detroit, MI

5:15

ADJOURN

Friday, February 25, 2005

8:00 - 8:30

Registration

8:30 - 9:30

Panel: Medical Banking Pilot Updates
(20 minute presentations followed by Q&A)

Pilot programs that are using bank technologies to promote speedier adoption of electronic healthcare will be featured.  A software demonstration will help banks understand how to engage this emerging area. 

Smart Cards in Healthcare - A Pilot Program

The session will offer an overview of the business decisions and processes experienced by Saint Thomas Health Services (a division of Ascension Healthcare) in its project to... more

Chris Young, Regional CIO, Ascension Health/CIO, St. Thomas Healthcare Services, Nashville, TN

Medical Banking Pilot Update - HealthTransaction NetworkT

The session will focus on a commercial program that is scheduled to pilot a national electronic healthcare transaction network.  We will review some of the planning stages... more

Joseph E. Wolfson, President and CEO, HealthTransaction NetworkT, Buffalo, NY

9:30 - 10:15

Panel: Consumer-Driven Medical Banking Models
(20 minute presentations followed by Q&A)

Your Bank and the Emerging Medical Consumer Segment

The consumer-directed marketplace has found its voice.  It is estimated that over the next few years over $1 trillion in deposits will be placed into specialized Health... more

Ernie Clevenger, President & Editor, MyHealthGuide, LLC; former Chair, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI); former President, Self Insured Institute of America (SIIA), Brentwood, TN

James L. Hogg, RHU, REBC, Relationship Manager, Wells Fargo Health Benefit Services, Brentwood, TN

10:15 - 10:30

BREAK

10:30 - 10:45

Launch:   Charitable Communities Network | SHARENET.TV
This new bank-driven charity platform uniquely connects community healthcare stakeholders and has a broadcasting component. Developed by the Medical Banking Project, CCN promotes greater efficiency in the giving segment. According to an industry report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, charity and foundation funding are becoming vital to the solvency of healthcare providers. 

10:45 - 11:00

Leading CIOs Recommend ATM Approach for NHIN

The CIO Executive CouncilT, a highly influential group of over 200 chief information officers (CIOs) at leading U.S. companies (founded by IDG's CXO Media and CIO magazine), has... more

John Hummel, SVP/CIO, Sutter Health Network; Chair, CIO Executive CouncilT Healthcare IT Taskforce

11:00 - 12:00

CONCURRENT SESSION #2
All attendees will break up into the workgroups they have selected to develop recommendations that will become part of the final report:  A Medical Banking Road Map for America.

2.01:    Charity Workgroup
2.02:    Healthcare Credit Practices Workgroup

12:00 - 1:30

LUNCH

1:30 - 4:00

WORKGROUP REPORTS
Each Workgroup will provide a 30 minute report presenting the major issues, market impact and final recommendations related to their areas. This plenary session represents the culmination of many months of work on industry issues and will provide an excellent summary for both the novice and the experienced executive.

Group 1:  Workflow Automation Council Workgroup
Leader: Nav Ranajee, Vice President, Healthcare Strategy, ABN AMRO, Chicago, IL

Members:  Bank of America, Council on Affordable Quality Healthcare, SSI Group, Inc., Meta Bank, National Healthcare Exchange, Remettra, Critical Technologies, OASIS Liaison <Conmergence/>, DP Solutions, Irvine Medical Health Affiliates, LLC, Glenview State Bank, Keymark, Inc., Premium Assets Recovery Corporation, InterPayNet, Medical Bank 1, MedAccess Plus, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health 

Group 2:  HIPAA Compliance Workgroup
Co-Leader: Catherine Warren, CTP, Global Treasury Services - Healthcare Industry Strategy, Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Members:  ABN AMRO, Remettra, Premium Assets Recovery Corporation, DP Solutions, Irvine Medical Health Affiliates, LLC

Group 3:  Cyberwar Workgroup
Leader: Robert Thompkins-Bey, CEO, Bey Technologies International, Inc., Washington, DC

Members:  Bey Technologies International

Group 4:  Healthcare Credit Practices Workgroup
Leader: Leslie Bender, General Counsel/Chief Privacy Officer, The ROI Companies, Timonium, MD

Members:  Premium Asset Recovery Corporation, Irvine Medical Health Affiliates, LLC, The ROI Companies 

Group 5:  Charity Workgroup**
Leader: Tom Dean, CEO, Critical Technologies, Inc., Edmond, OK

Members:  OASIS Liaison <Conmergence/>, SSI Group, Inc., Irvine Medical Health Affiliates, LLC, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health

** This session marks the last stop of The Great American Interoperability Tour, (STOP 10 | Charities), a 14 month national lecture series that focuses on the medical banking value proposition for 10 healthcare stakeholders. >> See Full Tour / CNBC Interview @ STOP 6 | Banks.

4:00 - 4:30

The Action Plan Forward
A structure for continued workgroup participation as a sounding board to industry standards bodies, policy makers and others will be presented. A new forum for focus group meetings, pilot reports that capture evolving medical banking services and facilitated visioning sessions will be announced.

John Casillas, Chair, Third National Medical Banking Institute; Executive Director, The Medical Banking Project, Franklin, TN

4:30

ADJOURN

Sponsor: Workflow Automation Council WorkGroup