7:00 – 8:00

Registration & Breakfast in Vendor Area
 

8:00 – 9:00

Keynote Address  
Topic: AHIMA Update

Rita Bowen, MA, RHIA
President AHIMA

1 CE External Forces
 

9:00 – 10:00

General Session

Topic: Fire Up Your Life Surviving Life’s Ups and Downs

Donna Hartley
Hartley International

1 CE Management Development
 

1 CE Clinical Foundations

10:00 – 11:00

Break – Vendor Area
 

11:00 – 12:00

MdHIMA Business Meeting
 

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch
 

1:00 – 2:00

General Session

Topic: Legal issues in EHR

Gerard Burns, M.D. Chief Medical Officer - Medstar

1 CE Technology

*Data Quality Session

Topic: Breast Surgery

Caroline Rader Znaniec and Nikisha Small   
Navigant Consulting

1 CE Clinical Foundations
 

2:00 – 3:00

Break
 

3:00 – 4:00

General Session

Topic: Panel Discussion on Healthcare Reform, Health IT, ARRA, and  Meaningful Use

Dan Rode, MBA, FHFMA, AHIMA Vice President, Policy & Government Relations,

Dr. Gerard Burns, M.D. Chief Medical Officer Medstar

Barbara Rubin, M.Ed, RHIA, Kforce National Compliance Manager

2 hour session

2 CE External Forces

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*Data Quality Session

Topic: Vascular Interventional Radiology

Linda Holtzman, RHIA,MHA,CCS,
CCS-P,CPC,CPC-H
Clarity Coding

2 hour session

2 CE Clinical Foundations

4:00 – 5:00

5:00 – 6:30

7:00 – 10:00

Wine & Cheese Reception  in VENDOR AREA after last speakers

“SPIRIT OF BALTIMORE”80^th Celebration CRUISE- boarding begins at 6:30 pm
 

*If attending the Data Quality Tracks for today, please bring your CPT books
 

CEs:

5

7:30 – 8:00

Registration & Breakfast with Vendors
 

8:00 – 9:00

General and Data Quality Combined Session

Topic: ICD-10

Pat Brooks, RHIA Senior Technical Advisor
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)

2 hour session

2 CEs Clinical Data Management
 

9:00 –10:00

10:00 –11:00

Break – Vendor Area
 

11:00 – 12:00

General  Session

Topic: How to Manage Your Vendors

David Plummer, President and CEO Probity Medical Transcription

1 CE Performance Improvement
 

Data Quality Session

Topic: Present on Admission

Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA 
AHA

1 CE Clinical Data Management

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch
 

1:00 – 1:30

Final Visit with Vendors & Silent Auction Ends
 

1:30 – 2:30

General Session

Topic: Legalities of Telecommuting 

James P. Gillece, Attorney

1 CE Privacy and Security

Data Quality Session

Topic: The HSCRC, its initiatives and their impact on HIM

Paul Allen, RHIA
Johns Hopkins Hospital

1 CE External Forces
 

2:30 – 3:30

General Session

Topic:  MdHIMA Rockets into the Information Management Age

Tasha Green, MS RHIA
Director Health Information Bon Secours Baltimore Health System

1 CE Management Development
 

Data Quality Session

Topic: Reversed Shoulder Surgery

Dr. Murthi – Kernan Hospital

1 CE Clinical Foundations

CEs:

5