TEPR 2007 - Towards the Electronic Patient Record

In its 23rd year, TEPR provides the industry's strongest educational content for health IT professionals in all stages of EHR selection, implementation, and optimization/integration with other systems. The conference draws over 3,000 attendees and is a prestigious forum for industry leaders to share and learn from peers who are looking at healthcare IT challenges in new ways and seeking to propel excellence in healthcare IT. Topics include

• EMR case studies
• ROI of systems investments
• Systems integration
• RHIO, IPA, and new hospital networks
• Payer-based initiatives
• Overcoming workflow challenges
• Training
• Legal & compliance issues
• Change management
• Process redesign
• US government's role
• State roles
• Privacy and security
• Legality of EMRs
• Learning from other countries
• State and community-based RHIO updates
• Contract negotiation strategies
• ePrescribing
• CPOE
• Personal health records
• Open source solutions
• New technology developments, e.g., mobile applications, speech recognition, document imaging, consumer-directed products, etc.

As in 2006, presentations will be given by CIOs, medical directors and others working with EMRs and related technologies, and not by vendors.*

FACULTY PRESENTATIONS MRI welcomes abstracts from healthcare professionals who are improving quality and reducing costs of healthcare via EMR/EHR and related IT. Clinicians and executives such as hospital CTOs, CIOs, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, medical directors, as well as related positions and department and project managers from hospitals, clinics, practices, long-term care, home health care, government, payers, military and other stakeholders are encouraged to submit an abstract online via the MRI website.

Visit the site:  http://www.medrecinst.com/conference/ tepr2007/cfp.asp
Contact: linda@medrecinst.com

* SOLUTIONS PROVIDERS/VENDORS Solutions providers and vendors seeking exposure to this audience of healthcare professionals should contact Michael Lawrence regarding sponsorship and exhibit opportunities: mlawrence@medrecist.com ,