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8 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.    Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.    Opening Remarks

8:45 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.
Panel 1 - Innovations in Healthcare Organization and Delivery

Panelists:
Anjali Kataria, Sr. Technology Advisor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, FDA; Senior Fellow, CHIDS
Marc Wine, Director of Health IT, PwC
Scott Afzal, Director, Statewide Health Information Exchange, Maryland
Mark Fryer, Manager, HIT National Practice and ACO Advisor, PwC
Moderator: Melinda B. Buntin, Deputy Asst Director, at Congressional Budget Office

9:35 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.    Break

9:45 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.
Panel II - Unleashing Data to Transform Healthcare

Panelists:
Niall Brennan, Director, Policy and Data Analysis Group, CMS
Basit Chaudhry, Medical Scientist, IBM Research
Seth Eisen, Director, VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D)
Joshua Rosenthal, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, RowdMap
Moderator: Jennifer King, Acting Chief of Research and Evaluation, ONC

10:35 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.    Break

10:45 a.m. - Noon
Session 1 - HIT Impact on Cost, Quality and Efficiency I
Chair: Arun Rai (Georgia State University)

1.1: The Trillion Dollar Conundrum - Complementarities and Health Information Technology: David Dranove (Northwestern University), Chris Forman (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto), Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Lorens Helmchen, George Mason University

1.2: The Impact of Health Information Technology-Enabled Physician Collaboration on Cost & Quality of Care Delivered - Evidence from Field Research: Ravi Aron (Johns Hopkins University), Ying Liu (University of Hawaii), Praveen Pathak (University of Florida)
Discussant: Arun Rai, Georgia State University

1.3: Can we have it all? Achieving Hospital Efficiency and Quality with IT: Roya Gholami (Aston University), Dolores Anon Higon (Universidad de Valencia), Ali Emrouznejad (Aston University), Rajiv Kohli (College of William & Mary)
Discussant: Ann Rensel, Niagara University

Noon - 1:30 p.m.    Lunch & Keynote Speaker

Welcome by Dean G. "Anand" Anandalingam, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

Dr. David Hunt is Medical Director, Health IT Adoption & Safety at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He is a practicing surgeon and national leader in surgical quality and patient safety.

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Session 2 - HIT Impact on Cost, Quality and Efficiency II
Chair: Allison Percy (Congressional Budget Office)

2.1: Quicker and Sicker? Length of Stay, Readmission Risk, and the Role of Health Information Technology: Indranil Bardhan (The University of Texas at Dallas), Pamela Doughty (DFW Hospital Council Research Foundation), Ethan Halm (The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Kirk Kirksey (The University of Texas at Dallas), Jeong-ha (Cath) Oh (Georgia State University), Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Ajit Appari, Dartmouth University

2.2: The Impact of Information Technology on Treatment Variation in Healthcare: Matt Wimble (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Vallabh Sambamurthy (Michigan State), Roger Calantone (Michigan State)
Discussant: Vivek Ghosal, Georgia Tech

2.3: The Effect of Healthcare Information Technology on Emergency Department Performance: Frederic W. Selck (National Center for Health Statistics), Sandra L. Decker (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Allison Percy, Congressional Budget Office

2:45 p.m. - 3 p.m.    Break

3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Session 3 - Health Information Exchange and Health 2.0
Chair: Anandhi Bharadwaj (Emory University)

3.1: Health Information Exchange, System Size and Information Silos: Amalia R. Miller (University of Virginia), Catherine Tucker (University of Virginia)
Discussant: Eric Barrette, Bates White Economic Consulting

3.2: Collaborative Information Sharing and Patients' Health Education: Lu Yan (Indiana University), Yong Tan (Washington University), Sherry Sun (City University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Anandhi Bharadwaj, Emory University

3.3: Social Media and New Drug Performance in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Wenjing (Wendy) Duan (The George Washington University), Vicky Ching Gu (Texas Tech University), Qing Cao (Texas Tech University), Andrew B. Whinston (University of Texas Austin)
Discussant: Gwanhoo Lee, American University

4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.    Break

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.    Short Presentations I

S.1: A Business Model for Sustainable Health Information Infrastructure: William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins University)

S.2: Adoption of Health Information Exchange - Understanding the Negative Externality: Sunita Desai (University of Pennsylvania)

S.3: Technology Adoption Patterns in Hospitals: A New Application of Item Response Theory to Identify Stages of EHR Adoption: Bianca Frogner (George Washington University), Gwyn C. Pauley (Johns Hopkins University)

S.4: Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology: Brant Callaway (Vanderbilt University), Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)

S.5: The Impact of Cumulative Information Technology Investment on Hospital Quality: Ann Rensel and Kristine Principe, (Niagara University)

S.6: The FDA's "New Paradigm" - Could HIT Substitute for a Physician's Prescription in Initiating a Cardioprotective Drug Regimen?: Jackson Williams (Penn State - Harrisburg)

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.    Reception

Sequoia Restaurant on the Potomac [ map ]
3000 K Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20007

8 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.    Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.    Keynote Speaker

Stephen T. Parente, PhD, MPH, MS is the Minnesota Insurance Industry Professor of Health Finance in Carlson School of Management and the Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota. As a Professor in the Finance Department, he specializes in health economics, information technology, and health insurance. Dr. Parente has been the principal investigator on funded-studies on consumer directed health plans since 2002. Dr. Parente was a health policy adviser for the McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign and served as Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D WV) in 1992/93.

9:15 a.m. -10:30 a.m.
Session 4 - Meaningful Use
Chair: Michael Furukawa (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT)

4.1: Overcoming Challenges to Achieving Meaningful Use: Insights from hospitals that successfully received CMS payments in 2011: Christopher Harle (University of Florida), Timothy R. Huerta (Texas Tech University), Eric W. Ford (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Mark L. Diana (Tulane University), Nir Menachemi (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Discussant: Carolina Herrera, Health Care Cost Institute

4.2: Predictors of Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives: Joanne Spetz , Janet M. Coffman, Dennis Keane, Lela Chu (University of California, San Francisco)
Discussant: Michael Furukawa, ONC

4.3: Will Meaningful Use Hospital EMR Prevent Hospital-Acquired Drug Events?: William Encinosa (Georgetown University) Jaeyong Bae (Emory University)
Discussant: Bianca Frogner, The George Washington University

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.    Break

10:45 a.m. - Noon
Session 5 - Medical Practices
Chair: Nirup Menon (George Mason University)

5.1: Digital Innovation in Primary Care Delivery: A Study of eVisit Adoption: Changmi Jung (The H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University), Rema Padman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Discussant: Nirup Menon, George Mason University

5.2: Privacy Management in Dynamic Groups: Understanding Workspace Privacy in Medical Practices: Yunan Chen (University of California, Irvine), Heng Xu (The Pennsylvania State University)
Discussant: Chon Abraham, College of William and Mary

5.3: The Shadow of Goliath: Scientific Discovery and the Abandonment of Technology: Brad Greenwood (University of Maryland), Ritu Agarwal (University of Maryland), Anand Gopal (University of Maryland), Rajshree Agarwal (University of Maryland)
Discussant: Roopa Raman, Clemson University

Noon - 1 p.m.    Awards Luncheon

1 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.    Short Presentations II

S.7: Why Do They Resist? Analyzing Physicians' Technology Adoption Behavior Using Social Cognitive Theory and the UTAUT Model: Heiko Gewald (Fakultet Informations Management)

S.8: Professional and Geographical Network Effects on HIE Growth: Niam Yaraghi, Anna Ye Du, Raj Sharman, (SUNY at Buffalo) Ram Gopal, (University of Connecticut) R. Ramesh, Ranjit Singh, Gurdev Singh (SUNY at Buffalo)

S.9: The Impact of Electronic Medical Records on Health Counseling Services: Jaeyong Bae, doctoral Student (Emory University)

S.10: Supporters in Deed - Studying Online Support Provision from the Perspective of Social Capital: Kuang-Yuan Huang (University at Albany, SUNY), InduShobha Chengalur-Smith (University at Albany, SUNY), Ozlem Uzuner (University at Albany), Priya Nambisan (George Mason University), Namjoo Choi (University of Kentucky)

S.11: Health Information Technology and Hospital Patient Safety Performance - A Cross-sectional Study of US Acute Care Hospitals: Ajit Appari (Dartmouth College), Eric Johnson (Dartmouth College), Denise Anthony (Dartmouth College)

S.12: Explicating the FIT of Individual and Environmental Characteristics in Healthcare Information Technology: Dorothea La "Chon" Abraham (College of William and Mary)

S.13: The Influence of Social Media on Youth Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Soham Banerji (Optimal Solutions Group)

1:45 p.m. - 2 p.m.    Break

2 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.    Research Panel on Empowered Patients

Panelists:
Aaron Baird, Georgia State University (Patient Perceptions of Personal Health Records and Patient Portals)
Abhay Nath Mishra, Georgia State University (Virtualizing Medicaid Application Process in Georgia)
Arun Rai, Georgia State University (Understanding Patient Satisfaction with Teleconsultation Sessions)
Sharon Swee-Lin Tan, National University of Singapore (Health 2.0 and Adolescents' Self-Management of Health)
David Zepeda, Northeastern University (Technology-Enabled Health Care Supply Chain for Primary Care)
Moderator: Gordon Gao, University of Maryland

2:45 p.m. - 3 p.m.    Closing Remarks