The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum Co-hosted an Electronic Health Records Seminar April 23, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza in Lafayette, LA. The seminar was huge success and attendees received up to 5.50 CME credits free of charge! Thank you to all of our sponsors, supporters and attendees for making this conference possible! 

 Featured topics included:

• Requirements to achieve “Meaningful Use” and receive incentive payments
• Vendor selection, including questions to ask and other considerations when choosing a model for your practice
• EHR implementation lessons learned from physicians who have already been through the process
• Other areas of change and consideration when converting your practice to Electronic Health Records including:  IT services, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements surrounding HIT, and practice workflow redesign.  Also discussion of the Regional Extension Center and how it will bring all of these areas under ‘one roof’ to simplify the process for providers.
• The development of the statewide Health Information Exchange (LaHIE)
  
  

Presentations:

• Louisiana American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Initiatives Update- Jenny Smith, Project Manager, LHCQF
  
• Meaningful Use and You- Mike Stagg, Information Technology Coordinator, Healthworks, LLC
• Electronic Health Record Product and Vendor Selection- Mark Diana, PhD, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Department of Health Systems
  Management, Tulane University 
• Winning Implementation Strategies- Belinda Wiegand, Senior Director of eHealth Solutions, PNHS 
• Health Information Exchange in Louisiana- John Ragsdale, Chief Information Officer, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
  

If you have any questions, please contact Micaela Coner of the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum at 225-334-9299 or Mary Catherine Koonce at the LAFP 225.923.3313.

The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians is a medical specialty organization whose mission is to promote and support Louisiana's family physicians in providing excellent health care and to provide its members with continuing medical education opportunities.

The Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum is a private, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead evidence-based, collaborative initiatives to improve the health of Louisiana citizens.