On behalf of the InSight Board of Directors and Conference Planning Committee, thank you to everyone who presented, attended and supported the InSight 2011 Annual Conference. We hope you enjoyed your time in Pittsburgh and took advantage of the numerous educational and networking opportunities available to you.
Highlights of the InSight 2011 Annual Conference include:
- 250+ education sessions that provided numerous opportunities to learn best practices, technology tips and tricks, regulatory updates and other valuable information from peers, product experts and other healthcare IT professionals, including a series specifically designed to address your questions on meaningful use
- Dozens of networking opportunities to discuss upcoming implementations, current challenges and best practices with the people who know healthcare IT the best, including four evening receptions and events, shared meals, open-discussion forum education sessions and informal breaks
- Three full-day and half-day Pre Conference workshops on topics ranging from building iForms specifically to achieve meaningful use to improving patient safety by transforming an avalanche of change into a safer “snowfall”
- More than 20 dedicated Physician Track sessions that addressed physician questions about clinical adoption of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and achieving meaningful use
- Opening General Session presentations from McKesson Provider Technologies President David Souerwine, who provided a business update and shared how MPT is helping customers transform the way healthcare is delivered, and John Foley, former Lead Solo with the Blue Angels, who demonstrated how individuals and teams can achieve and sustain higher levels of excellence
- Ample time to visit with McKesson experts and more than 50 complementary solutions providers in the PSC to discuss current or upcoming implementations and resolve specific challenges
- Tours of the McKesson Automation Solution Center that allowed attendees to learn how automation solutions integrate to improve patient safety, operational efficiency and financial performance and meet the team behind the automation solutions that package, dispense and manage bar-coded medication inventories at their facilities
- An exclusive CIO Forum where CIOs and top IT executives received direction on McKesson's Accountable Care Organization strategy, the broader technology strategy, meaningful use – both current-state updates (i.e. Stage 1) and future-state discussions (i.e. Stage 2), as well as product line updates, services and support updates in both Horizon® and Paragon® tracks
Post-trip Reporting
Program information will remain posted on this site for a few weeks to facilitate trip reports by attendees. View the program guide, educational grids or housing and travel information.
For additional details or assistance, please contact insight@insight-net.org.