ACE 2010 Interactive Schedule

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
9:00am — 5:00pm	AHDI Board of Directors Meeting
4:00pm — 7:00pm	Registration Open
7:00pm — 9:00pm	House of Delegates Meeting
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
7:00am — 7:30pm	Registration Open
8:00am — 10:30am	Delegate & Leadership Breakfast (Invitation Only - No Tickets Sold)
11:00am — 1:00pm	Leadership Summit Part 1
1:00pm — 2:30pm	Lunch On Own
2:30pm — 5:30pm	Leadership Summit Part 2
6:00pm — 6:45pm	First-time Attendee and New Member Orientation
7:00pm — 9:00pm	Life is a Highway Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall *Sponsored by: M-TEC*
Thursday, August 5, 2010
	Clinical Medicine	Industry Trends & Technology	Workforce Development
7:00am — 5:00pm	Registration Open
8:00am — 8:15am	Presidential Address & Welcome
8:15am — 9:30am	Opening Keynote: Connie Merritt, RN, PHN - Too Busy for Your Own Good Sponsored by: Scribe Healthcare Technologies, Inc.
10:00am — 2:00pm	Lunch with Exhibitors *(Lunch served from 12pm - 1pm, Exhibit Hall will remain open through* *4pm*)
2:15pm — 3:15pm	Reality ER Tim Brandon, MD, FACEP 1CM	Electronic Communications & Health Reform: The Autobahn of Change – Where are our Safety Belts Nancy Dickey, MD 1TW	Your Welcome! No, that's My Welcome! Fun with Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar Julia Welch, CCS 1MTT
3:30pm — 5:30pm	Grammar Workshop with Richard Lederer, PhD (Tickets Sold Separately) 2MTT *Sponsored by: Dolbey*
3:30pm — 4:30pm	Cardiology Technology & Device Update 2010 John Hays, MD, FACC 1CM	The Next Big Thing: Helping Your Organization Navigate Technology Transitions Jill Utterback 1TW	QA Best Practices: Collaborative Approach to Quality Outcomes Facilitator: Susan Lucci, RHIT, CMT, AHDI-F Panelists: Laura Bryan, CMT, AHDI-F, CEO, MTWerks and MedEDocs Dee Logan, VP Quality, MedQuist, Inc. (Other Panelists TBD) 1MTT
4:45pm — 5:45pm	The New “Critical” – Innovative Advances in Pulmonary Intervention Jordan Weingarten, MD 1CM	HIT and Interoperability: The Important Role of Medical Transcription Donald Mon, PhD 1TW	Effective and Efficient Productivity and Quality Monitoring Amy Kunkel, RHIT, Julee Blue, CMT 1TW
Friday, August 6, 2010
	Clinical Medicine	Industry Trends & Technology	Workforce Development
7:00am — 4:00pm	Registration Open
8:00am — 9:30am	Industry Update & Annual Business Meeting
10:00am — 12:30pm	Exhibit Hall Open
10:00am — 11:00am	Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease Anant Patel, MD 1CM	Grow or Go? Selling vs. Expanding Your Business Tim Kruse 1PD	Transcription - Continued Relevance in Clinical Documentation Today Lynn Kosegi, PMP 1PD
11:15am — 12:15pm	Life in a Level 1 Trauma Center: Case Studies Christopher Ziebell, MD, FACEP 1CM	Healthcare Documentation in a New Compliance Age Scott Edelstein, JD, MPA 1ML	MT intelligence: The Value of MTs in HIT Implementations Gary David, PhD 1 TD
12:30pm — 2:30pm	Lunch in the Exhibit Hall / Vendor Prize Drawings (Dedicated Exhibit Hall Time - Lunch Served from 12:30 - 1:30pm)
2:45pm — 3:45pm	Advances in Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Back to the Future Mark Shen, MD 1CM	EHR at the Frontlines: Seton’s Retrospective on Integration Gerry Lewis, CIO, PMP, CPHIMS 1TW	MT Compliance Workshop Brenda Hurley, CMT, AHDI-F 2ML
4:00pm — 5:00pm	Craniofacial Plastic Surgery Patrick Kelley, MD 1CM	Natural Language Processing: Empowering MT Knowledge Workers with a Valuable Asset Kyle Silvestro 1TW	MT Compliance Workshop Brenda Hurley, CMT, AHDI-F 2ML
8:00pm — 10:00pm	AHDI Fun Night Out at Esther's Follies (Ticket Sold Separately - show starts at 8pm, click title for seating details) *Sponsored by: InfraWare*
Saturday, August 7, 2010
	Clinical Medicine	Industry Trends & Technology	Workforce Development
7:00am — 2:00pm	Registration Open
7:45am — 10:45am	2010 Managers/Supervisors Workshop (Ticket Sold Separately) **Sponsored by: MModal***
8:30am — 9:30am	Forensic Anthropology & the Research Facility at Texas State University Kelly Sauerwein 1 CM	Technology in "Your" Workplace Susan Whatley, BS, CMT, Karen Smith, CMT 1 TW or MTT	Educators Workshop Rebecca McSwain, PhD, CMT, Lea Sims, CMT, AHDI-F 2 PD
9:45am — 10:45am	Under the Microscope: A Microbiology Primer Brett McCutcheon, CMT, AHDI-F 1 CM	Regional Extension Centers—How They Relate to the Healthcare Documentation Sector Delores Briones 1TW
11:00am — 1:30pm	No Limits Integrity Awards Brunch Sponsored by: MedQuist, Inc.
1:45pm — 2:45pm		The Sky's the Limit: Future Roles for the Evolving MT Panel Discussion, Facilitator: Ava George, CMT, AHDI-F, Panelists: Michael Clark, Sherry Doggett, Kathy Dominguez, CMT, AHDI-F, Sherry Martin, CMT 1PD	Equipping Leaders with John Maxwell CMT/RMT Only Event 1 PD
3:00pm — 3:15pm	Presidential Wrap-up
3:15pm — 4:15pm	Closing Keynote Event: Billy Riggs Sponsored by: MedQuist, Inc.

**SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE**
TBD: To be determined; TBA: To be announced; CM: Clinical Medicine; PD: Professional Development; TW: Technology and the Workplace; ML: Medicolegal Issues; MTT: Medical Transcription Tools; (Ticket Sold Separately) = Not included in Standard Registration, must purchase a ticket.