Speaking Engagements

Todd Frech, Senior Partner at OMI, spends time on the road speaking about health information systems design, system selection, implementation strategies, HIPAA, and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). The impact of RHIOs on healthcare organizations and the communities they serve has been an area of particular focus in recent speaking engagements.

To schedule Todd for a speaking engagement with your organization, call 866.402.4875 .

Recent and Future Engagements

Laboratory Institute

29 September 2006, Arlington, VA

Transmitting Lab Test Results to EHRs: What's the Right Direction for Labs?

HFMA Spring Institute

18 May 2006, Irving, TX

Benefits of Regional Health Information Organizations: How to Create a Sustainable RHIO - Our presentation used the Waterbury Health Access Program as a case study to demonstrate the ways in which RHIOs can improve a community's healthcare services, provide information to plan a community's future healthcare needs, and use input from participating providers to remain sustainable.

Keynote | Microsoft PowerPoint | Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

Previous Engagements

HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition

13 February 2006, San Diego, CA

Fast Tracking the Development of an RHIO (with Kevin Carr, MD) - A discussion of the issues surrounding the development of a RHIO, with specific emphasis on rapid implementation.

Tamtron User's Group

25 April 2001, Monterey, CA

Preparing Your Laboratory for HIPAA - Medical laboratories will face different challenges when attempting to comply with HIPAA's requirements. Our presentation to Tamtron's User Group focused on these issues and suggested steps and a timeline for compliance.

Keynote | Microsoft PowerPoint | Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

HIPAA Summit West

22 June 2001, San Francisco, CA

HIPAA's Impact on the Selection and Implementation of EMR Systems - HIPAA is already having a significant impact on how organizations select and prepare for the implementation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. Our presentation at HIPAA Summit West focused on issues surrounding the selection and implementation of EMR systems in the era of HIPAA.

Keynote | Microsoft PowerPoint | Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

HUMANA

11 September 2001, Austin, TX

HIPAA's Impact on QI and UR Activities

Texas Association of Health Plans

11 October 2001, TX

HIPAA

North Carolina Nursing Association Annual Meeting

Automated Case Management

North Carolina Nursing Association

Graphical User Interface Design

North Carolina Nursing Association, Council on Informatics

Strategic Planning for Clinical Information Systems

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Guest Lecturer on Medical Informatics

Academy of Health Issues, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Medical Informatics, Designing for the Future

Research (Unpublished)

Implementation of Computer-based Patient Records

1994

Principles of Medical User Interface Design

1993

Knowledge Assisted Patient Care (co-author)

1992

Persistence and Relativity Factors in Medical Database Systems

1991