ACP's Center for Practic Innovation

Focus on the Practice
Challenges, Choices and Change

ACP, Center for Practice Innovation
Hotel Monaco, Washington D.C.

Friday, Nov 16: Arrival of participants

6:30 p.m. Dinner, Le Paradou Restaurant

Saturday, Nov 17: Conference: Athens Ballroom

7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Athens Ballroom
8:00 a.m. Greetings & Opening Remarks-
John A. Mitas II, MD, FACP - ACP DEVP / COO
8:15 a.m. “The Center for Practice Innovation Project: A Two-Year Perspective”
Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP
ACP Vice President, Practice Advocacy and Improvement
8:45 a.m. "Practice Effectiveness: Trying Harder Is Not Enough"
Frederick E. Turton, MD, MBA, FACP
Emergent Health Technologies, LLC Sarasota, FL
9:30 a.m. “Change, and its Management, in a Paper-Based Office”
Faith R. Protsman, MD
Center for Stress Management Gilroy, CA
10:00 a.m. “The Bad, The Ugly, and The Good … Eventually”
Georgia L. Newman, MD, FACP
Oberlin Internal Medicine Associates Oberlin, OH
10:30 a.m. Faculty-Led Discussion
10:45 a.m. 15 min. break
11:00 a.m. “Improving Office Practice: Working Smarter, not Harder”
Christine Sinsky, MD & Tom Sinsky, MD
Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans Dubuque, IA
11:45 a.m. Faculty-Led Discussion
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. “A Shared Vision of An Ideal Medical Micro-Practice”
Angela Egly, MD & Kevin Egly, MD
Doctors Egly & Associates Sandwich, IL
1:30 p.m. Faculty-Led Discussion
1:45 p.m. “Redesigning Practices using Health Information Technology”[PDF]
Ted Eytan, MD, MS, MPH
Group Health Cooperative Seattle, OR
2:30 p.m. Faculty-Led Discussion
2:45 p.m. 15 min. break
3:00 p.m. “EMR Implementation: Practice Evolution”
Jacqueline Fincher, MD, FACP & Pam Shivers, CPC
McDuffie Medical Associates PC Thomson, GA
3:30 p.m. “Office Automation Using Clinical Software”
Keith Michl, MD, FACP
Clinical Asst. Professor of Medicine, Univ.of Vermont College of Medicine. Solo practice, Manchester Center, VT
4:00 p.m. Faculty-Led Discussion
4:15 p.m. Wrap Up: Where do we go from here?
4:30 p.m. Conclusion of Conference

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