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UPCOMING CORE PRESENTATIONS:

The World Health Care Congress 5th Annual Leadership Summit on Medicare
7/12/09 - 7/14/09

IOM - The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, Strategies that Work
7/16/09 - 7/17/09

The World Health Care Congress 7th Annual Health Care Quality Congress
8/3/09 - 8/5/09

MMIS Conference
8/16/09 - 8/20/09

National Plan Automation Group Conference
9/13/09 - 9/16/09

HIPAA Summit 17
9/16/09

ASC X12 Trimester Meeting
9/20/09

NAIC Fall National Meeting
9/21/09 - 9/24/09

AICPA National Healthcare Industry Conference
9/24/09 - 9/25/09

View the complete list of 2009 CORE presentations.

CAQH Administration Simplification Conference 2008

The first CAQH Administrative Simplification Conference was held September 25, 2008 in Washington, DC. The conference focused on two CAQH initiatives: the Universal Provider Datasource (UPD) and the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE). Presentations from the conference may be viewed by clicking on the session names below:

General Sessions:

Universal Provider Datasource (UPD) Sessions:

"Universal Provider Datasource Positioned for the Future"
Jackie Gentner, ACS; Beth Kranda, ACS; Rob Marrow, ACS
"Defining Quality: an Update form the Universal Provider Datasource Data Quality Task Force"
Carrie Call, UnitedHealthcare; Rishma Mohamed, Consultant
"New Directions for the Universal Provider Datasource"
- Role of Emergency Responder Registries
  Mary Clark, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Army National Guard
  Anthony Begando, Tenon Consulting Solutions; Christina McGovern, WellPoint
"Unlocking the Value: Using UPD Data Throughout the Enterprise"
- Industry Leading Automation with CAQH Datasource
  Kathy Cota, BCBSVT; Myra Ameigh, Vistar Technologies
- Value of Credentialing Data
  Nanci Ziegler, Portico Systems
"The Last Frontier: Capturing Delegate and Large Practice Data"
- UK HealthCare Credentialing & CAQH
  Paula Bargo, UK HealthCare/KY Medical Services Foundation, Inc.
- Delegation and CAQH
  Amy Niehaus, WellPoint

Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) Sessions:

"The National Drive Toward Interoperability"
- How the CAQH CORE Rules Make a Difference
  LeRoy Jones, HITSP (on behalf of ANSI), GSI Health
- How a "Recognized Certification Body" Uses Harmonized Health IT Standards
  Alisa Ray, CCHIT
"Measuring CORE ROI: an IBM Study Update"
Margaret Neuer, IBM
"Achieving an All-Payer Solution: Regional and National Implementations of the New CORE Phase II Rules"
"CORE Connectivity Rules: Leading the Way in Healthcare Administrative Communications"
Mitch Icenhower, Siemens; Jay Eisenstock, Aetna; Deb Smithline, NaviMedix
"CAQH CORE Phase II Certification Testing Status Report"
Herb Larsen, Edifecs
"The Future of CORE: Phase III Town Hall Discussion"
Harry Reynolds, BCBSNC