The following events will be
Live from Austin for those of you who will not be able to join us this year at ACE.
Leadership Breakfast and Leadership Summit Wednesday, August 4
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. CDT
If you are unable to attend ACE this year, we would like to extend an invitation to join us virtually for the Leadership Breakfast and Leader Summit via webinar.
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Grab your coffee and breakfast as we start the day with an update on AHDI’s strategic priorities. We will then hear from our many volunteer leaders during an "open mic" session as they share the accomplishments achieved this year by our components, committees, alliances, workgroups, and task teams.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Break; webinar will close at 10:30 a.m. CDT and reopen on 11:00 a.m. CDT
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
At the Leadership Summit, volunteer leaders and House of Delegates will discuss the Blueprint for Great Governance (BGG). The BGG is an initiative of the House of Delegates, Board of Directors, and Component leaders that has looked at new approaches and models to best serve the needs of our members, component organizations, and to position MTs for long-term success. The BGG has examined four key areas: (1) Purpose of components; (2) Tactics for collaboration and sharing of best practices; (3) Ways to ensure financial stability; and (4) Models for engagement, communication, and governance. The proposed blueprint will be presented at the Leadership Summit. It is the result of a year-long process of brainstorming, discussion, and debate among dozens of AHDI volunteers, delegates, component officers, board members, and members. There will be opportunities for discussion and questions and answers throughout the day during the Leadership Summit. All members are invited and encouraged to attend this important event. Attendance is mandatory for the House of Delegates.
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Break; webinar will close at 1:00 p.m. CDT and reopen at 2:30 p.m. CDT
2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
The Leadership Summit will be reconvened at 2:30 p.m. and the discussions from earlier in the day will continue.
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The Great ACE Tweet Up!Thursday, August 5
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. CDT
The word networking has taken on a whole new meaning in today’s age of virtual connectivity, and arguably no social networking tool has done a better job of getting people connected than Twitter. Keeping our highly wired, at-home workforce connected to critical information has become an important goal not only for AHDI but for its strategic partners, member groups, and vendors. AHDI will be partnering with M*Modal over the coming months to engage in a “virtual” dialogue about a number of emerging industry issues and concerns. We’ll be kicking off a series of collaborative blogs, online chats, and webinars by cohosting a “Tweet Up” in the AHDI Lounge at ACE 2010. Lea Sims, CMT, AHDI-F (AHDI Director of Professional Programs) and Lynn Kosegi, PMP (M*Modal Director of Professional Services) will be leading both on-site attendees and virtual Twitter followers through a live Twitter “chat” event designed to engage more members of our MT community in social networking and generate “buzz” around key issues.
Industry Update & Annual Business Meeting Barb Marques, CMT, AHDI-F, Scott Shallet, and Peter Preziosi, PhD, CAE
Friday, August 6
8:00 - 9:30 a.m. CDT
The ever-changing health IT landscape along with growing market pressures to improve healthcare services in a fiscally constrained environment are transforming the practice of medical transcription. Now more than ever the profession must be visible to the many healthcare stakeholders who are helping to reshape health care in explaining the important contributions our knowledge workers make in producing quality digital records. AHDI has undertaken a number of strategic initiatives in the last year, including its work with the Dewey Square Group on advocacy, Best Practice Tool Kits to help guide the evolution of the profession, and career resource tools to navigate through these changing times. As with anything the association does, the success of these initiatives hinges upon the participation and support of members like you.
This session is your opportunity to learn more about these initiatives and how they will enable the medical transcription profession to meet the major challenges facing it now and in the near future. More importantly, it is your chance to have a face-to-face conversation with association leadership about how the organization can best advance the profession and the interests of its members. This session will be simulcast on the homepage of
www.ace365.org Friday, August 6, from 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. CDT, for maximum member participation.
