“BCA Annual Customer User Conference”

We at BCA are excited about our Customers’ upcoming Annual Customer Users Conference.   Early indications are that our clients are excited as well.  We expect a record turn out in Miami.  This year the conference will be held May 5-7, 2004.  I encourage you to make your arrangements early on.  Since our last meeting, in Mississippi, changes in technology, healthcare regulations and World events are reshaping the healthcare universe.

Improvements in telecommunications speed, capacity and reduced cost has allowed long distance computing to become a reality.  We invite you to participate in discussions centered around the new BCA Data Center in Dalton, Georgia, and how the Urban Primary Network, consisting of Oakhurst Community Health Centers, West End Medical Centers and Southside Community Health Centers, combined resources to use one central computer to support their data processing.  We also invite you to evaluate the results of a central data center at Jackson-Hinds Community Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi to support eleven (11) internal sites and eight (8) Mallory Community Health Center sites in Canton, Mississippi, while offering similar services to other community health centers and clinics throughout the State.  Listen while those centers, also with representative from BCA discuss the economic and clinical benefits of shared systems, long distance computing and out sourcing.  Participate in the strategy sessions centered around additional information technology outsourcing opportunities and combined clinical data bases such as the computerized Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems.
 

For the past year-and-a-half HIPPA mandates have driven significant increases in research and development efforts in the healthcare information technology arena.  During BCA's Customer User Conference you will get an update on the progress BCA has made to address HIPPA requirements for Medicare, Medicaid and other third party healthcare payer systems.  These discussions will center on security and confidentiality agreements, shared liabilities and the requirements of automated systems and databases.  You will also gain insight into the cost to develop new software functionality and the cost to BCA Customers to deploy this functionality throughout their organizations.  Finally, we will discuss what we think the future opportunities and challenges will be as a result of the new HIPPA regulations, the emerging EMR Technology and the Internet.
 

Speaking of EMR systems and the Internet...pay attention as we discuss how technology advances and the Internet will pay a major role in healthcare computing going forward.  Express your opinions as we explain the risks and rewards of taking advantage of the expanding and maturing technology.  We will discuss why EMR's are in great demand and threaten to change the way healthcare is delivered throughout the industry.  Observe the challenges of changing a culture of providing quality, cost effective healthcare. Witness the debate around "best practices" for data entry, process automation, standards of care and anticipated outcomes.
 

Yes, once again BCA is proud to sponsor and bring to you, the BCA Customer Users Conference.  All Customer personnel and guests are invited, from the CEO to the administrative staff, doctors, providers and financial directors alike.  We plan to combine business and fun for a few days in the "Great Backdrop" of Miami!  I will see you there.