Sunday, March 14, 9:30 AM -12:30 PM   While Dr. David Blumenthal and Aneesh Chopra, two keynote speakers, will focus on broad areas of health IT, the posters in this session deal with many everyday clinical challenges that electronic connectivity poses.

Sunday, March 14, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM   Aneesh Chopra, the first federal chief technology officer (CTO) of the U.S., will deliver the closing keynote address Sunday afternoon on certification of health IT. He also will highlight the current and future state of health information exchanges (HIEs) and issues dealing with interoperability, data standards and clinical messaging.

Sunday March 14, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   Attendees had better arrive early for this one because it is likely to be standing-room only. With many practices and hospitals implementing or updating EHRs, the hard-learned lessons in this session from those who have ventured into this electronic territory will be welcomed by many.

Sunday, March 14, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM   Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for Health IT, has had a busy year, primarily working with other governmental agencies to help implement provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 that deal with defining and funding the adoption of EHRs. In December, he announced the long-awaited interim definition of meaningful use, which describes who is eligible for stimulus dollars, as well as the necessary functions of the EHR for a facility or practice to be considered eligible by CMS for funding.

Hospital CEO turnover increased in 2009, tracking at 18 percent in the U.S., up from 14 percent in 2008, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

Tuesday, March 16, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Organizers of ACC.10 have highlighted this session as potentially having some practice-changing results. Researchers will present three-year follow up data from the DEDICATION trial, which compared drug-eluting stents (DES) with bare-metal stents (BMS) in STEMI patients. Not everyone is convinced that DES is the way to go in this patient population. We'll see.

Monday, March 15, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Each year at the ACC meeting, program planners pour through abstracts to include in the late-breaking clinical trials sessions. This year, they picked 30 abstracts out of more than 100 that were submitted. Many of the late-breaking selections promise to be game-changers. If you want to get a sense of what your future practice might look like, you need to sit in on this session.

Monday, March 15, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AMHow do interventionalists stay current on all the exciting research regarding drug-eluting stents (DES)? Well, that is what this session is geared to do!