Scottsdale Institute

Erica Drazen Managing Partner, Emerging Practices, and Jason Fortin, Senior Research Analyst, CSC, discuss what has changed since the Final Rule was published in July 2010, with an emphasis on […]

Gordon Rohweder, Ricki Levitan, and Shelli Williamson, Scottsdale Institute, conduct a review of the 2010 SI IT Benchmarking project, including a brief overview and Q&A on the normalization process. During […]

Adem Arslani, BSN, MS, Director of Information Systems & Clinical Informatics, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, and Joel Shoolin, DO, VP Clinical Informatics, Advocate Health Care. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical […]

John Norenberg, Vice President of Physician Services, Information Systems, for Advocate Health Care, is responsible for the coordination and delivery of information technology tools to Advocate’s diverse physician population. A […]

Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research for KLAS discusses what providers are currently doing in terms of electronic clinical decision support (CDS), the vendors they are using (including CPMRC, […]

Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, John Bigalke, Vice Chairman and US National Industry Leader, Health Sciences & Government, and Steve Burrill, also of Deloitte […]

Dave Lundal, V.P. & Regional CIO, SSM Integrated Health Technologies, SSM Health Care of Wisconsin, and Annette Fox, Director of Clinical Systems, Dean Health System and SSM of Wisconsin, describe […]

Ken Jarvis, Manager Health & Life Science Industries, Randy Hickel, ECMP CHP, Healthcare Market Development Consultant, and Avi Greenfield, Product Manager, HP, discuss how the right patient communications technology can […]

Erica Drazen, Managing Partner, Emerging Practices, and Jason Fortin, Senior Research Analyst, CSC, discuss what has changed since the Final Rule was published in July 2010, with an emphasis on […]

David Classen, MD, Vice President, CSC, and Associate Professor of Medicine Infectious Diseases, University of Utah, and Robert Reese, Global Health Solutions Group, CSC, discuss how to integrate specific meaningful […]

Roy Foster, Practice Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Cerner. During this discussion, Cerner’s Regulatory Compliance group provides an update on the very dynamic regulatory landscape. The latest attestation strategy considerations, meaningful use […]

Christine Armstrong, Principal, Tom Foley, Principal, and Chris Davis, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. ICD-10 will impact healthcare providers across many departments including finance, operations and Information Technology (IT). The IT organization […]

Fran Turisco, Research Principal, Emerging Practices, CSC. Our health system is strained by a growing aging population, a shortage of care providers, more people suffering from chronic conditions, fragmented care […]

Scott C. Woller, MD, FACP, Medical Director, Anticoagulation Management Services, Intermountain Healthcare Urban Central Region, Co-Director Venous Thromboembolism Program, Intermountain Medical Center. Dr Woller discusses research occurring within Intermountain Healthcare […]

Steve Heilman, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Norton Healthcare. In 2009, Norton Healthcare and Humana, Inc. began working together to develop the first commercial Accountable Care Organization in the region.This […]

Philip A. Smith, MD, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Matthew Lord, Pharm.D., PharmNet Application Manager, Adventist Health System and AHS Information Services. Adventist Health System started its rapid deployment […]

Jeremy Goff, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. Many healthcare executives are adopting VoIP and Wi-Fi technology cautiously, while questioning the best way to incorporate wireless solutions at their facility. Jeremy […]

Dr. Karen Bell, Chair, Alisa Ray, Executive Director, and Pat Becker, EACH Program Director, CCHIT. As healthcare providers anticipate the benefits of federal incentive payments for meaningful use of certified […]

Jerry Osheroff, MD, AHRQ eRecommendation Project Director, Thomson Reuters; Robert E. Murphy, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System; and Eboni Price-Haywood, MD, MPH, Co-Executive Director, Tulane Community […]

David W. Bates, MD, M.Sc., Chief, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Medical Director, Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners Healthcare System, and Shobha Phansalkar, also of Partners […]

Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC. The devil is truly in the details when it comes to the quality reporting requirements […]

Jeffrey Rose, MD, VP Clinical Excellence, Informatics, Ascension Health, Philip A. Smith, MD, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Loran D. Hauck, MD, Senior VP, Chief Medical Officer, Adventist Health […]

Paul Kreder, Principal, and Carolyn Howard, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The cost of supplies and services are going to continue to increase; industry resources even predict cost increases due […]

Rick Turner, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Trinity Health. Saint Alphonsus went live in 2010 with a big bang installation of nearly all modules […]

Jeffrey Firlik, BSPharm, MSA, R.Ph., Pharmacist, Principal, CSC, and Vice-Chair of the Vermont Board of Pharmacy. Electronic Prescribing has been proven to reduce medication errors and improve medical office efficiency. […]

Ray R. Bonnabeau, Attorney at Law, Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC. Experts predict PHI security/privacy breaches will increase with the growth in the number of eHealth records nationwide. The risk of […]

Kirk Ising, Research Operations Imaging Director, KLAS, Orem, UT, examines recent developments in the PACS and RIS markets. Although PACS has been mostly a replacement market due to saturation and […]

James L. Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA), a HIMSS Davies Award winner. A major, national health goal is to reduce preventable readmissions to the hospital, […]

Anne McCune, Senior VP and Leader, Ingenix Strategy and Governance, and Michael Goran, MD, Senior VP, Ingenix Consulting. The long overdue draft of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) […]

Rick Hampton, Co-Chair, Wireless Technical Report for the IEC 80001-1 Medical Device/IT Network Risk Management Committee. Business drivers are pushing healthcare providers to connect their medical devices to the HIS […]

Jason Fortin, Director, and Erica Drazen, Managing Director, Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, CSC. While nothing is final, we do have initial recommendation for Stage 2 and hints about […]

Chris Vanuga, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, and Randy Gordon, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. One of the leading assumptions of health care reform is that providing better information […]

Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. With healthcare systems and government initiatives focusing more tightly on improved patient care at lower cost through increased technology utilization and complex data […]

Laurie Wyatt, Partner and National Practice Leader, Revenue Cycle Solutions, CSC. Healthcare reform and ICD-10 will profoundly impact provider revenue and change reimbursement from a volume-based model to a performance-based […]

Sarah Robertson, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, Clinical Information Systems Specialist, University of Alabama Medical Center, discusses UAB’s use of Fetalink in the OB setting. She describes the processes of plan, build, […]

Lorin Bird, Research Manager in Operations, KLAS, Orem, UT. Providers have spent the last few years selecting and implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). They find themselves with silos of reporting, […]

Len Bowes, MD, MS, Senior Medical Informaticist, Intermountain Healthcare, leads an open discussion for organizations to share how they plan to collect all of the data for the 15 ARRA […]

Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC. While there has been a lot of discussion on the quality requirements for Meaningful Use and the rules for ACOs, there are several […]

Lara Sibley, Director, CDW Healthcare, delivers the results of a nationwide, 200-office study on the full cost breakout of implementing an electronic health record (EHR) for a physician practice. The […]

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. Scottsdale Institute members and others have recently launched a collaboration to better leverage CDS in addressing recent imperatives for better healthcare […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Manager, KLAS, Orem, UT. Monitoring CPOE adoption since 2002, KLAS has observed a steady, if not slow, rise in the number of hospitals using this key […]

Mark Ford, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Robert Biskup, Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. Even with widespread coverage of the theft of personal information and intellectual data, many […]

Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Tracey Mayberry, Partner, Healthcare Group, CSC. There is a flurry of interest in ACOs – but the draft regulations quickly put many […]

Mitchell Morris, MD, Principal, and Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The changing economics of healthcare are stimulating the emergence of innovative approaches to clinical […]

Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare. Accountable Care Organizations are all the rage and the expected outcomes are improved and more coordinated care. Advocate HealthCare has entered […]

Mark Morsch, Vice President of Technology, OptumInsight. Mark discusses operational and financial impacts of ICD-10; how computer-assisted coding and Natural Language Processing technology is helping hospitals prepare today and their […]

John R. (Skip) Valusek, PhD, CPHQ, Director Clinical Analytics, HealthEast Care System. A root cause of patient safety accidents and near misses is the distraction, inattention, and cognitive strain resulting […]

Adam Kates, Director, and Jim LeBuhn, Senior Director and Head of Public Finance Healthcare, Fitch Ratings. Fitch Ratings conducted a review of 291 hospitals in its rated portfolio to determine […]

Karl West, Associate VP, Marc Probst, CIO, and Stan Huff, MD, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare, provide an update on the progress of the Care Connectivity Consortium, formed by HIT pioneers Geisinger […]

Carla Robelli, Vice President PMO, Karen Xie, PhD, Director, Enterprise Architecture and Program Management, and Jeff Poiner, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Trinity Health. The purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is […]

Benchmarking Shared Services for Hospitals“, Tom Foley, Principal, Jeff Christoff, Principal, and George Nunney, Senior Manager, Benchmarking Center, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Consolidating operations into a shared services model has been […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Luis Saldana, MD, Associate CMIO, and Marcie Williams RN, MS, FASHRM, CPHRM, CPHS, CLNC, Vice President, Safety & Risk Management, Texas Health Resources. […]

Margaret A. Reynolds, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director, Evidence Based Practice, Trinity Health. Along with colleagues from Trinity IS, Ms. Reynolds presents Trinity’s approach using Lighthouse to address sepsis, and shares […]

Michael Larson, Senior Manager, and David Pittman, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Many organizations have or are in process of implementing electronic clinical documentation technology. With today’s technology, it is […]

Dan Varnum, VP Performance Improvement, Mercy Medical Center, Doug Wickerham, VP Corporate Finance, and Evon Holladay, VP Business Intelligence, Catholic Health Initiatives. With the implementation of electronic health information our […]

Graham Triggs, Research Director, and Mike Smith, General Manager, Financial/Services Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. With the ICD-10 deadline two years away and more immediate Meaningful Use and HIPAA 5010 deadlines […]

Mary Beth Mikols, Director, and Nick Wong, Senior Manager, Health Information Technology Solutions (HITS), Deloitte Consulting LLP. With the passing of new Healthcare legislation in 2010, the provider industry has […]

Scott Whyte, Vice President, IT Connectivity, Catholic Healthcare West. The ARRA and health care reform caused tremendous interest in Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Conventional wisdom […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Manager, KLAS, Orem, UT. Like meaningful use (MU) and other critical U.S. healthcare initiatives, the accountable care organization (ACO) model is generating a lot of buzz. […]

Larry Yuhasz, Director of Strategy and Business Development, Thomson Reuters. Urgency for the secure and standardized exchange of patient health information by clinicians across the healthcare continuum is mounting. For […]

Laurie Wyatt, Partner and National Practice Leader, Revenue Cycle Solutions, CSC. ICD-10 Assessments expose organizational alignment requirements, technology upgrades and integration needs as well as clinical and business workflows that […]

Chris Brancato, Specialist Leader, and Ross Martin, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Chris and Dr. Martin provide the latest information as you prepare for Meaningful Use Stage 2. The […]

George Conklin, CIO, CHRISTUS Health. CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic hospital system with 35,000 employees spread over four states and Mexico. In some markets they are driving HIE development, and […]

Joe Boyce, MD, CIO and CMIO, Heartland Health. This presentation discusses ACO development to provide point of care information to providers in support of accountable care, including chronic disease management […]

Tim Smith, Principal, and Sarah Danielson, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Tim and Sarah discuss some common areas for benefits realization categories that have been targeted with EMR implementations, and […]

Joanne Burns, RN, MPA, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, and Anita Larsen, Chief Nurse Executive, University of Missouri Health. Joanne and Anita articulate the strategies and techniques utilized at […]

Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, CSC. Year 2011 of meaningful use is now over for hospitals and nearly over for eligible providers. This presentation discusses what happened in […]

Bob Kelley, SVP Healthcare Analytics, Thomson Reuters. This presentation describes an analytical approach to understanding and developing effective payment bundles. Bob highlights the challenges and importance of analytics and an […]

Jason Hess, EVP of Sales & Strategy, and Mike Smith, General Manager of Professional Services and Financial Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. As meaningful use, health information exchange (HIE), ICD-10 and […]

David Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Many medical centers must learn to optimize workflow in a diverse EHR […]