Scottsdale Institute

Paul Keckley, PhD, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Dr. Keckley provides his insight into what’s on the post-election horizon, as well as implications of the […]

Mac McMillan, co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek, Inc., and current Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force. Mac provides an overview and analysis of the key issues […]

Michael Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors, LLC, and adjunct faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Terms like person-centered care, patient-centered care and medical consumerism are often […]

Bobbie Carroll, and Sarah Giga, Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota implemented a comprehensive bar code medication administration (BCMA) for all medications. Using BCMA […]

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, CSC, and Karl West, Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Healthcare. Vulnerabilities with mobile devices, portable media, and medical devices give cybercriminals the opportunity to commit […]

Rosemary Kennedy, VP, Juliet Rubini, Senior Project Manager, and Beth Franklin, RN, MS, Senior Director, Health Information Technology, National Quality Forum. Rosemary, Juliet and Beth discuss the eMeasure Collaborative project, […]

John Stanley, MBA, Principal, Impact Advisors. Meaningful Use and Accountable Care programs call for increased capacities for secure exchange of clinical and operational information between different settings and providers of […]

Michael Kamerick, Specialist Leader, and Aaron Abend, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Success in the accountable care world requires analytics that are fundamentally different than those used to succeed in the […]

Dan Carmel, Head of Enterprise Content Management Strategy and Solutions at Autonomy, an HP company. Dan describes and provides case studies of how organizations can augment electronic health records with […]

Chris DeFlitch, MD, CMIO, Vice-Chair, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Co-Founder, CIHDS (Penn State Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems), and Matthew Loser, Lead Analyst, Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Penn […]

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS. With each passing day business intelligence (BI) becomes more important in healthcare. Join Joe for a discussion about BI to learn […]

Andrew Weier, Director of Quality Analysis and Decision Support, Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Tracking patients across the continuum of care is complex, and is more difficult when the care crosses […]

Jim Conway, Principal, Pascal Metrics and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health, and David Classen, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah and CMIO, Pascal […]

Richard Gibson, MD, Chief Healthcare Intelligence Officer, Providence Health & Services, and Dale Sanders, Senior VP, Healthcare Quality Catalyst, provide an overview of the two organizations’ partnership to deliver the […]

Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Executive Director Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy, Weill Cornell Medical College. Healthcare informatics is an important component of federal healthcare policy. The new Weill Cornell […]

Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, and Quinn Solomon, Senior Manager, Deloitte Digital, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The convergence of technology growth with the rollout of […]

Jason Joseph, Director, Informatics and Analytics, Spectrum Health, and Tina Esposito, Vice President, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care. One of the more important yet challenging aspects of […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Texas Health Resources, and Maggie Lohnes, HIMSS. As progress toward healthcare reform continues, clinical quality measurement will grow in importance. This teleconference reviews […]

Melinda Ashton, MD, FAAP, Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality Services, Hawai’i Pacific Health. High levels of quality improvement coupled with significant savings as Hawai’i Pacific Health, a Stage 6 […]

Eric Finocchiaro, Director Deloitte Consulting and Ryan Haggerty, Senior Manager Deloitte & Touche LLC. Eric and Ryan provide an overall perspective on providers’ journey towards Meaningful Use Stage 2. Based […]

Alan Stein, MD, PhD, VP, Healthcare Technology at Autonomy, an HP company, describes the role of unstructured information in healthcare, and how new technologies enable meaningful analysis of clinical narratives […]

Kristen M. Farmer, MA, BSN, RN, Manager, Professional Practice, and James Schweigert, MD, Associate Medical Director Quality and Medical Director Emergency Medicine, Spectrum Health. More and more physicians need to […]

Lois Krotz, Strategic Operations Director, Erik Westerlind, Senior Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Join Lois, Erik and Graham in a discussion of recent KLAS […]

Ken Jarvis, Manager, Healthcare Industry, and Bruce Michelson, Distinguished Technologist and CTO, U.S. Corporate Accounts, Hewlett Packard. Ken and Bruce reviews important trends driving healthcare provider mobility strategy and plans. […]

Tom Foley, Principal, Chris Armstrong, Principal, and Vickie Monteith, RN, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Most healthcare organizations have started their ICD-10 implementation and remediation efforts ahead of the October 1, […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, and Coray Tate, Vice President of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Despite the fact that 3,500 hospitals have met meaningful use (MU) Stage 1, providers […]

Charles Wardrip, VP Information Systems, Kindred Healthcare, Steve Yeager, VP Information Technology, Healthways, Brian Cardinell, U.S. Health and Life Sciences Industry Strategist, and Hemant Pathak, Assistant General Council U.S. Public […]

Craig Villacorta, Director of Information Systems, KishHealth System, and Peter Brey, Worldwide Storage Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard. Increasingly, healthcare providers are faced with significant challenges acquiring, storing, managing and […]

Jack McGuire, Director, and Harold Robinson, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP.  Jack and Harold discuss the original vision of HIE integration, current outcomes, and where the industry has struggled to achieve […]

Heidi Rozmiarek, Manager of Business Applications, Meriter Hospital, and Joseph Paranteau, Principal Platform Specialist, Microsoft Corporation. Meriter Health Systems provides healthcare services to the people of Madison, WI, through a […]

Brian Lancaster, VP, and Doug Dickey, MD, Senior Director and Chief Medical Officer of Cerner’s Physician Strategy Organization, discuss where Cerner is headed with physician solutions.  As requested by the […]

Barbara Adams, MSHI, MBA, VP of ITS, Texas Health Resources. Barbara describes lessons learned on Texas Health’s journey in the Pioneer Accountable Care Organizational model, which was designed by CMS […]

Grant Hoffman, Vice President Integration, Truven Health Analytics.  The complexities of healthcare reform are requiring hospitals and health systems to integrate care as never before. This requires not only the […]

Erik Bermudez, Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Manager, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Telehealth and telemedicine have become popular terms in today’s healthcare. But, what do they mean? How are […]

Robert Williams, MD, Director, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting, and Mark Golberg, Specialist Leader, Recombinant by Deloitte. The business model paradigm change initiated by the ACA has spawned a wave […]

Bruce A. Wacker MT(ASCP), Director of Customer and Regulatory Services, Adventist Health System, and Mike Hourigan, Regulatory Compliance Practice, Cerner. Adventist Health System’s experiences with Hospital and EP Meaningful Use […]

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, CSC, and Clive Flashman, Global Healthcare Specialist, CSC. Historically, providing healthcare at a distance simply meant replicating traditional interactions with the help of teleconferencing. TeleServices […]

Jean M. Jensen, RN, MS, MHSA, FACHE, VP Redesign/Operational Excellence, Hospital Sisters Health System, Melissa Wade, Business Manager Nursing Services, St. John’s Hospital, and Phil Gaughan, Senior Director, Operational Improvement, […]

Kirk Ising, Strategic Operations Director, Monique Rasband, Research Director, and Brady Heiner, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. Join Kirk, Monique and Brady as they reveal the top-performing vendors of 2013 […]

Sue Lopardo, Director of Alignment and Customer Service, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, and Pete Smith, CEO and Co-founder, Impact Advisors, provide an overview of the financial, competitive and other market drivers […]

Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, Todd Blake, Technology Director, and Kelly Patrick, Specialist Leader.  As the healthcare industry evolves from volume to value, underlying […]

Michael Ripchinski, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lancaster General Health, and Hemang Patel, Healthcare Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation. To address the challenges of slow, asynchronous communication in healthcare today, […]

Mark Wagner, Research Director and Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. EMRs are often hailed as key to improvements in productivity and clinical decisions, but critics say they […]

Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics, shares insights gleaned from 3,000 hospital clients about managing the transition from fee-for-service to risk-based reimbursement models and population health approaches. Hospital […]

Jordan Battani, Managing Director, Mark Kaufman, MD, MBA, Clinical Leader, and Femi Ladega, CTO, CSC.  Healthcare organizations around the world face formidable challenges as they look to improve the results, […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Natalie Dion, Director, Enterprise Data Management, Texas Health Resources, and Sean Cassidy, VP, Premier, Inc. Healthcare is rapidly moving to become more […]

Jeff Cook, CEO, and Greg Sheff, MD, President and CMO, Seton Health Alliance. Leaders from Seton Health Alliance, a Medicare Pioneer ACO, which includes at its core a regional hospital […]

Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, Sophie Stern, MPH, Health Policy Specialist from the Deloitte Center of Health Solutions, and Eric Finocchiaro, Director, Deloitte Consulting. […]

Jane Metzger, Research Principal in Emerging Practices, CSC. Critical to success with coordinated care is a constantly updated set of patient information available both to clinicians in real time, but […]

Jody Amodeo, RN, VP Practice Leadership, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the findings from the recent Truven Health study on the health of hospital workers, and offers best practices for implementing […]

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Brian Krajewski, Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office, Spectrum Health, and Michelle Cassin, IT Executive Director – PMO, UK […]

Tim Smith, Principal, Kelly Patrick, Specialist Leader, Nick Wong, Senior Manager, Health Information Technology Solutions (HITS) and James Moore Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP.  This session provides an overview of […]

Bob Kelley, SVP, Center for Healthcare Analytics, and Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics.  As hospital systems pilot and implement at-risk contracts, a whole new analytical agenda needs […]

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, and Clive Flashman, Global Healthcare Specialist, CSC. New technologies, services, and design concepts are enabling patients to become more engaged in their health and care. […]

Hank Fanberg, Director, Technology Advocacy, and Luke Webster, MD, CMIO, CHRISTUS Health. As a large integrated delivery system with operations in seven states and three countries, CHRISTUS Health is on […]

Alan Krumholz, MD, FAAP, DFACMQ, VP and Director of Quality Outcomes, Mayo Clinic Health System.  Dr. Krumholz, describes Mayo’s analytics program as one which focuses on actionable opportunities.  The platform […]

David Kim, Director of Strategic and Decision Support at Franciscan Alliance, Inc., and Brian Waterman, Sr. Product Manager, and Bob Sutter, Sr. Consultant, Truven Health Analytics. Discover how Franciscan Alliance […]

Toni Tribble, Director, Greg Walklet, Manager, Jolin Carlson, Senior Consultant, Gil Messer, Senior Consultant, and Matt Curren, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP. This presentation provides an overview of current business […]

Tony Reed, MD, AtlantiCare Health System. Dr. Reed explores successes in physician engagement and pitfalls to avoid. The voice of a strong, engaged physician leader makes the difference in successful […]

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, and John Ainge, MD, Clinical Director and Strategist, CSC. As care becomes more distributed and technology-enabled services such as TeleHealth, TeleCare, TeleCoaching, and TeleMedicine assume […]

Katherina Holzhauser, Assistant Vice President, IS Commercialization, Intermountain Healthcare, and Asif Dhar, MD, Managing Director, Deloitte Health Informatics & CMIO, Deloitte Consulting LLP.  Asif provides case studies and examples to […]

Heidi Rozmiarek, Manager of Business Applications, Meriter Hospital, and Susan Wiemeyer, Managing Director, US Healthcare, Microsoft. Having access to the right data at all levels of a health system is […]

Geoff Nicholson, MD, Wellspan, and Bob Robke, VP, Cerner, discuss real world experience in implementing Cerner Exchange service (Cerner Resonance).  They explain the features of the interoperability solution, the process […]

Mark Wagner, Research Director, and Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. Accountable care and risk-based payment models reward providers for lowering costs by proactively coordinating care and influencing […]