Scottsdale Institute

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS. Join Joe for a teleconference discussing the analytics vendor market in healthcare. He covers vendor performance, hot topics and trends, and early research […]

Steve Margolis, MD, CMIO, Adventist Health. In 1958 Larry Weed MD challenged the industry in the NEJM by making the case that the problem list should be at the heart […]

Julia Swanson, Director, Performance Analytics and Improvement, Henry Ford Health System. How do you succeed in a constantly changing environment?  Key factors for success include a creating a culture of […]

Donna Akerson, RN, Director, and Shaun Rangappa, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Donna and Shaun discuss emerging themes in EHR Optimization across multiple client experiences.  How have optimization efforts […]

Mark Allphin, Senior Research Director, Joe Van De Graaf, Research Director, and Erik Westerlind, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, Utah. As accountable care organizations, HIE, and population health continue to drive […]

Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics. Physician network development is a top priority for most health systems.  Establishing longstanding relationships with the right physicians is critical to not […]

Jason Bickford, MCSE, HIMS Department Applications Director, Banner Health. Banner Health has reached HIMSS Stage 7 with the use of Cerner Content360 suite of solutions and is a nationally recognized […]

Mary Beth Pace, RN, BSN, MBA, CMAC, System Director, Case Management, Carrie Hays, Service Line Administrator Senior Services/Director Case Management, and Jennifer O’Brien, RN, MHA, ACM, Manager of Care Coordination, […]

Nigel John, Partner, CSC Consulting UK&I, and Boris Rachev, Global Health Economist, CSC Global Healthcare Group. Technology enabled clinical and business change is one of the key drivers of the […]

Laura Taylor, Senior Director, Information Systems, Shared Information Services, Ascension Health. Hearhow Ascension Health Information Services (AHIS), one of the largest healthcare IT services companies in the country, implemented application portfolio […]

Gordon Rohweder, Director of Benchmarking Services, Scottsdale Institute. Gordon provides an overviewof the SI IT Benchmarking Program; its background, value and some of the recent additions to the program. He discusses […]

Jean Chenoweth, Sr. Vice President of Performance Improvement and 100 Top Hospitals, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the power of comparing leadership performance objectively to drive improvement. Covering findings from comparative […]

Donna Crompton, BSN, RN, MBA, BC-NE, System Director, Clinical Informatics, Memorial Health System. Donna outlines the process Memorial Medical Center used in successfully deploying BBMA using Care Admin housewide, including […]

James Kuhn, Strategic Health Industry Advisory, and Jordan Battani, Managing Director, CSC. Patientengagement is the “topic of the day” in healthcare organizations across the United States. It’s not particularly surprising; in […]

Clifford Goldsmith, MD, Director of Microsoft’s US Provider Industry group. Dr. Goldsmith presents the casework from Care First BlueCross Blue Shield Maryland regarding the development of their PCMH model and changing […]

Chris Davis, Director, and Mitch Morris, MD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. As health systems continue to face mounting margin pressures and MU payments come to an end, executives are looking […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, Coray Tate, VP Clinical Research, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS. The acute care EMR market is on the verge of a new buying […]

Vladimir Tikhtman MHSA, Clinical Solution Advisor, Truven Health Analytics. In today’s healthcare environment, the need for new reporting and documentation capabilities is growing, including data retrieval from multiple sources, the […]

Margaret Reynolds, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director of Evidence Based Practice, and Marti Satwicz, RN, MSN, Director of Clinical Transformation, CHE Trinity Health. In October 2010, Trinity Health launched a system-wide […]

Timothy R. Zoph, Senior Vice President, Administration, and Shrimant Jaruhar, LEED AP, BIM Manager, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. This teleconference details Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, including […]

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, and James Kuhn, Strategic Health Industry Advisor, CSC. Mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and health systems are on an uptrend. With such activity come challenges […]

Carl Block, Director of PMO, Adventist Health. The Adventist Health Project Management Office is deeply involved in helping Information Technology improve outcomes and control costs. The PMO gives executives visibility […]

Steve Meyer, Desktop Director, Ascension Health. Join Steve as he reviews the Managed VirtualDesktop (MVD) environment being deployed across Ascension Health. This solution brings multiple technologies together to enhance the endpoint […]

Dave Davis, Assistant Vice President, Operational Excellence at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and Kevin Sheeran, National Director Operational Improvement, Truven Health Analytics. This session shares and discusses current […]

Wesley Valdes, DO, Medical Director Telehealth Services, Intermountain Health Care. The environmentin which healthcare systems provide care greatly influences the capability of that care in terms of efficiency, quality, and convenience […]

Kathy Mulvey, Director, Shared/System PMO, Ascension Information Services.  Join Kathy as she shares Ascension Health’s journey in developing healthcare mobile applications.  Ascension Health began focusing on mobile applications in 2011 […]

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Research Director, KLAS Research. In a BI/analytics market that is bursting with vendors, healthcare providers have never had more options – […]

Bryan Bliven, CIO, and Gregory Brown, Sr. Program Manager, University Of Missouri Healthcare. It’s a long and winding road to achieving Meaningful Use Stage 2.  Join Bryan and Gregory as […]

Lee B. Sacks, MD, EVP, CMO of Advocate Health Care and CEO of Advocate Physician Partners, Tina Esposito, Advocate Health Care, and Cole Erdmann, Cerner, Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, […]

Jodie Gardner, Manager, ePMO Quality and Process, Ministry Health, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator). Ministry Health Care, an Ascension Health Ministry, utilizes […]

Gerry Lewis, VP IT Strategy and Business Development, Ascension Health.  As one of the most effective management tools to communicate the value of IT, Ascension Information Services (AIS) has developed […]

Jason “JD” Duigou, Director, Information Technology Service Management, Ascension Information Services. Join JD as he shares Ascension’s journey in establishing an IT Service Management office and service delivery processes.  Ascension […]

Coray Tate, VP Clinical Research, and Chris Brown, Research Director, KLAS. Join industry experts Coray and Chris as they discuss the small, large and global EMR market landscapes and what […]

George Conklin, CIO and SVP, CHRISTUS Health, and Gwendolyn Lohse, Deputy Director and Managing Director, CORE CAQH, the HHS designated author for the ACA operating rules.  George and Gwendolyn describe […]

Susan Craft, Director, Care Coordination Initiatives, Henry Ford Health System. Reduction in readmissions continues to be a challenge for many organizations around the country with unique obstacles for hospitals in […]

Loran D. Hauck, MD, Senior VP, CMO, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, and Christine Sammer, DrPH, RN, Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, Adventist Health System. Adventist began […]

Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how mergers and acquisitions have and will continue to shape the US healthcare landscape. […]

Shannon Eubank, Product Manager, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the millions of dollars that health systems are losing when employees choose out-of-network providers – and what you can do about it. […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. Dale provides an overview of his 12 criteria that health systems can use to evaluate vendors who offer population health management systems.  The criteria can […]

Kyle H. Townsend, Pharm.D, BCPS, Director, Pharmacy Services and Jacob Thiesse, Pharm.D, Informatics Pharmacist, Billings Clinic, John Mortimer, Knowledge Architect, for Cerner, and John D’Costa, Director Engineering Omnicell. Healthcare costs […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Health Information Officer, Christy Benson, Director of Clinical Informatics, and Shawn-Marie Herring, Manager of Clinical Informatics, Texas Health Resources. The session discusses the increasing importance of […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS. Accountable care and population health are overwhelming and unachievable without sophisticated systems in place, but it’s hard to know where to start with myriad […]

Toni Jarrett, Director, Zach Rogers, Senior Manager, and Jolin Carlson, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how to capitalize on key optimization opportunities resulting from an EMR implementation.  They explore the […]

Fiona McNaughton, Director Patient Education Practice, Truven Health Analytics, offers insights on how to create a strategic approach to reduce medication management-related readmissions. She describes approaches to medication-related patient education, […]

Alan Soderblom, Vice President & CIO, Loretta Sloan, Vice President of Operations, and Jennifer Stemmler, IT Director, Ambulatory Clinical Information Systems, Adventist Health.  In May 2012, Adventist Health System began […]

John Kansky, FHIMSS, MSE, MBA, CPHIMS, Executive Director, Indiana Health Information Exchange: Standing up, sustaining and growing an HIE is complex, but new requirements add even more. John describes how […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS.  Join Colin as he shares findings from the recent KLAS EMR interoperability report.  Learn how successful each of the EMR vendors are in integrating […]

Harry Greenspun, MD, Director, and Tim Smith, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  Dr. Greenspun and Tim discuss strategies for navigating healthcare’s rapidly evolving social media landscape.  They review the current state […]

John Halamka, MD, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Halamka discusses how Beth Israel Deaconess has expanded meaningful use to using social and mobile media, analytics and the cloud […]

Shawn P. Griffin, MD, Chief Quality and Informatics Officer, Memorial Hermann Physician Network shares his organization’s experience in forming a strategic alliance with Aetna.  He discusses the negotiating process, the […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. As the Age of Analytics emerges in healthcare, health system executives are increasingly challenged to define a data governance strategy that maximizes the value of […]

Reuben Southall, MS, CPHIMS, Associate CIO of Operations, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. In his previous roles as Manager and Director of Clinical Applications, Reuben has leveraged the Cerner Upgrade […]