Scottsdale Institute

Lisa Pettigrew, General Manager for Global Healthcare, CSC. Healthcare is moving toward a value-based, consumer centric model across the globe generating significant focus on population health, transforming care delivery models and engaging the consumer in a shared accountability model. Lisa discusses and provides examples of the implications of these from different global points of view, […]

Angie Mendoza, MS, BSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS, Sr. System Analyst, Liz Kozub, MS, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CNRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and Mary Swift, Pharmacy Analyst, Sharp HealthCare. Angie, Liz and Mary detail how a project team approach was used to address design changes to support safe medication administration. Our nurses identified […]

Erik Bermudez, Research Director, and Jon Christensen, Strategic Operations Manager, KLAS.  Thanks to meaningful use, the bases are loaded with EMR-enabled providers waiting for promised benefits. But what is the real impact of EMRs on the quality of patient care?  Report authors Erik and Jon examine which vendors are closest to satisfying providers’ high expectations […]

Sarah Danielson, Specialist Leader, and Tony Jurek, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. Sarah and Tony highlight the business rationale and significance of interoperability, and what it means to your organization.  The shift from fee-for-service (FFS), volume-driven healthcare to outcome-focused, value-based care (VBC) is driving health systems to make bold, strategic decisions to differentiate their services through […]

Boris Rachev, Global Health Economist and Health Industry Strategist, CSC. In order to adapt to a future consumer-driven healthcare system, healthcare organizations will need to improve their market strategies in three main areas: a) offer products and service portfolios based on consumer insights and personalize according to preferences, health status, care utilization patterns and likelihood […]

David Nill, MD, VP and CMO, Healthe at Cerner.  Cerner operates onsite primary care clinics at its three main campuses in Kansas City.  These clinics strive to deliver the highest quality care and best possible member experience to Cerner’s population of associates and their dependents by using technology as a primary lever.  Participants will hear […]

Keith MacDonald, Vice President, and Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor Discovery & Development, Impact Advisors.  Keith and Jason discuss the pressures facing healthcare organizations today, along with the specific IT implications delivery organizations need to address in order to stay ahead of those pressures and remain competitive, such as approaches to HIE, analytics, patient engagement, and […]

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, and Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS.  The deluge of data in healthcare is accompanied by a growing number of vendors, many affirming vast analytics capabilities. In a world where innovation and future strategy often make the headlines, KLAS takes a unique approach by focusing on and highlighting the customer […]

Mark Smodic, Lead – Software License Management (SLM), Ascension Information Services (AIS), Ascension Health. The SLM team is driving the maturation of software asset management processes and services through a number of project initiatives. This presentation describes the tight partnership with the IT legal and contracting services at Ascension and the automated compliance reporting, quality […]

Mike Englehart, President, Advocate Physician Partners. Mike explores the ways the accountable-care model is growing and changing, whether through federal ACO programs or through agreements with commercial insurers. Participants will learn about the growth of ACO arrangements and what is known so far about the potential for improved clinical and financial performance.

Tom Abendroth, MD, Chief of Medical Informatics, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine. Is your user community seeking increased access to EMR data to support quality improvement projects and clinical research? Can you meet this growing demand? i2b2 can be a useful starting point for expanding end-user access to de-identified patient care […]

Dick Thompson, President & CEO, Quality Health Network and Board Chair of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC), and Robert Steffel, Executive Director. The growing SHIEC membership is comprised of C-Suite HIE executives from throughout the country.  This HIE trade association provides its members with the ability to gain economies of scale without losing […]

Bob Williams, MD, MIS, Director, and Mark Snyder, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  Drs. Williams and Snyder discuss the rationale for and keys to success of population management programs.  With the increase in prevalence of costly chronic conditions, and new payment models that transfer risk to provider organizations based on their performance, it is […]

Steven Schlossberg, MD/MBA, VP and CMO, and Mamie Stalvey, RN, Principal, Impact Advisors. An IT “Optimization Continuum” will continue to exist from simple break-fixes to large corporate initiatives. However, to improve optimization efforts, they need to be broken down to discrete high-value efforts that can be readily achieved, communicated and produce value for the organization. […]

Kevin Hintz, Process Owner Change Management, Ascension Information Services (AIS) IT Service Management Office (ITSMO).  The ITSMO is leading the redesign of IT service delivery and maturation of IT service management processes through a number of project initiatives. The maturation of change management processes is one of the key areas of focus for the ITSMO, […]

Brian Jacobs, MD, VP, CMIO and CIO, Executive Director, Center for Pediatric Informatics & The Children’s IQ Network, Children’s National Medical Center.  Communication failures and alarm fatigue have topped the ECRI Institute’s health technology hazards list for three consecutive years. Antiquated technologies and limitations within existing processes can cause communication breakdowns, and the overabundance of […]

Wes Rishel, Retired Health IT Nerd (founder and past chair of HL7, and six-year member of Health IT Standards Committee). Health IT standards are simultaneously the magic bullet and whipping boy of interoperability. Standards will never make interoperability easy although they can help make it possible. Wes discusses the underlying issues of trust, regulation, curation […]

Kimberly Walter, MBA, Sharp HealthCare, Sr. Systems Analyst, Molly Willman, MHA, Cerner Corporation, Innovation Strategist, Rachelle Sey, MSN, APRN, CNS, RNC-NIC, Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and Kathy Lasiter, RN/BSN, Clinical Informaticist, Women’s/Infants Service Line, Sharp HealthCare.  In an effort to standardize care for very low birth weight infants in the NICU, Sharp […]

Greg Hindahl, MD, FAAFP, VP & CMIO, BayCare Health System. Once an EMR is implemented and live for a while the optimization process begins.  Optimization will hopefully make the EMR more efficient for your Physicians and other Clinicians and safer for your patients.  Getting optimization done while your team is doing code upgrades and patches, […]

Liz Boehm, Experience Innovation Network Director, Vocera. To drive differentiation, loyalty, and growth, leading healthcare organizations are investing in the patient experience. To drive those patient experience efforts, healthcare organizations are appointing senior leaders, Chief Experience Officers (CXOs), who are responsible for creating sustainable system transformation that delivers optimal care to patients and families while […]

David Oakley, Director, Consumer Technologies, Florida Hospital, Adventist Health System.  Market innovations and consumer expectations are outpacing our industry’s ability to integrate and operationalize new ideas and technology.  In this presentation, David shares how Florida Hospital is seeking to drive new value for the patient/consumer through consumer-centric digital solutions via web, mobile and the Internet […]

Stan Huff, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare, and Oscar Diaz, CEO, Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC).  Health IT has the potential to increase healthcare quality, lower healthcare costs and improve population health. But, interoperability continues to be a formidable challenge to the collection, sharing, and effective use of electronic health information. At the heart of this complex […]

Marci Nielson, PhD, MPH, CEO, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Dr. Nielsen discusses the latest evidence associating the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care delivery with reductions in healthcare costs and improvements in quality of care. Additionally, she also touches on recent legislation which supports the much-needed transition from the current volume-driven, fee-for-service reimbursement […]

Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, discusses the continued growth of Population Health Management (PHM).  There are a number of PHM offerings in the market today, but that number is increasing.  Which vendors are effectively driving outcomes?  Where is the needle when it comes to providing better patient care and reducing costs?  Join Mark as he […]

Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. The M&A trend continues to accelerate in the US as does the formation of innovative affiliation agreements and partnerships.  The end result is larger and more diverse health systems that rely on IT to drive innovation, lower unit cost, and […]

Nimesh Patel, Chief Technology Officer, Emmi Solutions. While 50% of healthcare professionals predict technology will enable patients to participate more proactively in their care in the future, healthcare organizations can actually leverage technology today to both improve operational effectiveness and encourage patients to take action in their health. Nimesh discusses ways to integrate an  EMR, […]

Virginia Lorenzi, Manager – HIT Standards and Collaborations, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Hans J. Buitendijk, M.Sc., FHL7, Sr. Expert R&D, Cerner HS and Team Lead. Now more than ever interoperability plays a key role in healthcare and health IT.  Providers depend on a wide variety of HL7 standards and versions to accomplish internal connectivity, decision support, […]

Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, Impact Advisors. As more and more organizations embrace population health management as a strategy to succeed in the emerging new paradigm of value-based payment, many are facing the next big question, “What tools do I need to support population health?” There are more than 100 population health management software […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst.  Microsoft, in Health Catalysts’ opinion, continues to innovate and lead in the analytics and data warehousing space through pragmatic innovation and enormous investments, creating a compelling suite of products for analytics and data warehousing which bridges the gap between the relational database of yesterday and the big data, Hadoop platform […]

Thomas J. Selva, MD, CMIO, MU Health Care, Professor of Clinical Child Health, Associate Chair Clinical Quality and Medical Director – Department of Child Health.  MU Health Care, in partnership with Cerner Corporation via the Tiger Institute, has become a leader in portal development.   A key component of that development and our ongoing success has […]

Rhonda Collins, RN, MSN, CNO, Vocera Communications.  Rhonda shares best practices for developing an effective clinical communication strategy. You will learn why a clinical communication strategy can be a key part of improving clinical efficiency and patient satisfaction by putting nurses back at the patient’s bedside. She’ll also include examples of clinical communication improvements from […]

Mike Smith, Research Director of Professional Service, KLAS.  As nearly 1,300 U.S. hospitals consider a move, or are in the middle of moving to new core clinical and financial systems, Mike focuses on the common implementation potholes of specific vendors, best practices for success, and insights on the consultants who can help.

Ronald Mehring, Senior Director, Chief Information Security Officer, Texas Health Resources.  Effectively articulating complex cybersecurity risks, threats and security investment priorities can be a daunting task.  The key to success is becoming data driven within your Information security program and linking operational data with security risk management functions.  During this presentation Ron discusses his experience […]

Chris Davis, Director, and Todd Blake, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  As health systems continue to face mounting margin pressures and MU payments coming to an end, executives are looking for effective models to manage their information technology costs. Having a need to innovate and expand technology services while effectively managing costs is a balancing act […]

Elliot Levine, MD, Medical Director of Informatics, Research, and Dept. of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Mohammed Samee, MD, RN, Director of Physician Informatics Council, Internal Medicine Program Director, Meg Capannari, Director Site Information System, and Communications, and Veronica Kiarie, BSN, RN, Manager Clinical Informatics, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (AIMMC).  With less than 3.5% of US hospitals having […]

Rishi Sikka, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Transformation, and Tina Esposito, VP, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care.  As the industry continues to shift to a focus of accountability across the care continuum, it becomes imperative for organizations to reallocate human and capital resources, ensuring efficient and effective care for an entire patient […]

Shawn P. Griffin, MD, Chief Quality and Informatics Officer, MHMD – the Memorial Hermann Physician Network, takes you “behind the scenes” to review the ongoing processes of analytics, care management, and population health at the most successful Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO in the country with over $51M in shared savings over 2 performance years. […]

Joe Van De Graff, Research Director, KLAS.  Provider-owned health plans (payviders) aren’t new, but the payvider market, now permeated with ACOs and new risk-sharing arrangements, is seeing new life and seeking new direction. Which vendors are seen as most critical? Which vendors would clients avoid or replace? KLAS spoke with 44 payviders, approximately one-third of […]

Lydia Washington, Senior Director, Information Governance, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and Sharon Slivochka, Director HIM HER, and William H. Morris, MD, FACP, Associate Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Division, Cleveland Clinic. Lydia, Sharon and Dr. Morris discuss the emergence of Information Governance (IG) as a key strategy for organizations that seek to leverage […]