Conference Summaries

These summaries are part of our INDUSTRY INSIDE EDGE series.

SI 2019 Annual Conference Summary

April 30, 2019

The future was on the minds of CEOs and other health-system leaders from Scottsdale Institute member organizations as they tackled consumerism, digital health and even the politics of healthcare at the 2019 SI Annual Conference April 10-12 at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz. SI’s 26th Annual Conference “Consumer-Centric...

SI 2018 Annual Conference Summary

May 15, 2018

Health systems must take the lead in managing the financial risk of care delivery - not wait for government - was a key message from Scottsdale Institute's 2018 Annual Conference "Pushing Past the Payment Barrier: From Innovation to Transformation of Healthcare" in Scottsdale, Arizona. To achieve that goal they...

SI 2017 Annual Conference Summary

May 29, 2017

SI members are blazing new trails in the uncertain environment of population health and accountable care. That was the message from SI’s 24th Annual Conference “Innovation for Value-Based Care” in Scottsdale, Ariz. Discussions, presentations and audience interaction at the Camelback Inn demonstrated that innovation and transformation are more than marketing slogans at leading health systems—they are...

SI 2016 Annual Conference Summary

May 25, 2016

Scottsdale Institute’s 23rd Annual Conference pulsed with new energy this year. One of our largest and broadest turnouts of members gathered to discuss a key challenge of the era: “Managing Health and Care across the Continuum.” The lively discussion at Scottsdale’s Camelback Inn among CEOs, physician executives and other...

SI 2015 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2015

Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, “Connected Care and Connected Communities,” held Oct. 29-30, 2015 at Seton Healthcare Family/Ascension Health in Austin, Texas, might have been subtitled “A Tale of Convergence,” as providers and payers increasingly converge in the shift to value-based care. Of course, the move to risk-based contracts...

SI 2015 Spring Conference Summary

December 30, 2015

As the desert heat hit the century mark for the first time this spring, Scottsdale Institute’s 22nd Annual Spring Conference also sizzled with innovation inside the Camelback Inn’s cool Peace Pipe Room, where health leaders focused on sharing creative ways to navigate healthcare’s ongoing transformation to new models of...

SI 2014 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2014

Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, “Innovations for Improving Health and Care,” held Oct. 23-24, 2014 at the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center, Celebration, Fla., lived up to its billing as a forum to share cutting-edge initiatives, strategies and ideas for transforming the 21st century healthcare landscape. The Fall Forum sparked...

SI 2014 Spring Conference Summary

December 30, 2014

Scottsdale Institute’s third decade began auspiciously with our 21st Spring Conference at the Camelback Inn. More than 120 energized executives from SI member organizations and sponsors gathered to address the issue of the day: how do we move from a volume-based, fee-for-service world to one focused on value, patient-centered...

SI 2013 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2013

Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, “Creating the Comprehensive Patient Experience,” held Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2013 at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, reinvigorated the IT-and-value discussion with a new focus on the patient for executive and clinician attendees. The Fall Forum was one of our most...

SI 2013 Spring Conference Summary

December 30, 2013

“Moving from Volume to Value” In a fitting yet bittersweet tribute we celebrated Scottsdale Institute’s 20th Anniversary at our annual spring conference while fondly remembering SI Founder Stan Nelson, who passed away last August. A record turnout of 150 attendees from SI member organizations and sponsors gathered at the...

SI 2012 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2012

“Creating Value through Meaningful Use 2.0," hosted by Memorial Hermann Healthcare, Houston. Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, held October 25-26, 2012, at the Westin Houston Memorial City, matched our loftiest expectations, from the high number of attendees—100 executives and clinicians from SI member organizations and sponsors—to the...

SI 2012 Spring Conference Summary

December 30, 2012

"Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform 2012" Hosting a great annual conference is one way for a nearly 20-year-old organization to get better every year and that’s exactly what we achieved at Scottsdale Institute’s Spring 2012 Conference, which extended and deepened our discussion of how to excel in patient care and...

SI 2011 Fall Forum Summary

November 17, 2011

“Becoming Accountable In Healthcare,” hosted by St. Vincent Health/Ascension Health, Indianapolis. Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, held October 6 – 7, 2011, at the brand-new JW Marriott in Indianapolis, brought us to a large faith-based health system that is focused on mission as it moves forward like...

SI 2011 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2011

"Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform 2011" Reflecting the unfolding nature of healthcare reform, Scottsdale Institute’s Spring 2011 Conference advanced last year’s theme. We have a lot to talk about after a year into reform, and our speakers did not disappoint the 100 attendees from SI member organizations and sponsors at the Camelback...

SI 2010 Fall Forum Summary

November 30, 2010

"Enabling Best Practice Care", hosted by Intermountain Healthcare. Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, held September 30–October 2, 2010, at the stunning Snowbird Conference Center in Snowbird, Utah, literally brought us home to one of America’s pioneer health systems. SI Chairman Stan Nelson introduced Charles Sorenson, MD, CEO...

SI 2010 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2010

Given the touch-and-go prospects for healthcare reform during the months planning Scottsdale Institute’s Spring 2010 Conference, our topic “Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform” was a big gamble. But what a payoff. From the first executive session to the final town hall, the seventeenth annual SI conference was unabashedly the best ever...

SI 2009 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2009

"Healthcare Reform and Achieving Meaningful Use: The Pivotal Role of Clinical Business Intelligence" Texas Health Resources hosted the Scottsdale Institute Fall 2009 Forum September 24-25 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Given the national imperatives of meaningful use and health reform as well as the increasing need for business...

SI 2009 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2009

There might be some irony in the fact that Scottsdale Institute’s 16th Annual Spring Conference, held April 29 to May 1, 2009, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, was titled “IT Business Case, Value and Cost.” Good topics, covered well, as always, but the business-like title belied the...

SI 2008 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2008

"“Realizing the Promise of Healthcare IT” Hosted by Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Members create a call to action Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Conference, held September 25-26 at the brand new Prentice Women’s Hospital at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, blazed a new trail in terms of speakers, content and collegiality. Peter J. McCanna, executive vice president,...

SI 2008 Spring Conference Summary

March 30, 2008

"IT Enabling Community Care" Scottsdale Institute’s 15th Annual Spring Conference, held April 16-18 at the Camelback Inn, lived up to a vintage year with the best SI gathering ever. More than 115 executives from 30 member organizations joined together to discuss how IT enables community care—and demonstrated that SI member organizations...

SI 2007 Fall Forum Summary

October 30, 2007

"Consumer-centered Care, Part Two What Consumers Want: Gleanings from SI’s Fall Conference" In keeping with Chairman Stan Nelson’s vision, we maintain a steady-as-you-go approach to thought leadership in the IE report. So, when we say the Fall Conference at Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta was perhaps the best ever in terms of speakers, content, hosts and...

SI 2007 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2007

"Informatics and Technologies Transforming the Delivery of Care" Over 100 attendees representing more than 52 member organizations, sponsors and guests gathered together in blissful spring desert weather at Scottsdale Institute’s 13th Annual Spring Conference held April 25-27 at the Camelback Inn. Leading healthcare executives from across the nation tackled the issue of how...

SI 2006 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2006

"The IT-Quality Link " New York City’s Central Park South in the heart of Manhattan provided an urbane backdrop for Scottsdale Institute’s most successful fall conference yet, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Sept. 28-29 at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel. Herb Pardes, MD, president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian, welcomed 120 attendees from more than 50 member organizations and sponsors to...

SI 2006 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2006

"Physician Leadership in Information Technology" Nearly 140 attendees representing more than 52 member organizations, sponsors and guests graced the Camelback Inn April 6-8 at our annual spring conference, which was unmatched in its quality of speakers, presentations, audience participation—and beautiful desert weather. Heavy hitters keynoted general sessions, top industry experts led lively executive breakouts...

SI 2004 Fall Forum Summary

December 30, 2004

Stan Nelson, Chairman of the Scottsdale Institute, welcomed attendees and thanked John Glaser, CIO, and his Partners HealthCare team for hosting S.I.’s fourth fall conference. Mr. Glaser also welcomed everybody to Partners and Boston, which has an incredible concentration of world-class healthcare facilities. Partners is the largest non-governmental employer in Massachusetts, with 4-million outpatient visits, 160,000 admissions, $1...

SI 2004 Spring Conference Summary

May 30, 2004

The eleventh annual Scottsdale Institute Spring Conference, “Meeting the Future: The Role of IT and Process Improvement,” was held April 14-16, 2004, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz. A record attendance of executives from leading healthcare organizations and government agencies provided a veritable Who’s Who of healthcare.

SI 2003 Fall Forum Summary

November 30, 2003

The Third Annual Scottsdale Institute Fall Conference was held Oct. 16-17, 2003, at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Having our fall conference at a member site like M.D. Anderson has proven to be a popular strategy because 1) it provides a real-world setting for conference presentations and panels,...

SI 2002 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2002

The ninth annual Scottsdale Institute Conference, “From Strategy to Reality—Leading the Cultural Transformation,” was held April 18-20, 2002, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona. One hundred executives from leading healthcare organizations participated in what turned out to be one of the Institute’s most interactive and dynamic conferences. Sublime weather provided a relaxed backdrop...

SI 2001 Spring Conference Summary

April 30, 2001

The Scottsdale Institute’s eighth annual Membership Conference was held at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 4-6, 2001. A record number of attendees heard a variety of speakers and topics ranging from Bill Dwyer’s compelling look at how pharmaceuticals and genomics is changing medicine to Don Wegmiller’s...

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