Improving the Bottom Line
Kent Giles, Regional VP, Conifer Health. With the trends in supply chain cost inflation, cost shifting from employers to employees, cuts in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, and ARRA requirements that […]
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Can Accountable Care Organizations Control Costs and Improve Quality?
Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. As we await CMS communications about ACOs, there are ways in which organizations can prepare. Thinking ahead to how […]
HITECH Final Rule: Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria and the EHR Certification Process
Chris Brancato, Specialist Leader, and Moha Desai, Specialist Master, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Chris and Moha present an analysis of the requirements for Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria and the […]
SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 27: Problem List
Joe Boyce, MD, CMIO, Heartland Health, describes an approach to team management of the Problem List. Ideally, Problem List management should include efforts to optimize all that is known about […]
Are We Making a Difference? Measuring Impact of Clinical Decision Support at Memorial Hermann
Robert Murphy, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Sirajuddin Anwar, M.B.B.S, M.S, CPHIMS, Clinical Informaticist for CDS, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Clinical decision support has consistently been shown in published […]
The Oncology IT Balancing Act: Integration vs. Functionality
Monique Rasband, Director of Oncology Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, shares recent oncology system feedback and experiences from providers in this presentation. With insight into the strengths and weaknesses of […]
Convergence of IT and Medical Devices, and Impact on Patient Safety
James P. Keller, Jr., M.S., VP, Health Technology Evaluation and Safety, ECRI Institute. Medical devices and information technology are rapidly converging to the point where it will soon be difficult […]
Information Security Issues and Trends
Mark Ford, principal and national leader for the healthcare provider sector within Deloitte & Touche LLP's Security and Privacy Practice, and Derek Han, senior manager and certified HITRUST practitioner, present […]
Auditing RACS: Examining Provider Perceptions
Paul Pitcher, Director of Financial Systems, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. This presentation looks at recent KLAS research about RAC auditing buying decisions, including which systems providers have selected and why […]
Meaningful Use: Implications for Hospital IT Systems Integration
Mary Sedivec, Principal, and Al Byrd, Senior Architectural Specialist, CSC. How will hospital IT system integration efforts, departments and associated technologies be affected by new standards required for EHR Meaningful […]
Enterprise Governance for MU at Adventist Health System
Bruce A. Wacker, MT(ASCP), Director of Customer Service and HITECH, AHS Information Services, and Bonnie Kierstead, Clinical Design Strategist, Florida Hospital MIS. Managing Meaningful Use presents significant challenges in a […]
Using CDS to Measurably Improve Care, DVT
Amy Halverson, MD, Department of Surgery, Hiren Shah, MD, Division of Hospital Medicine, Jean Patel, MD, Pharmacy, and Jennifer Van Dyke, Process Improvement, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, discuss how they decreased […]
KLAS Reveals the Top-Performing HIT Vendors of 2010
Karen Ondo, VP, Research Integrity, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As a still-struggling economy and looming Meaningful Use requirements continue to cloud the future of the healthcare IT industry, picking the […]
Meaningful Use: What has changed since the ‘Final’ Rule?
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 […]
Using the SI IT Benchmarking Database
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 […]