Accelerating Improvement by Sharing Focused CDS Configurations

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. Scottsdale Institute members and others have recently launched a collaboration to better leverage CDS in addressing recent imperatives for better healthcare […]

Accountable Care Agenda for Quality

Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC. While there has been a lot of discussion on the quality requirements for Meaningful Use and the rules for ACOs, there are several […]

MD Cost for EHRs: Research Report Findings

Lara Sibley, Director, CDW Healthcare, delivers the results of a nationwide, 200-office study on the full cost breakout of implementing an electronic health record (EHR) for a physician practice. The […]

IT Needs for Accountable Care

Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Tracey Mayberry, Partner, Healthcare Group, CSC. There is a flurry of interest in ACOs - but the draft regulations quickly put many […]

Beyond ACOs

Mitchell Morris, MD, Principal, and Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The changing economics of healthcare are stimulating the emergence of innovative approaches to clinical […]

ICD-10 Get Ready Now: Lessons Learned from Leading Hospitals

Mark Morsch, Vice President of Technology, OptumInsight. Mark discusses operational and financial impacts of ICD-10; how computer-assisted coding and Natural Language Processing technology is helping hospitals prepare today and their […]

Are Your Implementations Effective – and Safe?

John R. (Skip) Valusek, PhD, CPHQ, Director Clinical Analytics, HealthEast Care System. A root cause of patient safety accidents and near misses is the distraction, inattention, and cognitive strain resulting […]

Advanced IT Linked with Hospital Profitability

Adam Kates, Director, and Jim LeBuhn, Senior Director and Head of Public Finance Healthcare, Fitch Ratings. Fitch Ratings conducted a review of 291 hospitals in its rated portfolio to determine […]

The Care Connectivity Consortium

Karl West, Associate VP, Marc Probst, CIO, and Stan Huff, MD, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare, provide an update on the progress of the Care Connectivity Consortium, formed by HIT pioneers Geisinger […]

Benchmarking Shared Services for Hospitals

Benchmarking Shared Services for Hospitals", Tom Foley, Principal, Jeff Christoff, Principal, and George Nunney, Senior Manager, Benchmarking Center, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Consolidating operations into a shared services model has been […]