MU 2014 Standards: A Big Jump?

Virginia Lorenzi, Manager, HIT Standards and Collaborations, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Associate, Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics. This timely discussion focuses on standards adoption as Washington finalizes regulations, and providers and […]

Creating and Sustaining Innovation

Ed Marx, CIO, Texas Health Resources. What is innovation? How do you create a culture that encourages innovation? Once created, how do you sustain innovation in your enterprise? Learn how […]

Prevent Fraud Before Taking on Risk

Jean MacQuarrie, Vice President Payment Integrity Services, Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters. As your organization prepares to take on risk, consider protection from fraud and […]

Physician Documentation: How to Sell it Get it Done

Ken Ong, MD, MPH, CMIO, New York Hospital Queens. Full electronic physician documentation can facilitate Meaningful Use and take a healthcare organization one step closer to full adoption of the […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 45: Population Management

Karen Cabell, DO, CMIO, and Chris Stevens, CIO, Billings Clinic. Dr. Cabell and Chris present the Billings Clinic's journey towards effective population management utilizing Cerner's Clinical Information System, Disease Management […]

Using the Voluntary Universal Patient Identifier System

Barry Hieb, M.D., Chief Scientist, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc., Sponsor of the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier Project. Accurate patient identification is a prerequisite for the information exchange envisioned as part […]

Inaugural HCCI Health Care Cost and Utilization Report

Carolina Herrera, Research Director, Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). Carolina reviews the first-ever report using health plans' claims data from HCCI: the nation's largest private insurers show that prices, not […]

Benchmarking Shared Services for Hospitals – 2012

Jeff Christoff, Principal, Tom Foley, Principal, and Michael Janis, Senior Manager, Benchmarking Center, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Consolidating operations into a shared services model has been popular in many industries for […]

Natural Language Processing – Today and Tomorrow

Melissa Rubel, RHIA, Product Manager, OptumInsight, describes how NLP is helping hospitals overcome the challenges they face today - fragmented healthcare, labor shortages and diversity in clinical documentation - while […]