James L. Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA), a HIMSS Davies Award winner. A major, national health goal is to reduce preventable readmissions to the hospital, addressing patient safety, public cost, patient satisfaction and healthcare quality. Coupled with financial penalties to hospitals for readmissions, the urgency of dealing with this issue […]
Anne McCune, Senior VP and Leader, Ingenix Strategy and Governance, and Michael Goran, MD, Senior VP, Ingenix Consulting. The long overdue draft of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ACO proposed rules were released on March 31, accompanied by a companion set of regulations from the FTC about antitrust implications of ACOs. Recognizing organizations […]
Rick Hampton, Co-Chair, Wireless Technical Report for the IEC 80001-1 Medical Device/IT Network Risk Management Committee. Business drivers are pushing healthcare providers to connect their medical devices to the HIS network. Not only is there growing concern for the safety of patients and efficacy of the medical devices with integrated systems, new FDA regulations could […]
Jason Fortin, Director, and Erica Drazen, Managing Director, Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, CSC. While nothing is final, we do have initial recommendation for Stage 2 and hints about Stage 3. Jason and Erica discuss the current recommendations, reactions from the industry, and their take on what to expect in Stage 2.
Chris Vanuga, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, and Randy Gordon, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. One of the leading assumptions of health care reform is that providing better information to providers will enable both clinical outcome improvement and reduce costs. However, just purchasing and implementing clinical information systems does not necessarily result in improved […]
Eric Hartz, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center. The automation of oncologic care in the EMR has brought many challenges. Standardization of care following evidence based guidelines, improving workflow efficiency, and best uses of clinical decision support are a few of them. Learn how CancerCare of Maine has embarked on this journey with Cerner. See how […]
Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. With healthcare systems and government initiatives focusing more tightly on improved patient care at lower cost through increased technology utilization and complex data sharing, many providers wonder how real the dream of healthcare information exchange (HIE) truly is. For this discussion Mark examines recent KLAS findings from discussions […]
Laurie Wyatt, Partner and National Practice Leader, Revenue Cycle Solutions, CSC. Healthcare reform and ICD-10 will profoundly impact provider revenue and change reimbursement from a volume-based model to a performance-based model, which may ultimately result in reduced volumes and net revenues. Laurie discusses 10 "best practices" that providers can begin implementing now to achieve compliance, […]
Nitin Mittal, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. This discussion includes how the Provider community is looking at ways to integrate clinical, revenue cycle, operational and decision support data to derive meaningful insights on both the performance of various departments and physicians as well as prospectively identify opportunities for lowering costs and improving productivity.
Sarah Robertson, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, Clinical Information Systems Specialist, University of Alabama Medical Center, discusses UAB's use of Fetalink in the OB setting. She describes the processes of plan, build, and design changes for Cerner Ambulatory Project for OB/GYN patients when PowerChart Maternity content is currently in use for the inpatient OB/GYN patient. Included is […]
Lorin Bird, Research Manager in Operations, KLAS, Orem, UT. Providers have spent the last few years selecting and implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). They find themselves with silos of reporting, with data found in Clinical Data Repositories (CDRs), ERPs, Patient Accounting systems, and other myriad applications. Healthcare regulations particularly, as well as new payment and […]
Len Bowes, MD, MS, Senior Medical Informaticist, Intermountain Healthcare, leads an open discussion for organizations to share how they plan to collect all of the data for the 15 ARRA Clinical Quality Measures on all Stroke, VTE, and ED patients in 2011, 2012, and 2013 since much of this data may reside in text form […]
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 outcomes. The collaborative work focuses on using a template (based on the 'CDS Five Rights') to document what information the organization is providing to whom […]
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 other programs (with significant financial implications) that have received less attention. This presentation covers all the CMS requirements for being accountable for quality - up […]
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 study found that, inclusive of equipment, software, services, training time and potential lost revenue, physician practices may face total EHR adoption costs of $120,000 per […]
