Alan Soderblom, Vice President & CIO, Loretta Sloan, Vice President of Operations, and Jennifer Stemmler, IT Director, Ambulatory Clinical Information Systems, Adventist Health. In May 2012, Adventist Health System began the journey to transition its outpatient clinics from paper to electronic documentation and workflows using Cerner's Practice Management and Ambulatory EHR solutions. Adventist Health explores […]
Robert Wah, MD, Global Chief Medical Officer, CSC and President, American Medical Association, and Karl West, Chief Information Security Officer and Assistant VP, Information Systems, Intermountain Healthcare. The healthcare industry has always been very concerned about privacy, but there is a need to ramp it up. Currently the street value of a stolen health record […]
“Innovations for Improving Health and Care”
"Information Requirements for the Competitive Healthcare Marketplace" Convened by Scottsdale Institute and sponsored by Impact Advisors, a blue-ribbon panel of SI member CIOs shared key insights regarding top challenges in today's competitive healthcare marketplace and the strategies they're employing to help their organizations succeed. The CIOs' facilities together represent $50 billion in annual net patient revenue and […]
John Kansky, FHIMSS, MSE, MBA, CPHIMS, Executive Director, Indiana Health Information Exchange: Standing up, sustaining and growing an HIE is complex, but new requirements add even more. John describes how these new demands offer opportunities to sustain and grow.
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS. Join Colin as he shares findings from the recent KLAS EMR interoperability report. Learn how successful each of the EMR vendors are in integrating data, which EMRs cooperate the best and the worst, and which platform/feature sets have most impacted care delivery.
Harry Greenspun, MD, Director, and Tim Smith, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. Dr. Greenspun and Tim discuss strategies for navigating healthcare's rapidly evolving social media landscape. They review the current state of healthcare social media and what this means for your organization, both in the present and looking forward. This session also examines common obstacles that […]
Chris Virgilio, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Solutions Executive, Truven Health Analytics. Chris discusses and provides examples of using technology solutions to support medication-specific programs that drive quality up and cost down, including antimicrobial stewardship, managing drug shortages proactively, and scaling clinical pharmacist know-how. She also covers the importance of surveillance at a patient-specific department and population […]
Joe Boyce, MD, CIO and CMIO, Heartland Health. Heartland/Mosaic has been sharing patient notes, labs and secure messaging for over three years. Since Oct 2013 their clinics have taken the next logical step - working with patients via a secure web portal to provide the capability for patients to document their goals for a visit, […]
John Halamka, MD, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Halamka discusses how Beth Israel Deaconess has expanded meaningful use to using social and mobile media, analytics and the cloud to enhance patient care and engage patients outside of traditional care settings. He also addresses the concerns involved when utilizing this technology in connecting with […]
Shawn P. Griffin, MD, Chief Quality and Informatics Officer, Memorial Hermann Physician Network shares his organization's experience in forming a strategic alliance with Aetna. He discusses the negotiating process, the implementation challenges, and the ongoing work with forging a new partnership between organizations that traditionally functioned as adversaries over the contracting table.
Jonathan Darer, MD, MPH, Chief Innovation Officer, Geisinger Health System. Dr. Darer discusses the rationale for disruptive innovation and gives examples of how the Geisinger Health System uses clinical data assets to improve quality of care and support health care team efficiency. He also discusses Geisinger's approach to patient and family engagement, and how health […]
Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. As the Age of Analytics emerges in healthcare, health system executives are increasingly challenged to define a data governance strategy that maximizes the value of data to the mission of their organizations. Adding to that challenge, the competitive nature of the data warehouse and analytics market place has resulted in […]
Reuben Southall, MS, CPHIMS, Associate CIO of Operations, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. In his previous roles as Manager and Director of Clinical Applications, Reuben has leveraged the Cerner Upgrade Center through multiple upgrades. As he and his team plan to start the next upgrade (Q1 2015) again using the Cerner Upgrade Center, he reflects […]
Laurie Wyatt, CPA, Practice Partner and National Practice Leader, CSC. Healthcare is moving towards a value-based agenda, which may include six operating components such as Integrated Practice Units, Bundled Payments, Cost and Outcomes Measures, Enterprise Integration and Geographic Reach, and Providing the IT platform. Laurie discusses these and provides examples of how the use of […]
