David Nill, MD, VP and CMO, Healthe at Cerner.  Cerner operates onsite primary care clinics at its three main campuses in Kansas City.  These clinics strive to deliver the highest quality care and best possible member experience to Cerner's population of associates and their dependents by using technology as a primary lever.  Participants will hear […]

Keith MacDonald, Vice President, and Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor Discovery & Development, Impact Advisors.  Keith and Jason discuss the pressures facing healthcare organizations today, along with the specific IT implications delivery organizations need to address in order to stay ahead of those pressures and remain competitive, such as approaches to HIE, analytics, patient engagement, and […]

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, and Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS.  The deluge of data in healthcare is accompanied by a growing number of vendors, many affirming vast analytics capabilities. In a world where innovation and future strategy often make the headlines, KLAS takes a unique approach by focusing on and highlighting the customer […]

Mark Smodic, Lead - Software License Management (SLM), Ascension Information Services (AIS), Ascension Health. The SLM team is driving the maturation of software asset management processes and services through a number of project initiatives. This presentation describes the tight partnership with the IT legal and contracting services at Ascension and the automated compliance reporting, quality […]

Mike Englehart, President, Advocate Physician Partners. Mike explores the ways the accountable-care model is growing and changing, whether through federal ACO programs or through agreements with commercial insurers. Participants will learn about the growth of ACO arrangements and what is known so far about the potential for improved clinical and financial performance.

Tom Abendroth, MD, Chief of Medical Informatics, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine. Is your user community seeking increased access to EMR data to support quality improvement projects and clinical research? Can you meet this growing demand? i2b2 can be a useful starting point for expanding end-user access to de-identified patient care […]

Dick Thompson, President & CEO, Quality Health Network and Board Chair of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC), and Robert Steffel, Executive Director. The growing SHIEC membership is comprised of C-Suite HIE executives from throughout the country.  This HIE trade association provides its members with the ability to gain economies of scale without losing […]

Bob Williams, MD, MIS, Director, and Mark Snyder, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  Drs. Williams and Snyder discuss the rationale for and keys to success of population management programs.  With the increase in prevalence of costly chronic conditions, and new payment models that transfer risk to provider organizations based on their performance, it is […]

Steven Schlossberg, MD/MBA, VP and CMO, and Mamie Stalvey, RN, Principal, Impact Advisors. An IT "Optimization Continuum" will continue to exist from simple break-fixes to large corporate initiatives. However, to improve optimization efforts, they need to be broken down to discrete high-value efforts that can be readily achieved, communicated and produce value for the organization. […]