Stan Huff, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare, and Oscar Diaz, CEO, Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC). Health IT has the potential to increase healthcare quality, lower healthcare costs and improve population health. But, interoperability continues to be a formidable challenge to the collection, sharing, and effective use of electronic health information. At the heart of this complex […]
Asra Ali, MS, CHC, CHPC, Senior Compliance/Privacy Specialist Corporate Compliance Department, Advocate Health Care. Social media is at the forefront of our lives. Each workplace is strongly involved with social media from a marketing perspective, and each individual is strongly engaged from a personal perspective. The current culture is such that any and all matters […]
Marci Nielson, PhD, MPH, CEO, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Dr. Nielsen discusses the latest evidence associating the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care delivery with reductions in healthcare costs and improvements in quality of care. Additionally, she also touches on recent legislation which supports the much-needed transition from the current volume-driven, fee-for-service reimbursement […]
Robert Sawicki, MD, Senior VP Supportive Care, Linda Fehr, RN, Division Director Supportive Care, Roopa Foulger, Executive Director Data Delivery, OSF Healthcare, and Leslie Hough-Falk, Vice President, Health Catalyst. OSF HealthCare, recipient of the 2014 Illinois Hospital Association (IHA) Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality's first annual Tim Philipp Award for Excellence in Palliative […]
Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, discusses the continued growth of Population Health Management (PHM). There are a number of PHM offerings in the market today, but that number is increasing. Which vendors are effectively driving outcomes? Where is the needle when it comes to providing better patient care and reducing costs? Join Mark as he […]
Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. The M&A trend continues to accelerate in the US as does the formation of innovative affiliation agreements and partnerships. The end result is larger and more diverse health systems that rely on IT to drive innovation, lower unit cost, and […]
Nimesh Patel, Chief Technology Officer, Emmi Solutions. While 50% of healthcare professionals predict technology will enable patients to participate more proactively in their care in the future, healthcare organizations can actually leverage technology today to both improve operational effectiveness and encourage patients to take action in their health. Nimesh discusses ways to integrate an EMR, […]
Virginia Lorenzi, Manager - HIT Standards and Collaborations, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Hans J. Buitendijk, M.Sc., FHL7, Sr. Expert R&D, Cerner HS and Team Lead. Now more than ever interoperability plays a key role in healthcare and health IT. Providers depend on a wide variety of HL7 standards and versions to accomplish internal connectivity, decision support, […]
Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, Impact Advisors. As more and more organizations embrace population health management as a strategy to succeed in the emerging new paradigm of value-based payment, many are facing the next big question, “What tools do I need to support population health?” There are more than 100 population health management software […]
Alan Weiss, MD, Director of Medical Informatics, Memorial Hermann. Problem lists (PL) are an essential clinical tool, but are often poorly maintained. Dr. Weiss has investigated PL use at the Cleveland Clinic, Cedars-Sinai and at Memorial Hermann, and shares analyses and insights. Due to a lack of consensus on problem lists use and territorial issues […]
Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. Microsoft, in Health Catalysts' opinion, continues to innovate and lead in the analytics and data warehousing space through pragmatic innovation and enormous investments, creating a compelling suite of products for analytics and data warehousing which bridges the gap between the relational database of yesterday and the big data, Hadoop platform […]
Thomas J. Selva, MD, CMIO, MU Health Care, Professor of Clinical Child Health, Associate Chair Clinical Quality and Medical Director - Department of Child Health. MU Health Care, in partnership with Cerner Corporation via the Tiger Institute, has become a leader in portal development. A key component of that development and our ongoing success has […]
Rhonda Collins, RN, MSN, CNO, Vocera Communications. Rhonda shares best practices for developing an effective clinical communication strategy. You will learn why a clinical communication strategy can be a key part of improving clinical efficiency and patient satisfaction by putting nurses back at the patient's bedside. She'll also include examples of clinical communication improvements from […]
Mike Smith, Research Director of Professional Service, KLAS. As nearly 1,300 U.S. hospitals consider a move, or are in the middle of moving to new core clinical and financial systems, Mike focuses on the common implementation potholes of specific vendors, best practices for success, and insights on the consultants who can help.
"The New World of the Health System CIO: Consumers, Consolidation and Crooks" CIOs from eight leading healthcare organizations convened in September 2015 for the annual Scottsdale Institute Fall CIO Summit. The resulting report, The New World of the Health System CIO: Consumers, Consolidation and Crooks, highlights many of the key challenges faced by today's healthcare CIOs […]
