Analytics for Value-Based Care: A New Paradigm

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Research Director, KLAS Research. In a BI/analytics market that is bursting with vendors, healthcare providers have never had more options - […]

Physician Data Transparency: Through the CMS Looking-Glass

Michael R. Udwin, MD, FACOG, National Medical Director, Truven Health Analytics. With the April 9th release of Medicare provider specific encounter data, including type of venue, charge, reimbursement and number […]

The Healing Edge: Innovation Meets Information Technology

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Innovation, Northwestern Medicine, Co-Founder and Chairman, healthfinch ("The Doctor  Happiness Company"). Learn how different organizations across the nation have been […]

Aligning CDS and Quality Measurement

Jane Metzger, Research Principal, and Marta Arthur, Principal Researcher, CSC. For most hospitals, the dust is settling on Stage 1 of meaningful use and efforts have turned to Stage 2. […]

Readmissions Predictive Model at Advocate Health Care

Lee B. Sacks, MD, EVP, CMO of Advocate Health Care and CEO of Advocate Physician Partners, Tina Esposito, Advocate Health Care, and Cole Erdmann, Cerner, Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, […]

Is Epic to Non-Epic Clinical Data Sharing Real or a Myth?

Mark Allphin, Senior Research Director, Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS.  Epic is seen by many competitors and providers as not playing well with […]

Clinical Business Intelligence Across Ascension Health

John Pirolo, MD, EVP, CMIO, Saint Thomas Health, and Gail Zielinski, Director, BI/HIE, Ascension Information Services.  This presentation describes a holistic approach to selection and validation of a system-wide clinical […]

IT Value Measurement at Ascension

Gerry Lewis, VP IT Strategy and Business Development, Ascension Health.  As one of the most effective management tools to communicate the value of IT, Ascension Information Services (AIS) has developed […]