Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, CSC, and Karl West, Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Healthcare. Vulnerabilities with mobile devices, portable media, and medical devices give cybercriminals the opportunity to commit financial theft, identity theft or cause malicious damage to equipment. To protect patient information and ensure safety, organizations need to take decisive action. Jared and […]

Rosemary Kennedy, VP, Juliet Rubini, Senior Project Manager, and Beth Franklin, RN, MS, Senior Director, Health Information Technology, National Quality Forum. Rosemary, Juliet and Beth discuss the eMeasure Collaborative project, a public initiative bringing together stakeholders to advance knowledge and promote best practices surrounding development and implementation of electronic quality performance measures. The Quality Data […]

John Stanley, MBA, Principal, Impact Advisors. Meaningful Use and Accountable Care programs call for increased capacities for secure exchange of clinical and operational information between different settings and providers of services to drive increased efficiency and improved outcomes. Many HIE solutions have been developed to address this exchange, but the Direct Project has quickly emerged […]

Michael Kamerick, Specialist Leader, and Aaron Abend, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Success in the accountable care world requires analytics that are fundamentally different than those used to succeed in the fee-for-service world. Integrating data to provide these analytical views requires the combination of data through a technical framework and institutional governance. Michael and Aaron describe […]

Dan Carmel, Head of Enterprise Content Management Strategy and Solutions at Autonomy, an HP company. Dan describes and provides case studies of how organizations can augment electronic health records with a searchable, patient-centric view of all unstructured information, and automate content centric processes such as admissions, case management, remediation of insurance claims, clinical trials, satisfaction […]

Chris DeFlitch, MD, CMIO, Vice-Chair, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Co-Founder, CIHDS (Penn State Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems), and Matthew Loser, Lead Analyst, Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Penn State Hershey Medical Center worked with Cerner to help develop and test their "cloud" solution to send alerts to staff warning of patients with potential […]

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS. With each passing day business intelligence (BI) becomes more important in healthcare. Join Joe for a discussion about BI to learn about vendor performance, recent BI projects, and the influence of BI in healthcare.

Andrew Weier, Director of Quality Analysis and Decision Support, Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital. Tracking patients across the continuum of care is complex, and is more difficult when the care crosses organizations. Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital has worked with Marshfield Clinic to assure high quality of transparent care for decades. Andrew reviews internally developed registries to […]

Jim Conway, Principal, Pascal Metrics and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health, and David Classen, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah and CMIO, Pascal Metrics. In September 2012, the IOM Committee on the Learning Health Care System in America released the product of its deliberations with the report "Best […]

Richard Gibson, MD, Chief Healthcare Intelligence Officer, Providence Health & Services, and Dale Sanders, Senior VP, Healthcare Quality Catalyst, provide an overview of the two organizations' partnership to deliver the data warehousing technology, data visualization, and framework for data exploitation to support the Providence mission of improving quality, increasing access, and reducing the cost of […]

Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Executive Director Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy, Weill Cornell Medical College. Healthcare informatics is an important component of federal healthcare policy. The new Weill Cornell Medical College Center for Healthcare Informatics Policy aims to improve health and healthcare through the research, education, innovation and use of informatics and technology. Learn […]

Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, and Quinn Solomon, Senior Manager, Deloitte Digital, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The convergence of technology growth with the rollout of ACA has caused a healthcare digital revolution. Mobile and social technology are being utilized to increase healthcare convenience, promote overall health, and reduce costs. From […]

Jason Joseph, Director, Informatics and Analytics, Spectrum Health, and Tina Esposito, Vice President, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care. One of the more important yet challenging aspects of establishing a strong Business Intelligence program is aligning people and priorities across functions (analytics and informatics) around a common organizational vision. Viewpoints are provided from […]