KLAS on Workflow

Karen Ondo, Executive Vice President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As legacy solutions are replaced there is considerable investment in sophisticated application portfolios with the expectation is that these solutions will […]

Dynamics of the Future for the CIO

Bert S. Reese, MBA, VP and CIO, Sentara Health Systems, Norfolk VA, describes what CEO’s demand of today’s CIO and what constitutes a high performing CIO and IT organization.  Conclusions […]

KLAS on Speech Recognition and Transcription Outsourcing

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem UT Presentation and audio recording links available upon request. Contact the Scottsdale Institute at scottsdale@scottsdaleinstitute.org

Making IT a Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine

John W. Frein, MBA, PMP, Senior Process Engineer, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids MI, describes planning, organizing and executing IT process improvement using the tools and techniques of Lean Healthcare and […]

Managed Care Perspectives on Hospital Quality and Cost

Steven S. Eisenberg, MD, Chief Science Officer, UnitedHealthcare, Edina, MN.  Fueled by business coalitions and large employers, Managed Care Organizations have been tasked to provide physician and hospital quality and […]

Portal Metrics: Benchmarking Web Investments

Chris Lane, ITS Business Services, Catholic Healthcare West, leads a presentation and discussion comparing web investments relative to organizational size and complexity. Comparisons include web portal vendor, hardware, staffing and […]

KLAS on Clinical Market Share

Kent Gale, CEO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Healthcare executives question the adoption rate of electronic tools, depth of use, and cost to achieve a paperless environment. KLAS combines two different […]

AHRQ on Demonstrating the Value of Healthcare IT

Scott Young, MD, Director, Health IT Portfolio, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Dr. Young describes select aspects of the Health IT Portfolio, which consists of over 100 […]