David Jackson, Senior Consulting Manager, Analytic Consulting and Research Services, Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters. Building on the momentum created by PPACA legislation and commercial market payment innovation, new tactics for bundled payment are beginning to gain traction. David describes approaches used to support health systems in developing a bundled […]
Ed Marx, SVP and CIO, and Elizabeth Ransom, MD, Chief Clinical Leader - North Zone, Texas Health Resources. After scaling smaller mountains, a team of officers and doctors at Texas Health Resources fixed their eyes on summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. The planning progressed, and this seed of an idea grew into a mission that would encompass […]
Karen Broz, EMR Training Team Coordinator, and Elaine Hinton, EMT Staff Development Coordinator, University of Missouri Health. Karen and Elaine discuss how they have changed traditional nurse and resident physician onboarding models to accommodate the realities of today's EMR-enabled world. Learn how they reduced the total amount of time to get the clinician to the […]
John A. Kocon, PMP, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives. CHI's journey to improve project performance began four years ago with the implementation of an IT-focused Project Management Office. Based on the value received from IT PMO services, business demand grew, which resulted in expanding services to support strategic priorities across the […]
Lorri Luciano, RHIA, Manager, HIM Product Hospital Specialist, OptumInsight. Lorri provides a detailed discussion of ICD-10 and coding; how this impacts hospitals and what you should be thinking about. She shares her experience in helping hospitals implement computerized-assisted coding (CAC), the benefits these hospitals have seen, as well as information from other hospitals adopting CAC […]
Rajeev Ronanki, Director, and Quinn Solomon, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting. Mobile Applications have been rising as a technology allowing patients to better understand and manage their health, as well as being effective tools for care professionals to handle their day-to-day work. Yet, mobility can also be an effective enabler of new strategies as part of […]
Shawn Griffin, MD, Chief Quality and Informatics Officer for MHMD - Memorial Hermann Physician Network. Dr. Griffin reviews the multiple new analytics tools being utilized by Memorial Hermann's Medicare Shared Savings ACO to track performance metrics, manage population health, and support ambulatory care management. He also discusses both claims-based analytics and EMR based "middleware" for […]
David Voran, MD, Medical Director, Heartland Health. Heartland Health quietly turned on Cerner's patient portal in 2007 and after several years of piloting it in one clinic, has now expanded it throughout it's entire network. The primary benefit has been to provide patients with secure communication directly with their providers. Patients also have access to […]
Carla Robelli, Vice President, PMO, and Tauana McDonald, Vice President, Integration Services, Trinity Health. In 2011, Trinity Health attested for over 25 hospitals as early adopters of Meaningful Use Stage 1 and subsequently plan on early attestation regarding Stage 2. Trinity has established ongoing governance and developed a comprehensive plan to prepare for the new […]
“Creating Value through Meaningful Use 2.0”
John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Carla Robelli, VP, PMO, Trinity Health, Nanda Lahoud, Administrative Director, Value Realization-Innovative Technology Solutions, Texas Health Resources, Emily Handwerk, System Executive, Information Systems, and Mike Rodriguez, Manager, Professional Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, panelists. This panel features representatives from large healthcare systems who […]
Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS, moderator, Lee Pierce, Director of Business Intelligence, Intermountain Healthcare, Mike Kramer, MD, CMIO, James Schweigert, MD, Associate Medical Director Quality and Medical Director Emergency Medicine, Kristen Farmer, Manager Quality & Professional Practice, Spectrum Health, Wendy Wright, VP Clinical Integration, MissionPoint, Shawn P. Griffin, MD, Chief Quality […]
Bruce A. Wacker MT(ASCP), Director of Customer and Regulatory Services, Adventist Health System. Bruce discusses the timeline of AHS's Meaningful Use activities and outcomes, governance structure, implementation strategy and tools, status management, and lessons learned on their way to reaching meaningful use.
Sally Fingar, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Sally focuses on the background of exchanges, the current state of the state for exchanges in the marketplace and at the federal level, and discusses the specific impact to providers.
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS, Orem, Utah, and Andrew Croshaw, Partner and Managing Director, Leavitt Partners. Recently KLAS and Leavitt Partners embarked on a joint research project to provide greater insight into the evolution of accountable care organizations - including partnerships, practices, and payment arrangements. Colin and Andrew highlight what solutions are being applied, […]
