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 […]

CCHIT: A Catalyst for Health Information Technology Adoption

Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chair, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). CCHIT is an independent, HHS funded organization established to accelerate the adoption of HIT by creating a sustainable […]

IS Governance Leadership Model:  UHHS Case Study

Ed Marx, CIO, University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, describes the critical role of governance in developing and supporting business strategy.  Working governance principles and a framework which you can adopt […]

KLAS on Cardiology

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews research from the 2006 KLAS CPACS Report.  Included are issues impacting the CV Department and the greater IT enterprise. The […]

HIE’s and PHR’s Implement the CCR Standard

David C. Kibbe, MD MBA, Director, Center for Health information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians, Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Kibbe explains that, around the country the idea of the […]

Data Warehouses in Support of Patient Flow

Roberta E. Testor, MA, MSS, Director, IT Knowledge Systems, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, demonstrates how a data warehouse can support analysis of patient flow throughout the organization. She […]