Babette Apland, Senior Vice President, Health and Care Management and Provider Relations, HealthPartners Minnesota presents the implementation of the program that denies reimbursement to providers when Never Events are detected. […]

Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH, Senior Scientist at Mass General Hospital's Institute for Health Policy and Director of Disease Management Programs, Partners Healthcare, Boston. This session includes a description of […]

Kent Gale, President, KLAS, Orem UT, explores interoperability from an overall industry perspective with a drill down on how vendors are perceived. He discusses how close provider organizations are to […]

Tom Bixby, Partner, Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago, IL, addresses issues related to implementing the National Provider Identifier, including the interaction of providers and health plans concerning NPI implementation, […]

Eric Brown, Forrester Research, Cambridge, MA, presents his recently updated research on the state of the industry in RHIO’s. Last year’s research highlighted the seven working RHIOs in the US; […]

Mike Smith, Research Director, Professional Services, KLAS Enterprises, presents findings from recent research on clinical and financial ERP implementation services and IT outsourcing. For this research KLAS interviewed healthcare providers […]

Joe Luria, MD, Patient Safety Officer, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, describes specific examples of how the hospital's computerized order entry system has been helpful in detecting and correcting adverse […]

David W. Bauer, Residency Program Director, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, shares eight years of experience at MHHS.

Michael Apfel, CIPP/CIPPG, Chief Privacy Officer, Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, MO, discusses the short- and long-term impact the NPI will have on healthcare and what covered entities should consider […]

Judy Van Norman, System Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, Ben Wilson, Intel Corporation, and Kevin Ford, Cerner Corporation, present the results from their collaborative study on the results and benefits […]

Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH, Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center, and Janet Marchibroda, CEO, e-Health Initiative, Moderators. Panelists are Gerald Hinkley, Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, J. Marc Overhage […]

Vicki Estrin, Program Manager, Regional Informatics, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, describes the operations of this RHIO and lessons learned in planning, implementation and the adoption phase. Metrics and dashboards […]

Jeremy Bikman, VP - Strategic Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews research on cardiovascular reporting systems. The presentation covers such areas as (1) impacts of moving to electronic documentation, (2) […]

Adam Gale, EVP and COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS completed their fifth annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking with every live hospital in the country doing […]