Karl West, Associate VP, Marc Probst, CIO, and Stan Huff, MD, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare, provide an update on the progress of the Care Connectivity Consortium, formed by HIT pioneers Geisinger Health System (PA), Kaiser Permanente (CA), Mayo Clinic (MN), Intermountain Healthcare (UT), and Group Health Cooperative (WA). The goals are to share patient information as […]
Carla Robelli, Vice President PMO, Karen Xie, PhD, Director, Enterprise Architecture and Program Management, and Jeff Poiner, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, Trinity Health. The purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to improve the alignment of organizational strategy, business processes and information technology. An effective EA discipline can lead an enterprise on the road to greater […]
Benchmarking Shared Services for Hospitals", Tom Foley, Principal, Jeff Christoff, Principal, and George Nunney, Senior Manager, Benchmarking Center, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Consolidating operations into a shared services model has been popular in many industries for many years. Healthcare providers are becoming more interested in shared services and many have already incorporated aspects of their operations […]
“Becoming Accountable in Healthcare”
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Luis Saldana, MD, Associate CMIO, and Marcie Williams RN, MS, FASHRM, CPHRM, CPHS, CLNC, Vice President, Safety & Risk Management, Texas Health Resources. The Department of Health and Human Services has recently launched a new public-private program, the "Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs". Leaders from major […]
Margaret A. Reynolds, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director, Evidence Based Practice, Trinity Health. Along with colleagues from Trinity IS, Ms. Reynolds presents Trinity's approach using Lighthouse to address sepsis, and shares the results including outcomes.
Michael Larson, Senior Manager, and David Pittman, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Many organizations have or are in process of implementing electronic clinical documentation technology. With today's technology, it is possible to connect medical devices and monitors directly to the electronic medical record. Many electronic medical records are becoming vendor agnostic when connecting to devices, […]
Dan Varnum, VP Performance Improvement, Mercy Medical Center, Doug Wickerham, VP Corporate Finance, and Evon Holladay, VP Business Intelligence, Catholic Health Initiatives. With the implementation of electronic health information our healthcare world is on track to receive a virtual tsunami of information. With this incredible volume of data comes the demand for responsive and reasonable […]
Graham Triggs, Research Director, and Mike Smith, General Manager, Financial/Services Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. With the ICD-10 deadline two years away and more immediate Meaningful Use and HIPAA 5010 deadlines approaching, many healthcare providers are still in the early preparation stages for the pending coding changes. Graham shares recent research from providers about their plans […]
Mary Beth Mikols, Director, and Nick Wong, Senior Manager, Health Information Technology Solutions (HITS), Deloitte Consulting LLP. With the passing of new Healthcare legislation in 2010, the provider industry has seen a notable increase in mergers and acquisitions of hospitals. The successful integration of Information Technology is one of the most crucial and complex factors […]
Scott Whyte, Vice President, IT Connectivity, Catholic Healthcare West. The ARRA and health care reform caused tremendous interest in Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Conventional wisdom suggests that HIEs will support ACOs. But which HIE functions are most important to the HIE? Do the HIE functions specified by meaningful use have […]
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Manager, KLAS, Orem, UT. Like meaningful use (MU) and other critical U.S. healthcare initiatives, the accountable care organization (ACO) model is generating a lot of buzz. Accountable care changes have the potential of dramatically affecting healthcare - from patient care to administration to revenue cycle management to IT infrastructure. KLAS interviewed […]
Larry Yuhasz, Director of Strategy and Business Development, Thomson Reuters. Urgency for the secure and standardized exchange of patient health information by clinicians across the healthcare continuum is mounting. For providers, this need is further magnified where distress over increasing cost of care is now matched by legislative metrics put in place to drive higher […]
Laurie Wyatt, Partner and National Practice Leader, Revenue Cycle Solutions, CSC. ICD-10 Assessments expose organizational alignment requirements, technology upgrades and integration needs as well as clinical and business workflows that will be impacted by the implementation of ICD-10. Learn how to complete your ICD-10 assessment, develop a "gap" analysis and an implementation strategy and roadmap […]
Chris Brancato, Specialist Leader, and Ross Martin, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Chris and Dr. Martin provide the latest information as you prepare for Meaningful Use Stage 2. The presentation explores lessons learned and how they apply to the development of the Stage 2 recommendations.
