Partnership for Patients: The THR Journey

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 […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 36: Lighthouse Solution for Sepsis

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.

EMR Device Integration and the Role of Biomed

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, […]

Improving Performance Using Business Analytics: Our IM Journey

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 […]

ICD-10: Preparing for the Healthcare Y2K

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 […]

So You Acquired a Hospital or Medical Group: Lessons of IT Integration

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 […]

Three-Member Health Industry Alliance Cut Costs by $20 Million

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 […]

Accountable Care: Providers Forge the ACO Trail

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 […]

Clinical Integration in Hospitals and Health Systems

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 […]

ICD-10: Developing your Risk Assessment, Gap Analysis and Plan

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 […]

What is Next in Meaningful Use: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward

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.

CHRISTUS Health HIE Case Study

George Conklin, CIO, CHRISTUS Health. CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic hospital system with 35,000 employees spread over four states and Mexico. In some markets they are driving HIE development, and in other markets they are the passengers. Learn how they are laying the foundations for successful HIEs to support this variety of communities and strategies […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 37: Preparing for Accountable Care

Joe Boyce, MD, CIO and CMIO, Heartland Health. This presentation discusses ACO development to provide point of care information to providers in support of accountable care, including chronic disease management with Mpages, care manager integration, and enterprise data warehouses integrating claims, clinical and HIE data.

CDS for Performance Improvement Collaborative: Pilot Status Review Call

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. This Collaborative has been formed to enhance the speed and success with which participating care delivery organizations deploy clinical decision support to address performance improvement imperatives. Nine care delivery organizations are documenting and sharing their target-focused CDS strategies as part of a 6-month pilot project (October […]

EMR: Benefits Realization

Tim Smith, Principal, and Sarah Danielson, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Tim and Sarah discuss some common areas for benefits realization categories that have been targeted with EMR implementations, and where organizations often struggle to achieve planned benefits. With all of the recent EMR design and deployment priorities associated with Health Reform, including Meaningful Use, […]