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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
Joanne Burns, RN, MPA, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, and Anita Larsen, Chief Nurse Executive, University of Missouri Health. Joanne and Anita articulate the strategies and techniques utilized at the University of Missouri Health Care to execute on a plan for rapid deployment and adoption of technology to support CPOE, Bedside Barcode Administration, ePrescribing, […]
Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, CSC. Year 2011 of meaningful use is now over for hospitals and nearly over for eligible providers. This presentation discusses what happened in 2011: How many registered, attested, got money; where the states are in readiness to distribute Medicaid money; what menu items were met/skipped; and what important […]
Bob Kelley, SVP Healthcare Analytics, Thomson Reuters. This presentation describes an analytical approach to understanding and developing effective payment bundles. Bob highlights the challenges and importance of analytics and an objective, quantitative view in creating and pricing acute care bundles, and explores the additional complexity of chronic care bundles. Using specific examples, he walks through […]
Jason Hess, EVP of Sales & Strategy, and Mike Smith, General Manager of Professional Services and Financial Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. As meaningful use, health information exchange (HIE), ICD-10 and accountable care organization requirements continue to cloud the future of the healthcare IT industry, picking the right IT vendor partners is more important than ever. […]
David Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Many medical centers must learn to optimize workflow in a diverse EHR environment. This presentation highlights steps taken at Northwestern to improve the safety of care transitions and improve the efficiency of everyday practice using Cerner inpatient […]
Tom Foley, Principal, and Brian Lee, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. With the CMS mandate for the adoption of the ICD-10 code set, healthcare provider organizations face many challenges including decreases in coder productivity and decision support processes. Many automated tools such as Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) and "cross walk" applications are available to assist with […]
