Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare. Accountable Care Organizations are all the rage and the expected outcomes are improved and more coordinated care. Advocate HealthCare has entered into a relationship with Blue Cross to develop a like organization we call AdvocateCare. We have a clinical infrastructure, as well as IT resources as […]

Mark Morsch, Vice President of Technology, OptumInsight. Mark discusses operational and financial impacts of ICD-10; how computer-assisted coding and Natural Language Processing technology is helping hospitals prepare today and their results achieved in terms of productivity gains and financial savings.

John R. (Skip) Valusek, PhD, CPHQ, Director Clinical Analytics, HealthEast Care System. A root cause of patient safety accidents and near misses is the distraction, inattention, and cognitive strain resulting from change fatigue. More specifically, healthcare organizations need to look at the impact of "uncontrolled change" on direct and indirect caregivers and ask the question: […]

Adam Kates, Director, and Jim LeBuhn, Senior Director and Head of Public Finance Healthcare, Fitch Ratings. Fitch Ratings conducted a review of 291 hospitals in its rated portfolio to determine whether there is a link between quality of care reporting and advanced IT systems with improved financial performance. Fitch found a positive correlation between hospitals […]

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 […]

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 […]