2011 Spring Conference
“Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform 2011”
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Healthcare Supply Chain: Incentive and Value-Based Purchasing
Paul Kreder, Principal, and Carolyn Howard, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The cost of supplies and services are going to continue to increase; industry resources even predict cost increases due […]
Clinical System Big Bang Implementation at Saint Alphonsus, Trinity Health
Rick Turner, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Trinity Health. Saint Alphonsus went live in 2010 with a big bang installation of nearly all modules […]
E-Prescribing: Meeting Regulatory and Technology Challenges to Address MU and E-Rx Initiative Requirements
Jeffrey Firlik, BSPharm, MSA, R.Ph., Pharmacist, Principal, CSC, and Vice-Chair of the Vermont Board of Pharmacy. Electronic Prescribing has been proven to reduce medication errors and improve medical office efficiency. […]
PHI: Mitigating Risks and Affects of Security/Privacy Breaches
Ray R. Bonnabeau, Attorney at Law, Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC. Experts predict PHI security/privacy breaches will increase with the growth in the number of eHealth records nationwide. The risk of […]
Hospital Imaging Strategies: Examining Changes in the RIS and PACS Markets
Kirk Ising, Research Operations Imaging Director, KLAS, Orem, UT, examines recent developments in the PACS and RIS markets. Although PACS has been mostly a replacement market due to saturation and […]
CDS: Meaningful Use and the AHRQ Leapfrog CPOE Test
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Luis Saldana, MD, Associate CMIO, Texas Health Resources. Drs. Velasco and Saldano share their experience in developing an effective clinical decision support […]
Physician Office Infrastructure for Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, and Eliminating Preventable Readmissions
James L. Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA), a HIMSS Davies Award winner. A major, national health goal is to reduce preventable readmissions to the hospital, […]
An Executive Response to the CMS ACO Regulations: Too Much, Too Late?
Anne McCune, Senior VP and Leader, Ingenix Strategy and Governance, and Michael Goran, MD, Senior VP, Ingenix Consulting. The long overdue draft of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
Integration of HIT and Medical Devices
Rick Hampton, Co-Chair, Wireless Technical Report for the IEC 80001-1 Medical Device/IT Network Risk Management Committee. Business drivers are pushing healthcare providers to connect their medical devices to the HIS […]
Meaningful Use: Stage 2 and Beyond
Jason Fortin, Director, and Erica Drazen, Managing Director, Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, CSC. While nothing is final, we do have initial recommendation for Stage 2 and hints about […]
Clinical Analytics: Meeting the Challenge of Reform
Chris Vanuga, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, and Randy Gordon, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. One of the leading assumptions of health care reform is that providing better information […]
SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 32: Oncology Module
Eric Hartz, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center. The automation of oncologic care in the EMR has brought many challenges. Standardization of care following evidence based guidelines, improving workflow efficiency, and […]
Healthcare Information Exchange: Making the Dream of Data Exchange a Reality
Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. With healthcare systems and government initiatives focusing more tightly on improved patient care at lower cost through increased technology utilization and complex data […]
Best Practices for Revenue Cycle Management under Reform and ICD-10
Laurie Wyatt, Partner and National Practice Leader, Revenue Cycle Solutions, CSC. Healthcare reform and ICD-10 will profoundly impact provider revenue and change reimbursement from a volume-based model to a performance-based […]