James Whitfill, MD, CMO, Scottsdale Health Partners: Imaging, once a radiology function for image capture, storage and display, is evolving to the Enterprise. With this brings opportunity to extend image management technologies to other departments, and to apply IT processes like SOA and IT Service Management to PACS, and image enable the EMR. Dr. Whitfill […]
Kyle H. Townsend, Pharm.D, BCPS, Director, Pharmacy Services and Jacob Thiesse, Pharm.D, Informatics Pharmacist, Billings Clinic, John Mortimer, Knowledge Architect, for Cerner, and John D'Costa, Director Engineering Omnicell. Healthcare costs continue to rise; in 2014 it is estimated to be ~18% of U.S. GDP. Increased functional interoperability between systems reduces waste, medication errors, improves care […]
Joseph Kvedar, MD, Founder and Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare. The Connected Medical Home can include mobile devices and apps, wearables, sensors and remote monitoring technologies. Dr. Kvedar describes how remote patient monitoring can help individuals better manage chronic disease, improve clinical outcomes and quality of care; as well as potential cost savings […]
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Health Information Officer, Christy Benson, Director of Clinical Informatics, and Shawn-Marie Herring, Manager of Clinical Informatics, Texas Health Resources. The session discusses the increasing importance of quality transparency in the era of accountable care. They describe the journey in making the strategic decision to share quality and safety data with the […]
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS. Accountable care and population health are overwhelming and unachievable without sophisticated systems in place, but it's hard to know where to start with myriad population health vendor solutions available. Join Colin for this revealing discussion of population health vendors that are leading the pack and learn which might best […]
Toni Jarrett, Director, Zach Rogers, Senior Manager, and Jolin Carlson, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how to capitalize on key optimization opportunities resulting from an EMR implementation. They explore the most common optimization opportunities with a focus on those most impactful to the business, including areas of financial metric degradation, clinician and patient dissatisfaction, and […]
Fiona McNaughton, Director Patient Education Practice, Truven Health Analytics, offers insights on how to create a strategic approach to reduce medication management-related readmissions. She describes approaches to medication-related patient education, mobilizing the medication-related experts who impact care decisions at the point of care, improving your workflow to make time for caregivers to exercise best practices […]
Alan Soderblom, Vice President & CIO, Loretta Sloan, Vice President of Operations, and Jennifer Stemmler, IT Director, Ambulatory Clinical Information Systems, Adventist Health. In May 2012, Adventist Health System began the journey to transition its outpatient clinics from paper to electronic documentation and workflows using Cerner's Practice Management and Ambulatory EHR solutions. Adventist Health explores […]
Robert Wah, MD, Global Chief Medical Officer, CSC and President, American Medical Association, and Karl West, Chief Information Security Officer and Assistant VP, Information Systems, Intermountain Healthcare. The healthcare industry has always been very concerned about privacy, but there is a need to ramp it up. Currently the street value of a stolen health record […]
“Innovations for Improving Health and Care”
"Information Requirements for the Competitive Healthcare Marketplace" Convened by Scottsdale Institute and sponsored by Impact Advisors, a blue-ribbon panel of SI member CIOs shared key insights regarding top challenges in today's competitive healthcare marketplace and the strategies they're employing to help their organizations succeed. The CIOs' facilities together represent $50 billion in annual net patient revenue and […]
John Kansky, FHIMSS, MSE, MBA, CPHIMS, Executive Director, Indiana Health Information Exchange: Standing up, sustaining and growing an HIE is complex, but new requirements add even more. John describes how these new demands offer opportunities to sustain and grow.
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS. Join Colin as he shares findings from the recent KLAS EMR interoperability report. Learn how successful each of the EMR vendors are in integrating data, which EMRs cooperate the best and the worst, and which platform/feature sets have most impacted care delivery.
Harry Greenspun, MD, Director, and Tim Smith, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. Dr. Greenspun and Tim discuss strategies for navigating healthcare's rapidly evolving social media landscape. They review the current state of healthcare social media and what this means for your organization, both in the present and looking forward. This session also examines common obstacles that […]
Chris Virgilio, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Solutions Executive, Truven Health Analytics. Chris discusses and provides examples of using technology solutions to support medication-specific programs that drive quality up and cost down, including antimicrobial stewardship, managing drug shortages proactively, and scaling clinical pharmacist know-how. She also covers the importance of surveillance at a patient-specific department and population […]
