Ken Jarvis, Manager Health & Life Science Industries, Randy Hickel, ECMP CHP, Healthcare Market Development Consultant, and Avi Greenfield, Product Manager, HP, discuss how the right patient communications technology can help providers be successful in a post-reform environment. They demonstrate how to significantly reduce hospital readmissions, improve patient outcomes, and promote quality transition care with […]
Erica Drazen, Managing Partner, Emerging Practices, and Jason Fortin, Senior Research Analyst, CSC, discuss what has changed since the Final Rule was published in July 2010, with an emphasis on the most frequent points of confusion, what clarifications have been issued by ONC and CMS, the rule for permanent certification organizations, and the proposed requirements […]
David Classen, MD, Vice President, CSC, and Associate Professor of Medicine Infectious Diseases, University of Utah, and Robert Reese, Global Health Solutions Group, CSC, discuss how to integrate specific meaningful use and health reform requirements into the overall journey to achieve the long-term goals of safe, high quality and affordable care.
Steve Sarros, VP Project Management and Logistics, Spectrum Health, facilitates a discussion about how SI member organizations are structuring the PMO, including: alignment of the PMO with the strategic plan, capital planning, and regular financial reporting. The session includes how the structures support both general operations and those functions with traditionally strong project management such […]
Roy Foster, Practice Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Cerner. During this discussion, Cerner's Regulatory Compliance group provides an update on the very dynamic regulatory landscape. The latest attestation strategy considerations, meaningful use beyond stage 1, healthcare reform programs with a deeper dive on Value Based Purchasing are among the topics covered in this presentation and open discussion.
Christine Armstrong, Principal, Tom Foley, Principal, and Chris Davis, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. ICD-10 will impact healthcare providers across many departments including finance, operations and Information Technology (IT). The IT organization will be specifically impacted in multiple ways from system updates and replacements to vendor tracking. IT leadership will need to inventory all the systems, databases, […]
Fran Turisco, Research Principal, Emerging Practices, CSC. Our health system is strained by a growing aging population, a shortage of care providers, more people suffering from chronic conditions, fragmented care management and rising costs - and needs disruptive changes to address these major problems. "The Future of Healthcare: It's Health, then Care" presentation is based […]
Scott C. Woller, MD, FACP, Medical Director, Anticoagulation Management Services, Intermountain Healthcare Urban Central Region, Co-Director Venous Thromboembolism Program, Intermountain Medical Center. Dr Woller discusses research occurring within Intermountain Healthcare to promote the use of EMR interrogation techniques identifying hospitalized patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and shares preliminary data identifying risk factors most […]
Steve Heilman, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Norton Healthcare. In 2009, Norton Healthcare and Humana, Inc. began working together to develop the first commercial Accountable Care Organization in the region.This joint effort represents one of four national pilot sites for the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Pilot Project. The ACO model establishes incentives for health systems to increase […]
Philip A. Smith, MD, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Matthew Lord, Pharm.D., PharmNet Application Manager, Adventist Health System and AHS Information Services. Adventist Health System started its rapid deployment of CPOE starting in mid 2009 and leveraged Multum and Discern alerts to obtain "fully implemented" Leapfrog status six weeks after first CPOE go live. […]
Jeremy Goff, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. Many healthcare executives are adopting VoIP and Wi-Fi technology cautiously, while questioning the best way to incorporate wireless solutions at their facility. Jeremy shares recent findings collected from more than 110 provider organizations about the strengths and weaknesses of the wireless systems used in their facilities. In this […]
Dr. Karen Bell, Chair, Alisa Ray, Executive Director, and Pat Becker, EACH Program Director, CCHIT. As healthcare providers anticipate the benefits of federal incentive payments for meaningful use of certified EHR technology, some face an unexpected hurdle. Many will be able to meet the EHR certification requirement through use of certified EHR technology purchased from […]
Jerry Osheroff, MD, AHRQ eRecommendation Project Director, Thomson Reuters; Robert E. Murphy, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System; and Eboni Price-Haywood, MD, MPH, Co-Executive Director, Tulane Community Health Centers, discuss how an HIT project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and supported by ONC staff can contribute to […]
David W. Bates, MD, M.Sc., Chief, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Medical Director, Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners Healthcare System, and Shobha Phansalkar, also of Partners Healthcare System, David C. Classen, MD, MS, Vice President, CSC, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of […]
Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC. The devil is truly in the details when it comes to the quality reporting requirements of HITECH meaningful use. In order to gain some insight into one challenging aspect of the requirement - data capture - CSC has deconstructed both […]
