Steve Meyer, Desktop Director, Ascension Health. Join Steve as he reviews the Managed VirtualDesktop (MVD) environment being deployed across Ascension Health. This solution brings multiple technologies together to enhance the endpoint user experience while simultaneously reducing cost. Ascension Health is targeting the replacement of 30% of their desktop fleet with MVD by July 2015.

Miles Snowden, MD, MPH, CEBS, CMO, Optum, discusses the four steps of population healthmanagement you should take to position it - and your patients - for success in value-based care. Learn how optimizing network management using claims data, clinical data and analytics will help guide physicians' referral choices; how using data and analytics to manage care […]

Dave Davis, Assistant Vice President, Operational Excellence at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and Kevin Sheeran, National Director Operational Improvement, Truven Health Analytics. This session shares and discusses current industry trends on productivity, utilization and expenses, and the attributes of a useful operational benchmarking program will be described. Dave and Kevin also outline the […]

Curt Sellke, Vice President of Analytics, Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE). Curt discusses theIndiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), a statewide interoperable network maintained by IHIE that provides physicians with a "virtual" patient record to provide a better overall picture of a patient's health. He also covers how the IHIE uses predictive analytics to enable physicians to […]

Wesley Valdes, DO, Medical Director Telehealth Services, Intermountain Health Care. The environmentin which healthcare systems provide care greatly influences the capability of that care in terms of efficiency, quality, and convenience to both the patients and providers. Intermountain Healthcare is pursuing solutions around the technology and design of inpatient facilities ranging from adult rooms to the neonatal units. […]

Val Overton, DNP, VP Quality and Innovation, Fairview Medical Group.  Hear how Fairview has implemented the measurement of patient activation and their early findings related to cost, quality, and patient experience.  Val shares how Fairview is utilizing activation measurement in care processes, risk stratification, training for staff, and the development of the patient portal initiative. […]

Cora Sharma, Principal Analyst, Chilmark Research, discusses population health analytics. Cora describes current market barriers and what providers can do to address them, what is missing from out-of-the-box solutions, and what to expect from the market over the long-term. She also explains 1) how clinical and claims data are getting married; 2) what is "good […]

Mark Golberg, SVP, HealthCare Strategy and Value Based Care, ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte.  Mark discusses client case studies and examples illustrating how organizations can effectively leverage their technology and its impact on overall analytical effectiveness.  He also goes over key challenges, lessons learned, and future direction in the market.

Kathy Mulvey, Director, Shared/System PMO, Ascension Information Services.  Join Kathy as she shares Ascension Health's journey in developing healthcare mobile applications.  Ascension Health began focusing on mobile applications in 2011 and has 60+ mobile applications live today.  Kathy relates successes and challenges experienced along the way, and how these lessons learned can be leveraged for […]

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Research Director, KLAS Research. In a BI/analytics market that is bursting with vendors, healthcare providers have never had more options - or more important decisions to make - than they do today. This teleconference dives into the confusion and reviews providers' consideration of vendors for analytics […]

Michael R. Udwin, MD, FACOG, National Medical Director, Truven Health Analytics. With the April 9th release of Medicare provider specific encounter data, including type of venue, charge, reimbursement and number of patients treated, physicians wish to understand how they will be viewed.  Like a prism, the image can look quite different depending on perspective.  Join […]

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Innovation, Northwestern Medicine, Co-Founder and Chairman, healthfinch ("The Doctor  Happiness Company"). Learn how different organizations across the nation have been innovative in their use of healthcare information technologies, from creating major quality and efficiency gains using Electronic Medical Records, to virtualizing healthcare via Telemedicine, to […]

Dean F. Sittig, PhD, Professor, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Electronic health records have the potential to improve quality and safety of healthcare. However, EHR users have experienced safety concerns from EHR design and usability features that are not optimally adapted for the complex workflow of real-world practice. Dr. Sittig and Hardeep describe the development of […]

Bryan Bliven, CIO, and Gregory Brown, Sr. Program Manager, University Of Missouri Healthcare. It's a long and winding road to achieving Meaningful Use Stage 2.  Join Bryan and Gregory as they share MU roadblocks and detours they encountered before coming to the realization that there is no easy, direct path to get to the attestation […]