Mike Delahanty, VP Application Products/Projects, and Ted Kliebhan, Director Project Advocate Connection, Advocate Health Care, discuss how Advocate is using state-of-the-art patient portal technology to attract, engage and activate patients in their own wellness.  Among the many robust functions, the new portal emphasizes patient ease-of-access to medical records, secure two-way communication with the care team, […]

Joe Kimura, MD, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Atrius Health. With renewed attention on optimizing healthcare value as defined by cost, quality, access, and patient experience, the roles of population management, case & case management, systems & operations management, and utilization management are front and center for organizations looking to assume clinical and financial accountability for […]

Gerry Lewis, VP IT Strategy and Business Development, Ascension Health.  As one of the most effective management tools to communicate the value of IT, Ascension Information Services (AIS) has developed the IT Value Scorecard to demonstrate the value IT provides at both the Health Ministry and Ascension levels. Gerry discusses the results of past efforts […]

Jason "JD" Duigou, Director, Information Technology Service Management, Ascension Information Services. Join JD as he shares Ascension's journey in establishing an IT Service Management office and service delivery processes.  Ascension began focusing on redesigning their service delivery model in 2013 as part of a five-year program.  JD relates successes and challenges experienced along the way, […]

Coray Tate, VP Clinical Research, and Chris Brown, Research Director, KLAS. Join industry experts Coray and Chris as they discuss the small, large and global EMR market landscapes and what is fueling that growth. You will learn who is growing market share and who is shrinking, what is fueling these changes, and when is a […]

George Conklin, CIO and SVP, CHRISTUS Health, and Gwendolyn Lohse, Deputy Director and Managing Director, CORE CAQH, the HHS designated author for the ACA operating rules.  George and Gwendolyn describe how operating rules are improving administrative transactions, gaining stakeholder involvement, and highlighting the long-term need to integrate clinical and administrative data.

Susan Craft, Director, Care Coordination Initiatives, Henry Ford Health System. Reduction in readmissions continues to be a challenge for many organizations around the country with unique obstacles for hospitals in urban areas caring for a large underserved patient population. Henry Ford Hospital received the full 1% CMS penalty in 2012 but has since significantly reduced […]

Loran D. Hauck, MD, Senior VP, CMO, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, and Christine Sammer, DrPH, RN, Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, Adventist Health System. Adventist began the Readmissions Reduction journey in 2009.  In 2013 they added the position of Transition of Care Coordinator and partnered with Cerner to develop the Readmission […]

Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how mergers and acquisitions have and will continue to shape the US healthcare landscape.  This teleconference explores industry trends in market forces, recent mergers and acquisitions examples, and key information technology considerations.  The session also seeks to answer the […]

Shannon Eubank, Product Manager, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the millions of dollars that health systems are losing when employees choose out-of-network providers - and what you can do about it. In this session, she reviews how one large health system created a customized steering tool to replace an outdated system and inconsistent data-updating processes. The […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. Dale provides an overview of his 12 criteria that health systems can use to evaluate vendors who offer population health management systems.  The criteria can also be used by organizations to plot a strategy for population health.  One of the core messages in this presentation is that no single vendor […]