Kent Giles, Regional VP, Conifer Health. With the trends in supply chain cost inflation, cost shifting from employers to employees, cuts in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, and ARRA requirements that add significant IT costs, hospitals must find additional ways in which to improve margins. A well designed Margin Improvement Program can help hospitals take a […]
Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. As we await CMS communications about ACOs, there are ways in which organizations can prepare. Thinking ahead to how ACOs will need to be structured and governed, and what capabilities organizations will need, is a timely discussion. This presentation addresses current states of ACOs, […]
Chris Brancato, Specialist Leader, and Moha Desai, Specialist Master, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Chris and Moha present an analysis of the requirements for Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria and the Certification Process, and the key implications for health systems.
Joe Boyce, MD, CMIO, Heartland Health, describes an approach to team management of the Problem List. Ideally, Problem List management should include efforts to optimize all that is known about the patient and focus on what can be done to improve care, including past medical histories, procedures and providers.
Robert Murphy, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Sirajuddin Anwar, M.B.B.S, M.S, CPHIMS, Clinical Informaticist for CDS, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Clinical decision support has consistently been shown in published literature to be an effective intervention to improve quality and patient safety. Creating a CDS program is becoming a key strategy for many organizations, especially […]
Monique Rasband, Director of Oncology Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, shares recent oncology system feedback and experiences from providers in this presentation. With insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the systems currently available, Monique explains how providers are using oncology technology to improve patient safety, streamline physician workflow and the effect of meaningful use […]
James P. Keller, Jr., M.S., VP, Health Technology Evaluation and Safety, ECRI Institute. Medical devices and information technology are rapidly converging to the point where it will soon be difficult to tell the difference between a computer and a medical device. This convergence raises many new safety concerns and new opportunities to improve patient safety. […]
Mark Ford, principal and national leader for the healthcare provider sector within Deloitte & Touche LLP's Security and Privacy Practice, and Derek Han, senior manager and certified HITRUST practitioner, present a session on information security issues and trends within the healthcare provider space, including HIPAA/HITECH compliance, security risk analysis pertaining to meaningful use, and security […]
Paul Pitcher, Director of Financial Systems, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. This presentation looks at recent KLAS research about RAC auditing buying decisions, including which systems providers have selected and why the system was selected. Paul also shares insight into who is being considered for future purchases, what providers are looking for, how they are approaching […]
Mary Sedivec, Principal, and Al Byrd, Senior Architectural Specialist, CSC. How will hospital IT system integration efforts, departments and associated technologies be affected by new standards required for EHR Meaningful Use? Mary and Al provide an overview of the messaging standards required for compliance with EHR Meaningful Use and HIE interoperability, as well as their […]
Bruce A. Wacker, MT(ASCP), Director of Customer Service and HITECH, AHS Information Services, and Bonnie Kierstead, Clinical Design Strategist, Florida Hospital MIS. Managing Meaningful Use presents significant challenges in a large and complex health system. This presentation provides an overview of the structure and tools created by Adventist Health System to manage the challenges and […]
Amy Halverson, MD, Department of Surgery, Hiren Shah, MD, Division of Hospital Medicine, Jean Patel, MD, Pharmacy, and Jennifer Van Dyke, Process Improvement, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, discuss how they decreased its Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism (DVT/PE) rates by over 35 percent. This program describes the initiative to date, discusses lessons learned and outlines […]
Karen Ondo, VP, Research Integrity, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As a still-struggling economy and looming Meaningful Use requirements continue to cloud the future of the healthcare IT industry, picking the right IT vendor partners is more important than ever. Join Adam for a discussion of the top-performing vendors of 2010 to learn which healthcare technology […]
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 and what clarifications have been issued by ONC and CMS.
Gordon Rohweder, Ricki Levitan, and Shelli Williamson, Scottsdale Institute, conduct a review of the 2010 SI IT Benchmarking project, including a brief overview and Q&A on the normalization process. During the open discussion, participants can comment on results they found, how they are/will use the data, and any insights they may have received by contacting […]
