Tom Delbanco, MD, Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care, and Jan Walker, RN, MBA, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, describe a national movement that invites patients to review their visit notes written by their doctors, nurses, and other clinicians. Evidence suggests that opening up visit notes […]
Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics. Physician network development is a top priority for most health systems. Â Establishing longstanding relationships with the right physicians is critical to not only ensuring a competitive referral base, but also to locking up the right mix of healthcare services for payment reform. Â Clinical integration strategies are necessary […]
Jason Bickford, MCSE, HIMS Department Applications Director, Banner Health. Banner Health has reached HIMSS Stage 7 with the use of Cerner Content360 suite of solutions and is a nationally recognized leader in the use of electronic medical records. In this discussion, Jason talks about the steps taken to achieve Stage 7, as it pertains to […]
Mary Beth Pace, RN, BSN, MBA, CMAC, System Director, Case Management, Carrie Hays, Service Line Administrator Senior Services/Director Case Management, and Jennifer O'Brien, RN, MHA, ACM, Manager of Care Coordination, CHE Trinity Health, and Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, Scottsdale Institute. This presentation describes readmissions reduction in heart failure: Â We discuss how our health system […]
Nigel John, Partner, CSC Consulting UK&I, and Boris Rachev, Global Health Economist, CSC Global Healthcare Group. Technology enabled clinical and business change is one of the key drivers of the global development of healthcare practice to meet the challenges to 'do more with less' across all healthcare economies. These technologies require significant investment and with […]
James Noga, VP and CIO, Partners HealthCare. Interoperability is a foundational investment for integrated delivery networks wanting to derive value from data. At a tactical level, interoperability enables the ability to exchange, normalize, and aggregate data across multiple systems and devices and across organizational boundaries. However, it is at the strategic level that interoperability can […]
Ryan Haggerty, Senior Manager, and Jigar Kadakia, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. Join Ryanand Jigar as they discuss how to achieve and document compliance with meaningful use security and meaningful use requirements differ from other security and privacy requirements is provided, along with privacy requirements and share industry experiences of meaningful use audits. An explanation of […]
Laura Taylor, Senior Director, Information Systems, Shared Information Services, Ascension Health. Hearhow Ascension Health Information Services (AHIS), one of the largest healthcare IT services companies in the country, implemented application portfolio management. Laura discusses what data is captured, what tools are needed, and how to utilize your data to integrate with IT Service Management processes.
Gordon Rohweder, Director of Benchmarking Services, Scottsdale Institute. Gordon provides an overviewof the SI IT Benchmarking Program; its background, value and some of the recent additions to the program. He discusses the major sections of the data collection tool, the resulting database, and the automated data normalization process which makes this benchmarking program unique and particularly useful.
Jean Chenoweth, Sr. Vice President of Performance Improvement and 100 Top Hospitals, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the power of comparing leadership performance objectively to drive improvement. Covering findings from comparative leadership research over the last decade, Jean discusses how leadership characteristics and practices differ from peers and how these lessons can be applied to today's […]
Mike Davis, EVP of Research & Advisory, Next Wave Health. This presentation covers the technologies and market trends that will have the most impact on the emerging transformative healthcare management and delivery processes. Healthcare segments covered include population management, patient engagement, mobility technologies, security and privacy, and revenue cycle management. Evolving IT architectures for meeting these demands are […]
Donna Crompton, BSN, RN, MBA, BC-NE, System Director, Clinical Informatics, Memorial Health System. Donna outlines the process Memorial Medical Center used in successfully deploying BBMA using Care Admin housewide, including ED, Respiratory Therapy, PACU, 3 Express Cares as well as clinical nursing units and procedural areas. Â Strategies used to design, implement and support staff will […]
James Kuhn, Strategic Health Industry Advisory, and Jordan Battani, Managing Director, CSC. Patientengagement is the "topic of the day" in healthcare organizations across the United States. It's not particularly surprising; in an environment of shrinking resources and increasing demand (for services, access, quality, outcomes) the patient represents a resource waiting to be brought into the health and wellness […]
Clifford Goldsmith, MD, Director of Microsoft's US Provider Industry group. Dr. Goldsmith presents the casework from Care First BlueCross Blue Shield Maryland regarding the development of their PCMH model and changing the Patient Journey in which they significantly bent the cost curve in reducing medical expenses across the providers in Maryland. He demonstrates how new accountable care […]
Chris Davis, Director, and Mitch Morris, MD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. As health systems continue to face mounting margin pressures and MU payments come to an end, executives are looking for effective models to manage EHR costs. Having a need to innovate and expand with effective cost management is a balancing act that must also […]
