Application Management Services: Lessons Learned and What is on the Horizon?

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 […]

Acute Care EMR 2014: The Next Buying Wave

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, Coray Tate, VP Clinical Research, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS. The acute care EMR market is on the verge of a new buying wave as hundreds of hospitals running legacy EMRs are expected to select more current platforms that will carry them through the next decade and beyond. […]

Evolution of Tele-ICU

Michael Ries MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director, Adult Critical Care and eICU, and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, VP, Adult Critical Care & Medical Prof. Affairs, Advocate Health Care. Advocate Health Care initially invested in tele-ICU medicine technology to provide additional monitoring and faster responses to acute medical problems with the intent of reducing […]

Surveillance Business Case: Meet Reimbursement and Reporting Needs

Vladimir Tikhtman MHSA, Clinical Solution Advisor, Truven Health Analytics. In today's healthcare environment, the need for new reporting and documentation capabilities is growing, including data retrieval from multiple sources, the ability to read non-discrete fields, and the electronic aggregation of data. This need stems from an increasing pressure to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and […]

CHE Trinity Sepsis

Margaret Reynolds, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director of Evidence Based Practice, and Marti Satwicz, RN, MSN, Director of Clinical Transformation, CHE Trinity Health. In October 2010, Trinity Health launched a system-wide Sepsis Collaborative in 21 of its hospitals.  Margaret and Marti describe the collaborative strategies used to disseminate evidence-based practices for sepsis and identify tools/decision support […]

Computer Aided Facilities Design at Northwestern Memorial

Timothy R. Zoph, Senior Vice President, Administration, and Shrimant Jaruhar, LEED AP, BIM Manager, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. This teleconference details Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, including the value provided to the organization by managing a virtual model of a building through planning, design, construction, and facility operations.  Tim and Shrimant also […]

Mergers and Acquisitions: A CIO To-Do List

Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, and James Kuhn, Strategic Health Industry Advisor, CSC. Mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and health systems are on an uptrend. With such activity come challenges for healthcare IT departments, but also the opportunity to modernize and optimize the overall healthcare IT environment. Bringing health IT through such a transformation is […]

Improving Outcomes and Controlling Costs with the PMO

Carl Block, Director of PMO, Adventist Health. The Adventist Health Project Management Office is deeply involved in helping Information Technology improve outcomes and control costs. The PMO gives executives visibility into the application portfolio, and proposals to add or sunset applications. The PMO also provides visibility into the project portfolio that is implementing applications throughout […]

Value-Based Care: Requirements for EHRs

Sarah Danielson, Specialist Leader, and Tony Jurek, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. ElectronicHealth Records will be a central component of the solutions required to achieve Value Based Care (VBC). This session reviews the value based care business models, their purpose, and associated risks. Tony and Sarah discuss an overall framework for technology solutions required to enable them, with […]

Managed Virtual Desktop at Ascension Health

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.

Journey to Physician Gain-Sharing Success

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 […]

The Value of Operational Benchmarking

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 […]

Predictive Modeling Reduces Readmissions at Indiana Health Information Exchange

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 […]

Intermountain Health Care: Patient Room of the Future

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. […]