Ed Marx, VP and CIO, and Stephen Hanson, Senior Executive VP, System Growth and Integration, Texas Health Resources, describe how THR established a framework for IT vendor management, creating value for all parties. They share the strategy behind the framework as well as the nuts and bolts that make it work.

Bob Kelley, Vice President, Healthcare Analytics, and Dr. Raymond Fabius, Chief Medical Officer, Thomson Reuters, discuss the possibility of reducing waste by $3.8 trillion in the next decade. They look at five strategies that have been successful in waste reduction, ranging from consumer activism and transparency to payment integrity. They also highlight intermediate and long-term […]

Christine Armstrong, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. This session provides an update to previous ICD-10 sessions, offering insight into the steps necessary to prepare for an ICD-10 transition. Understand how proactive providers are currently developing action plans and budgets, as well as planning education for their providers and HIM professionals. Gain insight into complexities encountered in […]

Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS, Clinical Director, and Susan Severson, Project Director, REACH, the Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT, provide an overview of one regional extension center's approach to assisting small hospitals and clinics to adopt and become meaningful users of an electronic health record. This session provides an understanding of the types of […]

John Kahanek IV, CISSP, CGEIT, and Linda Ricca, RN, CLNC, CSC, discuss a paradigm shift to consider in defining an organization's information security framework, governance and reporting structure. This shift impacts security policies and procedures, and assigned authority and accountability for resolving risk. A high functioning Information Security Governance guides policy development, risk acceptance, and […]

Michael Larson, Manager, CIS Practice, and Todd Manion, Manager, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting. Many organizations have or are in the process of implementing electronic clinical documentation technology. While the design of clinical content is very important to capture appropriate assessment details, other aspects of clinical documentation are often left for later stages of an […]

Kent Gale, Founder and Chairman of the Board, KLAS, Orem, UT. Sharing recent candid feedback from providers about the financial impact of owning an acute care EMR, Kent discloses how close buyers end up compared to budget expectations, cost surprises, the effort vendors exhibit in helping their clients get their money's worth and the hidden […]

Christopher Brancato, Consulting Specialist Leader, and Mitchell Morris, MD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Dr. Morris and Mr. Brancato will present an analysis of and Deloitte's Point of View on Meaningful Use Stage #1. The discussion will include an explanation of incentives and penalties, assessment of the current market response to the new rule, highlights of […]

Mike Wilson, Senior Clinical Director, Compuware, wraps up this series by looking at best practices for aligning IT to the business objectives. He shares a six-step process that highlights how the end user experience, the data center and SLAs must all be carefully considered to ensure that IT is contributing value to the business of […]

Ross Martin, Senior Manager, and Mitchell Morris, MD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Dr. Morris and Ross discuss short- and long-term requirements for interoperability / Health Data Exchange, requirements for reporting (Health IT Measures and Clinical Quality Reporting), and their interpretation of the Road Map: sharing how health systems are preparing for these specific requirements.

Dr. Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare. CPOE has been an ongoing process at Advocate Healthcare for the past 7 years. With both inpatient and outpatient order entry, Dr. Shoolin discusses how Advocate Healthcare accomplished its current state, and the change management needed to reach their goal.

Tom Enders, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Health Care Sector, and Bob Reese, Global Health Solutions Group, CSC. Starting in 2010 Medicaid will initiate ACO demonstration pilots and beginning in 2012, ACO's can contract with CMS for Medicare patients on a shared-savings basis. ACO's planned under the Affordable Care Act, however, are a shared incentive […]

Kent Gale, Chairman and Founder, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. With patients taking a more active role in their health care, many providers are considering strategies which include a personal health record (PHR) as part of the mix of patient services. In this presentation Chris shares recent KLAS findings about perceptions of PHRs: Which vendors will […]

Doug Dietzman, Executive Director of Michigan Health Connect (MHC), Patrick O'Hare, Senior VP and CIO, Spectrum Health, and Adam Theall, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors present a case study for how healthcare organizations can work together to advance health information exchange (HIE) within and across their communities. Five Michigan health systems: Lakeland Health System, Metro Health, […]