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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Moving from Volume to Value”
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
