Dale Sanders, SVP, and David Crockett, PhD, Senior Director of Research and Predictive Analytics, Health Catalyst. Get the detailed knowledge you need to make informed decisions about adopting predictive analytics so you can separate today's hype from reality. You'll hear key lessons including 1) our fixation on predictive analytics in readmissions, 2) the common trap […]
Julia Swanson, Director, Performance Analytics and Improvement, Henry Ford Health System. How do you succeed in a constantly changing environment? Â Key factors for success include a creating a culture of accountability, management by fact, and commitment to continuous improvement. Â Julia shares how Henry Ford has evolved approaches to organizational performance measurement on the journey toward […]
Christine Bessler, CIO, ProHealth Care, describes how ProHealth Care is the first healthcare system to produce reports and data out of Epic's Cogito data warehouse in a production environment. Â ProHealth Care delivered clinically integrated insights to 460 physicians in the system's hospitals and clinics, including those in its Accountable Care Organization. Physicians now have access […]
Donna Akerson, RN, Director, and Shaun Rangappa, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Donna and Shaun discuss emerging themes in EHR Optimization across multiple client experiences. Â How have optimization efforts demonstrated clear value, and what are some lessons learned from the field thus far in both inpatient and ambulatory settings? Â Areas of discussion include: 1) […]
Mark Allphin, Senior Research Director, Joe Van De Graaf, Research Director, and Erik Westerlind, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, Utah. As accountable care organizations, HIE, and population health continue to drive the future of healthcare technology, Mark, Joe and Erik examine the top-performing software and services vendors of 2013 to help providers understand which HIT companies […]
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 […]
