Craig Villacorta, Director of Information Systems, KishHealth System, and Peter Brey, Worldwide Storage Business Development Manager, Hewlett Packard. Increasingly, healthcare providers are faced with significant challenges acquiring, storing, managing and archiving patient records and imaging data. Ensuring Personal Health Information is secure and protected, while improving medical staff efficiency are paramount among these challenges. Hospital […]
Jack McGuire, Director, and Harold Robinson, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Â Jack and Harold discuss the original vision of HIE integration, current outcomes, and where the industry has struggled to achieve adoption. Â With all of the competing health information technology priorities associated with Health Reform, and the inability of the initial top-down approach to gain traction, […]
Heidi Rozmiarek, Manager of Business Applications, Meriter Hospital, and Joseph Paranteau, Principal Platform Specialist, Microsoft Corporation. Meriter Health Systems provides healthcare services to the people of Madison, WI, through a 448-bed hospital and a growing network of community clinics and has been recognized as one of Health Networks "Most Wired" Healthcare organizations. This teleconference explores […]
Brian Lancaster, VP, and Doug Dickey, MD, Senior Director and Chief Medical Officer of Cerner's Physician Strategy Organization, discuss where Cerner is headed with physician solutions. Â As requested by the Cerner User Collaborative at the SI Spring Conference, Brian and Dr. Dickey provide an update on Cerner's newest physician solution, PowerChart Touch, as well as […]
Barbara Adams, MSHI, MBA, VP of ITS, Texas Health Resources. Barbara describes lessons learned on Texas Health's journey in the Pioneer Accountable Care Organizational model, which was designed by CMS to encourage the development of ACOs. Texas Health is gaining significant experience in learning how to survive and thrive in this brave new world. One […]
Grant Hoffman, Vice President Integration, Truven Health Analytics. Â The complexities of healthcare reform are requiring hospitals and health systems to integrate care as never before. This requires not only the integration of clinical and administrative data enterprise wide, but a comprehensive understanding of analytics in managing population health. Grant shares the lessons learned from the […]
Erik Bermudez, Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Manager, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Telehealth and telemedicine have become popular terms in today's healthcare. But, what do they mean? How are they applied and how are their outcomes measured? How can they solve today's challenges? KLAS recently interviewed 126 hospitals and health systems across the US […]
Robert Williams, MD, Director, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting, and Mark Golberg, Specialist Leader, Recombinant by Deloitte. The business model paradigm change initiated by the ACA has spawned a wave of convergence for providers and payers. Â While providers work to prepare for value based care, they cannot neglect their existing fee for service business operations. […]
John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), and Kathy Mulvey, Director, PMO, Ascension Health. John and Kathy discuss insight and strategies for driving a consistent methodology when PMO maturity levels and reporting relationships vary across an organization, and tailoring approaches to foster an openness to change and the building of […]
Bruce A. Wacker MT(ASCP), Director of Customer and Regulatory Services, Adventist Health System, and Mike Hourigan, Regulatory Compliance Practice, Cerner. Adventist Health System's experiences with Hospital and EP Meaningful Use audits will be reviewed including audit notification process, documentation provided and timelines for the audit process. Bruce and Mike also discuss the Meaningful Use attestation […]
Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, CSC, and Clive Flashman, Global Healthcare Specialist, CSC. Historically, providing healthcare at a distance simply meant replicating traditional interactions with the help of teleconferencing. TeleServices is a new, broader movement that includes not just traditional TeleMedicine but TeleHealth, TeleCare, and TeleCoaching; technology-enabled approaches capable of monitoring, coaching, and helping patients […]
Jean M. Jensen, RN, MS, MHSA, FACHE, VP Redesign/Operational Excellence, Hospital Sisters Health System, Melissa Wade, Business Manager Nursing Services, St. John's Hospital, and Phil Gaughan, Senior Director, Operational Improvement, Truven Health Analytics. Current industry trends on productivity, utilization, and cost are explained and discussed. Learn how to integrate external benchmarks into a daily, bi-weekly, […]
Kirk Ising, Strategic Operations Director, Monique Rasband, Research Director, and Brady Heiner, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. Join Kirk, Monique and Brady as they reveal the top-performing vendors of 2013 and look at the strengths and weaknesses of the winners. Â Also discussed are the implications of meaningful use, regulations, and innovations on the future of […]
Sue Lopardo, Director of Alignment and Customer Service, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, and Pete Smith, CEO and Co-founder, Impact Advisors, provide an overview of the financial, competitive and other market drivers fueling Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity in healthcare, and discuss the strategic and tactical IT issues and requirements to be considered at each phase of […]
Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, Todd Blake, Technology Director, and Kelly Patrick, Specialist Leader. Â As the healthcare industry evolves from volume to value, underlying IT systems must evolve as well. Â In addition, the future of electronic health records is likely to depend on demands initiated by the government, life […]
