Alan D. Snell, MD, MMM, CMIO, St. Vincent Health Indiana, and Julia Smalley, MBA, RN, Innovation Accelerator Group, Ascension Health Alliance, St Louis. CMS and other payors are applying pressure on healthcare providers to reduce the number of 30-day readmissions for certain diagnoses. Learn how St. Vincent Health and its parent organization, Ascension, teamed together […]
Tom Foley, Principal, Chris Armstrong, Principal, and Vickie Monteith, RN, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Most healthcare organizations have started their ICD-10 implementation and remediation efforts ahead of the October 1, 2014, deadline, and some providers have already achieved significant progress in critical areas. This teleconference provides healthcare executives and leaders the opportunity to hear directly […]
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, and Coray Tate, Vice President of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Despite the fact that 3,500 hospitals have met meaningful use (MU) Stage 1, providers often say EMRs lack clinical usability. KLAS interviewed 128 providers (specifically targeting medical leadership) about their success in reaching a high level of usability with […]
Charles Wardrip, VP Information Systems, Kindred Healthcare, Steve Yeager, VP Information Technology, Healthways, Brian Cardinell, U.S. Health and Life Sciences Industry Strategist, and Hemant Pathak, Assistant General Council U.S. Public Sector, Microsoft. In today's budget-conscious climate, streamlining IT operations gives you more time to focus on improving the delivery of services to your clinicians. With […]
Barbara Caspers, MS, RN, VP, National Nursing Services, Catholic Health Initiatives. The national agenda for health reform seeks to control healthcare costs and quality, and to purchase healthcare based on value. To succeed, it will be necessary to move from traditional resource management to a value-based resource management model. Technology-enabled business processes are the vehicle […]
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 […]
