Tracey McCosker, CFO and General Manager of CARE Network Division, and Keith Drinkwater, Project Manager of Staffing Service Project, both from Hunter Health, Australia, and Roxanne Harms, Cumulus Corporate Coaching, review their strategic initiative in workforce management. What started as a desire to buy a new staff scheduling system has turned into a top strategic […]

Scott Weingarten, MD, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, CEO, Zynx Health, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA, reviews the state of the clinical content market and shares his views on benefits and challenges, as well as the future direction for both IT applications and providers who use them.

Chris Fries, Solutions Business Management and Planning, Hewlett Packard, outlines an alternative desktop architecture that lowers desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) while raising levels of security, service quality/reliability, and ease of management. The new architecture centralizes desktop computing and storage resources into easily managed and highly secure data centers, while providing end users with […]

In a thirty to forty-five minute teleconference you'll find out how to utilize information available to your organization, how to ensure that you are informed of teleconference sessions that are most relevant to you, learn who should participate in what sessions and how to get them involved, and how to have input into the development […]

Learn how to make the most of your organization’s membership in SI by utilizing the information that's already available, ensuring that you are informed of sessions that are most relevant to you. Learn who should participate in what sessions and how to get them involved, and how you can have input into the development of […]

Mitch Adams, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Boston, MA, describes a unique program in which providers, payers and employers are working together to re-engineer reimbursement mechanisms so that providers will share in the savings attributable to the use of CPOE. The program will fund CPOE for all hospitals in the state as a […]

Dan Sougstad, Healthcare Product Manager, Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN

Dana Richardson, Vice President, Quality Initiatives, Wisconsin Hospital Association, reviews the WHA “Checkpoint” program. This voluntary reporting initiative provides consumers, employers, insurers and providers with valid, timely information on the quality and safety of care. CheckPoint provides reliable data on five error prevention goals and ten interventions that medical experts agree should be taken to […]