Eric Leader, VP of Technology Architecture at Carefx, and former Chief Technology Architect for CHW, discusses strategies for managing care transitions and information gaps between diverse departments, systems, and facilities. Mr. Leader describes how proprietary systems serve their purpose in isolated circumstances, but fall short when data needs to be exchanged across systems and presented […]

John W. Loonsk, MD, Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator. Some have said that the recent several years of a national health IT agenda have led to more progress toward a national health IT infrastructure than the previous several decades. In this talk Dr. Loonsk discusses what elements of the national HIT […]

Dogu Celebi, MD, Chief Medical Officer; Dan Dunn Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, and Nick Hilger, Senior VP, Ingenix Health Solutions. Increasingly CMS and Commercial Insurers are using claims data to evaluate the care of a patient across different delivery venues. Hospitals, physicians, laboratories, imaging centers, pharmacies, and post-acute care centers have encounter (claims) data for […]

Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. Public reporting - which metrics drive performance improvement? Which are most useful to patients/consumers? During this session Dr. Binderman reviews last call key themes and leads a discussion on "report or not to report - building a case for disclosure", including a review of common […]

Maritza Santamaria-Hoffman, R.N., J.D. Associate Litigation Attorney, Banner Health/Risk Management, and Matthew T. Clarke, Attorney, Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite. Ms. Santamaria and Mr. Clarke conduct a two part discussion of important e-discovery issues, including: (1) The obligations of the in-house legal department to take a proactive stance in creating and implementing an organization wide e-discovery […]

Anne-Marie J. Audet, M.D., MSc, SM, Vice President, Quality Improvement and Efficiency, the Commonwealth Fund, New York City and Ramanathan Raju, M.D., Executive Vice President, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Dr. Raju discusses how New York Health and Hospitals Corporation has used quality measures, benchmarking data to compare and trend performance over time […]

Avery Cloud, MBA, PhD, VP, CIO, New Hanover Health Network.