Mark Ford, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Robert Biskup, Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. Even with widespread coverage of the theft of personal information and intellectual data, many private companies and organizations still underestimate their vulnerability to fraud both from external parties and employees they work with every day. What actions can company […]

Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Tracey Mayberry, Partner, Healthcare Group, CSC. There is a flurry of interest in ACOs - but the draft regulations quickly put many efforts on hold. However, the broader concept of being accountable for care will not go away and is currently being reinforced by reimbursement changes at […]

Mitchell Morris, MD, Principal, and Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The changing economics of healthcare are stimulating the emergence of innovative approaches to clinical integration (physician alignment and the improved coordination of care). Providing care that is accountable and population focused requires not only a financial imperative, but also […]

Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare. Accountable Care Organizations are all the rage and the expected outcomes are improved and more coordinated care. Advocate HealthCare has entered into a relationship with Blue Cross to develop a like organization we call AdvocateCare. We have a clinical infrastructure, as well as IT resources as […]

Mark Morsch, Vice President of Technology, OptumInsight. Mark discusses operational and financial impacts of ICD-10; how computer-assisted coding and Natural Language Processing technology is helping hospitals prepare today and their results achieved in terms of productivity gains and financial savings.

John R. (Skip) Valusek, PhD, CPHQ, Director Clinical Analytics, HealthEast Care System. A root cause of patient safety accidents and near misses is the distraction, inattention, and cognitive strain resulting from change fatigue. More specifically, healthcare organizations need to look at the impact of "uncontrolled change" on direct and indirect caregivers and ask the question: […]

Adam Kates, Director, and Jim LeBuhn, Senior Director and Head of Public Finance Healthcare, Fitch Ratings. Fitch Ratings conducted a review of 291 hospitals in its rated portfolio to determine whether there is a link between quality of care reporting and advanced IT systems with improved financial performance. Fitch found a positive correlation between hospitals […]

Karl West, Associate VP, Marc Probst, CIO, and Stan Huff, MD, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare, provide an update on the progress of the Care Connectivity Consortium, formed by HIT pioneers Geisinger Health System (PA), Kaiser Permanente (CA), Mayo Clinic (MN), Intermountain Healthcare (UT), and Group Health Cooperative (WA). The goals are to share patient information as […]