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.  While providers work to prepare for value based care, they cannot neglect their existing fee for service business operations. […]

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.  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 […]