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 […]

Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, Todd Blake, Technology Director, and Kelly Patrick, Specialist Leader.  As the healthcare industry evolves from volume to value, underlying IT systems must evolve as well.  In addition, the future of electronic health records is likely to depend on demands initiated by the government, life […]

Michael Ripchinski, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lancaster General Health, and Hemang Patel, Healthcare Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation. To address the challenges of slow, asynchronous communication in healthcare today, Lancaster General Health developed creative solutions in the hospital inpatient setting. The future of Medical Staff communications is aimed at reducing length of stay, improving […]

Mark Wagner, Research Director and Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. EMRs are often hailed as key to improvements in productivity and clinical decisions, but critics say they are poorly designed and diminish physicians' efficiency and effectiveness. Mark and Colin discuss the results of a survey targeting physician leadership at practices with more […]

Jordan Battani, Managing Director, Mark Kaufman, MD, MBA, Clinical Leader, and Femi Ladega, CTO, CSC.  Healthcare organizations around the world face formidable challenges as they look to improve the results, quality and safety of care for patients, while at the same time reduce healthcare inflation.  Research and practical experience show that fragmented processes of care […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Natalie Dion, Director, Enterprise Data Management, Texas Health Resources, and Sean Cassidy, VP, Premier, Inc. Healthcare is rapidly moving to become more connected and accountable, but its technology isn't keeping pace. Legacy technology systems can't integrate clinical, financial and operational data across individual hospitals, let alone across […]

Jeff Cook, CEO, and Greg Sheff, MD, President and CMO, Seton Health Alliance. Leaders from Seton Health Alliance, a Medicare Pioneer ACO, which includes at its core a regional hospital system and an independent multi-specialty physician group, discuss lessons learned on the journey to accountable care. Focus will be given to governance, operational, IT and […]