Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how mergers and acquisitions have and will continue to shape the US healthcare landscape.  This teleconference explores industry trends in market forces, recent mergers and acquisitions examples, and key information technology considerations.  The session also seeks to answer the […]

Shannon Eubank, Product Manager, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the millions of dollars that health systems are losing when employees choose out-of-network providers - and what you can do about it. In this session, she reviews how one large health system created a customized steering tool to replace an outdated system and inconsistent data-updating processes. The […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. Dale provides an overview of his 12 criteria that health systems can use to evaluate vendors who offer population health management systems.  The criteria can also be used by organizations to plot a strategy for population health.  One of the core messages in this presentation is that no single vendor […]

Kyle H. Townsend, Pharm.D, BCPS, Director, Pharmacy Services and Jacob Thiesse, Pharm.D, Informatics Pharmacist, Billings Clinic, John Mortimer, Knowledge Architect, for Cerner, and John D'Costa, Director Engineering Omnicell. Healthcare costs continue to rise; in 2014 it is estimated to be ~18% of U.S. GDP. Increased functional interoperability between systems reduces waste, medication errors, improves care […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Health Information Officer, Christy Benson, Director of Clinical Informatics, and Shawn-Marie Herring, Manager of Clinical Informatics, Texas Health Resources. The session discusses the increasing importance of quality transparency in the era of accountable care. They describe the journey in making the strategic decision to share quality and safety data with the […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS. Accountable care and population health are overwhelming and unachievable without sophisticated systems in place, but it's hard to know where to start with myriad population health vendor solutions available. Join Colin for this revealing discussion of population health vendors that are leading the pack and learn which might best […]