Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. The M&A trend continues to accelerate in the US as does the formation of innovative affiliation agreements and partnerships.  The end result is larger and more diverse health systems that rely on IT to drive innovation, lower unit cost, and […]

Nimesh Patel, Chief Technology Officer, Emmi Solutions. While 50% of healthcare professionals predict technology will enable patients to participate more proactively in their care in the future, healthcare organizations can actually leverage technology today to both improve operational effectiveness and encourage patients to take action in their health. Nimesh discusses ways to integrate an  EMR, […]

Virginia Lorenzi, Manager - HIT Standards and Collaborations, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Hans J. Buitendijk, M.Sc., FHL7, Sr. Expert R&D, Cerner HS and Team Lead. Now more than ever interoperability plays a key role in healthcare and health IT.  Providers depend on a wide variety of HL7 standards and versions to accomplish internal connectivity, decision support, […]

Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, Impact Advisors. As more and more organizations embrace population health management as a strategy to succeed in the emerging new paradigm of value-based payment, many are facing the next big question, “What tools do I need to support population health?” There are more than 100 population health management software […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst.  Microsoft, in Health Catalysts' opinion, continues to innovate and lead in the analytics and data warehousing space through pragmatic innovation and enormous investments, creating a compelling suite of products for analytics and data warehousing which bridges the gap between the relational database of yesterday and the big data, Hadoop platform […]

Thomas J. Selva, MD, CMIO, MU Health Care, Professor of Clinical Child Health, Associate Chair Clinical Quality and Medical Director - Department of Child Health.  MU Health Care, in partnership with Cerner Corporation via the Tiger Institute, has become a leader in portal development.   A key component of that development and our ongoing success has […]

Rhonda Collins, RN, MSN, CNO, Vocera Communications.  Rhonda shares best practices for developing an effective clinical communication strategy. You will learn why a clinical communication strategy can be a key part of improving clinical efficiency and patient satisfaction by putting nurses back at the patient's bedside. She'll also include examples of clinical communication improvements from […]

Mike Smith, Research Director of Professional Service, KLAS.  As nearly 1,300 U.S. hospitals consider a move, or are in the middle of moving to new core clinical and financial systems, Mike focuses on the common implementation potholes of specific vendors, best practices for success, and insights on the consultants who can help.

Ronald Mehring, Senior Director, Chief Information Security Officer, Texas Health Resources.  Effectively articulating complex cybersecurity risks, threats and security investment priorities can be a daunting task.  The key to success is becoming data driven within your Information security program and linking operational data with security risk management functions.  During this presentation Ron discusses his experience […]