Stephanie Brady, DNP, APRN-BC, Vice President of Care Transitions, St. John Providence Health System; Susan Craft, MSA, BSN, RN, Director, Care Coordination Initiatives, Henry Ford Health System; Gloria Pizzo, BSN, RN, Senior Clinical Quality Consultant, MPRO; and Elizabeth (Betsy) Wall, System Executive Director, Quality Care Integration, Detroit Medical Center. Improving care transitions requires the willingness […]

Jana Bazzoli, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. An Institute of Medicine report shows that provider-focused approaches to scheduling and failure to appropriately use nurse practitioners and physician assistants are among the reasons timely access to care remains a problem. . The report includes research on access and wait times at […]

Ayan Chatterjee, Principal, and Afzal Sulaiman, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  Keeping pace with regulatory requirements and the growing need for digitizing health records to improve patient safety and outcomes in a world of decreasing reimbursements is today's new normal. In this environment, the CIO's organization continues to be challenged to do more with less. We […]

Michael Ries MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director, Adult Critical Care and eICU, and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, VP, Adult Critical Care & Medical Prof. Affairs, Advocate Health Care.  Aligning technology adoption with organizational strategy and operations is part of the systematic process at the foundation of value creation. Tele-ICU Medicine is a disruptive […]

Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, Scott Pillittere, VP, Impact Advisors.  Aided by Meaningful Use funding, most healthcare organizations have now implemented an Electronic Health Record.  However with the accelerated pace of value-based payment including MIPs, APMs, Bundle Payments and others, healthcare executives are now looking for opportunities to increase the value garnered from their […]

Aaron Gleave, Ambulatory EMR & Practice Management Research Director, and Erik Bermudez, EMR & Telemedicine Research Director, KLAS.  Aaron and Erik share key insights from KLAS' recent reports Ambulatory EMR purchasing plans and Ambulatory EMR performance by specialty. Join us as they discuss which vendors are being considered most by ambulatory practices and which vendors […]

Jeff Hurst, SVP Revenue Cycle, Adventist Health System, Florida Hospital.  In a time of growing industry complexity and increasing consumer expectations, successful health systems are revamping their revenue cycles to improve not only the financial outcomes of their organizations, but also the financial experience of their patients.  With continued growth in patient responsibilities and increasing […]

Michael R. Oligschlaeger, Vice President, Finance, and Jeff Bader, Manager, Finance, Ascension Information Services. Ascension Information Services (AIS) is on a journey to develop and implement a Technology Business Management (TBM) program that will improve how its IT leaders manage the business of IT.  TBM will create cost transparency, drive financial accountability, and promote resource […]