Fiona McNaughton, Director Patient Education Practice, Truven Health Analytics, offers insights on how to create a strategic approach to reduce medication management-related readmissions. She describes approaches to medication-related patient education, mobilizing the medication-related experts who impact care decisions at the point of care, improving your workflow to make time for caregivers to exercise best practices […]

Alan Soderblom, Vice President & CIO, Loretta Sloan, Vice President of Operations, and Jennifer Stemmler, IT Director, Ambulatory Clinical Information Systems, Adventist Health.  In May 2012, Adventist Health System began the journey to transition its outpatient clinics from paper to electronic documentation and workflows using Cerner's Practice Management and Ambulatory EHR solutions.  Adventist Health explores […]

John Kansky, FHIMSS, MSE, MBA, CPHIMS, Executive Director, Indiana Health Information Exchange: Standing up, sustaining and growing an HIE is complex, but new requirements add even more. John describes how these new demands offer opportunities to sustain and grow.

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS.  Join Colin as he shares findings from the recent KLAS EMR interoperability report.  Learn how successful each of the EMR vendors are in integrating data, which EMRs cooperate the best and the worst, and which platform/feature sets have most impacted care delivery.

Harry Greenspun, MD, Director, and Tim Smith, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  Dr. Greenspun and Tim discuss strategies for navigating healthcare's rapidly evolving social media landscape.  They review the current state of healthcare social media and what this means for your organization, both in the present and looking forward.  This session also examines common obstacles that […]

John Halamka, MD, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Halamka discusses how Beth Israel Deaconess has expanded meaningful use to using social and mobile media, analytics and the cloud to enhance patient care and engage patients outside of traditional care settings.  He also addresses the concerns involved when utilizing this technology in connecting with […]

Shawn P. Griffin, MD, Chief Quality and Informatics Officer, Memorial Hermann Physician Network shares his organization's experience in forming a strategic alliance with Aetna.  He discusses the negotiating process, the implementation challenges, and the ongoing work with forging a new partnership between organizations that traditionally functioned as adversaries over the contracting table.

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. As the Age of Analytics emerges in healthcare, health system executives are increasingly challenged to define a data governance strategy that maximizes the value of data to the mission of their organizations. Adding to that challenge, the competitive nature of the data warehouse and analytics market place has resulted in […]

Reuben Southall, MS, CPHIMS, Associate CIO of Operations, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. In his previous roles as Manager and Director of Clinical Applications, Reuben has leveraged the Cerner Upgrade Center through multiple upgrades. As he and his team plan to start the next upgrade (Q1 2015) again using the Cerner Upgrade Center, he reflects […]