CHE Trinity Health Case Study

Mary Beth Pace, RN, BSN, MBA, CMAC, System Director, Case Management, Carrie Hays, Service Line Administrator Senior Services/Director Case Management, and Jennifer O'Brien, RN, MHA, ACM, Manager of Care Coordination, CHE Trinity Health, and Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, Scottsdale Institute. This presentation describes readmissions reduction in heart failure:  We discuss how our health system […]

A Global Perspective on Benefits Realization: Managing ROI from Healthcare Transformation

Nigel John, Partner, CSC Consulting UK&I, and Boris Rachev, Global Health Economist, CSC Global Healthcare Group. Technology enabled clinical and business change is one of the key drivers of the global development of healthcare practice to meet the challenges to 'do more with less' across all healthcare economies. These technologies require significant investment and with […]

Partners HealthCare: Redesigning Healthcare Delivery Through Strategic Interoperability

James Noga, VP and CIO, Partners HealthCare. Interoperability is a foundational investment for integrated delivery networks wanting to derive value from data. At a tactical level, interoperability enables the ability to exchange, normalize, and aggregate data across multiple systems and devices and across organizational boundaries. However, it is at the strategic level that interoperability can […]

Meaningful Use: Meeting the Security and Privacy Requirements

Ryan Haggerty, Senior Manager, and Jigar Kadakia, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. Join Ryanand Jigar as they discuss how to achieve and document compliance with meaningful use security and meaningful use requirements differ from other security and privacy requirements is provided, along with privacy requirements and share industry experiences of meaningful use audits. An explanation of […]

Applications Portfolio Management at Ascension Health

Laura Taylor, Senior Director, Information Systems, Shared Information Services, Ascension Health. Hearhow Ascension Health Information Services (AHIS), one of the largest healthcare IT services companies in the country, implemented application portfolio management. Laura discusses what data is captured, what tools are needed, and how to utilize your data to integrate with IT Service Management processes.

Benchmark Your IT Operation with other Leading Health Systems

Gordon Rohweder, Director of Benchmarking Services, Scottsdale Institute. Gordon provides an overviewof the SI IT Benchmarking Program; its background, value and some of the recent additions to the program. He discusses the major sections of the data collection tool, the resulting database, and the automated data normalization process which makes this benchmarking program unique and particularly useful.

Learning from Leadership: Evidence-based Management

Jean Chenoweth, Sr. Vice President of Performance Improvement and 100 Top Hospitals, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the power of comparing leadership performance objectively to drive improvement. Covering findings from comparative leadership research over the last decade, Jean discusses how leadership characteristics and practices differ from peers and how these lessons can be applied to today's […]

Mike Davis on Emerging Technologies and Trends

Mike Davis, EVP of Research & Advisory, Next Wave Health. This presentation covers the technologies and market trends that will have the most impact on the emerging transformative healthcare management and delivery processes. Healthcare segments covered include population management, patient engagement, mobility technologies, security and privacy, and revenue cycle management. Evolving IT architectures for meeting these demands are […]

Bedside BarCode Medication Administration (BBMA)

Donna Crompton, BSN, RN, MBA, BC-NE, System Director, Clinical Informatics, Memorial Health System. Donna outlines the process Memorial Medical Center used in successfully deploying BBMA using Care Admin housewide, including ED, Respiratory Therapy, PACU, 3 Express Cares as well as clinical nursing units and procedural areas.  Strategies used to design, implement and support staff will […]

Patient Engagement for Reformed Healthcare

James Kuhn, Strategic Health Industry Advisory, and Jordan Battani, Managing Director, CSC. Patientengagement is the "topic of the day" in healthcare organizations across the United States. It's not particularly surprising; in an environment of shrinking resources and increasing demand (for services, access, quality, outcomes) the patient represents a resource waiting to be brought into the health and wellness […]

The Patient Journey Framework at BCBS Maryland

Clifford Goldsmith, MD, Director of Microsoft's US Provider Industry group. Dr. Goldsmith presents the casework from Care First BlueCross Blue Shield Maryland regarding the development of their PCMH model and changing the Patient Journey in which they significantly bent the cost curve in reducing medical expenses across the providers in Maryland. He demonstrates how new accountable care […]

Application Management Services: Lessons Learned and What is on the Horizon?

Chris Davis, Director, and Mitch Morris, MD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. As health systems continue to face mounting margin pressures and MU payments come to an end, executives are looking for effective models to manage EHR costs. Having a need to innovate and expand with effective cost management is a balancing act that must also […]

Acute Care EMR 2014: The Next Buying Wave

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, Coray Tate, VP Clinical Research, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS. The acute care EMR market is on the verge of a new buying wave as hundreds of hospitals running legacy EMRs are expected to select more current platforms that will carry them through the next decade and beyond. […]

Evolution of Tele-ICU

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. Advocate Health Care initially invested in tele-ICU medicine technology to provide additional monitoring and faster responses to acute medical problems with the intent of reducing […]

Surveillance Business Case: Meet Reimbursement and Reporting Needs

Vladimir Tikhtman MHSA, Clinical Solution Advisor, Truven Health Analytics. In today's healthcare environment, the need for new reporting and documentation capabilities is growing, including data retrieval from multiple sources, the ability to read non-discrete fields, and the electronic aggregation of data. This need stems from an increasing pressure to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and […]