Jean M. Jensen, RN, MS, MHSA, FACHE, VP Redesign/Operational Excellence, Hospital Sisters Health System, Melissa Wade, Business Manager Nursing Services, St. John's Hospital, and Phil Gaughan, Senior Director, Operational Improvement, Truven Health Analytics. Current industry trends on productivity, utilization, and cost are explained and discussed. Learn how to integrate external benchmarks into a daily, bi-weekly, […]
Kirk Ising, Strategic Operations Director, Monique Rasband, Research Director, and Brady Heiner, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. Join Kirk, Monique and Brady as they reveal the top-performing vendors of 2013 and look at the strengths and weaknesses of the winners. Also discussed are the implications of meaningful use, regulations, and innovations on the future of […]
Sue Lopardo, Director of Alignment and Customer Service, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, and Pete Smith, CEO and Co-founder, Impact Advisors, provide an overview of the financial, competitive and other market drivers fueling Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity in healthcare, and discuss the strategic and tactical IT issues and requirements to be considered at each phase of […]
Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, Todd Blake, Technology Director, and Kelly Patrick, Specialist Leader. As the healthcare industry evolves from volume to value, underlying IT systems must evolve as well. In addition, the future of electronic health records is likely to depend on demands initiated by the government, life […]
Michael Ripchinski, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lancaster General Health, and Hemang Patel, Healthcare Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation. To address the challenges of slow, asynchronous communication in healthcare today, Lancaster General Health developed creative solutions in the hospital inpatient setting. The future of Medical Staff communications is aimed at reducing length of stay, improving […]
Mark Wagner, Research Director and Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. EMRs are often hailed as key to improvements in productivity and clinical decisions, but critics say they are poorly designed and diminish physicians' efficiency and effectiveness. Mark and Colin discuss the results of a survey targeting physician leadership at practices with more […]
Joe Boyce, MD, CIO and CMIO, and Andy Bramlage, EDW Architect, Heartland Health. This session explores data and analytics needed to manage in the value-based model of commercial and MSSP ACOs, using Cerner's new cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse. Heartland Health has internal, commercial and Medicare "at risk" contracting which require deep development of workflows that […]
Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics, shares insights gleaned from 3,000 hospital clients about managing the transition from fee-for-service to risk-based reimbursement models and population health approaches. Hospital systems live in a hybrid world where FFS demands attention to volume and efficiency, while at-risk models push for value and effectiveness. The approaches identified […]
Jordan Battani, Managing Director, Mark Kaufman, MD, MBA, Clinical Leader, and Femi Ladega, CTO, CSC. Healthcare organizations around the world face formidable challenges as they look to improve the results, quality and safety of care for patients, while at the same time reduce healthcare inflation. Research and practical experience show that fragmented processes of care […]
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Natalie Dion, Director, Enterprise Data Management, Texas Health Resources, and Sean Cassidy, VP, Premier, Inc. Healthcare is rapidly moving to become more connected and accountable, but its technology isn't keeping pace. Legacy technology systems can't integrate clinical, financial and operational data across individual hospitals, let alone across […]
Jeff Cook, CEO, and Greg Sheff, MD, President and CMO, Seton Health Alliance. Leaders from Seton Health Alliance, a Medicare Pioneer ACO, which includes at its core a regional hospital system and an independent multi-specialty physician group, discuss lessons learned on the journey to accountable care. Focus will be given to governance, operational, IT and […]
Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, Sophie Stern, MPH, Health Policy Specialist from the Deloitte Center of Health Solutions, and Eric Finocchiaro, Director, Deloitte Consulting. Learn more about what lies ahead for healthcare providers as Dr. Greenspun, Sophie and Eric discuss the evolving regulatory landscape and other updates and their […]
Rodolfo Alvarez del Castillo, MD, Director of LTPAC Operations/Physician Advisor, Normal Regional Health System, discusses how their ONC Challenge Grant has resulted in a 40% reduction in readmissions using Cerner solutions of Care Tracker, Direct and HIE across the community for Norman Regional Health System.
Jane Metzger, Research Principal in Emerging Practices, CSC. Critical to success with coordinated care is a constantly updated set of patient information available both to clinicians in real time, but also as structured data so that analytics can assist with clinical decision support, patient tracking, and population management on a broad scale. Thanks in large […]
Jody Amodeo, RN, VP Practice Leadership, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the findings from the recent Truven Health study on the health of hospital workers, and offers best practices for implementing a culture of health in a hospital environment.