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Positive vs. Negative Collaboration: Impacting quality, outcomes and
patient engagement
Speaker:
Cindy Berry, Chief Healthcare Strategist, SAS
For today’s hospitals and health systems, achieving excellence is a clinical and financial imperative. But for this to happen, staff, clinicians, managers, and leaders within health services need to think and act differently. This session will illustrate practical approaches and tools to remove collaborative barriers and promote unique out-of-the-box ideas. First, we'll discuss how to improve performance by leveraging silos of information buried in
departmental, physician, billing, claims, and patient databases. Second, we’ll look into steps to achieve successful performance collaboration, while avoiding common pitfalls that often inhibit improvements in care, quality, outcomes & cost. Third, the presenter will highlight valuable examples from leading organizations and discuss what barriers they overcame and how they improved quality, outcomes and patient engagement.
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Enabling Information Reuse Through Semantic Interoperability
Speaker: John Hatem, Director of Healthcare Strategy, Oracle
Health Information Exchanges are changing the way organizations deliver care to patients. Data that traditionally has resided in segregated isolation is being integrated, cleansed, normalized in accordance with standard terminologies, and delivered to the point of care to facilitate more informed, evidenced-based medicine. However, delivery of the right data to the right place at the right time, while comprising much of the battle, represents only a fraction of the potential benefit of this enabling technology. Having aggregated, validated and normalized comprehensive patient information in a format that facilitates data mining, analysis and reporting, holds the promise of transforming the entire industry. Clinical and operational analytics allow for closing the loop on patient care, providing feedback to measure the effectiveness of care in near-real-time in unprecedented fashion. Information-based medicine will give way to real-time, dynamic, information-based chronic disease management, reducing the cost of care and enhancing greatly our ability to measure and adapt care regimens to more effectively care for patients in a way specific to individual patients.
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The Perfect Storm: Assessing the Impact of the Economic Downturn and Potential Health Care Reform on Hospital and Health System Priorities for 2009 and Beyond
Speaker: Jessica Sweeney-Platt, Managing Director, The Advisory Board Company
As we all know far too well, unprecedented market volatility, a lingering capital crunch, and the recent Presidential transition have combined to create tremendous uncertainty in the health care marketplace; it is truly a “perfect storm.” This presentation explores the multiple market forces converging to compress hospital margins, restrict capital spending, and keep hospital executives “up at night.” In particular, the session considers some of the most dominant sources of market uncertainty – e.g., consumer behavior, physician priorities, and the potential impact of Federal investment (Bailout and Stimulus) on
liquidity and broader health care IT adoption. The presentation closes with some longer-term imperatives for health care leaders and IT solution providers alike –
imperatives that (we hope) will guide us toward the innovation, collaboration, and paradigm-shift in thinking that will be necessary to succeed in the more austere
health care marketplace of the future.
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