May 17, 2013 John DeGaspari
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During the afternoon breakout session at the HCI Executive Summit, Simon Jones, director, ACO IT and program strategy at Blue Shield of California, discussed the health plan’s experience in the ACO arena. Jones noted that healthcare is on an unsustainable path: there is no sustainable approach to reducing costs and improving care, and incentives do not promote a long-term, system-wide approach.
December 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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More broadly, the shift towards a new population health-based focus, and towards authentic care management, is requiring not only bridges across the divide between care locations, but also intensive work to develop care delivery and management models healthcare system-wide. It goes without saying that this is difficult work; yet the leaders at many pioneering organizations are powering ahead, forging new paths without waiting for anyone to direct them to the new healthcare. And of course, they’re building new information systems and IT capabilities to support their innovations.
June 14, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Not only must organizations create sophisticated business intelligence tools to help identify high-risk patients, providers will have to engage patients and provide better care coordination to reduce readmissions, said IT industry leaders. “If we’re going to crack this whole issue of readmissions, plus so many other deficiencies, we need better processes, better outcomes, and a sustainable process, which is what cost [reduction] is really all about, then we’re going to have to solve these problems. It’s not just decreasing readmissions,” said James L. “Larry” Holly, M.D., CEO, Southeast Texas Medical Associates.
May 29, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Not only is the relatively new role of the chief medical information officer (CMIO) becoming more widely accepted, healthcare reform drivers like quality reporting and accountable care organization development are adding new emphasis to the role, said CMIOs who participated in a panel that tackled the changing CMIO role at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit on May 7. “Today, with the idea of ACOs, quality metrics and reporting, meaningful use, and so many other dimensions, you really need to understand the medical process,” said Bill Bria, M.D., the vice president and CMIO at the Tampa, Fla.-based Shriners Hospitals for Children, and the co-founder and president of AMDIS (the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems), the nation’s main CMIO association.
May 16, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Drex DeFord, in his closing keynote address to the HCI Executive Summit, last week shared with Summit attendees his philosophy of leadership. Refreshingly, DeFord, the current chairman of the CHIME board of directors, believes that CIOs need to get—and stay—outside their comfort zones.
May 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Health information exchanges are taking a wide variety of approaches around the country to develop value-added services to sustain their exchanges. Panelists of the "Health Information Exchange: Strategies and Sustainability panel" at the HCI Executive Summit discuss what has worked for their exchanges.
May 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Halfway through David Muntz’s excellent opening keynote address at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit this afternoon (May 6), I was struck once again by the sense that his having joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) four months ago may have marked a significant turning point for the federal agency. Let’s call it the Muntz Effect.
May 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Muntz, the principal deputy national coordinator in the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, spoke with Mark Hagland just prior to his keynote address at the HCI Executive Summit in Orlando.
April 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Mark Hagland’s recent conversation with Brian Parrish of Dodge Communications looks at growing opportunities—and intensifying competition—for healthcare IT vendors. Will vendors have what it takes to push their customers over the finish line? It’s a question that will be asked at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit next month.
April 16, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The names of the top-place winning teams in the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award program will be revealed just before the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit begins on May 6. What will the winning submissions say about the state of innovation in our industry?
April 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In today’s Healthcare Informatics podcast, Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO of the Tampa, Fla.-based, Shriners Hospitals for Children, as well as Chairman and Co-Founder of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), joins us to talk about the evolution of the CMIO. Dr. Bria is one of the industry’s leading CMIOs and over his extensive career has seen the role evolve from a facilitator of clinical IS implementations to someone who has a hand in an organization’s change management and a seat at the executive table.
March 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Drex DeFord, CHIME’s 2012 board chairman, has decades of experience in healthcare IT management and leadership. Find out why he feels compelled to talk about the leadership challenges facing healthcare, as he delivers the closing keynote address at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit in Orlando in May.
March 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Last May in San Francisco, I was privileged to be able to co-present to Cecilee Ruesch, R.N., a statuette and certificate to honor her team at Providence Alaska Medical Center for their groundbreaking electronic ICU innovation. Ruesch and her colleagues were the first-place team in the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award, meant to honor and recognize teams of clinical informaticists and their clinician and administrative colleagues in patient care organizations nationwide.
