Welcome to Health IT Insight
10/18/2010 3:30:00 PM
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State of HealthIT in Late 2010
10/18/2010 3:45:00 PM
2010 has been a landmark year for Health IT. Where are we today and where are we headed in 2011
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VMware Keynote - Virtualization's Impact on the Delivery of Healthcare IT Services
10/18/2010 4:30:00 PM
Learn how VMware is revolutionizing the next generation of computing-providing efficiency and flexibility at a time when both are critical to the future of Healthcare. Organizations can no longer afford to have more servers than beds, hundreds if not thousands of applications and clinical staff spending more time with their PC's than with their patients. In concert with the industries leading ecosystem partners VMware is enabling healthcare organizations to get back to the business of Healthcare.
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Keynote Presentation
10/18/2010 5:00:00 PM
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Welcome to HealthIT
10/19/2010 9:00:00 AM
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Opening Keynote: Cloud Strategies for Health
10/19/2010 9:15:00 AM
Healthcare organizations will need to move quickly to understand and deploy cloud based strategies. New stimulus and compliance initiatives demand that healthcare organizations become dynamic, digital, and connected. Meaningful use guidelines require widespread integration with a host of other providers, labs, pharmacies, and patients. Private and public cloud architectures are being considered by a growing number of organizations as a possible solution for this challenge. Even if you don't own and operate a cloud, you will certainly begin to use cloud based services from others.This presentation will:
Highlight options and key decisions in selecting an architectural approachDiscuss pros and cons of various deployment models for healthExamine some early projects and vendor offeringsFocus on health specific requirements that create unique challenges for users and suppliers[TOP]
Meaningful Use & Meaningful Results from Electronic Health Records
10/19/2010 9:45:00 AM
With the passing of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in February 2009, U.S. provider organizations were granted a unique opportunity to recoup costs associated with the acquisition and implementation of much-needed EHR technology. However, the requirements for eligibility for ARRA payments include tight implementation deadlines alongside requirements for the demonstration of "meaningful use." These two requirements seem contradictory, as in practice, rushed IT implementations have historically meant less-than-optimal results. For this reason, it is critical that U.S. providers making EHR investments and implementations under ARRA deadlines leverage the learnings and best practices among existing early adopters in the industry. This will help ensure that their organizations achieve both statutory meaningful use and meaningful results from their EHR investments. U.S. providers clearly cannot afford a second chance to acquire and leverage EHR capabilities. This presentation will:
Provide an overview of the current understanding of the EHR opportunities presented by ARRAOffer insights into the EHR vendor landscapeDiscuss key learnings and best practices from Health Industry Insight's interactions with EHR early adopters[TOP]
Case Studies Presented by Vendor Sponsors
10/19/2010 11:10:00 AM
Case Study Presentations provide a unique forum for small groups of payer and provider decision makers to meet in a boardroom environment and exchange information and dialogue with vendors. These are not product pitches but qualitative presentations that demonstrate the successful, real-world implementation of health IT solutions.
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Advancing Health Care Delivery Through Technology Innovation
10/19/2010 1:15:00 PM
Hospitals are making significant investments in new infrastructure to optimize operations, streamline communication, and improve outcomes. The need to reduce costs while meeting new user requirements is a challenge for even the most capable organization. Adding capabilities like CPOE, and advanced integration with third parties to qualify for stimulus money is also driving an accelerated replacement cycle for legacy architectures. Join us for a discussion of how innovative health organizations are utilizing infrastructure upgrades and enhancements to better meet the needs of patients while also improving the operations, communications, and quality of care at their institutions.
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Healthcare and the Recession: Economic Uncertainty and the Road Ahead
10/19/2010 1:45:00 PM
Healthcare organizations will all be impacted by changes in the US economic and political landscape. Increased economic pressures, changes in government health programs, and the credit crisis will have a significant impact on current healthcare IT strategies and budgets. Join us for a discussion of the current IDC forecasts and our assessment of the serious market changes that will result from the current economic and political environment.
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Case Studies Presented by Vendor Sponsors
10/19/2010 2:25:00 PM
Case Study Presentations provide a unique forum for small groups of payer and provider decision makers to meet in a boardroom environment and exchange information and dialogue with vendors. These are not product pitches but qualitative presentations that demonstrate the successful, real-world implementation of health IT solutions.
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Reform Focused IT for Healthcare Payers
10/19/2010 4:55:00 PM
Healthcare payers are dramatically restaging business and technology priorities to take advantage of healthcare reform demands and opportunities. In response, vendors are also shifting technology delivery strategies and business, acquisition and partnership models. A fundamental focus of all vendors through 2014 will be the integration of business intelligence and actionable advice with internal business and external stakeholder processes and transaction solutions. This presentation will:
Present healthplan business and IT strategies through 2012Assess the technology market against the emerging healthplan business and technology prioritiesProvide technology evolutionary model and highlight technologies, vendors and technology models that will have the greatest impact through 2015.[TOP]
The New Provider Electronic Health Record
10/19/2010 4:55:00 PM
With the advent of ARRA, healthcare reform and the newly-defined term meaningful use, providers are faced with challenges surrounding the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). These include a mandate for implementation, deadlines for installing, adopting and optimizing results from EHRs, and a definition of meaningful use that takes EHRs beyond clinical documentation into sets of functionality that are relatively new for most providers, even early adopters of EHRs. The new EHR, as defined by the meaningful use requirements, must include, in addition to clinical documentation, functions such as HIE connectivity between inpatient and ambulatory systems, decision support , patient communication, clinical and business analytics and e-prescribing. This presentation will include a brief overview of the current state of meaningful use definitions and the upcoming deadlines for implementation, and presents IDC Health Insights data on provider sentiment and trends regarding adoption, investment, best practices, analytics, decision support and other functionality associated with the new EHR.
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Bringing It All Together: Putting the Action in Actionable Advice
10/20/2010 9:00:00 AM
Healthcare payers have invested heavily in business intelligence and transparency initiatives. Cost, quality and care management objectives require much improved access and use of information by both the healthcare payer and all of its constituents and business partners. Getting it right means aligned investment in all core processing applications, the BI/Transparency Infrastructure and solutions, and in the right delivery and presentation strategies. This presentation will:
Provide the future evolution and best practice model for business intelligence and transparency solutions, including critical alignment among BI, care management, product development, performance, incentives, portal and quality initiatives Reveal current healthcare payer BI investments strategies and priorities Highlight leading and innovative vendor strategies across all core and BI markets Provide early examples of emerging vendor and health plan strategies to provide actionable information and track results.
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Connected Health IT Strategies: Making the Transition to Accountable Care
10/20/2010 9:35:00 AM
Accountable care organizations and other new economic models developed to meet the demands of health reform will provide new opportunities for improving financial and clinical performance. The perfect alignment of drivers - health reform, cost, access, increased focus on managing chronic conditions, and an aging population - will help healthcare organizations justify investment in telemedicine and other connected health IT strategies over the next five years alongside investments in electronic medical records (EMRs), computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and health information exchange (HIE) technologies to qualify for ARRA incentives and avoid Medicare penalties starting in 2015.
This presentation will:
Discuss the key trends driving connected health and the impact of legislation, including American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and health reform, on the outlook for connected health.Present an overview of the connected health market and its components.Examine some notable connected health pilot projects and other telemedicine initiatives.[TOP]
Case Studies Presented by Vendor Sponsors
10/20/2010 11:05:00 AM
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CIO Round Table Discussion
10/20/2010 1:15:00 PM
This session, will explore some of the most pressing issues facing your peers - from budget woes to disaster planning, from staffing and training issues to keeping up with the best new and emerging technologies. Our experts on the panel work in a number of major technology-buying sectors and bring a variety of experiences to the table for this discussion of best practices and suggestions on how you can improve and manage to excellence
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