Ann Hendrich, RN, MSN, FAANis the Vice President of Clinical Excellence Operations at Ascension Health’s system office. She chairs the Chief Nursing Officer community while guiding the implementation of Clinical Excellence and informatics initiatives in partnership with executives, board members, and clinical officer leadership.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from DePauw University and a Master’s Degree from Indiana State University in Adult Health and Administration. As a 3 year RWJ Executive Fellow, her focus was on leading organizational change and she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2005.
She was the Principal Investigator for the Acuity-Adaptable Comprehensive Cardiac Critical Care model. The patient rooms of the future incorporate comfort, healing, technology, and efficiency into an integrated design. Her current research is an extension of the work in a national multi-site study that was conducted in 36 hospitals funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on the Work Environment of nurses and the relationship to patient outcomes known as the Time and Motion study.
Ann is widely published in professional journals and nursing text, is active on editorial boards, serves as a grant reviewer for major nursing organizations, and is a frequent advisor to the Health Technology Center, The Advisory Board, and is a board member for the Center of Health Design, Zynx and the Nursing Advisory Council with The Joint Commission. With a special interest in geriatrics, she is also the author of the Hendrich II Risk Model, a predictive model for inpatient falls. In 2007, Modern Healthcare identified Ann as one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare.
She is currently completing her PhD doctoral study at Loyola University.
Liz Johnson, RN, MSN, CPHIMS, FHIMSSis the Vice President of Clinical Informatics for Tenet HealthSystem. In this capacity she has responsibility for the strategic vision and the tactical plan for all clinical systems used throughout the Tenet organization of 72 provider organizations. Today the clinical application suite of products for Tenet includes over 3,000 clinical applications and 5,000 custom interfaces. Under Ms. Johnson’s leadership, Tenet has developed and is implementing a comprehensive clinical informatics vision and strategy. Liz speaks nationally and internationally on clinical applications particularly focused on their strategic use as a tool for enhanced patient safety. Prior to joining Tenet, Liz was and Executive Vice President and National Practice Leader for HIPAA for Healthlink, Inc. As a nationally recognized HIPAA expert, she has shared her in-depth knowledge of HIPAA in over 150 presentations. A partial list of her HIPAA speaking engagements includes ACHE, CHIME and HIMSS. Additionally, Ms. Johnson has directed numerous HIPAA consulting engagements, including readiness assessments, offices of project management, HIPAA planning and training. During her 6 years as an executive with Healthlink, Liz performed a variety of management roles assisting in the migration of a small boutique consulting firm into a major consulting presence in the healthcare market.
With 30 years experience in executive and staff positions throughout provider organizations she understands provider operations from every perspective, and the role IT plays in enabling best practices to be deployed by healthcare providers.
Joyce Sensmeier is Vice President of Informatics for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the country’s largest healthcare association focused on information technology. She oversees clinical informatics, standards, interoperability, privacy and security, and professional certification. Sensmeier joined HIMSS as the Director of Professional Services in December 2000.
Sensmeier became Board Certified in Nursing Informatics in 1996, earned the Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems in 2002, and achieved fellowship status in HIMSS in 2005. She is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University in Chicago and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She previously served at Palos Community Hospital as a nursing coordinator implementing clinical information systems.
A nationally recognized speaker and an author of multiple book chapters, articles and white papers, Sensmeier was a member of the expert panel that revised the Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics published by the American Nurses Association in 2001. She recently assumed the position of standards implementation technical manager for the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and serves as the co-chair of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI), a collaboration of 25 distinct regional and national nursing informatics organizations. Sensmeier received her BSN from Elmhurst College and her master’s degree in Nursing Administration from St. Xavier University.
Brian Dixon, M.P.A., is a Health Information Technology Project Manager with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Mr. Dixon has primary responsibilities in managing health information exchange related projects. He is also a member of the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology, advising and monitoring health IT grant activities in the U.S. Prior to his current role, Mr. Dixon developed technology for Regenstrief and the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), including tools supporting the standard clinical vocabulary LOINC, technology supporting the automated electronic reporting of reportable conditions, and tools for querying large clinical data repositories. Mr. Dixon has published a number of articles on using and funding health IT projects to improve healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency. He has also presented on these topics numerous times to groups such as the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).
After spending twenty-five years practicing medicine as an Ob/Gyn in North Texas, Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D., was first elected to Congress in 2002, and subsequently re-elected in 2004, 2006, and most recently in 2008. Dr. Burgess serves on the prestigious House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on healthcare, and recently founded and is Chairman of the Congressional Health Care Caucus. During his six years in Congress, Dr. Burgess has been a forceful and vocal advocate for healthcare legislation aimed at reducing healthcare costs, improving choices, reforming liability laws to put the needs of patients first, and ensuring there are enough doctors to care for America’s patients.
Craig Miller is the chief architect for CONNECT, a SOA-based solution that connects federal agencies into nationwide health information exchanges. As a strategic advisor to the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program, he guides the development of CONNECT and other federal solutions based on his expertise in electronic health information exchange, electronic health records and service-oriented architecture. Mr. Miller has more than 12 years of enterprise architecture experience at the director level, working with agencies such as HHS, CMS, FDA, USDA and OMB. He was the lead enterprise architect for HHS’ department-wide enterprise architecture initiative, and He led the development of versions 2.0-2.2 of the OMB EA Assessment Framework and was responsible for developing the structure of the Federal Transition Framework.
Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As FHA director, he has driven collaboration among federal agencies to advance the adoption of interoperable health IT in order to allow for the secure exchange of health information within the federal government, and with state, tribal, and local governments and the private sector. This goal is being achieved through initiatives that provide federal business needs management, and systematic investment planning, reporting and interoperability architecture. Under Mr. Sankaran's leadership, FHA has worked with federal agencies to rapidly and efficiently implement government-wide solutions for interoperable and secure health information exchange that address agency business priorities while protecting citizen privacy. FHA serves the needs of more than twenty federal agencies in domains as diverse as military and veterans’ healthcare, public health monitoring, long-term care and disability services, research, tribal health services and many other critical federal priorities. Before arriving at HHS in 2005, Mr. Sankaran worked in the private-sector healthcare technology field. He was the Director of IT and product operations at CareScience Inc, a healthcare application service provider that helps hospitals and health systems improve care management, clinical performance and data sharing. While at CareScience, he developed strategies to achieve organizational goals, built cohesive teams, increased operational efficiency and reduced costs. In that position, he administered architecture and operations of healthcare software products, including health information exchange solutions.
Dave Roberts is Vice President of Government Relations for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the country’s largest healthcare association focused on information technology. In his role, Mr. Roberts oversees and acts as the primary contact for the association’s congressional, federal and state outreach to influence and educate key stakeholders. He also serves as Senior Executive for the HIMSS Virginia Office, which includes the Office of Advocacy and Public Policy, and he is the staff liaison to the HIMSS Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee, whose members work with key federal decision-makers and other organizations to advance improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and management systems. Prior to joining HIMSS in August 2002, Mr. Roberts served as a financial analyst for the U.S. Air Force in the Pentagon and Germany. He was also a staff assistant to U.S. Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) on the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped and a senior professional staff member on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. In addition, Mr. Roberts has worked on three U.S. presidential campaigns and as a staff assistant for Virginia State Sen. Patsy Ticer (D-Alexandria) in the Virginia General Assembly. He also served as a Corporate Vice President for a HIMSS Diamond Corporate member.
Debra Wolf, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Slippery Rock University. Her program of research focuses on nurses impacting patient outcomes using a patient-centered model of care. Dr. Wolf has 30 years experience in nursing in the acute care and academic settings. Prior to assuming her role at Slippery Rock University, Dr. Wolf served as Administrative Director of Education, Research, and Nursing Informatics, where she led several departments including Research, Education and two diploma schools of nursing. She is a member of ANA, STT, TIGER, NLN, HIMSS, and taskforce leader for NNSDO. She has presented nationally and internationally and serves as mentor and coach for nursing professionals. Dr. Wolf oversees the Healthcare Informatics Certification Program at Slippery Rock University. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member at Robert Morris University, where she developed a course for DnP students which addresses the use of Information Technology and EBP. Dr. Wolf is a healthcare consultant supporting the integration of new technology into healthcare settings.
Dr. John Parker commanded the Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC), which includes the U.S. Army’s Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the Institute of Chemical Defense (USAICD), and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) from 1998 to 2002. He is an expert in managing institutions that are researching and analyzing offensive and defensive biological warfare as well as responding to their biological contingencies. Dr. Parker has served in critical Medical (Life Science) S&T advisory positions in the Department of Defense and teaches impacts of chemical and biological agents at every university in the National Capital Region.
Eric Rivedal is the Nursing Workflow Manager for McKesson inpatient nursing products, focusing on functional design of cross-product issues and workflows. He has been with McKesson for eight years as an analyst on a variety of clinical products including Horizon Emergency Care and Horizon Expert Orders. Prior to his time with McKesson, Mr. Rivedal spent 13 years working at Denver Health in a variety of clinical and management positions including Inpatient Pediatrics, Labor & Delivery, Intensive Care, Emergency Department, and Outpatient Clinics in Family Practice and Occupational Health and Safety. Eric holds BSN and MSN (Informatics) degrees from the University of Colorado.
Joyce Sensmeier joined HIMSS as the Director of Professional Services in December 2000. She currently serves as HIMSS Vice President of Informatics and is responsible for the areas of clinical informatics, standards, interoperability, privacy and security, and professional certification. Ms. Sensmeier received her Masters degree in Nursing Administration from St. Xavier University, and her Bachelors Degree in Nursing from Elmhurst College. She became Board Certified in Nursing Informatics in 1996, earned the Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems in 2002, and achieved fellowship status in HIMSS in 2005. She is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University Chicago and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She previously served at Palos Community Hospital as a nursing coordinator implementing clinical information systems. An internationally recognized speaker and author of multiple book chapters, articles and white papers, Ms. Sensmeier was a member of the expert panel that revised the Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics published by the American Nurses Association in 2001. She currently serves as technical manager for the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) a national standards harmonization project and is the co-chair of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, a collaboration of 25 distinct regional and national nursing informatics organizations.
Gregory L. Alexander, Ph.D., R.N.is currently an Assistant Professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri. He joined the faculty of Sinclair in July 2005 after completing his doctoral work in nursing and health systems. Dr. Alexander was appointed the first National Library of Medicine Fellow in Informatics from the school of nursing while completing his doctoral studies. Dr. Alexander completed his undergraduate work in Biology and Nursing at Missouri State University and received his Master's from the department of Health Management and Informatics at the University of Missouri in 1999. His career goals are to establish himself as an independent investigator and expert recognized in human computer interaction evaluation. He is interested in developing and designing innovative, health system level interventions using sophisticated technologies to deliver care to aging populations to enhance patient safety, clinical work flow and evidence based practice.
Nancy Staggers is a nationally known expert in Nursing Informatics. Since her informatics doctoral education at the University of Maryland, she has led large projects to define, develop, install and evaluate enterprise clinical information systems. Her research program centers on human-computer interaction and she publishes widely on informatics topics. She is currently Professor and program director for nursing informatics at the University of Utah.
Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice Officer for the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), a business unit of Elsevier, and provides strategic clinical leadership for Elsevier. Michelle has over 20 years experience in creating and sustaining healthy, healing workplaces and integrated healthcare services. Her passion is creating environments that “live” the high-tech/high-touch polarity to transform healthcare locally and globally.
Denise Tyler is a masters-prepared Clinical Specialist and project lead at Kaweah Delta Health Care District in central California. She also earned a Masters of Business Administration and is certified in Nursing Informatics. She has presented on real life experiences at SINI and Siemens conferences. Denise wrote a chapter (co-wrote?) in the 2008 McGonigle and Mastrian book, "Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.” She is on the board of the American Nursing Informatics Association and has been involved with the TIGER Initiative since 2006.
Dr. Parker is the Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist for Motion Computing®, Inc. a global leader in designing ultra mobile wireless device products and services for healthcare professionals and those in other vertical industries. She has over 30 years experience in the healthcare industry including clinical nursing, management, nursing informatics, and education both corporate and academic. Dr. Parker has worked in clinical system selection and implementation from both a facility and vendor perspective. She works at all levels of the nursing within a facility to ensure successful outcomes for the clinician and the organization. She has been responsible for the development of all clinician usability studies for Motion and has completed the “Protection of Human Subjects in Research” course offered through Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI).
She is a member of the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA), CARING, Sigma Theta Tau, Healthcare Informatics Systems Society (HIMSS) where she serves on the Nursing Informatics Taskforce, and is a governing director of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI).
She has been a contributor to the growing body of healthcare knowledge as a presenter and author. She received Associate, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nursing, completed a post-master’s certificate in Nursing Informatics, and completed her PhD in Education with a specialization in Training and Performance Improvement.
Heidi Echols is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Ms. Echols is chair of the Firm’s Health Information Technology Affinity Group and co-chair of the Firm’s Electronic Data Management, Privacy and Discovery Group. Her practice focuses on information technology (IT) transactions and counseling such as EHR transactions, and privacy and security matters, including state notification requirements regarding security breaches and the privacy and security rules promulgated under HIPAA. Ms. Echols is a member of HIMSS and co-chair of the American Health Lawyers Association Tech Licensing and IP Affinity Group and is a frequent speaker and author on technology and privacy matters. She was named to the 2009 Illinois Rising Star list in Super Lawyers magazine and is also the 2009 recipient of the National Public Service Award presented by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law for her leadership of a multi-disciplinary and cross-office team in McDermott’s representation of a nonprofit health reform organization in its implementation of a regional health information organization (RHIO).
Marilyn Lamar is an attorney with more than twenty years of experience in corporate and information technology law, including electronic health records (EHR) and HIPAA privacy and security issues. Her practice includes a broad range of outsourcing, licensing, and other technology transactions on behalf of hospitals, health plans, physicians, group purchasing organizations and technology companies. Ms. Lamar is a member of HIMSS, serving on the Ambulatory IS Steering Committee, the Payer Roundtable and the Legal Aspects of the Enterprise Task Force. She is a frequent author and speaker on EHRs, evolving liability issues involving information technology, HIPAA privacy and security and outsourcing. Before joining Liss & Lamar, P.C., Ms. Lamar was a capital partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP where she chaired the Health Law Department’s Information Technology practice group and co-chaired its HIPAA practice group. She also chaired the Health Information and Technology Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) from 2002 to 2005 and serves on its Quality Council.
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant who has worked with health care stakeholders in the U.S. and Europe for over two decades. Jane founded THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, in 1992 after spending a decade as a health care consultant in firms in the U.S. and Europe.
Jane’s projects focus on the nexus of health care and technology applying the tools of scenario and strategic planning, qualitative market research, forecasting, and health policy analysis. Jane is a columnist for iHealthBeat, an online publication of the California HealthCare Foundation, where she writes about health and technology. Jane also writes the popular Health Populi blog. Jane sits on the Advisory Board of the Health 2.0 conference and is one of the founding principals of Health 2.0 Advisors.
Jane wrote the seminal white paper, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Social Media, on behalf of California HealthCare Foundation, in April 2008.
Jane holds an MA (Economics) and MHSA (Health Policy) from the University of Michigan. Jane is a frequent public speaker and writer on the subject of health-technology, -politics and -economics. While Jane is passionate about her work, she is even more passionate about her family and home, Slow Food, and living a full and balanced life. More about Jane can be found on the THINK-Health website and on the Health Populi blog.
Janet Bochinski has over 30 years of experience in healthcare, including acute and primary care nursing, education, health systems project management, system deployment and integration, and the development and implementation of complex health systems analysis methodologies. While at Unisys Corporation, she served as the Principal Investigator in a Mobile Electronic Health Record study for the Department of Defense, Telemedicine and Advance Technology Research Center (TATRC). She has spoken at various conferences regarding the study. Ms. Bochinski is currently an active member of the HIMSS Enterprise Information Systems Steering Committee (2007-2009) and has been a member of other groups including the HIMSS EHR Toolkit working group (2005 -2006) and HIMSS Integration and Interoperability Committee (2005-2006).
Jerome A. Osheroff, MD is Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, where he ensures that their decision support offerings are optimally responsive to clinician, patient, and management information needs, and that they measurably improve healthcare outcomes. He was the lead author, “Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support,” and HIMSS bestseller and 2005 Book of the Year, “Improving Outcomes with CDS: An Implementer’s Guide.” Dr. Osheroff helped guide national CDS efforts, e.g. executing Roadmap through service on AHIC Quality and CDS workgroups. He also led guidebook development by scores of individuals/organizations on best practices for improving medication management with CDS - will be co-published in 2008 by HIMSS, AMIA, AMDIS, ISMP, SI, and ASHP. Dr. Osheroff is an active in provider consulting on improving outcomes with CDS and a faculty and clinical staff member at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Currie is currently the Director of Clinical Outcomes for Advocate Health Care in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Advocate Health Care consists of 7 Acute Care Hospitals, 1 Long Term Acute Care Hospital, 3 large medical groups and Home Health Care. In her current capacity, Ms. Currie works with quality initiatives throughout the system. During her career, Ms. Currie has held multiple leadership roles including Clinical Nurse Specialist, Administrative Director, Chief Nurse Executive, Director of Education and Practice, and has taught as Visiting Professor at University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University in their schools of nursing. Ms. Currie has primarily focused on the Acute Care Environment. She is a member of several professional organizations. Ms. Currie is published and presented extensively on current healthcare issues.
John Chuo, MD, FAAP, MS, did his undergraduate studies at Cornell University and subsequently earned an MD degree as well as completed a 3 year Pediatric residency from New York University School of Medicine. Subsequently, he moved to Boston where he completed a fellowship in Neonatology at Children’s Hospital Boston and earned a masters degree in Biomedical Informatics thru the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology program. He moved to New Jersey in 2004 to join the faculty of the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2004, where he became the Pediatric champion for enterprise information system initiatives and well as the medical director and quality improvement co-chair of the neonatal critical care unit. Currently, John Chuo is the Neonatal Quality Informatics Officer for the Division of Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a practicing physician, board certified in Pediatrics and Neonatology. His academic research focuses on CQI in medication management, patient safety, workflow process analytics, and the development of quality indicator dashboards.
Anwar Sirajuddin (Siraj), MBBS, MS is a Medical Informaticist and Clinical Decision Support Lead at Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas. He helped guide CDS efforts at Memorial Hermann to help improve clinical processes and patient outcomes. He is an associate editor for “Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support,” which will be co-published in 2008 by HIMSS, AMIA, AMDIS, ISMP, SI and ASHP. Mr. Sirajuddin is also a Course Instructor, “Applied Clinical Decision Support” at the School Of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He holds a medical degree from India and Master’s Degree in Health Informatics from the School Of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Joan R. Duke, FHIMSS, has been involved for over thirty years in all aspects of health care information systems. In 1990, she founded Health Care Information Consultants (HCIC) to assist organizations in healthcare information technology management and has assisted a variety of organizations including health systems, hospitals, home care, long-term care, hospice, behavioral health, clinics, physician groups, healthcare technology vendors, and non-profits unify their organizational and information, technology resources. Ms. Duke's experience includes enterprise technology planning, management of information systems organizations and hands-on development and implementation of systems. She is well versed in electronic health records (EHR) in both the inpatient and ambulatory environment. She has also assisted health information exchanges (HIE) providing planning support to the State of Delaware and working with members of the Maryland-DC collaborative to identify system requirements and to develop a business model for health information exchange. In 2003, she was appointed to the HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence Task Force to evaluate organizations for recognition of exemplary implementation of EHR systems. She also supervised and developed clinical systems at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and developed statistical programs for the National Institute of Mental Health. Ms. Duke obtained her MA from Johns Hopkins University in 1973. She is a HIMSS Fellow, past President of Maryland Society of Healthcare Information Systems Management (MSHISM), and participates in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Healthcare Technology Network of Greater Washington, and Health Level 7 (HL7) Working Group.
Dr. C. Eric Hartz is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) in Bangor, Maine. He also maintains an oncology practice at CancerCare of Maine. As CMIO, Hartz is involved in patient safety initiatives including development of decision support tools and standardized order sets. Since he has been at EMMC, he has spearheaded the successful implementation of many solutions including Virtual ICU, PowerInsight for data mining, Millennium Lighthouse for care pathway process change, and computerized provider order entry (CPOE), where only 1 to 2 percent of orders are now written on paper. Dr. Hartz presented on development of patient safety rules and alerts at the American Medical Informatics Association annual meeting and has traveled around the country assisting healthcare organizations in developing standardized order sets. He was also instrumental in EMMC becoming a Hospitals and Health Networks Most Wired Hospital and a recipient of the HIMSS 2008 Davies Award of Excellence, for using information technology to improve the safety and quality of patient care. Dr. Hartz received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago. In 1983, he completed training in internal medicine and an oncology fellowship at the Ohio State University Hospitals.
Dr. Brian R. Jacobs is Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Pediatric Informatics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Jacobs was a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati as well as the Director of Technology and Patient Safety at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. While at Cincinnati Children’s he oversaw the implementation of their electronic medical record and was the principal author and recipient of the HIMSS Davies Award. Dr. Jacobs specializes in pediatric critical care medicine and has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, abstracts and scientific presentations. He frequently shares his knowledge in the pediatric space as a guest lecturer at conferences, leadership forums and hospitals. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He also is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Services, and is the current chairman of the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award Selection Committee. Dr. Jacobs received his master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oregon and his medical degree from Oregon Health and Sciences University.
Dr. Gray Woods, Clinical Information Systems Associate, Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Woods has been a member of the IS team at Stormont-Vail since August, 2005 supporting the NextGen EMR application and providing training to physicians, nurses and other clinical staff. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist and was formerly the Medical Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine. Dr. Woods obtained his MD degree from UMKC in 1983 and completed his ophthalmology residency there in 1987.
Judy Hanover, MBA; Jim Kearns; Tom Pacek
Judy Hanover serves as research manager for Health Industry Insights' healthcare provider practice. An industry veteran, Ms. Hanover brings expertise in health care and the life sciences to her role, and provides research and market analysis on healthcare informatics. Ms. Hanover has a background in healthcare informatics, and experience working with life science, managed care, provider and clinical applications. Previously, Ms. Hanover served as a senior product marketing manager for drug safety for Phase Forward, Inc. where she was responsible for marketing drug safety and data management products to assist biopharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies with product safety and risk management strategies. Ms. Hanover was also a senior research analyst for IDC's life science practice, where she developed significant subject matter expertise in research areas including regulatory compliance, clinical trial IT infrastructure, drug development performance management, pharmacovigilance, and drug safety technology. She has also held positions in strategic planning, product management and market research at 3M Health Information Systems, Ingenix Inc., and McKesson Corporation. Ms. Hanover holds a BA in Chemistry from Harvard University, as well as an MBA, with concentration in Marketing, and an MS in Information Systems, from Boston University.
Jim Kearns is Vice President and CIO of Delnor Hospital. Mr. Kearns has over 26 years of technical experience, with more than 12 at the CIO level, and is considered a change agent who has defined and executed new strategies for a number of organizations. Prior to Delnor, he was the Vice President of IT at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, and was responsible for leading Rush through its transition to Epic. Mr. Kearns holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Western Illinois University and is currently an MBA candidate at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
Thomas Pacek is the Vice President of Information Systems and CIO for South Jersey Healthcare. Prior to joining South Jersey Healthcare in January of 2008, he was the Vice President of Information Services Operations at Virtua Health. Previous to that, Mr. Pacek served as the Assistant Vice President of Technology for Virtua Health. He has over 26 years of healthcare information technology experience and is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and a member of the South Jersey EMRX Advisory Board. Currently, Mr. Pacek serves as the President-Elect of the Delaware Valley Chapter of HIMSS. He holds BS degrees in Administrative Systems Management and Accounting from Drexel University in Philadelphia and he will be receiving his MBA from Ellis University at the end of March.
Judy Van Norman serves as the Senior Director, Care Transformation at Banner Health within the Care Management department. She joined Banner Health in 1999, originally as a System Director in Information Technology. Prior to joining Banner, Judy was the Assistant Vice President for Clinical Systems at Memorial Hermann Healthcare in Houston. She has over 25 years of healthcare experience, primarily in I/T and clinical transformation leadership. 202B
Michael Van Ornum RPh, RN, BCPS is a Consulting Clinical Pharmacist for the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association, secretary for the Pharmacy Society of Rochester, and the recipient of Clinical Practitioner of the Year 2006 award from the New York Chapter of ACCP. He provides consultative services to physicians in a clinically integrated healthcare environment and spearheaded the implementation of electronic prescribing, available to willing participants, with GRIPA's panel of over 500 physicians and their staff. Van Ornum is the author of Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide. Prior to work at GRIPA, Mr. Van Ornum worked for five years as the Director of Infusion with American HomePatient after spending four years with Rochester General Hospital in roles including Acute Care Manager for inpatient pharmacy operations.
Victoria Viglucci was named Chief Information Officer of the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA) in 2006. She is responsible for providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of information technology to support GRIPA strategic initiatives on behalf of the GRIPA organization and its membership. Ms. Viglucci has been a familiar face in the Rochester information technology field for more than 20 years. Prior to her appointment as CIO, she served seven years as Director of Information Technology and Project Management for GRIPA. Before joining GRIPA, she was owner and principal at MasterLink Technologies. Ms. Viglucci, a Penfield resident and graduate of Brockport State University, has also worked in the ViaHealth System both at Independent Living for Seniors and Rochester General Hospital.
Paul DeCrosta is the Manager of the Regulatory Department in Inter-Plan Programs Division at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. His responsibilities include managing all regulatory activities and initiatives for Inter-Plan Programs. He is also responsible for regulatory/legislative compliance, including HIPAA, Health Information Technology and other industry-driven initiatives. Mr. DeCrosta has worked for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations since 2007. His prior experience includes 13 years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.
Elliot Sloane has dedicated over 30 years of his career to the healthcare and information technologies fields, with a focus on medical efficacy, efficiency, and safety. He is a past president of the American College of Clinical Engineering and the current co-chair of both HIMSS’ IHE Strategic Development Committee and the IHE Patient Care Device domain. Dr. Sloane’s research and teaching spans the biomedical engineering, medical informatics, and healthcare business management fields, and also extends into the Department of Defense's current net-centric enterprise excellence programs. He is a reviewer and writer for NIH and multiple journals and conferences and serves on several non-profit agency boards. Dr. Sloane has been a high-scoring presenter at each HIMSS Annual Conference since 2001, as well as several regional and HIMSS meetings.
Steve Zlotkus currently serves in a marketing/business development role for CAQH’s CORE Initiative. The Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) is a voluntary healthcare industry effort building consensus on operating (business) rules for the electronic exchange of healthcare information. As such, he engages with public and private stakeholders on both the national and state level. Mr. Zlotkus has served in various capacities within the healthcare industry over the past 15 years, including health plan account management and pharmaceutical quality control.
Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAACP, is Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support for HealthEast Care System. He is responsible for designing point of care clinical decision support interventions and resources for HealthEast’s Inpatient Electronic Health Record (EHR) to support patient safety and quality improvement. Dr. Kleeberg has had several years experience implementing EHRs and clinical decision support tools in both the ambulatory and in-patient environments. At HealthEast he is using McKesson’s suite of products. His experience with EHRs began with the implementation of Eclipsys in two hospitals, the implementation of Logician ambulatory product in several clinics and in the creation of patient-oriented web sites for a health plan and a health system. More recently he assisted in a large health system’s transition to the full suite of Epic’s inpatient, ambulatory and personal health record products from other partially implemented inpatient and ambulatory EHRs.
Susan Heichert, is the VP, Health Information and Systems at Allina Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and leads a team that develops and supports the Electronic Health Record. She received her Bachelors Degree in Nursing from the University of Maryland and a Masters from the University of Minnesota. Susan has been working in Healthcare Informatics for 20 years. She is a HIMSS Fellow and past President of the Minnesota HIMSS chapter.
Robert See currently is Manager, Clinical Decision Support, for Allina Hospitals & Clinics in Minneapolis, MN, a role he has filled since the inception of the program. Previously he managed the Performance Improvement and Benefits Realization teams for Allina's Excellian EMR implementation. Bob has a background as a small group therapist in Mental Health, hospital and system quality program management, and a wide range of clinical and revenue improvement projects within Allina.
Rebekah A. Z. Monson is a senior attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP, concentrating on healthcare matters. She counsels healthcare providers, hospitals and health systems, long-term care providers, service providers, outpatient diagnostic centers, and other healthcare companies and organizations on the legal issues presented by the implementation of information technologies in the health care industry, including telemedicine, computerized patient records, electronic medical communications and electronic health records, and the associated issues concerning privacy and security, identity theft and compliance. Ms. Monson also assists clients with business formation, corporate planning and structure, governance, contractual relationships, nonprofit corporation issues and business transactions. She is experienced in compliance issues (including HIPAA), fraud and abuse (including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute), Stark and physician self-referral, licensure, payment and other issues that affect health care providers and institutions under federal and state laws.
Terri Jacobsen has extensive experience in strategic systems planning, selection, implementation and evaluation of clinical systems in acute care, ambulatory, EMS, home care environments. Ms. Jacobsen has lead redesigning patient care and clinical systems for several acute care hospitals.
She won the HIMSS Clinical Systems Award in 1996 for promoting Clinical Systems within HIMSS; was on HIMSS Board of Directors 1993-1996; and founded the Midwest Alliance for Nursing Informatics in 1991.
Currently Ms. Jacobsen is the Director and Clinical Informaticist at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois, a Magnet Hospital.
Tom Brennan has over a decade of experience attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart client organizations’ internal and external security controls and has contributed to success of start-up's and commercial products. Mr. Brennan initially worked as an SYSOP for an 8-bit 516/BBS, writing code. Since then, Mr. Brennan has built multiple networks and molds applications to meet defined project requirements. He is a trusted member of AccessIT, Data Safe Services, Datek Online, ADP and the United States Marine Corps, and has successfully led security red teams for numerous federal, state and enterprise clients. Today, Mr. Brennan is a team member at WhiteHat Security and serves on the global board of the OWASP Foundation.
Blake Cornell is an IT innovator and developer with over 12 years experience in software and security. He has consulted Fortune 500 companies and various law enforcement agencies with hopes of utilizing technology to ease real world issues. Currently, Mr. Cornell has vested interests in multiple companies providing network and application security as well as VoIP telephony. Additionally, Mr. Cornell developed Security Scraper, a program that harvests over 500 computer security related records daily which he uses to track trends within the security industry. Mr. Cornell is a member of InfraGard, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector, and OWASP, the premier application security consortium.
Mr. Whitham is Director of Information Technology and Patient Accounts Receivable overseeing the billing systems for a large Community Health Center in urban Boston, Massachusetts. Mr Whitham's experience implementing electronic practice management software in a variety of settings has proven that the key to a successful EPM implementation is transparency of data and ease of distribution. Dashboards and reporting suites are essential to all levels of an organization's success in revenue cycle improvement.
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Doug Sears
Mr. Sears leads performance improvement and knowledge transfer at Bon Secours Health Systems, Inc. (BSHSI). The Enhancing Performance Excellence initiative – integrating all performance improvement efforts across BSHSI – has achieved a $120 million impact on clinical quality, productivity, supply chain, length of stay, and revenue enhancement and 700+ certified Green Belts and 62 Black Belts in the past three years. Mr. Sears is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with GE Healthcare and the Juran Institute. He is a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the University of Richmond MBA program; a sixteenth year Senior Alumni Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program; Lead Judge for the Virginia Senate Productivity and Quality Award; and a past Judge for the U.S. Army Communities of Excellence Award and also the Ohio Award for Excellence.
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Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School
Bill Shickolovich, CIO of Tufts Medical Center
Dr. Jamie Coffin, vice president of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences
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Dr. Raju Kucherlapati, Scientific Director, Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
Dianne Beattie, CIO, London Health Sciences Centre
Tobias J. Levey, Co-founder, Global Medical Forum Foundation & Global Bio City Network
Jeff Miller, Vice President WW Health and Life Sciences, Hewlett Packard
Rod Coombs, CTO, Cerner Health
John P. Glaser, Ph.D., VP and CIO, Partners Healthcare
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HP
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Intel
James Heffernan, Susan Noack
James Heffernan, CFO and Treasurer, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), Partners Healthcare
Susan Noack, Global Industry Director, Healthcare Business Intelligence and Performance Management, IBM
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Michael T. Krouse, Marcia Strow, RN, MS, CCRN
Michael T. Krouse
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Ohio Health
Marcia Strow, RN, MS, CCRN
Clinical System Project Manager
St. John's Hospital
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS)
Paul Edwards
Paul Edwards, Senior Manager, Sprint Converged Network Solutions
Paul Keckley, PhD and R. Lawrence Van Horn, PhD
Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (the Center), a part of Deloitte LLP. He provides strategic guidance on the development of Center research and thought leadership. Paul has had 30 years of experience in academic medicine and the private sector. He is well-regarded for his knowledge of health care economics, health policy and trend analysis.
Professor Van Horn is a leading expert and researcher on health care management and economics. His research on healthcare organizations, managerial incentives in nonprofit hospitals and the conduct of managed care firms has appeared in such leading publications as the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review, Journal of Public Budgeting and Financial Management and Harvard Business Review.
Bill Phillips is an Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Finance in Health Services Management at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at Revenue Strategies, Inc., where he helps hospitals improve revenue performance and margin. With 25 years of hospital management and consulting experience, Bill has directed operations in community hospitals and academic medical centers. A Partner at KPMG, he directed the firm’s “National Managed Care Practice”. A frequent speaker and author on revenue cycle issues, his most recent article is “Achieving Revenue Excellence”. Mr. Phillips also founded the “CFO Boot Camp™”, a nationally recognized program for new CFOs.
Steve Levin, MBA
Mr. Levin co-founded Connance, a patient revenue recovery solutions provider, following a nearly two-decade career as a management consultant with Monitor Group, an international management consulting firm. At Monitor, he was a Senior Partner and worked extensively in healthcare revenue cycle operation and transformation. He has authored articles on the challenges of self-pay for healthcare providers and is a frequent presenter at industry events. Mr. Levin holds a B.A. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Thomas R. Green, MS and David Honma
Thomas R. Green is the CEO of Lancaster Pollard, a leading provider of bond underwriting, federally insured mortgage financing, and investment and financial advisory services for healthcare providers nationwide. Mr. Green speaks regularly on capital market funding methods and is on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s team to streamline its hospital mortgage insurance program. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in economics and finance from The Ohio State University.
Mr. Honma has served as the Director of Finance and Financial Systems of the University of Pennsylvania Health System since June 2006. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a bachelor’s of science degree in accounting. Prior to his present employment, Mr. Honma served in various capacities with Beckman Coulter, Time Warner, Paramount Pictures, and Deloitte & Touche LLP.
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Connance
Connance's web-based solutions help hospitals and their revenue cycle partners mitigate rising self-pay bad debt. Connance's agency management platform, account tools and benchmark reports increase cash, reduce costs and improve the patient experience throughout the collection process.
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Experian QAS
Welcome to the Experian QAS booth! Find out how address verification will improve financial operations. We help hospitals reduce returned bills and collect more revenue. Improved address accuracy will ensure timely mail delivery so that your self-pay patients can pay their bills. Cut A/R days and avoid unneccessary bad debt allocations.
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Healthcare Finance News
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HIMSS Central
HIMSS Central is the place to learn the latest about the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s initiatives and activities, as well as discover how it connects the clinical and financial worlds to facilitate integration and interoperability.
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The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.
Welcome to HMC! Our Integrated Benchmarks show cost, quality and utilization comparisons by physician, DRG, Service Line, Functional Department, Hospital, and Healthcare System, seamlessly linked for exceptional leverage. Compare individual hospitals and corporate structures to peers as well as use our unique System Analysis to compare hospitals within a system. Rounding out our package is the only quantified hospital Span of Control to streamline your management and an interactive Best Practice Exchange to provide a pathway to improve. All this, with our exceptional customer focus, 20+ years of industry experience, and the lowest cost of ownership.
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IBM
Welcome to the IBM booth! IBM Cognos software helps healthcare providers drive operational efficiencies and reduce costs, improve the quality of care they deliver, and support innovative clinical research.
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What is your solution for Clinical Documentation Improvement?
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LYNX Medical Systems
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Welcome to LYNX Medical Systems. We provide software revenue management solutions to promote accurate and consistent code assignment for appropriate and defensible reimbursement. Our solutions currently help more than 500 hospitals manage more than 21 million outpatient encounters anually. Ask us how we can help your organization.
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SAP BusinessObjects
SAP
Visit this booth to learn how to make better operating decisions,
increase transparency, change business processes,
and drive better overall performance.
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VHA
VHA Inc., based in Irving, Texas, is a national network of not-for-profit health care organizations that work together to drive maximum savings in the supply chain arena, set new levels of clinical performance, and identify and implement best practices to improve operational efficiency and clinical outcomes. Formed in 1977, VHA serves more than 1,400 hospitals and more than 23,000 non-acute care providers nationwide.
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2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition Registration is now open for HIMSS10 on March 1-4, 2010 in Atlanta, Ga.
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About HIMSS Membership Learn about HIMSS' four different membership options and their value.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/membershipHome.asp
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Actionable Steps to Accelerating Your Cash Flow Are you looking for ways to improve processes throughout your financial supply chain? By applying best practices, you can accelerate cash flow, improve days sales outstanding, and make better decisions when extending credit in the first place, thus reducing the risk of bad debt.
Actionable_Steps_to_Accelerating_Your_Cash_Flow.pdf
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Agency Manager Demo Agency Manager Demo
ANI_Agency_Manager_Demo_FINAL.wmv
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Agency Manager Product Information Connance Agency Manager product information
ConnanceAgencyManager_Product_Overview.pdf
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Automating CMS Core Measure Discovery and Analysis How hospitals are improving patient care with new technology that addresses the changing reporting regulations driven by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) agency.
WP3144_A_CMS.pdf
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Benchmarking Hospital Performance: Six Months Under MS-DRGs
jata_benchmark.pdf
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Business Intelligence for The Healthcare Industry This white paper discusses how healthcare specific business intelligence (BI) solutions enable hospitals to make better operating decisions, increase transparency, change business processes, and drive better overall performance.
BI_for_Health_Care_Whitepaper.pdf
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C/Point Product Brief
product_sheet_lynx_cpoint_brief.pdf
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Case Study: Emdeon As a key component of the Emdeon Vision application, BusinessObjects offers a fast, easy to maintain reporting solution that doesn't require the skills of a software engineer.
Emdeon_Bus_Services.pdf
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Case Study: Montefiore Medical Center It took two dramatic changes for Montefiore to take advantage of its clout as one of the nation's largest healthcare institutions: a totally revamped culture for making purchases, and software to provide the data required for the new culture to work.
Montefiore_Medical_Center.pdf
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Case Study: Sisters of Mercy With information distributed across multiple legacy applications, the healthcare provider needed to obtain a standardized, enterprisewide view of data in an accurate and timely manner. It also wanted to drive users toward self-sufficiency. See how they did it.
CS392_A_Sisters_of_Mercy.pdf
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Case Study: Sydney West Area Health Service To fight a constrained healthcare system with increasing demand for services and escalating costs, SWAHS asked Business Objects to help provide a single and scalable business intelligence platform that delivered actionable information to all users across the organization.
SWAHS_FINAL.pdf
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Case Study: Cooper Health See how this health network healed its data aches and pains with SAP software. To enhance performance management in budgeting, reporting, and data security, Cooper automated its manual budgeting and reporting tools, creating dramatic time and cost savings while boosting data reliability.
Cooper_Health_System.pdf
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Case Study: Hudson Valley Hospital Improve Clinical and Financial Communications
Experian_QAS_Hudson_Valley.pdf
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Case Study: SSM Healthcare Leveraging SAP ERP solutions, this healthcare organization has streamlined its financial processes and driven new efficiencies in its supply chain operations.
03_263_SSM_Health_Care_BTS.pdf
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Case Study: University of South Florida Health With a wide array of databases, USF Health needed to rein in its numerous data sources and gain visibility into processes across the organization. See how Business Objects expertise in dashboards, reporting, and analysis made this decision a clear choice for USF Health.
USF_Health_Case_Study.pdf
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Charity Eligibility PARO Presumptive Charity Eligibility Score
ConnancePR_PARO_03.24.09.pdf
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Choosing a Healthcare Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting System Find out how you can implement best practices and leading-edge technology with planning activities in your organization. Learn more about reviewing your planning process, identifying challenges, defining stakeholder requirements and matching your emerging criteria with software features and functions.
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/data/sw-library/cognos/pdfs/whitepapers/wp_choosing_a_healthcare_planning_budgeting_and_forecasting_system.pdf
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Cisco Community for Connected Health Cisco and HIMSS have partnered to establish this users group dedicated to using information to drive better healthcare.
http://www.communityforconnectedhealth.org
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Client Story, Account Tools Connance Account Tools Raising Revenue Cycle Vendor's Cash Yield
ConnanceClientStory_Account_Tools.pdf
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Connance Account Tools Connance Account Tools product information
ConnanceAccountTools_Product_Overview.pdf
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Connance Research Collaborative Size of the Prize
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Contact IBM
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Corporate Overview Connance Corporate Overview
ConnanceCorporateOverview.pdf
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CPHIMS Certification CPHIMS is a professional certification program for healthcare information and management systems professionals.
CPHIMS_Brochure_5_09.pdf
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E/Point Product Brief
product_sheet_lynx_epoint_brief.pdf
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E/Point Product Brief for EPIC Interface EPIC Interface for E/Point
product_sheet_epoint_brief_for_EPIC_interface.pdf
5
Effectively Managing Your Collection Agencies Revenue Cycle Strategist, May 2008
ConnanceArticle_HFMA_Effectively_Managing_Your_Collection_Agencies.pdf
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FAQ Guide FAQ Guide
HFNVCE_FAQ_Oct09.pdf
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Government Health IT Magazine The definitive source for news and information on how government is driving the adoption of information technology in healthcare.
http://www.govhealthit.com/Home.aspx
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Healthcare Financial Analysis Financial analysis of acute care multi-hospital system by service line.
Financial_Analysis.pps
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Healthcare Performance Management in a Weak Economy Learn how Cognos IBM software is helping healthcare organizations save time, reduce costs and make better decisions.
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/data/sw-library/cognos/pdfs/whitepapers/wp_healthcare_pm_in_a_weak_economy.pdf
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HIMSS Corporate Membership Learn more about the benefits of HIMSS Corporate Membership.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/corporateHome.asp
0
HIMSS Davies Awards Nicholas E. Davies Awards of Excellence: Awarding IT, Improving Healthcare
http://www.himss.org/davies
0
HIMSS eLearning Academy Access a wide range of online educational sessions and courses 24/7.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/educationHome.asp
0
HIMSS Financial Edge A monthly e-newsletter that features the latest issues and emerging trends focused on financial systems and related technologies within healthcare delivery.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_FocusDynamic.asp?faid=251
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HIMSS Financial Systems Volunteer Opportunities Join other industry elite and identify and promote the effective use of financial and administrative systems for healthcare practices and facilities.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_afehct_committees.asp?faid=170&tid=35
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HIMSS Financial Systems Web Site This Web site includes tools and resources related to financial services and systems, administrative transactions, related technologies and emerging trends such as medical banking.
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HIMSS Foundation The HIMSS Foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of HIMSS, providing support and assistance to the organization, its members and the industry.
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HIMSS Grants Advantage A subscription service that provides information on identifying funding initiatives and more.
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HIMSS JobMine The health IT industry's career source.
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HIMSS Membership Video Hear how HIMSS impacts its members' professional growth and careers.
https://presentations.inxpo.com/Shows/Himss/11-07/Booths/HIMSSCentral/HIMSS_VP6_768K_HQLEDIT.swf
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HIMSS Middle East Health IT Leadership Summit This event, held Nov. 15-17, 2009 in Muscat, Oman, is a new, executive level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue.
http://himssme.org/summit
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HIMSS Online Buyer's Guide In-depth company and product information.
http://onlinebuyersguide.himss.org
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HIMSS Organizational Affiliate Program An institutional level HIMSS program designed especially for healthcare provider organizations.
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HIMSStv A new and exciting media presence brought to you by HIMSS.
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HMA Research White Paper The Health Management Academy Benchmarking White Paper
white_paper_HMA_benchmarking_study.pdf
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IBM Cognos BI and Performance Management Solutons for Healthcare Learn how healthcare organizations are reducing costs, improving care and making better decisions with IBM Cognos software.
sb_ibm_cognos_solutions_for_healthcare.pdf
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IV Hydration Documentation and Coding Could Be Vulnerable to RAC Audits Part 1 Article from RACmonitor.com
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JATA Survey Fill out our survey and win!
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LYNX Comparison Checklist What makes LYNX revenue management solutions the right choice?
brochure_lynx_comparison_checklist.pdf
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LYNX Revenue Management Solutions LYNX Solutions Overview
brochure_lynx_rms_standalone.pdf
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Microsoft Health Users Group Created to be a healthcare industry forum for exchanging ideas, promoting learning, and sharing solutions for information systems using Microsoft technologies.
http://www.mshug.org
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Myths About Patient Receivables: Setting the Record Straight Revenue Cycle Strategist, March 2009
ConnanceArticle_HFMA_Myths_About_Patient_Receivables.pdf
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Need a Speaker for an Educational Event? Find out about JATA's Speaker's Bureau
JATA_speakers_final.pdf
2
No More Lost Clinic Charges: Using IT for Recovery and Measurement By applying IT at the front end for clinic visits, one healthcare system captured an additional $11 million in charges.
http://www.hfma.org/hfm/2009archives/month09/HFM0909CaseStudy2_FitzHenry.htm
3
Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos Dashboards and Scorecards for Healthcare
909037_health_care_picturing_performance_WP_final.pdf
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Providing Cost Effective Care at Martin's Point Find out how Martin's Point is using IBM Cognos 8 BI to save money and how they transformed a reporting process that took weeks into one that occurs in seconds. Learn how they answer tough questions, identify patients at risk, and monitor vital business statistics throughout the organization.
IMC14300CAEN.pdf
3
RAC Audit: Region D Issues
https://racinfo.healthdatainsights.com/Public/NewIssues.aspx
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RAC Audits: Region A Issues
http://www.dcsrac.com/issues.html
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RAC Audits: Region B Issues
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RAC Audits: Region C Issues
http://www.connollyhealthcare.com/RAC/pages/approved_issues.aspx
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SAP & Business Objects Solutions for Healthcare A look at the major solutions SAP offers to support healthcare providers. Collectively, the solutions form a tightly integrated suite that adds value to every facet of your healthcare organization—and your external value chain.
SAP_Healthcare_Solution_Overview.pdf
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SAP for Healthcare - Solution Portfolio --- Description: Offers healthcare providers of all sizes the ability to better understand their organization, achieve operational excellence and enterprise visibility, and leverage a future-proof IT platform.
FM0708__001_US_Healthcare_electr.pdf
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Solution: Achieving IFRS Compliance Learn how SAP can help ease your company's transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with software that already meets the new requirements – and by delivering that software with the tools, training, and consulting needed to identify risks, threats, and opportunities related to the regulations.
Achieving_IFRS_Compliance.pdf
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Solution: Business Planning and Consolidation in Healthcare Streamline planning, forecasting, budgeting and financial consolidation.
Efficient%20Business%20Planning%20and%20Consolidation%20(US-Letter).pdf
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Solution: BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 View this Flash video to learn about the capabilities of BusinessObjects’ Enterprise XI 3.0 platform.
http://events.businessobjects.com/edm/q408/xi/presentation.html
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Solution: Governance, Risk and Compliance in Healthcare Institutionalize compliance to reduce risk, cut costs, and increase transparency.
GRCforHealthcare_electronic.pdf
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Solution: SAP ERP Financials Overview See how SAP ERP Financials helps you expand your business; gain comprehensive insight; and ensure transparent, compliant accounting and financial reporting.
SAP_ERP_Financials__Enabling_Financial_Excellence.pdf
5
Solutions Journal JATA's bi-monthly publication for clients
MayJune09Solutions.pdf
3
Striking a Balance Between Governance, Risk and Compliance White paper featuring results from a Healthcare IT News survey on risk and compliance in healthcare.
SAP_white_paper_1105a.pdf
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Takin' HIT to the Streets: The ARRA Era These regional conferences offer education designed to help hospitals and health systems identify and qualify for funding opportunities from ARRA.
http://www.himss.org/hitstreet/
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The Power of Performance Management: Success in Healthcare Learn how healthcare providers are using IBM Cognos solutions.
909006_Success_in_healthcare_CS_Bundle_Ltr.pdf
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The Superstar CFO: Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role Read the results of a research study that asked more than 300 senior finance executives about the ideal CFO's responsibilities. This study explores how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
The_Superstar_CFO__Optimizing_an_Increasingly_Complex_Role_.pdf
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Value Based Purchasing Presents Opportunities for CFO's
Final_VBP.pdf
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VHA DataLYNX Surprising something so simple can cause so much confusion.
VHA_DataLYNX_Ad_1.pdf
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VHA DataLYNX brochure Imporve the quality of your supply data
VHA_DataLYNX_Brochure_Final_7.2009.pdf
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VHA PriceLYNX Not knowing if you are paying too much is beyond frustrating.
VHA_PriceLYNX_Ad_-_no_print_lines.pdf
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VHA PriceLYNX brochure Gain visibility into market pricing
VHA_PriceLYNX_Brochure_Final_9.2009.pdf
1
We took contract savings to the top tier $700,000 in cooperative returns; maximizing value across the system.
Hartford_Health_8.2009.pdf
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We turned data into dollars 8 months = $3.2 in savings . . . and counting.
Eastern_Maine_8.2009.pdf
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What Hospitals Can Learn From Banks hfm, September 2008
What_Hospitals_Can_Learn_From_Banks_HFM_Magazine_Sep2008.pdf
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Who we are
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