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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.
Alan Burcope
Alan Burcope is Vice President of Project Development at HBE Corporation located in St. Louis, MO.
Chip Jackson
Chip Jackson is a Senior Director at Oracle Corporation and is located in Plano, TX.
Suzanne Lestina
Suzanne Lestinais the Director of Revenue Cycle MAP for HFMA. In this role, Suzanne serves as the technical expert and consultant for the MAP product line(s). She works in an advisory capacity regarding the technical aspects of MAP revenue cycle performance improvement by aligning key topics, strategies, and solutions for MAP users.
Suzanne joins HFMA with many years of healthcare experience, including 10 years as a revenue cycle consultant. Prior to her consulting work, Ms. Lestina held revenue cycle leadership roles for two Chicago area hospitals.
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.
Dean Mason and Dexter Shurney
Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH
Assistant Professor School of Medicine
Medical Director Employee Healthcare Plan for Vanderbilt University and Medical Center
Dr. Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPHis the Medical Director for the Employee Health Plan for Vanderbilt University and Medical Center and also holds a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine and Public Health. He has an extensive background in health care management and policy. He has distinguished himself as a leader in his profession in numerous ways. In 2007, he was named to Chair Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s Diabetes Prevention and Health Improvement Board. He also serves as the Executive Director for the National Association of Managed Care Physicians Center on Preventive Health.
Previous positions that Dr. Shurney has held include Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the disease management and wellness company, Healthways. Health Policy Strategist in the department of Global Government Affairs for the biotechnology company Amgen Inc., Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of medical affairs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and editor of the Journal of Managed Care Physicians.
Dr. Shurney serves on numerous boards including: The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the DMAA, and American College of Medical Quality and represents ACMQ as the organization’s Delegate to the American Medical Association.
Dr. Shurney is board-certified in general preventive medicine and public health.
Enrique Balaguer
Prior to joining TransEngen, Enrique was the Executive Director of RealBenefits, Inc and led the RealBenefits program at Community Catalyst. He has extensive experience in the management of large scale re-engineering projects, public budgeting and finance, and has held senior staff positions in state and local governments. At the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, he worked on a broad range of financial and operational issues. These included participating in the structuring of debt transactions, evaluating use of innovative financing approaches as a means of reducing overall borrowing costs, evaluating contracting alternatives for long-term outsourcing of Authority operations, and managing the implementation of treasury management information systems. At the City of Boston Office of Budget Management, Enrique headed the Improving Management Project, a program designed to promote organizational change and operational improvement in City departments. Enrique holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Boston University and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.
Faith Polk
Faith Polk has a diverse professional background having spent more than half of her career in management and leadership roles in various sectors (government, for profit, and nonprofit management experience). She’s currently, employed as the Medicaid Program Administrator for the Detroit Wayne County Health Authority (DWCHA). Faith has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and completed graduate courses in the area of Public Policy and Public Administration. She's active on various nonprofit Boards andis the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions on behalf of her professional and volunteer work.
As Director of Consulting Services for 3M Health Information Systems, Garri Garrison is responsible for overall management of consulting services to support Clinical Documentation Improvement, RAC preparation, Coding Validations, Data Monitoring, Compliance, and ICD-10 transition planning. She oversees development of new service offerings, educational content, and software to help hospitals improve quality outcomes, promote the accuracy of performance reports, achieve appropriate reimbursement and prepare for ICD-10.
Ms. Garrison has worked in health care for more than 30 years, beginning her career as a registered nurse with broad experience in critical care and trauma/emergency room nursing. Previously, she was Vice President for HIOB Consulting, which was acquired by 3M in 1999. Ms. Garrison is a board member of the Association for Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists and a frequent speaker and published author on regulatory issues, quality outcomes and clinical documentation improvement.
John Freedman
John Freedman, MD MBA is Principal at Freedman HealthCare, LLC, and has 18 years' experience in systems management, managed care, health care quality measurement and quality improvement, physician profiling, disease management, pay-for-performance, clinical laboratory development, health economics, and medical informatics. His experience comes from leadership roles at nationally recognized organizations, such as Kaiser Permanente, Tufts Health Plan, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, Focused Medical Analytics, and the Massachusetts Quality and Cost Council. While at Tufts Health Plan, Dr. Freedman helped them climb to a #2 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) ranking with market-leading efforts in MD profiling, pay for performance (P4P), tiered network products, public reporting, disease management and innovative member outreach programs. He received a 2004 Innovator’s Award from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) for the creation of Navigator, a value-based tiered network insurance product.
Steve Beloff
Steve Beloff is currently a Director with The Beloff Group, Framingham Ma. a company that consults with healthcare organizations.
Before starting the The Beloff Group, he served as the President and CEO New Alliance Health Plan an employer owned regional for profit HMO based in Erie Pa.,
Prior to New Alliance, Steve worked as a Director, Managed Care Consulting within the Health Care Regulatory Group of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, working in their Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Boston healthcare practices. Steve led the company’s managed care consulting practice in New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
As Vice President, Managed Care CoreSource, Inc., Baltimore, MD Steve directed the marketing, strategic planning, development, and implementation efforts for CoreSources’ Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems and Primary Care Networks (IHDS).
Steve began his career in managed care as the President and CEO of Health Care Inc., a Physician-owned HMO in North Haven, Connecticut.
Prior to Healthcare Inc., he served as the COO of Emerson Hospital, Concord, Ma.
Steve has a Masters Degree from Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, completed an Administrative Residency at The Beth Israel Hospital, Boston Ma., and earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Bruce Pokerny
Dr. Bruce Pokorney practices gastroenterology and internal medicine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Lori Brocoto
Lori Brocato is the Revenue Cycle Management and RACPro Product Manager for HealthPort. She is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience in the health care technology industry and is accomplished in creating product lifecycle plans and executing product market strategies for leading edge health care Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) applications. Lori frequently serves as HealthPort's resident Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) expert, sharing RAC educational information and best practices with health care facilities via Webinars and media interviews.
Dawn Crump
Dawn is currently the Network Director of Compliance for SSM Health Care St. Louis. She has healthcare experience in Education, Organization Development, Quality Improvement and Corporate Compliance and has been in the healthcare industry for over 15 years. She is a six sigma trained black belt and has been using this holistic, fact based approach to establish the RAC/Audit tracking program for all SSM St. Louis Hospitals. She is on the board of the Greater St. Louis HFMA chapter and serves on Healthports advisory panel for AudaPro. She is responsible for all RAC and other government post payment audit programs for all SSM Health Care acute care facilities in the St. Louis area, Depaul Health Center, St. Joseph Health Center, St. Joseph Health Center West, St. Mary’s Health Center, Cardinal Glennon Childrens Medical Center and St. Clare Health Center.
Lori Donaldson
Lori R. Donaldson is the Chief Financial Officer of the UC San Diego Health System, the region’s only university-based health care system. As a member of the senior leadership team, she is responsible for the development and implementation of the financial strategies, operating and capital budgets, and system of financial reporting and controls that support the overall vision, mission, goals and objectives of the health system.
Ms. Donaldson came to the University in 1990 and served as the Controller of the UC San Diego Medical Center from 1997 to 2009. She has extensive experience in all aspects of financial management including financial accounting, revenue cycle and budget operations, business planning, external financing, capital planning and long-term financial forecasting in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Ms. Donaldson is Vice President of the University Ambulatory Surgery Center LLC, serves on the Board of Directors of UCSD/Sharp Blood and Marrow Transplant LLC and the Advisory Board of UC San Diego Bannister Family House and is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Prior to joining UC San Diego Health System, Ms. Donaldson was an Assistant Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis for a large financial institution.
Marion Manchester
SVP and Division Sales Manager
Treasury Services Healthcare Team
Wells Fargo Bank
Marion has over 25 years of banking experience in Treasury Services. Most recently with Wachovia/Wells Fargo ,she has managed the Treasury Services Healthcare team with clients in both the for profit and not for profits sectors nationwide.
Prior to coming to Wachovia, Marion had similar roles at Fleet Bank including a position leading that Bank’s consulting practice whose clients were predominantly in the Healthcare arena.
She has been published in American Banker, and has spoken at many industry conferences on the use of technology and banking on the Healthcare industry.
Ms Manchester is a graduate of UConn and resides with her family in Connecticut.
Linda Swadener, FACMPE
Linda Swadener, FACMPE, has over 25 years of experience in the medical practice management field. She earned a Master of Science in Health Care Policy and Administration from Mercer University, is a past president of the Georgia MGMA, and served as the Georgia representative for the American College of Medical Practice Executives for 8 years. Linda has presented at Georgia MGMA annual conferences and has been a guest lecturer on marketing and practice management issues in the healthcare curriculum at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also presented at MGMA annual conferences. The presentation on “Patient Self Scheduling” was featured in the 2004 MGMA publication Performance and Practices of Successful Medical Groups. She has contributed 2 articles to MGMA Connexion. “Business Office Basics” was published in the July 2003 issue and “Building Business Partnerships” was published in the October 2007 issue. Her webinar on “Posting Perfect Payments” was hosted by MGMA in April 2009.
Marty Callahan
Marty Callahan is Vice President, General Manager at TransUnion Healthcare Solutions. Mr. Callahan is a senior sales and management executive successful at establishing and executing the vision and strategies required to significantly grow a healthcare data and analytics organization for a $1billion company. He is an expert at creating and capitalizing on networks, industry connections, negotiating and managing strategic partnerships and alliances and recruiting and training sales /delivery teams to significantly increase the company’s footprint, expand market share and generate sustainable revenue and EBIT gains.
Lou Ann Watson
Lou Ann Watson is Manager of Medical Assistance at BayCare Health System in Tampa, FL.
Niklaus Fincher
As the Vice President of Purchased Services Sales and Capital for VHA, Inc., Niklaus Fincher brings more than 30 years of experience as a clinician, RIS/PACS operations/implementation manager, medical equipment planner and consultant to the VHA team. Mr. Fincher is also on the Editorial Board for the Healthcare Purchasing News and Medical Construction & Design publications.
Sarah Charai
Sarah Charai is Manager, Purchased Services and Supplies at Allina Hospitals and Clinics and is located in St. Paul, MN.
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.
Richard Marks
Richard D. Marks is co-founder and president of Patient Command, Inc., an early-stage company developing a health record bank platform and secure personal health record system for the Internet. He practiced telecommunications and computer law in Washington D.C. for over three decades, after service as a Military Intelligence officer. He is also an adjunct lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
John Phelan, PhD
Dr. Phelan is a management and technology consultant with Milliman, Inc. He specializes in business process improvement, technology initiatives, regulatory compliance and managed care. Dr. Phelan works with insurers, the financial sector and health care systems. Dr. Phelan has over over two decades experience as a senior executive and a consulting firm principal. He previously implemented and led a multi-state managed care organization and managed networks with over 300,000 medical care providers. Dr. Phelan’s Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago with Master and Bachelor degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Roger Logan
Roger Logan is a Corporate Vice President at Catholic Healthcare Partners and is located in Cincinnati, OH.
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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2011 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition It’s never too early to start planning for HIMSS11 on Feb. 20-24 in Orlando. The HIMSS11 website features up-to-the-minute details on education; the exhibition, including an exhibit floor plan and exhibitor list; descriptions of networking events; registration and air travel and hotel information.
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5010/ICD-10 Symposium With 5010 conversions scheduled to occur no later than January 1, 2012, this full-day HIMSS11 symposium on Feb. 19 brings together industry leaders (CMS, X12 and others), provider organizations, clearing houses, payers and vendors to propagate best practices for the testing and implementation of 5010.
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A Guide to Revenue Cycle Clinician Integration and Successful Denial Management This on-demand webinar connects clinical authorization and clinical denial management with bottom line value – providing guidance on how to centralize clinical clearance, integrate clinicians into revenue cycle operations, and establish denial recovery processes.
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About HIMSS Learn about HIMSS' mission and vision, board of directors and executive leaders, and history.
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Alameda County Medical Center Case study on use of desktop virtualization to streamline desktop delivery and IT workload
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Bridge from Fee for Service to Episode of Care Bundled Reimbursement Based on the PROMETHEUS Payment® model, the MedAssets Episode of Care Reimbursement solution packages payment around a comprehensive episode of medical care relating to a single illness or condition.
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Compliance Guidelines for Financial Institutions in the Healthcare Sector: HITECH and the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules This whitepaper helps financial institutions evaluate eligibility and build a blueprint for a compliance program, and to identify their potential status as a “covered entity” or a “business associate” under HIPAA and HITECH.
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eLearning Academy Browse through a dynamic selection of courses, sessions, premium packages and videocasts that leverages HIMSS’ nearly 50 years in the health IT and management systems industry and is now available to you online in a 24/7, self-paced format.
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Electronic Transactions Standards: 5010 and ICD-10 Resources Check out over 20 online resources for electronic transaction standards: 5010 and ICD-10.
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G7 Roundtable Series This series brings prominent leaders and pragmatic doers together to design the healthcare financial network of the future with seven stakeholders – banks, providers, health plans, employers, consumers, government and technology firms (including life sciences).
http://www.mbproject.org/g7.php
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G7@HIMSS MBProject Leadership Forum HIMSS Medical Banking Project and the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health have teamed to create an intensive two-day workshop on Oct. 6-7, just for HIMSS members, that will mark the first official G7 Roundtable Series event.
http://www.mbproject.org/Programs-2010LeadershipForum.php
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Hawaii Medical Center A Success Story: When HMC needed certified coders to ensure the accuracy of its records and enhance its billing processes affordably, it turned to Dell.
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Health Reform Readiness Strategy for Medicare Break-even and Margin Improvement
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Healthcare Finance News Free Subscription Healthcare Finance News Free Subscription order form
https://www.b2bmediaportal.com/hfnregister/login.aspx?action=register
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HealthTrust Overview
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HealthTrust Web Site
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High Performance Healthcare at a Major Physician Services Organization Learn how a major physician services organization is using IBM Cognos software to streamline billing, monitor performance across its physician practices, analyze gaps in compensation and provide trusted, timely information across the organization.
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HIMSS Blog HIMSS staff provides daily updates to the blog with their personal insights and analysis.
http://blog.himss.org
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HIMSS Business Edge This complimentary e-newsletter explores today's business-centered trends in healthcare, featuring the stakeholders who are shaping what tomorrow's healthcare financial network will look like.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_FocusDynamic.asp?faid=251
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HIMSS Business Insider This monthly publication gives you the latest news on HIMSS’ activities and initiatives focused on business-centered systems in healthcare.
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HIMSS Facebook Page By liking HIMSS, users can enjoy direct news and event updates to their Facebook Walls, as well as other great features, including event groups, photos, discussions, links and more.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HIMSS/142288373333
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HIMSS Group on LinkedIn By linking up with the HIMSS Linkedin Group, individuals can gain instant access to a growing group of health IT and management systems professionals.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=93115&trk=anet_ug_grppro
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HIMSS Medical Banking Project Learn how the Medical Banking Project helps financial institutions and healthcare organizations to form dynamic, efficient and sustainable partnerships that improve global health using medical banking principles.
http://www.mbproject.org/index.php
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HIMSS Testimony for NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards on Administrative Simplification Through this testimony, HIMSS is discussing the Society’s work in the area of administrative simplification, offering its educational resources and experience to assist HHS as it engages in the critical areas outlined in Section 1104.
http://www.himss.org/content/files/HIMSS_NCVHS_Testimony.pdf
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HIMSS Twitter Account Twitter also creates a new avenue for industry or niche interests to network and connect with each other. People follow the HIMSS' feed for news, discussions and alerts on health IT industry topics.
http://www.twitter.com/himss
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HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo Registration for the HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo on Nov. 3-4, is open. Shaped from 90 proposals from across the globe, the educational program will feature two education tracks that focus on the many aspects and opportunities for achieving meaningful use in different care settings, including community hospitals and clinical practices.
http://www.himssvirtual.org
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HIMSS YouTube Channel Watch educational videos on the health IT industry; interviews with industry experts and members of the HIMSS Board of Directors; conference highlights; and much more
http://www.youtube.com/himss
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Hospital Solutions Integrated Healthcare IT and Business Process Solutions that Achieve Breakthrough Results
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How to Maximize Yield through Patient Access Improvements This on-demand webinar explains how centralizing financial and clinical clearance, standardizing patient access processes, and utilizing innovative technologies such as patient web portals and kiosks within hospital patient access operations maximizes revenue cycle yield, while improving the patient experience.
http://vimeo.com/11909645
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IBM Cognos BI and Performance Management Solutons for Healthcare The need to organize, analyze and assimilate information from numerous and varied sources is a critical requirement in today’s challenging times. IBM Cognos software is enabling care delivery organizations, health plans and healthcare sponsors to turn data into meaningful information that can support clinical process initiatives and improve business operations.
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IBM Cognos Healthcare Provider Planning Performance Blueprint Evaluation Guide The IBM Cognos Healthcare Provider Planning Blueprint accelerates an enterprise level performance management framework that healthcare organizations can use to measure and monitor performance and plan for the future. In addition, it provides service-line directors and financial administrators with planning models that can help them enhance service line performance, optimize business operations and improve profitability.
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/data/sw-library/cognos/pdfs/blueprints/bp_eg_healthcare_provider_planning_perfornance_blueprint.pdf
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IMPAX Cardiovascular Review Station Remote IMPAX Cardiovascular Review Station Remote
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IMPAX Data Center IMPAX Data Center
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JobMine The health IT industry's career source.
http://jobmine.himss.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=5817
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Make iPad work for EHR adoption Transform your iPad into a Follow Me desktop with instant access and high-definition user experience
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Maximizing Yield: Measuring the True Return of Your Hospital’s Revenue Cycle This white paper introduces you to the definition of yield and how Conifer Health Solutions measures yield. In addition, you will learn how revenue cycle operational improvements can dramatically improve your hospital’s bottom line.
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Medical Banking Boot Camp Medical Banking Boot Camp on Feb. 20 provides an executive overview of the key issues in this emerging trend and how organizations can immediately benefit from new “hybrid” tools that impact revenue cycle performance and other areas.
http://himssconference.org/education/medicalbankingbootcamp.aspx
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Medical Banking Institute The HIMSS Medical Banking Project brings this program to HIMSS11 for its second year on Feb. 21-22. Learn how the MBProject drives lower healthcare costs by researching and facilitating cross-industry models that optimize banking resources for healthcare.
http://himssconference.org/education/medicalbankingInstitute.aspx
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Membership Learn about HIMSS' four different membership options and their value: Individual, Organizational Affiliate, Corporate and Affiliate.
http://www.himss.org/ASP/membershipHome.asp
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Microsoft Citrix Desktop Virtualization
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more value. more capability. one partner. Hear from a customer who says why I didn't need one more partner, I really needed one partner that did more. And that's what Emdeon has done for me.
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Navicure At-A-Glance Overview of Navicure's products and solutions
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Navicure Eligibility Overview of Navicure's eligibilty verification tools
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Navicure EOB eProcessing Overview of Navicure's EOB product that converts paper EOBs into an electronic HIPAA-compliant post-able format
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Navicure Medicare Compliance Edits Overview of Navicure's Medicare Compliance Edits, including Medical Necessity (LMRP/NCD/LCD) and National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) Edits
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Navicure Patient Payment Solutions Overview of Navicure's patient payment solutions, including patient statements, online patient payment portal and practice portal
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Navicure's Website
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North Atlanta Primary Care Case Study Learn how North Atlanta Primary Care reduced A/R days from a 41-day average to a 17-day average with cleaner front-end claims submission and better back-end management of rejections
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Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates Case Study Learn how Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates improved its bottom line by reducing administrative costs
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One Partner for Patient Billing & Payment The Advantages of an Integrated, Single Source for All Patient Billing and Payment Solutions
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Online Buyer's Guide Search a convenient and comprehensive guide on health IT products and services.
http://onlinebuyersguide.himss.org
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Optimizing the Healthcare Supply Chain Using planning and BI, organizations see into operations, supplier processes, and costs in order to build an efficient and patient-focused supply chain.
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Patient Responsibility Estimation and Point-of-Service Payments Essential Technology to Accelerate the Revenue Cycle and
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Physician Preference Item Consulting Services For healthcare providers struggling to contain costs in today’s volatile business climate, an important solution to achieve increased efficiencies and reduced expenses may exist at the tip of their physicians’ pens.
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Picturing Performance: IBM Cognos Dashboards and Scorecards for Healthcare Find out how healthcare organizations are using dashboards to increase profitability, improve performance and provide at-a-glance views of key metrics.
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Press Release: Healthcare Providers Increasingly Choose MedAssets' Service Line Analytics to Drive Clinical Supply Expense and Operational Improvements 100+ Hospitals Now Benefiting From Service Line Analytics
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Press Release: MedAssets Addresses Payment Reform with Bundled Reimbursement Solution Integration with PROMETHEUS Payment(R) Model Creates Market Leading Offering
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Press Release: MedAssets and Prodigo Solutions to Improve Efficiency, Contract Compliance in Hospital PurchasingMedAssets and Prodigo Solutions to Improve Efficiency, Contract Compliance in Hospital Purchasing 100+ Hospitals Now Benefiting From Service Line Analytics
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Press Release: MedAssets Teams with e-Builder to Launch Construction Services and Help Hospitals Manage and Control Construction Costs To help hospitals and health systems gain the most value from limited capital budgets in a cost-constrained environment, MedAssets (NASDAQ: MDAS) is teaming with e-Builder to launch the MedAssets Construction Services program. This new program enables hospitals to save money over the life of a construction project by keeping projects on time and under budget, from concept to completion.
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Prevent Denials on the Front End Hear from a customer who uses Emdeon's products and services to Get it right the first time.
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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.
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Reimbursement Strategies: Preparing for Healthcare Reform In order to thrive under healthcare reform, providers must prepare now. The first step is to improve efficiency in existing processes to reduce costs in the delivery of care and to ensure accurate capture of net revenue to improve operating margins. At the same time, healthcare providers need to prepare for new operating models and assess the impact healthcare reform will have on their organization to achieve sustainable financial success.
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Rethink EHR Delivery for Healthcare
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Revenue Cycle Consulting Services MedAssets’ revenue cycle management experts help providers improve revenue recovery and cash flow through comprehensive redesign solutions and services
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Revenue Cycle Management Solutions Piece providing an overview of VHA's revenue cycle management solutions
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Revenue Cycle Overhaul With a deteriorating cash position, Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, WY, recently completed an overhaul of its revenue cycle, dropping its net AR from 90 to 61 days.
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/audio-233839/Revenue-Cycle-Overhaul.html
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Revenue Cycle Solutions Overview Improving the Business of Healthcare with Breakthrough Solutions that Increase Cash Flow
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Revenue Cycle Transformational Services With the recent impact of the financial markets, hospitals are facing new challenges, and it is now even harder to maintain healthy operating margins. MedAssets partners with healthcare providers to improve overall operating margins, increase net revenue and cash flow and reduce overall days in A/R.
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Sharp HealthCare Gets Ahead of the Curve: Performance management with IBM Cognos software Learn how Sharp HealthCare is using analytics to manage operations, understand trends, stay on top of workloads, measure results and improve quality of care.
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Sign up for an Emdeon newsletter today! Emdeon electronically distributes quarterly newsletters that supply providers and payers with healthcare news concerning current events or industry trends.
http://www.emdeon.com/enewsletters/
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Silent PPO Recovery Services Eliminate Silent PPO activity while recovering lost revenues
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SolutionsTrust Case Study Clinical Consulting - Pharmacy
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SolutionsTrust Overview Clinical Consulting
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SourceTrust Case Study Medical Device Sourcing - Orthopedics
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SourceTrust Overview Medical Device Sourcing
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Southern Pines Women's Health Center Case Study Learn how Southern Pines Women’s Health Center saw a substantial decline in AR over 120 days from 32% to 17.2%
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SpendTrust Overview Spend Analytics
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StaffTrust Case Study Staffing Management
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StaffTrust Overview Staffing Management
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Stimulate Adoption of EHR Technology Implement a successful EHR strategy using ARRA incentives
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The Christ Hospital A Success Story: When the Christ Hospital needed long term revenue cycle assistance, it turned to the Dell Services Revenue Cycle Solutions team. With a focus on building long-term, sustainable results, Dell Services focused efforts on developing an Extended Business Office (EBO), bringing in new technology, and focusing on expanding talent.
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The Daily Practice Blog Your prescription for improving practice management
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The power of performance management: Success in healthcare Learn how leading healthcare organizations are reducing costs, increasing care quality and making better decisions with IBM Cognos software.
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/data/sw-library/cognos/pdfs/casestudies/cs_customer_success_in_healthcare.pdf
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Transformation Solutions Current cost trajectories for healthcare are prompting many providers to rethink the way they do business – particularly for the supply chain that represents their second-largest operating expense. MedAssets Transformation Solutions provide a new roadmap – one that leads to breakthrough change in how providers manage and deliver savings across the entire supply chain.
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Transition from Paper to Paperless Five Critical Strategies for Providers to Transition from Paper to Paperless Patient Billing & Payment
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Underpayment Recovery Services MedAssets’ managed care auditors coupled with proprietary state-of-the-art software identify, recover and prevent contractual underpayments
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University of Texas Medical Branch
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VHA PriceLYNX 2.0 Informational piece providing an overview of VHA's supply chain price benchmarking tool
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VHA PriceLYNX Mobile App Informational piece providing details about VHA's supply chain price benchmarking mobile application
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VHA's Capital Asset Services Informational piece providing an overview of VHA's capital asset services and suppliers
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VHA's Document Management Solutions Overview piece outlining the services available through VHA that help with document management
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VHA's Food and Nutrition Services Brochure outlining VHA's food and nutrition services solutions for facilities that self-operate their food services as well as for those that outsource
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VHA's Patient Flow Solutions Informational piece detailing specific areas where VHA and our suppliers can help improve patient flow and improve revenue
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VHA's Portfolio of Purchased Services Suppliers List with descriptions for all of VHA's national, purchased services suppliers
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VHA's Sustainability Services Informational piece providing an overview of the services available through VHA that help hospitals improve sustainability initiatives
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Video: Building a complete revenue cycle Bill Overby, CFO/CIO, Hays Medical Center
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Video: Capturing 200 million dollars in outpatient charges Keith Eggert, VP, Revenue Management, Orlando Health
http://www.medassets.com/Imagery/CustomerNewsletter/video/KeithEggert.wmv
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Video: Increasing monthly cash collections from $8 to $19 million Dee Chaisson, VP, Finance, JPS Health Network
http://www.medassets.com/Imagery/CustomerNewsletter/video/DeeChaisson.wmv
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Video: MedAssets Service Line Analytics
http://www.medassets.com/ResourceCenter/SLAVideo/MedAssets_SLA_Demo.html
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Webinar: 5010 - Opportunity or Chaos? Strategies to Survive the Transition Learn what the 5010 HIPAA electronic standard is, its benefits and strategies to ensure a successful transition
https://navicure.webex.com/navicure/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=53973507&rKey=aa888684027a993f
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Webinar: How to Survive ICD-10-CM Learn how the transition to ICD-10-CM will impact your practice and what you can do to make the move from a system with 14,500 codes to a system with over 69,101 codes as seamless as possible
https://navicure.webex.com/navicure/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=51963517&rKey=81cd18029f8068af
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Webinar: Knowledge is Power - Using Data to Improve Your Revenue Cycle Learn how analyzing data related to your billing process can help you improve the management of your practice
https://navicure.webex.com/navicure/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=51267427&rKey=580b862e5cf16a95
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Webinar: Will You Be A Winner in the New ACO Environment 1. Address the essential services and technology for success in an ACO environment 2. Discuss the advantage provider-owned payors have with the ability to work within their closed-loop frameworks to impact margins and better manage for the future – one that will include ACOs and bundled payments 3. Highlight Medssets’ exclusive approach to running the PROMETHEUS Payment model (based on severity-adjusted/evidence-informed case rates) 4. Learn how to tailor clinical consulting and data analytics for transformation to an effective and sustainable ACO environment 5. Discuss the benefits of aggregating financial and clinical quality data to bring more transparency
http://www.medassets.com/NewsEvents/Ed/RecordedSessions/B2B/ACO_072210_Final.wmv
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White Paper: Cost Savings with Centralized Virtual Desktops
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White Paper: How 5010 Will Enhance Practice Profitability: A Preparation Guide for Physician Practices Learn the steps your organization needs to take in order to prepare for the 5010 transition
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White Paper: Keys to a Successful EHR Implementation: Strategies to Ease the Transition and Maximize Value Learn the steps your organization needs to take in order to successfully implement an EHR system
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White Paper: Partners in Profitability: How to choose the right clearinghouse for your practice Learn the key criteria for choosing a clearinghouse that will bring new efficiencies—and profits—to your practice
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White Paper: Virtualizing Healthcare IT to Increase Productivity, Patient Satisfaction and Compliance
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ES10 - Eight Steps to Optimizing Your Audit Process Eight Steps to Optimizing Your Audit Process (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES11 - Effective Physician - Health System Transactional Due Diligence Effective Physician - Health System Transactional Due Diligence (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES2 - ICD10: A Roadmap for Success ICD10: A Roadmap for Success (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES3 - Transparency Consumerism and the Patient Transparency Consumerism and the Patient Using Pricing Transparency to Empower Your Organization (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES4 - Increased Revenue Cycle Technology Greater ROI Added Jobs The BayCare Health System Story Increased Revenue Cycle Technology Greater ROI Added Jobs The BayCare Health System Story (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES5 - Planning Design and Construction Value Comparison Planning Design and Construction Value Comparison - A Hospital Management Tool for Success (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES6 - Are Your Physicians Ready for Reform? Are Your Physicians Ready for Reform? (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES7 - Leveraging Interactive Analytics for Improving Healthcare Management Efficiency Leveraging Interactive Analytics for Improving Healthcare Management Efficiency (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES8 - Managing the Medicaid and Charity Care Patient Population Managing the Medicaid and Charity Care Patient Population (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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ES9 - Reducing costs and generating new revenue through purchased services Reducing costs and generating new revenue through purchased services (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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Healthcare Finance News VCE - CPHIMS tracking form Healthcare Finance News VCE - CPHIMS tracking form
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K1 - Healthcare 2010 Revisited - and the Top Trends of 2011 Healthcare 2010 Revisited - and the Top Trends of 2011 (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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K2 - UC San Diego Health System: Transforming Healthcare Delivery While Maintaining Financial Excellence UC San Diego Health System: Transforming Healthcare Delivery While Maintaining Financial Excellence (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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MB1 - Health Information Security and Privacy Under ARRA Health Information Security and Privacy Under ARRA - Thinking about Providers’ and Banks’ Compliance Relationships in A New World of Enhanced Responsibility (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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MB2 - Designing the Healthcare Financial Network of the Future Designing the Healthcare Financial Network of the Future (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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MB3 - Advancing Towards the Health Wealth Paradigm Advancing Towards the Health Wealth Paradigm (this session is worth 1.2 CPHIMS credit hours)
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September 2010 Healthcare Finance News Show Guide September 2010 Healthcare Finance News Show Guide
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Sharp HealthCare gets ahead of the curve Sharp HealthCare gets ahead of the curve
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