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Impact Advisors Named to Modern Healthcare’s Largest Revenue Cycle Management Firms List
Firm ranked on list for third consecutive year
CHICAGO, IL – September 19, 2016 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, today announced that it has been selected as one of Modern Healthcare’s Largest Revenue Cycle Management Firms for the third consecutive year. The firm is ranked number 21 on the list.
“We are honored to be named to Modern Healthcare’s Largest Revenue Cycle Management Firms list,” said Scott Pillittere, a Vice President at Impact Advisors. “By aligning people, process and technology, our firm empowers clients with value-driven IT solutions to maximize their healthcare revenue cycle process.”
Modern Healthcare’s Largest Revenue Cycle Management Firms list recognizes the nation’s top revenue cycle management companies ranked by total number of contracts in 2015. The list includes firms that have dedicated practice areas and staff to address the needs of the healthcare revenue cycle process.
Impact Advisors is committed to helping clients achieve revenue cycle excellence. The firm’s experts are certified across all leading vendors and follow Impact Advisors’ best practice revenue cycle methodologies. Impact Advisors’ revenue cycle services are proven to successfully help clients re-think how their revenue cycle performs, build or implement a revenue cycle for the future and mitigate key risks associated with both technology and regulatory changes.
For more information on Impact Advisors, visit impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook facebook.com/impactadvisors.
About Impact Advisors, LLC
Impact Advisors, a distinguished healthcare information technology consulting firm, improves its clients’ healthcare delivery through technology. As a trusted healthcare leader, the firm helps hospitals and health systems maximize clinical and operational performance with its Best in KLAS® strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Since its inception, Impact Advisors has consulted to more than 140 hospitals and health systems nationally and internationally. The firm has earned a number of industry and workplace quality awards including Best in KLAS® for seven consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty and Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit impact-advisors.com.Posted 9.20.2016 -
The Chartis Group Launches Center for Rural Health
Chartis Center for Rural Health will provide services, tools and research tailored to the needs of rural care providers
CHICAGO, IL – September 19, 2016 — The Chartis Group, a national advisory services firm dedicated to healthcare, announced today the formation of the Chartis Center for Rural Health (CCRH). The CCRH will deliver tailored services, performance management solutions, research and education to rural hospitals and facilities that care for more than 60 million Americans. Leveraging a fully dedicated team, the Chartis Center for Rural Health brings together, under one banner, both the tools and extensive research of Chartis’ iVantage Health Analytics – and the leading-edge thought leadership of Chartis’ consulting practices.
“There are over 2000 healthcare providers delivering care to the 62 million people living in rural America. The nation’s rural healthcare providers face a unique set of issues when compared to their urban and suburban counterparts. Against a challenging geographic, demographic and economic backdrop, rural hospitals and critical access centers must deliver high quality cost effective care at the right access points; prepare for and adjust to new reimbursement models; and recruit, retain and align with a continuum of providers to serve their communities. In establishing the Chartis Center for Rural Health, we are asserting our dedication to partner with US rural providers to collectively advance access, quality and efficiency of care as well as exploring new delivery models as the industry and technology continue to evolve,” said Ken Graboys, Co-Founder and CEO of The Chartis Group.
The CCRH will be led by nationally known rural health thought-leader and advocate Michael Topchik. Mr. Topchik has a long-standing career working with rural health providers and networks to advance care through rural-relevant analysis, research and advocacy. He has consulted and led research with rural providers seeking to assess and evaluate Accountable Care Organizations, Coordinated Care Organizations and shared savings opportunities in several statewide efforts. Mr. Topchik has also been instrumental in shaping iVantage Health Analytics’ annual Rural Relevance Study: Vulnerability to Value, which explores the state of rural healthcare in America, a report widely used by health networks, advocacy groups and policy makers.
“If we are to advance healthcare delivery across the country, the needs of rural communities and their providers must be addressed. We are fortunate to be able to pair iVantage’s long history of rural healthcare analysis and research with Chartis’ decades of experience providing thought leadership to the healthcare industry. I look forward to bringing the full capabilities of the Chartis Center for Rural Health to the rural healthcare provider September 19, 2016 Page 2 community,” said Mr. Topchik.
The announcement is made in advance of the National Rural Health Association’s Annual Critical Access Hospital Conference, to be held September 21 in Kansas City, MO, where Thomas Graf, MD, National Director for Population Health Management at The Chartis Group, will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Graf’s keynote — “Delivering and Demonstrating Value in Rural Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Providers” – will review quality and cost in rural communities, discuss the implications of new payment models on rural providers of care, and offer insight for how rural providers can pace the transformation necessary to be successful today and tomorrow.
To learn more about the Chartis Center for Rural Health, visit chartisrural.com.
About The Chartis Group
The Chartis Group (Chartis) is a national advisory services firm dedicated to the healthcare industry. Chartis provides strategic planning, value-based care, advanced performance, and informatics and technology consulting services, and a suite of leading-edge decision support tools to the country’s leading healthcare providers. Chartis has been privileged to work with over two-thirds of the academic medical centers on the US News and World Report “Honor Roll of Best Hospitals,” seven of the 10 largest integrated health systems, four of the five largest not-for-profit health systems, nine of the top 10 children’s hospitals, emerging and leading accountable care organizations, hundreds of community-based health systems, and leading organizations in healthcare services. The firm is comprised of uniquely experienced senior healthcare professionals and consultants who apply a distinctive knowledge of healthcare economics, markets, clinical models and technology to help clients achieve unequaled results. Chartis has offices in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Portland and San Francisco. For more information, visit chartis.com.About iVantage Health Analytics, a subsidiary of The Chartis Group
iVantage Health Analytics (iVantage) is a leading provider of healthcare analytic and performance management analytic tools. Health system and hospital leadership teams across the country rely on the company’s software and services to deliver customized insights on clinical and financial performance, strategic planning, market assessment and payment optimization. iVantage’s analytics are the basis of continuing thought leadership and insight in the areas of healthcare policy and research. In 2015, iVantage was acquired by The Chartis Group, a national advisory services firm dedicated to the healthcare industry. Learn more at iVantageHealth.com.Contact
Amy O’Brien
Principal and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
The Chartis Group
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312.932.3060Terri Sanders
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Report: Physician Burnout on the Rise, Healthcare Leaders Design Roadmap to Restore Joy in Medicine
Authors of report to present recommendations during September 19 webinar
SAN JOSE, CA – September 15, 2016 — Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA) announced today that innovative solutions are within reach to reverse the climbing rates of physician burnout in America, thanks to research by a think tank of leading physicians, including the company’s Chief Medical Officer Bridget Duffy, MD. The findings are detailed in a new report: “Physician Burnout in America: A Roadmap for Restoring Joy and Purpose to Medicine,” which will be featured in an upcoming webcast on Monday, Sept. 19. Register for the complimentary webcast here.
Among the conveners of this discussion and architects of the report are Dr. Duffy; William J. Maples, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Professional Research Consultants, Inc. and Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Excellence; Ronald Paulus, MD, President and CEO of Mission Health; and Tom Cosgrove, Founder of QPatient Insight. These thought leaders converged at The Johnson Foundation Wingspread Center with other industry pioneers in late 2015 to design a roadmap and change the physician burnout paradigm.
“Burnout is a serious problem that negatively impacts physicians as well as patients, families and the entire care team,” Dr. Paulus said. “To identify root cause and design a roadmap for change, we explored the factors contributing to physician burnout at the macro, micro and individual levels. The report outlines a path that begins our journey to restore humanity, joy and resiliency to the practice of medicine. We have made this a top strategic priority at Mission Health.”
The report also cites some startling industry statistics, including the fact that physicians are more likely than the general population to commit suicide. Most physicians experience burnout, and 73 percent would not recommend the profession to their children. At the same time that baby boomers are becoming seniors at the rate of 10,000 per day, the physician workforce is decreasing. Some 30 percent of primary care physicians aged 35-49 expect to leave the medical field, and a shortage of 25,000 surgeons is expected by 2025.
“Physician burnout is often reported and talked about,” Dr. Maples said. “However, until now, real solutions for addressing burnout have proven to be elusive—in part because physicians themselves haven’t been involved in developing or implementing them.”
This important discussion leading to the report included rural, suburban, urban and military health system leaders, primary- and specialty-care providers, and medical education leaders. There were also frontline caregivers, hospital and health system executives, resiliency and neurology experts and healthcare technology entrepreneurs, who all gathered to develop a deeper understanding of this significant problem and collaborate on innovative ways to address it.
After the think tank collaboration, participants embarked on an intensive research effort and in-depth analysis of the findings. The resulting report focuses on the five key areas they identified to reverse physician burnout, and action steps to do so:
- Restore human connections in healthcare with better communication
- Redesign medical training with a curriculum focused on physician-patient relationships
- Engage patients as partners in care and include them in innovation design
- Optimize technology to enhance the patient, physician and care team experience
- Reform healthcare policy and processes in ways that truly support physicians and patients
Within these five areas, the report’s authors offer 16 compelling ideas for enacting sweeping change. They include recommendations such as leveraging technology to support, rather than impede, physician-patient interaction; engaging insurance companies in reducing administrative red tape; and deploying care models that make patients a full partner in their care.
“We must address physician burnout, and we must do it now. It is essential to improving the healthcare experience for all of us – physicians, nurses, patients and families,” said Dr. Duffy, who also leads the Vocera Experience Innovation Network, an international group of thought leaders focused on discovering technologies and solutions that meet the Quadruple Aim of improving population health, elevating patient-centered care, and reducing costs while restoring joy back to the practice of medicine. “Bold leadership is needed to drive an industry-wide cultural transformation and mentor the next generation of physicians so they will embrace these values.”
Later this year, additional healthcare leaders will address nurse burnout in America, a nationwide conversation Vocera will join, and one in which the company’s Chief Nursing Officer Rhonda Collins, MSN, RN, will participate.
About Vocera
Vocera Communications, Inc. offers the most robust clinical communications system in healthcare. Installed in more than 1,300 organizations worldwide, Vocera delivers secure, integrated and intelligent communication solutions that enable care teams to collaborate more efficiently by delivering the right information, to the right person, on the right device, in the right location, at the right time. Vocera solutions provide hands-free voice communication, secure text messaging, patient engagement tools, and integrated clinical workflow with EHRs, nurse call systems and physiological monitors. These solutions help improve operational efficiency, quality of care, safety and satisfaction across the continuum of care. In addition to technology solutions, Vocera drives thought leadership and new standards in care to elevate patient, family, nurse and physician experiences via the company’s research collaborative, the Experience Innovation Network. Vocera is led by President and CEO Brent Lang and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Tennessee, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Robert J. Zollars is the Chairman of the Board. For more information, visit vocera.com and @VoceraComm on Twitter.The Vocera logo is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. Vocera® is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their respective owners.
About Mission Health
Mission Health, based in Asheville, North Carolina, is the state’s sixth-largest health system and was recognized as one of the nation’s Top 15 Health Systems from 2012-2015 by Truven Health Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters, becoming the only health system in North Carolina to achieve this recognition. Mission Health operates six hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery centers, post-acute care provider CarePartners, long-term acute care provider Asheville Specialty Hospital, and the region’s only dedicated Level II trauma center. With approximately 10,700 employees and 2,000 volunteers, Mission Health is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of the people of western North Carolina. For more information, please visit mission-health.org or @MissionHealthNC.About the Institute for Healthcare Excellence
The Institute for Healthcare Excellence is a Professional Research Consultants, Inc. The Institute provides a collaboration of industry experts and thought leaders focused on healthcare improvement solutions to create a culture of excellence. The signature Communication in Healthcare courses provide an effective way for physicians and medical teams to gain trust and establish deep and meaningful connections with patients and their families. It also builds trust among physicians, nurses, and other members of the medical team who deliver quality care. Bridging the trust gap will pave the way to a patient-centered, team-based culture and lead to higher levels of performance, patient satisfaction and loyalty.Media Contacts
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Huntzinger Management Group Announces Acquisition of Next Wave Health Advisors
SCRANTON, PA- September 14, 2016 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Huntzinger Management Group, Inc. (Huntzinger), a leader in healthcare advisory, managed, implementation and supplemental staffing services, announced the acquisition of Next Wave Health Advisors, LLC (the Advisors). Founding Partner Bob Kitts, Chief Executive Officer of Huntzinger, made the announcement.
As part of Huntzinger, the Advisors will assist in providing healthcare advisory and managed services consulting. The Advisors will staff key advisory and managed services engagements with Huntzinger. Additionally, the Advisors will be actively involved in collaborating with Huntzinger leadership to formulate services most needed by and beneficial to the healthcare IT market.
The Advisors are a select group of experts who have helped shape the healthcare IT industry for the past several decades, and includes:- Frank Clark
- Skip Hubbard
- Ed Kopetsky
- Peter Johnson
- Rose Ann Laureto
- Bill Montgomery
- David Muntz
- Sue Schade
- Bill Spooner
- Lynn Vogel
- Jim Wagner
- Eric Yablonka
“Huntzinger is a leader within the Healthcare IT industry. With the addition of the Advisors, Huntzinger has significantly expanded our knowledge base and resources within our advisory and managed service offerings. The Advisors and Huntzinger together provide sustainable strategic solutions for the healthcare IT industry,” stated Tanya Freeman, Huntzinger’s President, Chief Operating Officer, and Founding Partner.
Ivo Nelson, healthcare information pioneer, investor and former Next Wave Health Advisors’ Chairman commented, “Finding the right partner for these preeminent healthcare leaders was our top priority, and Huntzinger is exactly such a partner.” He added, “Now there is a sound home for not only the current Advisors, but for future healthcare IT thought leaders as well.”
About The Huntzinger Management Group, Inc.
Huntzinger provides advisory, managed services, implementation and supplemental staffing services to the healthcare industry. They focus on clinical and operational business performance optimization by ensuring alignment between IT, clinical and ambulatory areas to position their healthcare clients for the future. For more information, visit huntzingergroup.com.About Next Wave Health Advisors, LLC.
The Advisors are preeminent leaders in healthcare information technology. Our team of executives played central roles in forming the modern-day HIT landscape over the past several decades, setting the bar in HIT leadership, management, technology, information security, business intelligence and organizational development. For more information, visit nextwavehealthadvisors.comContact
Huntzinger Management Group
William Reed, EVP & Partner
570.824.4721
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CTG Appoints Vice Presidents to Lead Health Solutions Business
Promotes CTG Healthcare Veterans to Drive Business Growth & Client Delivery
BUFFALO, NY – September 15, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CTG (NASDAQ:CTG), an information technology (IT) services and solutions company, today announced that Angela Rivera and Robert Barras have been appointed Vice Presidents of the company.
Bud Crumlish, CTG’s President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “These appointments reflect Angela and Rob’s strong leadership of our healthcare business in recent years, particularly as we have worked to adapt to the changes in the healthcare environment and market demand for health IT consulting services. With a combined 48 years of healthcare experience, both have been significant contributors to CTG’s past growth, value-based solutions offerings and high customer retention, making them the right choice to lead CTG’s North American healthcare business unit in the future.”
Rivera brings more than 23 years of healthcare experience to her position, including a 16-year tenure at CTG, demonstrating her deep commitment to the company’s clients and fellow team members. In the position of Vice President, she will have executive responsibility for solutions and growth strategy, quality service delivery and management of CTG’s professional consulting base. Over the course of her career, Rivera has established herself as a proven consulting executive and business development leader with significant industry relationships and an extensive knowledge of acute care, ambulatory, and physician practice operations. She previously served as Managing Director of CTG’s West Region. Rivera is a Fellow in the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), is past president of the Southern California HIMSS chapter and remains active in the organization.
Prior to joining CTG, Rivera was West Region account director for Healtheon/WebMD where her focus was sales, account relationship and project management related to hospital system and managed care organization implementations.
Barras is a successful healthcare executive and accomplished sales leader with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He has served in consulting, practice director, account management, and business development roles. As a consistent sales leader at CTG, Barras has successfully negotiated many of CTG’s largest contracts. In his new role as Vice President, he will lead a team of business development partners to continue the organization’s record of sales success by continuing the development of collaborative client relationships, growing CTG’s sales territories, and helping the company’s healthcare clients strategically address their business challenges with innovative IT solutions and services.
He joined CTG in 2009 as the Client Partner and Account Executive for the Northeast Region and more recently served as the Managing Director of CTG’s East Region.
Prior to joining CTG, Barras led a large Lawson consulting practice for IBM/HealthLink. He also successfully served in various business development roles for Lawson and CSC.
About CTG
CTG provides industry-specific IT services and solutions that address the business needs and challenges of clients in high-growth industries in North America and Western Europe. CTG also provides strategic staffing services for major technology companies and large corporations. Backed by 50 years of experience and proprietary methodologies, CTG has a proven track record of reliably delivering high-value, industry-specific staffing services and solutions to its clients. CTG has operations in North America, Western Europe, and India. The Company regularly posts news and other important information online at ctg.com.Drew Miale
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Inside CHIME: The CHCIO Program – Well Worth the Effort
9.15.16 by Tonguc Yaman, CHCIO, CPHIMS
CIO, Advocate Community ProvidersThe CIO Boot Camp prepared Tonguc Yaman to meet the challenges of a new job; a CHCIO designation helped move his name to the top of the pool of candidates.
I attended CHIME’s Healthcare CIO Boot Camp and earned my CHCIO designation last year. Since then, I have received remarkable return on my investment. The combined benefits of these two programs have taken my career to a new level.
Through the contacts I made with CHIME’s CEO, its board members, the seasoned faculty (FCHIME) and the 60+ students who attended the 2015 Boot Camp in Orlando with me, I attained a part-time teaching assistant position in the Master of Public Health program at Columbia University, where I plan to graduate with an MPH in September 2017. Talk about opening doors!
I’ve also been offered speaking engagements since attaining the CHCIO designation. And I recently accepted a new position as the first CIO of Advocate Community Providers (ACP). I’m convinced that the CHCIO designation bolstered me through the selection process and made it possible for me to negotiate a contract with which I am greatly satisfied. I might not have considered the opportunity at all were it not for the Boot Camp.
Fall CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp Class of 2015
Boot Camp: Preparation for new challenges
The Boot Camp’s four days of intense discussion and problem-solving exercises with industry thought leaders inspired me and helped prepare me to meet the challenges of this new career opportunity at ACP.
In particular, group exercises to demonstrate IT’s essential role in value-based care and population health management helped me see that—regardless of new trends coming down the pike—time-honored abilities to build trust, establish honest dialogue and cut quickly to the root of a problem are still the best paths to a solution.
So while the Boot Camp taught me a great deal about new leadership approaches, it also confirmed the relevance of other approaches that I have developed in my 30-year career. In this way, the program has helped me be a better, more confident communicator, motivator and instructor than I ever would be otherwise.
CHCIO designation: Enhanced credibility as a CIO
The Boot Camp also helped me prepare for the CHCIO exam. The study materials were excellent and had direct application to many of the questions on the exam. And because the exam is a test not only of reading-acquired knowledge but also real-world leadership experience as a CIO, the Boot Camp’s problem-solving exercises were invaluable in helping me achieve my CHCIO designation successfully.
I know the designation helped me get the position I wanted at ACP. It showed I was the kind of candidate who was willing to dig deep, to take the time and invest the hard work to achieve something that would help me stand out in my chosen field. CHCIO implies diligence, trust, a strong work ethic—all the things employers look for when hiring. It enhanced my credibility during the hiring process, and how can that hurt in a fiercely competitive industry like ours?
More than an acronym; a life-changer
Frankly, I went into the CHCIO program thinking that the major challenges of my career were behind me. I learned that is definitely not the case. Sure, I’m proud of the fact that, as Deputy Network CIO with NYC Health+ Hospitals, I was part of the Command Center for successful evacuation of Bellevue Hospital during Hurricane Sandy and led IT initiatives to restore hospital service after the disaster. But I no longer view it as the crowning achievement of my career. It’s just one step in a journey that promises many more home runs.
I’ve worked in IT for nearly 30 years, the last 10 of which have been in healthcare. I’m not a newbie. But I have to say that attending the Boot Camp and earning the CHCIO designation are the best things I’ve done for my career.
The next CIO Boot Camp is October 28-21 in Phoenix. Learn more about CHCIO here.
More Inside CHIME Volume 1, No. 26:
- ICYMI: New Board Members Announced– Matthew Weinstock
- This Week’s Washington Debrief (9.12.16)
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Inside CHIME: ICYMI – New Board Members Announced
9.15.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMEThe results are in and three new trustees are ready to join the CHIME board; one new member won a seat on the CHIME Foundation board.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce the election of Cynthia Peterson; Marc Chasin, M.D., CHCIO; and Shafiq Rab, M.D., CHCIO; to its board of trustees.
“We had an incredible slate of candidates this year, resulting in an extremely close election,” said CHIME Board Chair Marc Probst, CHCIO. “As our three newly-elected trustees have demonstrated at their own organizations, CIOs must be strategic partners in improving care across the continuum. The three of them bring a diverse set of experiences that will be valuable as the board continues to fulfill CHIME’s vision statement – Exceptional Leaders Transforming Healthcare.”
The new board members will serve three-year terms starting January 1, 2017.
Cyndi Peterson
Peterson has nearly 30 years of experience spearheading large health IT initiatives. Currently, she is vice president and CIO for the 238-bed Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, CA. Peterson has led the hospital through significant improvements in its health IT systems, including widespread adoption of a computerized provider order entry system. She is extremely active in professional organizations and working to advance the role of the CIO and other IT leaders. She’s helped craft education programming at CHIME as a member of the CIO Fall Forum planning committee. She also serves on the advisory board for the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications and is a member of the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology, both CHIME affiliates. 
Marc Chasin
Chasin is vice president and chief information officer at St. Luke’s Health System. With seven hospitals and 100 clinics, St. Luke’s serves patients in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Throughout his career, Chasin has championed the use of health information technology to improve patient care. Following his residency, he advanced the use of electronic health records and electronic prescribing at clinics and hospitals in New York. Upon arriving at St. Luke’s in 2010, Chasin oversaw implementation of a system-wide EHR and he is an ardent proponent of improving health information exchange. 
Shafiq Rab
Rab, vice president and CIO at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, is passionate about the ability of health IT to transform patient care. He’s led efforts to integrate such mobile health applications as Apple HealthKit with Hackensack’s EHR. The medical center has also launched multiple real-time communication systems, giving patients and clinicians better access to health information. Additionally, Rab is working to advance interoperability across the delivery system; Hackensack is an early adopter of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, a HL7 standard for information exchange. CHIME is also pleased to announce the election of Carina Edwards, senior vice president of customer experience, Imprivata, to the CHIME Foundation board of directors. She will serve a four-year term starting January 1, 2017. 
Carina Edwards
In addition, the current CHIME board of trustees elected officers for the 2018 board: Cletis Earle, vice president and CIO, Kaleida Health, chair; Theresa Meadows, senior vice president and CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, treasurer; and Donna Roach, chief information officer at Via Christi Health-Ascension Information Services, secretary.
More Inside CHIME Volume 1, No. 26:
- The CHCIO Program: Well Worth the Effort– Tonguc Yaman
- This Week’s Washington Debrief (9.12.16)
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Christopher Giuliano Joins The Chartis Group as a Leader of the Revenue Cycle Practice
CHICAGO, IL – September 14, 2016 (PRWEB) — The Chartis Group, a national advisory services firm dedicated to the healthcare industry, is proud to announce the addition of Christopher Giuliano as a Principal in its Revenue Cycle practice. Mr. Giuliano will be part of the firm’s leadership team advising healthcare providers on best-practice revenue cycle improvements including strategic and end-to-end revenue cycle transformation, and multi-disciplinary, programmatic solution development.
Christopher Giuliano is well known in the healthcare industry for his depth of experience in revenue cycle and operations. He has a proven track record leading end-to-end transformation initiatives that deliver multimillion-dollar net revenue improvements. During his 26 years in the industry, he has served as a strategic advisor to more than 100 provider organizations. These organizations include leading academic medical centers, integrated health systems, ambulatory care providers, physician organizations, home infusion therapy providers and home care agencies.
Prior to joining The Chartis Group, Mr. Giuliano redesigned the intake, pricing, billing, collections and cash posting operations for one of the nation’s largest home infusion therapy providers. His advisory experience also consists of revenue cycle integration planning for hospital mergers and acquisitions to accelerate cost-to-collect improvements, and the development of customer-centric patient access programs.
“Having Chris’ leadership and experience at the table will be invaluable for our clients,” says Kevin Ormand, Principal and co-leader of the Revenue Cycle practice at The Chartis Group. “We are in the midst of unprecedented change and complexity in the healthcare industry with an increasing percentage of provider revenues at risk. Revenue cycle transformation is no longer about optimizing the current state; there must be true integration across the organization, operating revenue cycle as more of a business enterprise and leveraging it as an intelligence engine. There is untapped data in the revenue cycle that can fundamentally drive contracting strategies and financial performance.”
“I find Chartis’ distinctive experience and progressive ideas to be key components to helping healthcare providers achieve their potential in the evolving healthcare environment,” says Christopher Giuliano. “I look forward to continue working with clients to achieve optimal revenue cycle models that will meet the increasingly complex and demanding needs of leading healthcare providers.”
Mr. Giuliano holds a Bachelor of Science in computer studies from Pace University and is a Board Certified Fellow in the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Throughout his career, he has been an active speaker on a variety of revenue cycle topics. His industry presentations at Healthcare Financial Management Association and American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management conferences cover such topics as: Improving Your Bottom Line Through Bad Debt Management; Demystifying ICD-10; and Implementation of the Proposed 501(r) Regulations with a Revenue Cycle Perspective.
About The Chartis Group
The Chartis Group (Chartis) is a national advisory services firm dedicated to the healthcare industry. Chartis provides strategic and economic planning, value-based care, advanced performance, and informatics and technology consulting services and decision support tools to the country’s leading healthcare providers. Chartis has been privileged to work with over two-thirds of the academic medical centers on the US News and World Report “Honor Roll of Best Hospitals,” seven of the 10 largest integrated health systems, four of the five largest not-for-profit health systems, nine of the top 10 children’s hospitals, emerging and leading accountable care organizations, hundreds of community-based health systems, and leading organizations in healthcare services. The firm is comprised of uniquely experienced senior healthcare professionals and consultants who apply a distinctive knowledge of healthcare economics, markets, clinical models and technology to help clients achieve unequaled results. Chartis has offices in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Needham, New York, Portland and San Francisco. For more information, visit chartis.com.Contact
Amy O’Brien
Principal and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
The Chartis Group
[email protected]
312.932.3060Terri Sanders
Director of National Marketing
The Chartis Group
[email protected]
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CHIME Announces New Board Members
ANN ARBOR, MI, September 14, 2016 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce the election of Cynthia Peterson; Marc Chasin, M.D., CHCIO; and Shafiq Rab, M.D., CHCIO; to its board of trustees.
“We had an incredible slate of candidates this year, resulting in an extremely close election,” said CHIME Board Chair Marc Probst, CHCIO. “As our three newly-elected trustees have demonstrated at their own organizations, CIOs must be strategic partners in improving care across the continuum. The three of them bring a diverse set of experiences that will be valuable as the board continues to fulfill CHIME’s vision statement – Exceptional Leaders Transforming Healthcare.”
The new board members will serve three-year terms starting January 1, 2017.
- Peterson has nearly 30 years of experience spearheading large health IT initiatives. Currently, she is vice president and CIO for the 238-bed Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, CA. Peterson has led the hospital through significant improvements in its health IT systems, including widespread adoption of a computerized provider order entry system. She is extremely active in professional organizations and working to advance the role of the CIO and other IT leaders. She’s helped craft education programming at CHIME as a member of the CIO Fall Forum planning committee. She also serves on the advisory board for the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications and is a member of the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology, both CHIME affiliates.
- Chasin is vice president and chief information officer at St. Luke’s Health System. With seven hospitals and 100 clinics, St. Luke’s serves patients in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. Throughout his career, Chasin has championed the use of health information technology to improve patient care. Following his residency, he advanced the use of electronics health records and electronic prescribing at clinics and hospitals in New York. Upon arriving at St. Luke’s in 2010, Chasin oversaw implementation of a system-wide EHR and he is an ardent proponent of improving health information exchange.
- Rab, vice president and CIO at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, is passionate about the ability of health IT to transform patient care. He’s led efforts to integrate such mobile health applications as Apple HealthKit with Hackensack’s EHR. The medical center has also launched multiple real-time communication systems, giving patients and clinicians better access to health information. Additionally, Rab is working to advance interoperability across the delivery system; Hackensack is an early adopter of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, a HL7 standard for information exchange.
CHIME is also pleased to announce the election of Carina Edwards, senior vice president of customer experience, Imprivata, to the CHIME Foundation board of directors. She will serve a four-year term starting January 1, 2017.
In addition, the current CHIME board of trustees elected officers for the 2018 board: Cletis Earle, vice president and CIO, Kaleida Health, chair; Theresa Meadows, senior vice president and CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, treasurer; and Donna Roach, chief information officer at Via Christi Health-Ascension Information Services, secretary.
About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,900 CIO members and over 150 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
Contact
Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
734.249.8917
[email protected]Posted 9.14.2016 -
Impact Advisors Named to Consulting Magazine’s Best Small Firms to Work For List
Firm recognized for the seventh consecutive year
CHICAGO, IL – September 13, 2016 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, announced today that it has been ranked number six on Consulting Magazine’s Best Small Firms to Work For list. This is the seventh time Impact Advisors has been recognized on the list.
“Being named to this list for the seventh time is really exciting for our firm,” said Andy Smith, President and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “We run our business based on the principal that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your clients, so we are dedicated to creating an unmatched culture of caring, integrity and teamwork.”
Consulting Magazine’s Best Firms to Work For survey is widely considered to be the most comprehensive, independent source of opinion about the quality of life within the consulting professions’ top firms. Rankings are based on an online survey, ranking firms in six different categories including client engagement, firm culture, firm leadership, career development, work/life balance and compensation and benefits. This is the ninth year the publication has ranked the Best Small Firms. More than 10,000 consultants participated in the survey, representing more than 300 firms.
Impact Advisors adds this honor to a growing list of workplace awards that includes Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare for seven consecutive years and Becker’s Hospital Review’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare for two consecutive years. The firm has been recognized by Consulting Magazine for a number of different awards. Most recently, Chief Executive Officer Peter Smith received honors as one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants of 2016.
For more information on Impact Advisors, visit impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook facebook.com/impactadvisors.
About Impact Advisors, LLC
Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Their comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of their clients’ needs. Their experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting, and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for eight consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit impact-advisors.com.Posted 9.13.2016 -
Medical Center Hospital Supports Growth With Spok Enterprise Communications Suite
SPRINGFIELD, VA – September 13, 2016 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and the global leader in enterprise critical communications, today announced that Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, is effectively supporting the hospital’s growing clinical communications needs by expanding its relationship with Spok’s comprehensive enterprise solution. A Spok customer for more than 20 years, the hospital is building on its Spok Care Connect® suite through a multi-phase rollout to integrate the latest technologies and devices that support efficiency for their clinicians.
Beginning with Spok’s operator console solution, the implementation will continue with secure messaging, paging, on-call scheduling, web directory, andclinical alerting—all integrated to strengthen communications throughout the hospital. The ongoing goal is to simplify workflow communications as the organization grows for better staff efficiency and improved patient care.
“What we needed was an enterprise solution that would meet everyone’s needs, reduce overall cost, and cut down on maintenance redundancy,” said Gary Barnes, senior vice president and chief information officer for Medical Center Hospital.
Medical Center Hospital is a 402-bed teaching facility that serves more than 100,000 patients annually. Hoping to find ways to achieve more effective clinical communications, the team approached Spok for solutions as the organization grew and changed. “We wanted to avoid maintaining numerous systems, such as multiple databases, physician on-call lists, employee contact information, and schedules,” said Barnes. “We achieved our objective with Spok.”
Spok Care Connect® is a fully integrated communications platform that provides a range of solutions designed to seamlessly strengthen a healthcare communications infrastructure. Organizations can build on their existing solutions to meet changing needs.
About Spok
Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), headquartered in Springfield, Va., is proud to be the global leader in critical communications for healthcare, government, public safety, and other industries. They deliver smart, reliable solutions to help protect the health, well-being, and safety of people around the globe. Their customers send over 100 million messages each month through their Spok® solutions, and they rely on Spok for workflow improvement, secure texting, paging services, contact center optimization, and public safety response. When communications matter, Spok delivers. Visit them at spok.com or find them on Twitter @Spoktweets.Spok is a trademark of Spok Holdings, Inc.
Contact
Jill Asby
952.230.5363
[email protected]Posted 9.13.2016 -
Vital Further Streamlines Lung Screening Workflow with Support of Nuance PowerScribe® 360 & PenRad™ PenLung™
Improving Patient Care & Practice Workflow
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – September 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company, is pleased to announce the support of Nuance PowerScribe® 360 Reporting and PenRad™ PenLung™ Lung Screening Management system in its comprehensive Lung Screening solution. The Vitrea® CT Lung Analysis application helps clinicians standardize the diagnosis of lung nodules, while the solution’s workflow system facilitates management of lung screening treatment plans.
Nuance’s PowerScribe 360 is the market-leading speech recognition technology for radiology, providing accurate, flexible and rapid reporting that is consistent and actionable. The high-quality reports generated by PowerScribe 360 can help healthcare organizations improve both patient care and physician satisfaction, and optimize billing and reimbursement.
PenLung by PenRad is a unified software solution that helps radiology departments and imaging facilities manage patients participating in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung screening programs. It collects smoking and environmental risk history through automated web and tablet calculators to manage patient eligibility and export of the lung registry for reimbursement.
“We are excited to announce the support of PowerScribe 360 and PenLung as part of our comprehensive Lung Screening solution offering to healthcare organizations,” says Jim Litterer, President and CEO of Vital. “The integration of these powerful tools with CT Lung Screening can help providers continue to improve patient outcomes by streamlining both workflow and treatment plan management.”
About Vital Images, Inc.
Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group company, is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and enterprise informatics solutions to help healthcare organizations deliver exceptional care while optimizing resources across multi-facility organizations. The company’s solutions are scalable to meet the unique needs of hospitals and imaging centers and are accessible throughout the enterprise anytime, anywhere. For more information, visit www.vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.Vitrea is a trademark of Vital Images, Inc.
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Contact
Aaron Wangen
952.487.9632
[email protected]
www.vitalimages.comPosted 9.12.2016