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Leading Healthcare IT Organizations Partner to Expand Global Impact
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 18, 2016 – The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) today announced a pivotal agreement to jointly partner on all programs and professional communities outside of North America. Through HIMSS-CHIME International, healthcare information technology’s (HIT) two most visible and successful non-profit organizations will work collaboratively and strategically to transform healthcare across the globe.
HIMSS-CHIME International will offer exclusive HIT executive boot camps, leadership academies, certifications and events. Professional credentials will include the CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) and the HIMSS Certified Professional in Health Information Management Systems (CPHIMS). The new partnership reflects a growing recognition that health IT leaders are seeking opportunities to grow their careers, and are eager to share best practices as they strive to improve patient care around the world.
Since 2006, HIMSS has extended its global reach through the growth of its membership, events, media and analytics through the establishment of offices in the UK, Germany and Singapore. The collaboration announced today leverages the full global infrastructure established by HIMSS to support an enhanced offering of HIT executive content through over 30 major physical events, membership communities and digital content distribution channels.
“The establishment of HIMSS-CHIME International demonstrates an absolute commitment by both organizations to engage HIT executives on an unparalleled scale,” said H. Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS. “CHIME’s healthcare executive content perfectly complements the events, communities, analytics and content offerings of HIMSS.”
Russell Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME added: “The establishment of HIMSS-CHIME International stems from our already successful Healthcare CIO Boot Camps and Executive Leadership Academies that we partnered with HIMSS to produce, beginning in 2015. We look forward to reaching a significantly larger audience by working jointly with HIMSS and our international volunteer ambassadors.”
HIMSS-CHIME International will be formally unveiled at the HIMSS World of Health IT event which is expected to be one of the most influential and innovative Pan-European eHealth events, and is taking place in Barcelona on 21st-22nd November 2016.
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 2,000 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.About HIMSS
HIMSS is a global voice, advisor, convener, and thought leader of health transformation through the best use of IT with a unique breadth and depth of expertise and capabilities to improve the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of health and healthcare. Through its network of over 1 million professionals, including 64,000-plus members, HIMSS advises leaders, stakeholders and influencers globally on IT best practices to ensure decision-makers have the right information at the right time to make the right decisions. HIMSS North America, HIMSS Analytics, Personal Connected Health Alliance, HIMSS Media and HIMSS International (HIMSS Europe, HIMSS Asia and HIMSS Middle East) are the five business units of HIMSS. A not-for-profit headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, HIMSS has additional offices in North America, Europe, United Kingdom and Asia.Contact
Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
734.249.8917
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Health Catalyst Care Management Suite Helps Healthcare Organizations Solve the Population Health Puzzle
Innovative new platform provides first end-to-end care management solution for value-based care
SALT LAKE CITY,UT – November 15, 2016 — Health Catalyst® announced today the healthcare industry’s first end-to-end care management and patient engagement solution, and the first to enable discovery of an otherwise invisible subset of patients – those who will benefit most from care management and who can be engaged most effectively to lower the cost of care. By synthesizing advanced analytics with concepts from Customer Relationship Management and social networking, the new Health Catalyst Care Management Suite™ focuses on the most impactable patients and supports the entire care management process to help healthcare organizations improve outcomes and cost.
Government studies show that the sickest 5 percent of patients account for about half of all healthcare spending in the U.S. Identifying and coordinating the care of those patients for value-based care delivery can be extremely complex and difficult to scale as healthcare organizations often have to deploy multiple IT applications from different vendors. Moreover, a hidden subset of patients whose care is most likely to be improved by care management programs remains hidden from today’s applications, which lack the analytic sophistication needed to reveal them.
To solve this problem, Health Catalyst worked with Allina Health in Minneapolis, MultiCare Health System in Washington state, Partners HealthCare in Boston, and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta to develop the Health Catalyst Care Management Suite™, healthcare’s first patient-centric, end-to-end, mobile-first population health solution. More than simple care coordination, the Health Catalyst Care Management Suite™ enables automation and optimization of all five key elements of the care management process: 1) integrating data from diverse IT systems; 2) stratifying and enrolling patients; 3) coordinating patient care across multiple settings; 4) engaging patients in their own care including creating a social support network for the patient, outside the traditional healthcare delivery system; and 5) measuring the program’s performance.
“The fundamental question for population health management today is, ‘How can I identify the right patients and engage them so that the resources invested achieve the greatest improvement in outcomes?’” said Dale Sanders, Executive Vice President of Product Development for Health Catalyst. “We call this concept maximizing your Return on Engagement™, a measure that will be an economic imperative for healthcare organizations who are at financial risk for achieving clinical outcomes and value based care contracts. Achieving optimal care for a population of patients begins with identifying the patient on whom you can have the biggest impact, providing optimal care for that individual patient, then repeating that over and over again for an entire community of patients.”
Sanders continued, “Population and community health starts by optimizing the care for individual patients. That’s what our Care Management Suite™ helps to accomplish. We’ve spent the last decade accumulating and mining an unprecedented breadth and depth of data on over 100 million patients and their treatment and outcomes. Now we are closing the loop from our analytics back to the care management process for individual patients. We built this system from the ground up, to be data driven, leaning heavily on concepts from Silicon Valley.”
A Full-Spectrum Solution for Care Management
To empower the care management process, physicians and care team members need access to data from multiple EMRs and other enterprise IT systems that span the continuum from doctor’s offices, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, payers and patients themselves. Health Catalyst leverages its industry-leading experience in data warehousing to integrate, analyze and make this data available to the right care team members at the right time within the Health Catalyst Care Management Suite™.Powered by the Health Catalyst Analytics Platform, the five applications in the Health Catalyst Care Management Suite™ work in concert to help healthcare organizations manage their highest-risk populations:
- Patient Stratification: Current care management solutions deliver static lists of patients who meet
certain population health criteria, without actionable information on how to treat them. Health Catalyst’s
Patient Impact Predictor™ enables identification of people who may fall anywhere along three levels of
care management but who are most likely to benefit from specific interventions that have worked effectively
in the past for similar patient types. - Patient Intake: Health Catalyst’s Patient Intake tool is built to streamline the process of patient intake and
care team assignment. It delivers an efficient way of consolidating and managing multiple lists,
collaborating with the physician and reaching out to these patients so the real work of delivering care can
be done. - Care Coordination: It is important that the entire care team, along with the patient, and the patient’s family
and friends, can communicate through the care management solution to develop relationships that help
or encourage patient engagement. Health Catalyst’s mobile-first approach enables the care team to go
where the patients are: their homes, physician offices, post-acute and long-term care settings. The
solution supports all members of the care team including social workers, community resources, care
navigators, etc. across multiple EMR systems. - Care Companion: Most patients have experienced the frustration of not knowing their care plan nor how
to become engaged to ensure the plan’s success. Health Catalyst’s patient engagement tools solve this
problem by leveraging smart phones and mobile connectivity. The tools enable secure messaging,
assessments, care planning and the associated activities and education that engage patients in
collaboration with their care team. Family, friends or caregivers can be invited to share in these plans
and communications to ensure patients receive the best care. - Care Team Insights: Evaluating the effectiveness of population health and care management programs pose
a significant challenge for healthcare organizations. But without the ability to assess and adjust these
programs, it is impossible to be accountable for the care of patients. Health Catalyst’s Care Team Insights
tool manages and reports on care management programs using metrics and measures appropriate to
Value Based Contracting. Organizations can determine true Return on Engagement—for example, that $17
in savings on cost utilization is achieved for every $5 spent on complex care program.
Patient Impact Predictor™: A More Detailed Look
Among the most important innovations within the new Health Catalyst Care Management Suite™ is the Patient Impact Predictor™, a unique process and technology that dynamically generates portfolios of patients, prioritized by actionable suggestions for risk intervention.Current care management solutions use claims or EHR data, but rarely both, to stratify patients who meet two criteria: those that are highest cost (with multiple complex conditions); and those posing the highest clinical risk. Sometimes, the patients identified by this approach are high risk but are beyond the ability to intervene and actually change outcomes.
By contrast, the Health Catalyst Patient Impact Predictor™ dynamically generates portfolios of patients, prioritized by actionable suggestions for risk intervention. The solution takes stratification to the next level with advanced client-configurable algorithms and variable weighting that analyze not only claims and EHR data together, but also socio-economic determinants, high-risk medication utilization, acuity of conditions, high-utilization predicted, and HCC scores. This innovative approach uses sophisticated analytics to be able to reveal additional, normally hidden, subsets of patients who might benefit from care management more than some of the traditionally selected high-risk or rising-risk patients.
Explore Care Management Suite in Live Webinar, November 17
For more detailed information, join Dale Sanders and the Health Catalyst product development team for a live Care Management Product Webinar on Thursday, November 17th at 1:00 Eastern. Attendees will view five live demos and participate in a live question and answer session as well. Register for the webinar here.About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing, analytics and outcomes-improvement company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care. Their proven enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 70 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit healthcatalyst.com, and follow them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.Contact
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications
916.346.4213
[email protected]Posted 11.15.2016 - Patient Stratification: Current care management solutions deliver static lists of patients who meet
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Vocera to Present at 28th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference
SAN JOSE, CA – November 15, 2016 —Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that company executives will present to institutional investors at the 28th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 12:30 pm ET in New York. The discussion will be available as a webcast, both live and archived, through the Vocera website at investors.vocera.com. The replay will be available for 90 days following the live broadcast.
Important Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Comments or responses to questions at the conference may contain forward-looking information, including statements regarding projected operating results and anticipated market opportunities for Vocera. This forward-looking information is subject to risks and uncertainties described in Vocera’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and actual results or events may differ materially.About Vocera
Vocera Communications, Inc. offers the most robust clinical communications system in healthcare. 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 physiologic 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, Indiana, 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.
Contacts
Investors and Analysts:
Sue Dooley
Vocera
408.882.5971
[email protected]Media:
Tara Stultz
Amendola Communications
440.225.9595
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Huntzinger Management Group Announces Strategic Partnership with DCCS Consulting, LLC
Partnership offers complete suite of financial, IT & operational services to support high-reliability healthcare
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FormFast to Showcase Latest Technology Enhancing Care Coordination at Product Launch Webinar
Product launch webinar event on November 16, 2016 will highlight FormFast Connect, FormFast’s latest product enabling care navigation & document workflow
ST. LOUIS, MN – November 14, 2016 (PRNewswire) — FormFast®, a leader in document automation technology for hospitals, is hosting a product launch event webinar to showcase the latest addition to the FormFast product Suite, FormFast Connect. FormFast Connect enables personalized care navigation and document workflow solutions, empowering patients and providers across the care continuum to collaborate more effectively. The live webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 16 at 1:00 CT (2:00 ET).
Whether used for pre-admissions or post-care follow-up, FormFast Connect ensures patients review and complete required forms and tasks related to their care. Patients can complete documents and checklists electronically from the convenience of their own homes in preparation for procedures or following treatment.
FormFast Connect equips providers with the real-time structured data they need to deliver better care while helping guide the patient through their care journey. Automated notifications alert healthcare providers if documents and tasks are not completed properly so they can intercede and make sure the patient is following care guidelines.
FormFast Connect can be used to automate pre-care checklists, release of information, intake forms, consents, and other documentation that must be completed before treatment. Post-care solutions include post-care checklists, patient surveys, educational materials, referrals, and more.
Due to integration with multiple EHR platforms, FormFast allows data and documents to be seamlessly transferred between facilities, regardless of what clinical system they are using, contributing to a more connected care community.
Through FormFast Connect, documentation is accelerated, delays are avoided, requirements are met, and users are more engaged and informed.
Contact
Lauren Ziegler
314.677.3765
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KLAS: Health Catalyst Stands Out with Highest Overall Score in Healthcare BI Market
Enterprise data warehouse & analytics innovator “continues to set the bar for performance and partnership” among BI vendors, according to KLAS 2016 Business Intelligence report
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – November 10, 2016 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing and analytics, received the highest overall score and the highest score for “proactive service” among enterprise business intelligence vendors evaluated by the respected research firm, KLAS, in a report published this month, “Enterprise Healthcare BI 2016: Getting Value from BI Tools: A US and Global Perspective.”
The report differentiates 12 enterprise BI vendors based on client reviews, insights and outcomes, and marks the fourth time in three years that Health Catalyst has been recognized as a top performer in the healthcare BI market by KLAS.
“Health Catalyst develops deep partnerships that combine guidance and consulting with strong
training, responsive service, and proactive communication to ensure provider success,” stated the KLAS report. “Providers say that Health Catalyst continues to be a trusted analytics partner, delivering a high quality solution and an unmatched level of partnership. Those using the system say it has helped drive outcomes by helping them better understand the needs of complex patient populations, evaluate the efficacy of treatments, and easily aggregate data from disparate sources.”In addition to its other field-leading scores, Health Catalyst was rated highest among vendors when end-users were asked to forecast their “overall satisfaction” with their BI solution. Health Catalyst also received the highest KLAS Performance Data scores for “quality of phone/web support,” “executive involvement” and “keeps all promises.”
Health Catalyst engenders trust
According to KLAS, Health Catalyst stands out from the BI field not only for its strong product but also for “the trust [the company] fosters with customers and their proactive communication and guidance.” The report states that “almost all providers say Health Catalyst keeps promises, and end-users have a high degree of confidence in the vendor’s ability to continue to lead the market going forward.”Health system confidence in Health Catalyst has been strengthened by the company’s decision, unique among BI vendors, to put large portions of its revenue at risk based on its ability to deliver bottom-line results for clients, according to KLAS.
Trend: Healthcare-specific BI vendors outperform cross-industry vendors
KLAS’ report highlights in particular one key trend in the US market for business intelligence solutions: the increased value delivered to clients by healthcare-specific BI vendors versus large, cross-industry BI platform vendors.“Most large, cross-industry BI platform vendors have consistently failed to deliver the expected value to clients,” according to KLAS. “While cross-industry vendors often have robust functionality, healthcare-specific solutions are still providing the best experience and outcomes for healthcare organizations. Providers say that what sets these more focused vendors apart is proactive partnering with customers to share best practices and ensure success, the delivery of cutting-edge functionality built for a healthcare environment, and a high level of usability that allows less experienced end users to derive value from the system. Customers of cross-industry vendors often report insufficient training to fully leverage the solution, and a lack of hands-on guidance from their vendor.”
Developed by healthcare veterans specifically for healthcare organizations, the Health Catalyst Analytics Platform forms the information foundation for value-based performance at some of the nation’s largest health systems, serving more than 70 million patients overall. As Health Catalyst’s 91 published case studies attest, the company employs a methodology for achieving outcomes that combines analytics, clinical content and organizational structures to help clients create a data-driven culture of improvement.
“We are honored that KLAS’ independent review highlighted our customers’ successes in using our solutions and our methodology to improve outcomes,” said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. “Our fundamental commitment to our customers is that partnering with us will drive measurable financial, operational and clinical outcomes improvements. We are grateful to see third-party validation from KLAS that our collective work with health system customers is producing significant outcomes improvements.”
The report, Enterprise Healthcare BI 2016: Getting Value from BI Tools: A US and Global Perspective, is available at klasresearch.com/klasreports
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. Follow KLAS on Twitter at twitter.com/KLASresearch.About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing, analytics and outcomes-improvement company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care. Their proven enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 70 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit healthcatalyst.com, and follow them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.Media Contact
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications for Health Catalyst
916.346.4213
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Sunquest Information Systems Acquires UNIConnect L.C.
Acquisition expands Sunquest’s solution for molecular pathology laboratories & advances precision medicine initiative
TUCSON, AZ & SALT LAKE CITY, UT – November 10, 2016 – Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. announced today the acquisition of the Salt Lake City-based software firm UNIConnect® L.C. UNIConnect specializes in software for molecular laboratories and augments Sunquest’s molecular diagnostics solution.
“With the acquisition of UNIConnect, Sunquest is now able to deliver an end-to-end solution for molecular and genetic testing,” said Matthew Hawkins, president of Sunquest. “The addition of UNIConnect’s innovative technology aligns with one of our top priorities: delivering precision medicine solutions that advance patient care.”
UNIConnect is a global provider of advanced process management software that helps molecular laboratories meet their most complex clinical challenges. The acquisition of UNIConnect augments Sunquest’s April 1, 2016 purchase of GeneInsight, a genetics informatics solution that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests.
“While working with our mutual customer MedComp Sciences, we realized that the integration of GeneInsight and UNIConnect’s process management software created tremendous workflow efficiencies for molecular pathology laboratories,” said Chris Callahan, general manager of GeneInsight, a Sunquest company. “We look forward to offering other labs our fully integrated solution, which provides a complete molecular and genetics platform that significantly reduces the barrier of entry for labs seeking to offer cutting-edge molecular diagnostic tests.”
The integration of UNIConnect and GeneInsight provides the molecular diagnostics community with a complete molecular and genetics platform that manages workflow from instrument to EMR, including sample management, bioinformatics, analysis and report management. The combination of workflow automation technology and tools for streamlining the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests will help make the promise of precision medicine a practical reality.
“New sequencing technologies have made personal genetic information much more accessible, but the management of such large amounts of information is challenging,” said Jason Walker PhD MT(AAB), lead geneticist/technical supervisor for MedCompGx, LL. “By integrating our UNIConnect platform with GeneInsight, we are able to deploy next-generation sequencing for clinical diagnostics. Patient data and NGS results now move easily and intuitively between the platforms. The fit could not have been better and the integration works beautifully.”
“We are both proud and excited to join Sunquest and extend our contribution in the realms of molecular laboratory automation and process management,” said William S. Harten, UNIConnect founder and CEO. “By working together, we’ll be able deliver a complete automation solution that helps more molecular labs manage their increasingly large and complex workloads and advances the exciting realm of precision medicine.”
About UNIConnect
Based in Salt Lake City, UT, UNIConnect® L.C. has created a LIMS platform that marries breakthrough software technology with unparalleled customization and configuration control to advance the “omic” sciences and precision medicine. With a corporate ideal of “rigorous simplicity,” UNIConnect’s pMDx™ software solution enables complex process tracking, eliminating information management barriers that slow progress for many life science laboratories. For the exacting process detail required for precision medicine, molecular diagnostics, proteomics, clinical trials and more, pMDx delivers best-of-class solutions that empower successful laboratory operations. For more information, see uniconnect.com.About GeneInsight
GeneInsight, a Sunquest company, provides a molecular informatics solution that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests. In constant clinical use since 2005, GeneInsight facilitates delivery of test results to treating clinicians so they can integrate genetics into their routine diagnostic workflows. The hosted solution includes filtration, annotation and storage tools, along with novel variant assessment, variant knowledge management and reporting capabilities. GeneInsight is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunquest Information Systems, a pioneer in laboratory informatics.About Sunquest Information Systems
Sunquest Information Systems Inc. provides diagnostics informatics solutions to more than 1,700 laboratories. Since 1979, Sunquest has helped laboratories and healthcare organizations across the world optimize financial results, enhance efficiency and improve the quality of patient care. The company’s singular focus on diagnostic innovation has delivered solutions that offer unique support for complex testing, enable community-wide connectivity and can be used at the point-of-care. Headquartered in Tucson, AZ with offices in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and India, Sunquest is a global leader in healthcare information technology. For more information, visit sunquestinfo.com.Posted 11.10.2016 -
Inside CHIME: AEHIX16 Focuses on the Role Technology Plays in Transforming Care
11.10.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMEDuring the second annual AEHIX Fall Forum, speakers focused on understanding the ROI for such technologies as telemedicine and cloud computing.
At Orlando Health, a telemedicine program for congestive heart failure patients has successfully reduced readmissions. In Oregon, telemedicine is being used to connect with patients in a remote part of the state and avoid lengthy and costly trips to the hospital. These success stories, and others, were highlighted during the second annual AEHIX Fall Forum in Phoenix last week.
The two-day meeting, which brings together CHIME’s three affiliate groups — the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications, the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology — focused on understanding the ROI for such technologies as telemedicine and cloud computing. Bridget Barnes, CIO at Oregon Health & Sciences University, detailed how OHSU set up a telemedicine outpost in Mitchell, OR, nearly 200 miles southwest of Portland, to provide prenatal care, telepsychiatry and other services. OHSU has also utilized telemed to allow parents to check in with their children’s physicians rather than forcing them to drive long distances for post-op checkups.
“We are truly bringing care to people,” Barnes said.
Sitting on a panel to discuss the merits of cloud computing, John Hamm, director of technology support and CTO, Texas Children’s Hospital; Jim Stalder, chief technology officer, Cook Children’s Health Care System; and Peter Rock, director of technical support services, Kaweah Delta Health Care District; outlined some of the key considerations that IT leaders and executives need to consider before moving forward. A thorough cost-benefit analysis is essential, they said.
“What are your service level agreement expectations,” Rock said. “What’s the status of your information and network security?”
But AEHIX16 was all nuts and bolts. George “Buddy” Hickman, executive vice president and CIO, Albany Medical Center, closed things out by recalling a series of life and leadership lessons he’s learned from mentors and friends throughout his life, including:
- Nurture creativity
- Play to your strengths
- Not all good is rewarded, nor bad punished
- If you are the conductor, your mission is to reach the performers
- Care sincerely
- Speak the other person’s language
- Find your voice
- Stop and redo if you sound like Dilbert’s boss
More Inside CHIME Volume 1, No. 30:
- CHIME16 Speakers Challenge Attendees to Change Their Mindset -Matthew Weinstock
- This Week’s Washington Debrief (11.7.16)
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CHIME16 Fall Forum: Speakers Challenge Attendees to Change Their Mindset
11.10.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMECHIME’s 25th Fall CIO Forum did not disappoint. Attendees were not only treated to a rockin’ show by Foreigner, but also encouraged to find ways to push the envelope and become transformational leaders. Donning a knit cap, t-shirt and jeans, John Jacobs was not your stereotypical closing keynoter at a conference of healthcare executives, yet his inspiring remarks garnered a standing ovation from CHIME16 Fall CIO Forum attendees and reminded us all about the power of positive thinking.
“Little kids have it figured out,” the Life is Good founder said as crayon drawings the company collected from children flashed on giant screens in the ballroom. “They celebrate nature and creativity. They celebrate the presence of family and friends. Kids live their lives open; we focus on skepticism and obstacles.”
Jacobs, who went from selling t-shirts out of the back of a van with his brother to creating a highly-successful apparel company, challenged attendees to reboot their mindset; think “get to” instead of “have to.”
That call for optimism and creative thinking permeated CHIME’s 25th Fall CIO Forum. The meeting kicked off with CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell firing up the crowd with a lip sync performance of Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero.” Board Chair Marc Probst followed up with a special treat of his own — an informal Q&A session with CHIME co-founders John Glaser and Rich Correll, which also included a tribute to all founding members. The three discussed CHIME’s humble beginnings a quarter of a century ago as healthcare CIOs were just beginning to emerge from the back office. They praised CHIME and health IT leaders for pushing the envelope and helping to reshape the nation’s delivery system.
The fall forum’s nearly 900 attendees were treated to keynote addresses and track sessions that not only celebrated CHIME’s history, but encouraged outside-of-the-box thinking. Opening keynote speaker Amy Cuddy, associate professor at Harvard Business School, detailed ways that leaders can tackle challenges with calm confidence and composure. “If you don’t believe in the message you are delivering, no one else will believe it,” she said.
Sandwiched between Cuddy and Jacobs were keynote and plenary sessions on cybersecurity. Despite the ominous subject matter, White House CIO Tony Scott delivered solutions-oriented remarks. He suggested that providers aim to tackle cybersecurity with the same vigor that they’ve approved quality. “Every time there is a breach or an incident, that is a quality issue,” he said. “It is a defect in the design and implementation of an IT system.”
Scott urged attendees to take a look at and comment on the new Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Building. This self-assessment tool, which relies on the National Institute of Science and Technology’s cybersecurity framework, is designed to give healthcare executives a clearer understanding of the effectiveness of their cybersecurity practices.
While entertaining the audience with amusing tales from TV’s hit show Shark Tank, Robert Herjavec told CIOs that they need to start speaking a different language when they talk to the C-suite and board about cybersecurity.
“It is your responsibility to be heard,” said Herjavec, who runs global IT security company. “Present your ideas and detail the risk profile. CEOs want to understand how this affects the core business.”
Of course, the fall forum wasn’t just about big keynote speeches. During track sessions, CHIME members detailed how they are using such initiatives as OpenNotes to advance patient engagement. A star-studded panel talked about ways in which they are navigating changes to their role as CIO. And HealthEast CIO Joanne Sunquist explained how an e-prescribing program for controlled substances has gained traction with clinicians. Members can find a full listing of track sessions and presentations in the CHIME KnowledgeHub.
We also announced winners of a number of awards, honoring members and Foundation firms for their efforts to transform care, all of which can be found here.
And, let’s not forget the highlight of the forum — Foreigner rockin’ the house! It was a fantastic show by one of classic rocks, well, classic bands.
It’s going to be hard to top CHIME16, but we are already thinking about CHIME17. Stay tuned!
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More Inside CHIME Volume 1, No. 30:
- AEHIX16 Focuses on the Role Technology Plays in Transforming Care -Matthew Weinstock
- This Week’s Washington Debrief (11.7.16)
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Industry Leader Ann Mendlowitz Joins Team As VP – EMR Consulting Services
CARBONDALE, CO – November 9, 2016 — Ann Mendlowitz joins Orchestrate Healthcare today as Vice President of EMR Consulting Services. With a robust 20 years as a formative leader in healthcare operational strategy and large-scale Epic and Cerner EMR implementations, Ann will leverage her deep industry knowledge with their client-centered focus serving as a bridge bringing technologists and operational teams together.
Orchestrate’s clients will benefit from her consummate EMR insights as well as her astute identification of specific staff augmentation needs relative to EMR processes. When she’s not client facing, Ann will be aggressively cultivating a skilled team of EMR experts to amplify Orchestrate’s Epic and Cerner expertise. It is with pleasure they welcome her to the Orchestrate Healthcare team!
Ann Mendlowitz – Vice President of EMR Consulting Services
Understanding their clients’ unique environments and their challenges is a keystone to Orchestrate Healthcare’s client-driven focus; and leading this paramount charge is Ann Mendlowitz. Ann utilizes over 20 years of formative healthcare operational strategy and large-scale EMR implementation expertise to provide organizations with innovative and effective solutions that are grounded in a deep knowledge-base.
Industry recognized as an expert in broad-scale national Epic and Cerner EMR implementations for renowned healthcare organizations, Ann parlays this breadth of experience as their Subject Matter Expert for Epic and Cerner solutions. Their clients benefit from her consummate insights in the implementation, optimization and upgrades to their EMRs as she also identifies specific staff augmentation needs they have and correlates the exact Orchestrate Healthcare consultants to meet these precise specifications.
Orchestrate Healthcare’s President, Charlie Cook, shares, “we reached a point within our company’s growth where it was time to elevate to the next level. Ann’s well-earned reputation, embraced by the healthcare community as an Epic and Cerner SME, is a significant game-changing advantage Orchestrate Healthcare will share with our clients in our continued drive for their healthcare IT successes.”
Prior to joining Orchestrate Healthcare, Ann built a superlative Epic Practice at Vitalize Consulting Solutions, implemented Epic in over 300 physician offices for UPMC, and has worked for Innovative Healthcare Solutions, First Choice Professionals, Leidos and Divurgent in various leadership roles.
About Orchestrate Healthcare
Orchestrate Healthcare delivers the outcomes healthcare organizations need. They are a multi-year Best in KLAS awarded healthcare consulting firm specializing in four core competencies: EMR Implementation and Optimization, Integration and Interoperability, Information Security Consulting and Business Intelligence Consulting. Their consultants are seasoned professionals with a broad range of experience. Their commitment to quality and to their customers’ success is second to none. They are known for being nimble, responsive and accessible. Their team of consultants excel at what we do, so your organization can excel at what you do.Posted 11.9.2016 -
Optimum Healthcare IT Receives High Number of Mentions Across all Success Attributes in KLAS Healthcare Consulting 2016 Report
Recognized as Most Mentioned to Help with Implementations
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, FL – November 9, 2016 — Optimum Healthcare IT, a leading healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company, announced that it received a high number of mentions across the five success factor attributes outlined in the KLAS Healthcare Consulting 2016 report. This report provides a summary of Healthcare Consulting Firms who are well positioned to help healthcare organizations with current and future needs. The report states that healthcare organizations most often achieve desired consulting outcomes when third-party firms are proficient, collaborative, trustworthy, strategic, and efficient. Additionally, engagements most often flounder when firms are the opposite: salesy, incompetent, inflexible, over promising, and non-strategic.
In the report, Optimum is frequently mentioned as possessing the attributes that providers find critical for success; especially noted for delivering on time/budget and providing consistent resources. Optimum is the only firm to receive a high number of mentions across all five attributes. Specifically, most mentioned to help with future implementations while receiving no mentions for any of the struggles mentioned above.
Optimum Healthcare IT has the people, the expertise, and the experience to ensure that your EHR is implemented correctly and smoothly.
As the most mentioned consulting firm for Trustworthiness, Optimum keeps their promises and demonstrates integrity. In the report, an Optimum client states “The most critical thing is for firms to have high-quality people who can deliver what the company says they can. So firms shouldn’t oversell their resources.”
“We are pleased that a random sampling of healthcare providers mentioned us as a firm that possesses the most critical attributes of success. For Optimum, being the most mentioned firm for trustworthiness is the most satisfying aspect of this report,” said Jason Mabry, CEO of Optimum Healthcare IT. “This recognition points directly to Optimum’s philosophy of identifying and implementing the best people, processes, and technology to ensure our client’s success, “added Mabry.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research and insights firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by amplifying the provider’s voice. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data and insights on software, services and medical equipment to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. For more information visit klasresearch.comAbout Optimum Healthcare IT
Optimum Healthcare IT is a leading healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Optimum provides world-class consulting services in advisory, implementation, training and activation, Community Connect, analytics, security, and managed services – supporting their client’s needs through the continuum of care. Optimum’s excellence is driven by a leadership team with more than 50 years of experience in providing expert healthcare staffing and consulting solutions to all types of organizations.Visit optimumhit.com or call 1.904.373.0831 to find out how your organization can take advantage of Optimum’s solution offerings.
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Statement on 2016 Election and Continuing Advancement of Health IT Policies
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 9, 2016 – Statement by CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell on the 2016 election:
As the nation moves past a divisive election season, we must continue working together build a better healthcare delivery system. The federal government and providers have invested billions of dollars and countless hours to deploy complex information systems and digitize healthcare. We’ve reached a stage where we are seeing the fruits of that labor; health IT is pushing us toward better, safer, more efficient care.
At the same time, we face some immense challenges. Cybersecurity threats are proliferating and becoming harder to detect. Additionally, we still confront a disjointed infrastructure that limits our ability to adequately exchange patient information.
We look forward to working with the new Congress and administration in a bipartisan way to continue advancing sensible health IT policies.
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 2,000 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 11.9.2016
