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Leadership Promotions at Impact Advisors
Paula Elliott to Lead Firm’s Quality Services and Bill Faust to Lead Strategic Implementation Services
CHICAGO, IL – October 30, 2017 – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology and performance improvement services, announced today that it has tapped Paula Elliott, Vice President, to drive the firm’s new Quality Services team.
“One of our hallmarks has always been high quality, and we now intend to double down on this strength, evolving our approach to defining and maintaining quality and how we improve over time,” said Andrew Smith, the firm’s President. He continued, “Paula is an immensely talented leader. She has been invaluable to the growth and success of our firm, and we believe she will excel in this new role.”
Bill Faust, also a Vice President at Impact Advisors, will lead the firm’s Strategic Implementation Services practice. According to Smith, “Bill has a well-established record for building and maintaining strong relationships and is known for instituting rigorous program mechanics and structure, which have helped him bring exceptionally aggressive program timelines to fruition. Over his ten years at Impact, Bill has grown his role to include leadership of some of our biggest projects and clients. He is very highly regarded by vendors and clients alike.”
Elliott has over 30 years of experience in healthcare. She joined Impact Advisors in 2008, having served as Implementation Director in the Cerner practice for a large healthcare consultancy. Prior to that, she worked for multiple IT vendors and spent the first 10 years of her career in hospital finance.
Faust’s 20 years of healthcare IT experience has progressed from working in a call center to training to system design and build and eventually large-scale project/program management. Faust joined Impact Advisors shortly after it was founded in 2007. Prior to that he spent several years at another consultancy and also worked in the vendor space.
For more information on Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook www.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 www.impact-advisors.com.RoseAnn Haedt
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Highlights from CHIME17
If you couldn’t make CHIME17 this year, or if you want a recap of the events that took place in San Antonio, Texas, look no further. Here is a rundown from the forum, with pictures and fun facts.
Monday, Oct. 30
5:30 p.m.: Painting the Town
The Women of CHIME gathered for a Paint and Pour, where they tested their palates (both the tasting kind and the artistic kind) by turning canvasses into colorful cups and cacti while sipping wine. Earlier that day, some women took advantage of a women’s golf clinic with a TPC pro.
7 p.m.: Making Acquaintances
The two-hour reception in the JW Marriott’s sports bar was packed with CHIME members and Foundation firm representatives, giving everyone a chance to reunite with long-time colleagues and meet new ones.
Tuesday, Oct. 31
8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Tee Time to Tea TimeThe Annual Charity Golf Outing kicked off bright and early, starting with a 7 a.m. breakfast and closing with a 1 p.m. lunch. OK, that is not strictly tea time but close enough.
Fun fact: The Golf Outing winners were Mike Celetti, Nathan Danner, John McFarland and Sanjay Purushotham.
Noon-4:30 p.m.: Benefitting Others
Some CHIME members donated professional dress clothes to Dress of Success San Antonio while others participated in the Giving Back event by packing cleaning supplies for the San Antonio Food Bank. The food bank has been helping victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Fun fact: The donated cleaning supplies and baby items CHIME members packed for the San Antonio Food Bank weighed in at 278 pounds.
7-9 p.m.: It Was a Spooktacular Reception
There were plenty of cowboys, some nods to Dr. Seuss and a Darth Vader or two at the Halloween contest and reception. The top prize for a costume went to Cyndi Cahill and Cara Babachicos, as Cyndi Lou and the Grinch.
Fun fact: The entire CHIME staff dressed for the occasion. Mimes, superheroes, animals, damsels, ballplayers … we had it covered.
Wednesday, Nov. 1
Early
The Fun Run for Charity started in the wee hours, followed by two Sunrise Sessions: “CHCIO & CFCHE: A Window into Your Certification Journey” and “Breaking Down the Barriers and Paving the Way.”
6:15 a.m. Running
Fun fact: Members of Girls Inc. attended the Sunrise Session on diversity and then paired up with a CHIME member for part of the day.8 a.m. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Of course, there was a skit. Data blocker Russ Branzell faced off with cyber hacker Albert Oriol, who both proved to be nothing compared to Sheriff Liz Johnson. Let’s just say she took care of these two scoundrels.
8-8:30 a.m.: Well-deserved Recognition
CHIME Chair Liz Johnson announced the winners of the CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award, the Innovator of the Year Award and the Outstanding Service Award. Congratulations to Gary Barnes, CIO at Medical Center Health System (Transformational Leader); Fernado Martinez, chief digital officer at the Texas Hospital Association (Innovator) and Chuck Christian at the Indiana Health information Exchange (Outstanding Service) for these well-deserved honors.
8:30 a.m.: It’s Good for You, SeriouslyHealth psychologist Kelly McGonigal, author of The Upside of Stress and The Willpower Instinct, explained during her keynote address how stress can be channeled to overcome challenges and help CIOs succeed.
Fun fact: This was the first event to be live streamed at a CHIME forum.
10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Staying on Track and Focused
In the morning, CHIME members had their choice of a variety of topics at track sessions designed to enhance their leadership skills and prepare them for the current and future challenges in healthcare. They enjoyed a lunch and participated in Focus Groups in the afternoon.
Fun fact: CIOs who attended Focus Groups donated more than $18,000 in honorarium proceeds to the CHIME Education Foundation.
5:15-6 p.m.: Direct from D.C.
Health and Human Services CIO Beth Killoran gave an overview of efforts by her team to collaborate with CIOs, industry, policy makers and then answered questions posed by CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell. A networking reception immediately followed.
Thursday, Nov. 2
6:15- 7:45 a.m.: Worth Waking Up For
Women of CHIME participated in a Fun Run/ Walk before the Sunrise Sessions, “An Update from Washington.”
8-9:30 a.m.: Congratulations
CHIME Chair Liz Johnson presented the CHIME Collaboration Award to Deborah Gash of Saint Luke’s Health System and HCTec, followed by CHIME Foundation Board Chair Marc Probst, who presented the CHIME Foundation Partner Award to Connection and the CHIME Foundation Industry Award to Dana Sellers, the retired CEO
and co-founder of Encore. In a keynote, Stanford University School of Medicine faculty member Abraham Verghese gave an overview of technology in medicine and its role in maintaining the doctor-patient relationship.10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Another Packed Day
More great Track Sessions, Focus Groups, a networking luncheon and an outdoor luncheon for Women of CHIME, plus a Reverse Focus Group.
Fun fact: More than 270 CIOs attended in-person Focus Groups and Foundation firms held 99 in-person Focus Groups.
6:30-9:45 p.m.: Guitars GaloreA reception and dinner included a fundraising auction of guitars and albums signed by members of 38 Special. Bidding was fierce, as was the 38 Special concert.
Friday, Nov. 3
7:45-8:45 a.m.: A Debut Performance
Leadership from the Edge, a new feature for CHIME’s Fall CIO Forum, made its debut and proved to be a welcome addition. In another first, the three sessions were live streamed and
archived, so members can go back and review them anytime at their leisure.9:15-10:45: A Blockchain Buster Talk
Don Tapscott, co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute and co-author of Blockchain Revolution, explained the security features of blockchain and how it related to healthcare IT.
10:45 a.m.: Raffles and Best Regards
CHIME Chair Liz Johnson and CHIME Executive Vice President and COO Keith Fraidenburg honored Chuck Christian with the 2017 CHIME Public Policy Award before naming the winners of the CHIME and CHIME Tech Coop raffles. Then CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell closed the show with a nod to Top Gun and San Diego, site of the movie’s filming and the host city for the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum. Mark the dates: Oct. 30-Nov. 2.Fun fact: Fundraising events at CHIME17 netted $32,400 for the charity Direct Relief.
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Inside CHIME: Q&A with Chuck Christian, Winner of 2017 Federal Public Policy Award
10.26.17
By Candace Stuart, Director of Communications & Public Relations, CHIMEChuck Christian, a longtime advocate for applying health IT to improve patient care, has been named the winner of CHIME’s 2017 Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership. Christian is vice president of technology and engagement at the Indiana Health Information Exchange, which operates the nation’s largest interorganizational clinical data repository. He currently is the vice chair of CHIME’s Policy Steering Committee (PSC) and served as the PSC chair in 2011, 2013 and 2016. In addition, he was a member of CHIME’s Board of Directors between 2002 and 2004; chaired the CHIME Board of Directors in 2015; and chaired the CHIME Foundation Board of Directors in 2016.
He shares his experiences and goals in a Q&A.
How did you get involved in advocacy and public policy?
Chuck Christian, VP of Technology & Engagement, Indiana Health Information Exchange
When I was on the CHIME Board the first time in 2002 to 2004, we were talking about advocacy and at that point in time it was advocating for the role of the CIO within healthcare organizations because that leadership role was just starting to take shape. But as CHIME looked at what was happening in Washington, it became apparent that there needed to be a more expert voice in those conversations. We hired Sharon (Canner as director of advocacy), and a group of us started working with her. We were the subject matter experts on all things health IT.
What has been the Policy Steering Committee’s focus recently?
We have been working to address several appropriate modifications in the timing of the 2015 Certification criteria requirements and continue discussions around the eQM (electronic quality measure) programs. All those things require a significant amount of work for all healthcare organizations.
Anything we can do that educates the legislators and the regulators and then results in getting better and realistic guidelines and regulations put in place is a win for the industry. It is more about ensuring the people who make the rules understand the impact of those rules and also trying to provide enough correct information and points of view so that the regulations that come out are not just additive.
What are you most proud of?
The thing I am most proud of is that the D.C. staff has created such great relationships with both the Hill staff and the regulator staff. They have created opportunities for the membership to interact at those levels. That is a great service to the members and to the industry as a whole.
What do you see as the biggest policy challenges going into 2018?
The biggest challenge in 2018 is going to be clarity. We lost Secretary (Tom) Price. (Price resigned in late September. Don Wright, a deputy assistant secretary for health and the director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, was named acting secretary. In October, President Trump named Eric Hargan his new acting secretary.) We had gotten into more of a rhythm; it was apparent that this administration is going to have a little less hands-on approach. The thing about it is, because of the relationships that the staff in D.C. has been able to create, is there is a grand opportunity to have more conversations on the topics that impact the HIT industry at the health system/hospital/provider level.
Some of the things we have talked about are: We are measuring all this stuff but not looking at outcomes to the patient. That is where I would like to see more focus and energy. Does it really have any impact on quality? Does it have any impact on safety? Does it have any impact on cost? I don’t know. We haven’t really looked at that. It is one thing to have rules and regulations, but is it really moving the dial to where you need to move it? We need to take a more learned approach about some of the things we are doing.
Interoperability, where I’m focused now, is not one thing, it is many things. How do we leverage that to improve the quality of care and inform the care? I will keep working on that.
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Inside CHIME: New Board Members Poised to Push CHIME to New Heights
10.26.17
By Liz Johnson, MS, FAAN, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, RN-BC, CIO, Acute Care Hospitals & Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet HealthcareEarlier this month, CHIME announced the election results for the Board of Trustees. I want to thank all our CHIME and Foundation firm members who sought to serve on the board and our members who cast their ballots. We had an outstanding roster of candidates for the 2017 openings. Your new board members – Sheree McFarland, John Kravitz and Rusty Yeager – have a wealth of experience working in a variety of healthcare organizations.
Sheree is CIO of the Hospital Corporation of America’s (HCA) West Florida Division. Under her leadership, the West Florida IT team attained the highest patient engagement scores in HCA. John is senior vice president and CIO at Geisinger Health System, which is renowned for its innovative use of EHRs in a market that covers 45 counties in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Rusty is senior vice president and CIO at HealthSouth, and also served as a Medical Service Corps officer specializing in healthcare IT and cybersecurity for the U.S. Air Force. HealthSouth is based in Birmingham, Ala., and is one of the nation’s largest providers of post-acute healthcare services, with facilities in 33 states and Puerto Rico.
They each are committed to CHIME and to advancing our industry. Sheree wants to expand the international footprint of CHIME and the CHIME Foundation, raise our profile among CIOs and healthcare executives and maintain our educational mission. John is passionate about the total well-being of the patient and will bring that passion plus his experience in advocacy and advanced healthcare analytics to help us transform patient care. Rusty has served on numerous boards and will use his experience and expertise to advocate at the federal level for policy that improves cybersecurity and facilitates interoperability.
The CHIME Foundation Board also added a member: Steve Eckert, president of Divurgent, who served as an appointed Foundation Board member this year. He is a veteran executive with decades of leadership experience and will be an asset to the board and to us.
Please join me in welcoming our new CHIME Board members. Their board terms will begin on Jan. 1, 2018. On that date, I will become Foundation Board chair and Cletis Earle, my friend and colleague at Kaleida Health in Western New York state, will be CHIME Board chair.
We have made great strides in 2017 and I expect the momentum to continue into 2018 and beyond. Thank you for being such engaged and supportive colleagues. It has been and will continue to be an honor to represent you.
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Inside CHIME: What You Need to Know for CHIME17, Even If You Can’t Attend
10.26.17
By Candace Stuart, Director of Communications & Public Relations, CHIMEThe CHIME17 Fall CIO Forum will be Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in San Antonio, Texas. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30. The registration desk is located on level two in the conference center area of the JW Marriott.
Pack your cowboy boots, running shoes, Halloween gear and any professional clothes you would like to donate. The CHIME17 dress code is “cowboy casual” and the welcome reception and dinner on Oct. 31 will include a Halloween costume contest. The Fun Run for Charity kicks off at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, with all the registration fees benefiting Direct Relief. Dress for Success (for women) or Career Gear (for men) will accept donations of professional dress clothes that are brought to the forum.
Attendees can use the CHIME17 Event App available from Google Play or the App Store to receive updates and view the agenda, speakers, sessions and more program activities. Free WiFi also will be available in the meeting rooms.
Members who can’t attend will be able to hear and view the keynote addresses on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, which for the first time will be live streamed. The new Leadership from the Edge sessions will also be live streamed. These sessions (but not the keynotes) will be archived as well. Check your email from Wednesday, Oct. 24, for instructions.
There is still time to register, and onsite registration will be available, too. Go here for more about the CHIME17 program and registration.
And in case you missed them, or if you want a recap, here is a list of previous articles related to CHIME17 written by CHIME members and staff:
- CHIME17 Shakes It Up with New Programs and Formats, by Sarah Richardson
- CHIME to Give Proceeds from Fall Forum’s Charitable Events to Hurricane Relief Efforts, by Myra Davis
- ‘Leadership’ Talk Looks at How IT Team Helped Break Cycle of Abuse, by Candace Stuart
- Digital Leader Don Tapscott on Internet’s ‘Second Era’ and HIT, by Candace Stuart
- Women of CHIME Initiative Addresses Gender Disparities in Healthcare IT (news release)
- CHIME17 Forum Focuses on Healthcare IT Challenges, Future Directions (news release)
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Impact Advisors Donates Happy Admission Packs to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Leadership team packaged items for children at Center for Child Protection
CHICAGO, IL – October 17, 2017 – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, has packaged and delivered 125 Happy Admission Packs for children at the Center for Child Protection at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. Members of the Impact Advisors leadership team assembled the packs at a recent leadership retreat in Chicago.
The packs were customized for children of different ages and filled with necessities like combs, hats and toothbrushes, along with fun items like finger lights, books, crayons, fidget spinners and emoji tattoos. The gifts were hand delivered to the Center for Child Protection on Friday, September 29th.
“As a leadership team and as an organization serving the healthcare industry, it is our responsibility to give back to our communities whenever we can.” said Michael Nutter, Vice President and Happyologist at Impact Advisors. “We hope these happy packs offered children a sense of comfort and happiness during their stay.”
“It was an honor to personally deliver these special gifts on behalf of the firm, to our friends at the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital,” said Pete Smith, CEO at Impact Advisors. “We truly value our partnership with Spectrum Health and its commitment to protect the health, safety and welfare of all children.”
Impact Advisors is committed to encouraging and supporting its winners to make a contribution to the social, environmental and economic health of its communities. The firm was recently honored with Consulting Magazine’s Social and Community Investment Award for its employee-motivated volunteer project for patients at the Florida Hospital for Children.
For more information on Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook www.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 www.impact-advisors.com.###
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RoseAnn Haedt
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CHIME Announces New Board Members for 2018
ANN ARBOR, MI, Oct. 17, 2017 –The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce the election of three healthcare IT leaders to its board of trustees. Sheree McFarland, John Kravitz and Rusty Yeager will begin their terms on the CHIME Board of Trustees, starting Jan. 1, 2018.
“The quality of the candidates for this election was outstanding,” said CHIME Board Chair Liz Johnson, CIO of Acute Care Hospitals & Applied Clinical Informatics at Tenet Healthcare Corporation. “We are blessed to have so many highly respected healthcare leaders who are willing to commit their time and expertise to advancing our industry. These three CIOs share a passion for giving back to CHIME and to their communities and thinking broadly about how healthcare IT can improve patient care.”
Sheree McFarland, CHCIO, has more than 28 years of healthcare IT experience, including 21 years with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). In 2005, she became the CIO of HCA’s Palm Harbor, Fla.-based West Florida Division. The West Florida Division includes 16 hospitals, 11 free-standing outpatient surgery centers, two imaging centers, 10 free-standing emergency departments and more than 50 physician practices. She has been a member of CHIME for more than 20 years and is a Fellow and Lifetime Member of CHIME.
John Kravitz, CHCIO, has more than 25 years of healthcare IT experience. He is a senior vice president and CIO at Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., where he is responsible for all areas of IT and all IT strategic planning, operational effectiveness and efficiencies. Geisinger is an integrated health services organization recognized for its innovative use of EHRs and the development of innovative care delivery models. The organization serves more than 3 million residents throughout 45 counties in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and in southern New Jersey.
Rusty Yeager, CHCIO, also has more than 25 years of healthcare IT experience, including more than 16 years of increasing responsibilities at HealthSouth in Birmingham, Ala., where he is a senior vice president and CIO. HealthSouth is one of the nation’s largest providers of post-acute healthcare services in 33 states and Puerto Rico. His IT team supports 125 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 230 home health/hospice locations and more than 34,000 employees. He also served a Medical Services Corps officer specializing in healthcare IT and cybersecurity for the U.S. Air Force. In 2005, he and Motion Computing received a CHIME Collaboration Award honorable mention.
CHIME is also pleased to announce the election of Steve Eckert, president of Divurgent, to the CHIME Foundation Board. He has more than two decades of experience in senior and executive-level leadership positions at multiple industry-leading organizations. He has been an active member of CHIME for more than 10 years and served as an appointed Foundation Board member in 2017. He will begin his term on Jan. 1, 2018.About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,400 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.
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Hyland Launches Newly Combined Suite of Hyland Healthcare Products
Image management and content services offerings support healthcare payers, providers and administrators
CLEVELAND, OH – October 16, 2017 – Hyland, a global leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases, has officially completed the acquisition of the Perceptive business unit of Lexmark International, Inc. Uniting two organizations with industry leading products, Hyland is positioned to deliver unparalleled content and image management solutions to address the clinical, financial and operational needs of healthcare organizations around the world.
The global presence and expertise of Hyland’s dedicated healthcare team has expanded and is complemented by the newly combined suite of Hyland Healthcare products. These flexible, configurable and intuitive solutions will underscore the continued commitment to empowering healthcare organizations by simplifying content and image management for faster, more informed decision-making.
Hyland Healthcare Product Suite
- Hyland Healthcare enterprise imaging solutions help healthcare providers capture, manage, view and share both DICOM and non-DICOM images while providing accessibility, data security, reducing costs and improving the quality of patient care. Enterprise imaging products include:
- PACSgear enables departments to capture, integrate and share images and results to any electronic health record or picture archiving and communication system, supporting health information exchange.
- Acuo by Hyland is a vendor neutral archive (VNA) that stores all imaging content from across the enterprise in a truly independent repository and image-enables EHRs, providing clinicians access to complete patient information while eliminating departmental silos.
- NilRead is an industry-leading web-based, zero-footprint enterprise viewer that provides a universal platform for viewing medical images in any format – anywhere, anytime – across the enterprise and beyond.
- Hyland Healthcare information management offerings provide a framework of technology solutions that enable all content – in any format – to be securely captured, accessed and managed through core systems to drive clinical and administrative processes. Content services solutions include:
- Brainware by Hyland forms a complete document processing system that combines automatic document classification, extraction and validation, as well as archiving and uploading of data into core systems.
- OnBase by Hyland is an industry leading information management platform for managing content, processes and cases deployed on-premises or in the Hyland Cloud.
- ShareBase by Hyland is a cloud-based sharing application that provides a secure, IT-approved platform to easily share information inside and outside organizations.
“Our focus remains on our Hyland healthcare customers. From providing unparalleled support to elevating their experience, we are dedicated to empowering organizations to reach their unlimited potential,” said Susan deCathelineau, vice president, global healthcare sales and services at Hyland. “From enterprise medical imaging to content services, we are drawing from the finest of advanced and established synergies in the industry and will no doubt accelerate our product offerings and global presence as part of our continued commitment to help make healthcare better.”
The addition of the Perceptive healthcare portfolio of products will extend the capabilities of OnBase to provide customers with the best-in-class content services platform for managing imaging and all other types of clinical content across the enterprise.
To learn more about how Hyland empowers healthcare providers to focus on patients, payers to better serve members and administrators to streamline operations, visit Hyland.com/Healthcare.
About Hyland Healthcare
By combining information management and enterprise medical imaging with business process and case management capabilities, Hyland Healthcare delivers a suite of unparalleled content and image management solutions to address the clinical, financial and operational needs of healthcare organizations around the world. Every day, more than 2,000 healthcare organizations use Hyland Healthcare’s world-class solutions to become more agile, efficient and effective. The Hyland Healthcare suite of products – comprised of Acuo by Hyland, PACSgear, NilRead, Brainware by Hyland, OnBase by Hyland and ShareBase by Hyland – are leveraged to complete patient records, eliminate reimbursement delays and enhance business processes. For more information, please visit Hyland.com/Healthcare.
Hyland Healthcare is a part of Hyland, a leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases for organizations across the globe. For over 25 years, Hyland has enabled more than 19,000 organizations to digitalize their workplaces and fundamentally transform their operations. Named one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For® since 2014, Hyland is widely known as both a great company to work for and a great company to do business with. For more information, please visit Hyland.com.
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Lydon Neumann Awarded CFCHE Certification
CHIME Foundation Certified Healthcare Executive Title Recognizes Dedication to Education
CHICAGO, IL – October 16, 2017 – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, is pleased to announce that Lydon Neumann, Vice President, recently became a CHIME Foundation Certified Healthcare Executive (CFCHE). Available for the first time this year by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation, the CFCHE program is exclusively designed for those who have a comprehensive understanding of the healthcare IT environment. Neumann is among the first to be credentialed with this honor and recognized for one of the highest professional achievements in the industry.
“As healthcare leaders, it is incredibly important that we make ongoing education a priority,” said Lydon Neumann, Vice President at Impact Advisors. “Earning this prestigious designation is an honor, and I look forward to more of my fellow industry colleagues from Impact Advisors and other CHIME Foundation members pursing and achieving this status.”
“Healthcare is undergoing a massive transformation,” said CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, CHCIO. “We are shifting to a value-based environment, improving coordination across the continuum and striving to reduce costs. Health IT is critical to achieving these goals. CFCHE shows the level of commitment one has to not only the industry at large, but to CHIME and all whom they work with to bring the highest level of professional excellence.”
To achieve CFCHE status, candidates must have at least three years of experience at a CHIME Foundation member organization or qualifying healthcare organization or have one year at a qualifying organization and maintain their CHCIO status. Additionally, candidates will participate in programs and events that continue their education as an IT leader and pass a rigorous examination. These qualifications ensure that the healthcare executive is truly dedicated to ongoing education, an important characteristic in an industry where patients pay the price for becoming stagnant.
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. Our comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our 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 www.impact-advisors.com.
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RoseAnn Haedt
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Chartwell Agency
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Novarad partners with Texas-based radiology group
Company to provide PACS/RIS software for Radiology Consultants of Texas
WACO, TX – October 13, 2017 – Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with Radiology Consultants of Texas to provide PACS, RIS and TeleRad Software as part of an effort to improve the facility’s imaging capabilities.
“The Radiology Consultants of Texas are great people doing important work,” said Fred Trovato, Executive Director of Worldwide Sales at Novarad. “We feel privileged to partner with their operation.”
Radiology Consultants of Texas opened in 2006. The facility is located adjacent to the Scott & White Medical Center — a 636-bed multi-specialty teaching hospital that is the primary clinical teaching campus of Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Novarad offers PACS, RIS, cardiology, orthopedic, and mammography systems and has more than 1000 installations worldwide. To learn more about Novarad, follow the company on Twitter @NovaradCorp, or visit www.novarad.net.
Kristi Alvarado
Marketing & PR Specialist – Marketing
NOVARAD®
O: 801.642.1001
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Health Catalyst Named One of Utah’s 20 Fastest Growing Companies For Third Year in a Row
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – October 12, 2017 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, was ranked the 17th fastest growing company in Utah by MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN) in the 23rd annual Utah 100 Awards.
Health Catalyst has made the list’s Top 20 every year since first becoming eligible in 2015.
The annual list recognizes the 100 fastest growing Utah companies based on their revenue growth over the previous five years. Health Catalyst sales grew by over 1,700 percent during that time, and the company now employs over 500 people, the majority of them in Utah.
“We are honored to be named among Utah’s fastest growing companies, and we attribute our growth to our customers’ success in using Health Catalyst’s Data Operating System to systemically improve clinical and financial outcomes,” said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. “Enabling this clinical and financial improvement is central to our company’s mission and to the future of healthcare.”
“We congratulate all of this year’s Utah 100 companies for building outstanding businesses and making strong contributions to Utah’s economy,” said Reed Chase, chairman of the MWCN Utah 100 committee. “These companies further advance Utah’s standing as an excellent place to do business.”
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a next-generation data, analytics, and decision-support company committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. We are the leaders in a new era of advanced predictive analytics for population health and value-based care with a suite of machine learning-driven solutions, decades of outcomes-improvement expertise, and an unparalleled ability to integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our proven data warehousing and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 85 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. Health Catalyst’s technology and professional services help to keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes and workplaces, and to optimize their care when it becomes necessary. We are grateful to be recognized by Fortune, Gallup, Glassdoor, Modern Healthcare and a host of others as a “Best Place to Work” in technology and healthcare. Visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
About MountainWest Capital Network
MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN) is the largest business networking organization in Utah, consisting of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, consultants, legal professionals, bankers, and educators. MWCN seeks to promote and recognize business growth and capital development in the state through a variety of award programs and activities.
Media Contact:
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications for Health Catalyst
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Colquitt Regional Medical Center Recognizes Benefits of MEDITECH’s Clinically-Integrated EHR
Rural hospital in Southwest Georgia aims to provide superior quality of care to community with state-of-the-art EHR
WESTWOOD, MA – October 12, 2017 — Across the board, clinicians and leadership at Colquitt Regional Medical Center are realizing care efficiencies and streamlined processes since going LIVE with MEDITECH’s fully-integrated 6.1 Electronic Health Record (EHR) in the Summer of 2016. In addition, Colquitt Regional recently signed for MEDITECH’s Web Ambulatory solution.
“With MEDITECH’s integrated EHR, physicians are treating patients seamlessly across the continuum. Now that we’re implementing Web Ambulatory, we’ll be covering an even larger population of patients in our county and surrounding areas,” Colquitt Regional Chief Information Officer, Bill Bishop said.
Located in Colquitt County in the town of Moultrie, Ga., the 151-bed medical center is known in the community for its dedication to providing exceptional and compassionate patient care to the approximately 15,600 residents in Moultrie and 40,100 in Colquitt County.
“We’ve noticed quicker access to patient information. Our ability to capture data from multiple points of care has greatly improved and in turn has improved the continuity of care,” Chief Nursing Officer at Colquitt Regional, Dena Zinker said.” Our EHR is fully-integrated and information is readily available from other departments—so now clinical staff and patients don’t have to wait, resulting in higher patient satisfaction and more engagement at the patient’s bedside.”
There are multiple benefits to having an integrated EHR, from physicians to nurses to lab to business administration, data flows seamlessly between departments. In one year since go-LIVE, Accounts Receivable (AR) days have dropped from 46 to 41, and are expected to continue to drop. Colquitt Regional staff have also reported time savings for both discharge and admission processes, with the average door to provider wait time being less than 20 minutes. In addition, care providers have reported improved flow of information with safer care transitions.
“We looked at a lot of systems from high-end to lower end, I must admit that MEDITECH has delivered on all the promises they made. When I go back and track all the things that MEDITECH said they would do and what they actually delivered, I can put a checkmark alongside all of them,” President and CEO at Colquitt Regional, Jim Matney said. “Our community of patients greatly benefit from this technology—the biggest patient advantage being the fact that there is one patient record. Patients may be seen in the acute setting and then follow up in the doctor’s office or with home care services.”
Colquitt Regional recently received an “A” Hospital Safety Score from the Leapfrog Group, naming them as one of the safest hospitals in the Nation for the sixth time in a row.
“Colquitt Regional’s commitment to their patients and community is evident in the services they provide and the technology they invest in to deliver the best care possible,” Associate Vice President of Marketing at MEDITECH, Christine Parent said. “MEDITECH is pleased to continue working with Colquitt Regional toward improved patient safety and a higher quality of care for the residents of Colquitt County.”
Learn more about how MEDITECH’s clinically-integrated, state-of-the-art Web EHR is transforming care delivery around the world.
About MEDITECH
Healthcare is long overdue for genuine disruption and innovation. MEDITECH is helping care organizations to reclaim their productivity, coordinate care, and do more for patients with its mobile Web Electronic Health Record (EHR). With 2,400+ customers, across 22 different countries, MEDITECH solutions are empowering users to provide higher quality care, with greater efficiency, to more people, at a lower cost. A leading EHR vendor with over 45 years of experience, MEDITECH is helping care organizations reach their clinical, analytical, and financial goals. For more information on how MEDITECH is transforming healthcare and building the next generation of EHR leaders, go to https://ehr.meditech.com/.Contacts
Paul Berthiaume
Senior Manager, Marketing Communications
MEDITECH
781-774-5742
[email protected]Liz Carroll
Manager, Public Relations and Media Relations
MEDITECH
781-774-3297
[email protected]Posted 10.12.2017
