• Scottsdale Institute Business Analytics Summit Offers Analytics Strategies for Health Systems

    Ten healthcare analytics executives share challenges and opportunities for success

    MINNEAPOLIS, MN & CHICAGO, IL – November 30, 2017 – U.S. health systems are “data rich and yet information poor,” according to a recent Scottsdale Institute (SI) Business Analytics Summit. SI convened data, analytics and information executives from across the country for the 2017 SI Business Analytics Fall Summit in Chicago on October 4-5, 2017. Attendees—representing large academic medical centers, multi-regional health systems, rural hospitals and clinics—gathered to share strategies, concerns, insights and lessons learned on the journey towards an “analytics utopia” with specific focus on the governance, staffing and management of data and analytics in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

    Examples of successes and challenges from the discussions held at the SI Business Analytics Fall Summit are outlined in the report “Constructing an Analytics Strategy,” which explores how analytics are deployed and leveraged by participants’ organizations to deliver value. The report provides insight about the importance of providing meaningful, timely, and accurate data for users, and leveraging tools to make data insight readily available for better clinical and business decisions. A copy of the report is available for free download at www.scottsdaleinstitute.org and at www.impact-advisors.com.

    “Healthcare delivery systems are increasingly data-driven as they invest in business strategies around value-based care and population health,” says Janet Guptill, Executive Director of the Scottsdale Institute. “However, leading health systems are finding they’re awash in data and need to share best practices on how to make sense of it to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. By bringing together leading health-data executives from across the country to share innovations in data management and enterprise analytics governance, SI continues its mission of supporting our members and the industry on the journey to value-based care.”

    The SI Business Analytics Fall Summit was hosted by Scottsdale Institute, a not-for-profit membership organization of health systems advanced in IT and supported by Impact Advisors, a healthcare IT consultancy. The participants included:

    • Stephen Ameen, IT Director of Revenue Cycle Systems – Houston Methodist
    • Rick Howard, VP, Data & Insights, & Chief Data Officer – Ascension Information Services
    • Ben Isenhour, Regional Chief Information Officer/ VP of Advanced Analytics and Architecture – Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems
    • Brett MacLaren, VP, Enterprise Analytics – Sharp HealthCare
    • Julia Swanson, VP, Performance Analytics & Improvement – Henry Ford Health System
    • Yohan Vetteth, Chief Analytics Officer – Stanford Health Care
    • Michael Wall, PharmD, Chief Analytics Officer – University of Chicago Medicine
    • Glenn Wasson, PhD, Administrator of Analytics and Performance Measurement – University of Virginia
    • Christine Watts, (Former) Chief Enterprise Architect – University of Chicago Medicine
    • Kerri Webster, (Former) Director Information Technology – Centura Health

    “Many health systems have developed successful methods of gathering data and are now focused on finding the best ways to deploy and leverage that data to deliver value for their organizations,” said Todd Hollowell, CIO at Impact Advisors. “We are confident that the strategies and insight this group identified will be useful for all data, analytics and information executives facing similar challenges.”

    About Scottsdale Institute

    The Scottsdale Institute (SI) is a not-for-profit membership organization of leading healthcare systems whose goal is to support its members on their journey to clinical integration, innovation, and transformation through information technology. SI facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration among senior executives and their teams across the enterprise. We provide intimate and informal forums that accomplish this goal through collaboration, education & networking. For more information, visit www.scottsdaleinstitute.org.

    About Impact Advisors

    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. Its comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Its 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.

    Posted 11.30.2017

  • Pivot Point Consulting Announces Laura Kreofsky as New Vice President, Advisory Services

    NASHVILLE, TN – November 29, 2017 – Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company is pleased to announce the addition of Laura Kreofsky as the firm’s new Vice President, Advisory Services. In her role, Kreofsky will work with clients to ensure they obtain value and results from their most complex projects and programs.

    Kreofsky brings a wealth of expertise to Pivot Point Consulting’s Advisory Practice. Over the past 25 years she has planned and led advanced IT initiatives in the private and public sectors, at organizations including Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Healthcare, the Wisconsin Department of Health and MediClinic, South Africa. She also brings insight into emerging technologies and industry trends, having managed Impact Advisors’ research team, as well as client programs for population health and telemedicine.

    “The Pivot Point advisory team is incredibly talented and experienced in health IT, and I am excited to be a part of it,” Kreofsky said. “I look forward to working with my colleagues and our clients to ensure technology investments are thoughtfully planned, deployed and optimized throughout their lifecycles.”

    Managing Partner Rachel Marano was confident Kreofsky’s experience would quickly benefit clients. “Laura has a deep understanding about the complexities surrounding hospital and health system IT initiatives, and her expertise will provide clients with a thorough picture of and plan for the future,” she said. “Her commitment to clients mirrors our own customer focus, and I could not be happier that she is now part of Pivot Point.”

    About Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company
    Pivot Point Consulting is a healthcare IT consulting leader specializing in technology and strategic advisory services, EHR implementation, training, optimization, legacy support and project management. The firm has 250 consultants, 50 internal employees and serves over 50 clients across the nation. Clients range from large multi-hospital networks to academic institutions, pediatric hospitals, and local community clinics. The company has earned many industry and workplace quality awards including: highest rated vendor in KLAS Implementation Services Select Category (July 2017 report), #1 in KLAS for Epic Consulting in the Select Category in 2016, and #9 in Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in 2016. For more information about Pivot Point Consulting, visit http://www.pivotpointconsulting.com. Follow us on Twitter @pivotpc.

    Ellie Andonian
    Marketing Specialist
    Cell: 253-232-5513
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.29.2017

  • GetWellNetwork Expands Patient Education Library with Top-Rated Elsevier Videos

    PHILADELPHIA, PA and BETHESDA, MD – November 29, 2017 – GetWellNetwork®, Inc., the Precision Engagement™ health care company, has added Elsevier educational videos to its library of health education content, currently the largest in the Interactive Patient Care™ industry. The joint announcement was made at the Next Generation Patient Experience (NGPX) Conference (Nov. 28-30 in San Diego, Calif). GetWellNetwork will distribute Elsevier videos to health care providers and their patients through its cross-continuum engagement platform, which educates and empowers patients across all care settings.

    Hospitals today supply patient education through printed materials, primarily, even though research shows that visual information is more likely to be understood and remembered. In a recent Elsevier survey, a majority of respondents from health systems indicated they plan to broaden their patient engagement offerings to include video in the next 12 months. Better educated patients drive better doctor-patient communication and reduced readmissions.

    “Patients benefit daily from the educational content delivered through GetWellNetwork, becoming more active participants in their health care – both in the care setting and at home,” said Michael O’Neil, Founder and CEO of GetWellNetwork. “Enhancing our library with Elsevier’s empowering videos, which are the gold standard in evidence-based content, will further extend the patient experience and improve outcomes.”

    Elsevier is an information analytics business specializing in science and health. Elsevier’s Patient Engagement Solutions include a corpus of actionable, multimedia information and tools tailored for patients and their family caregivers. It has a library of more than 1,000 short, engaging and powerful videos. GetWellNetwork will offer these educational videos through The Patient’s Platform™, a comprehensive suite of patient engagement solutions, clinician tools and success strategies.

    GetWellNetwork provides patients with relevant information on nearly every service line, diagnosis and procedure. Its collaboration with Elsevier makes it easier for health systems to take advantage of best-in-class patient education and delivery systems that engage patients and support providers. Patient-provided feedback through GetWellNetwork solutions will inform Elsevier on ordering habits, video consumption and patient ratings, enabling both organizations to continually enhance their offerings and create more personalized patient and family experiences.

    “Combining our evidence-based video content with GetWellNetwork’s first-class Patient Platform will be a great benefit to healthcare providers and especially their patients,” said Dr. John Danaher, President of Clinical Solutions, Elsevier. “We’re looking forward to working with GetWellNetwork to enhance patient engagement and support providers.”

    Deploying Elsevier videos through GetWellNetwork ensures high levels of utilization and a positive patient experience, and makes it possible to deliver greater standardization with clinical content. GetWellNetwork will distribute Elsevier content beginning immediately.

    About GetWellNetwork

    GetWellNetwork®, Inc. is the Precision Engagement™ health care company. Our solutions engage patients and families, empower clinicians and deliver outcomes that matter. From inpatient to outpatient, to physician practices and urgent care clinics, to patients on-the-go, GetWellNetwork offers the only cross-continuum platform that performs across every care setting.

    About Elsevier

    Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, more than 35,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professionals and business customers across industries. www.elsevier.com

    Media Contacts

    Marcia Rhodes
    Amendola Communications for GetWellNetwork, Inc.
    [email protected] / 602.793.1561
    GetWellNetwork, Inc.
    7700 Old Georgetown Road, 4th Floor
    Bethesda, MD  20814-2500
    877.633.8496

    Christopher Capot
    Global Communications, Elsevier
    +1 917 704 5174
    [email protected]

     

    Posted 11.29.2017

  • Telmediq First Clinical Communication Platform to Adopt Face ID for iPhone X

    Seattle, WA – November 28, 2017 – Telmediq, the leading provider of unified clinical communications, today announced the integration of new Face ID technology for enhanced security for the new iPhone X.

    Face ID provides secure authentication enabled by the TrueDepth camera system of the iPhone X, which uses face geometry and attention to unlock the iPhone and provides the highest level of iPhone authentication security. In addition to Face ID integration, the latest Telmediq release includes full-screen display.

    “We are excited to be the first mobile healthcare communications solution to take advantage of Face ID as an even more secure way to authenticate our users,” notes Ben Moore, Telmediq CEO. “Clinicians using the latest iPhone X will be able to streamline their clinical encounters and expedite communication workflow with one less step in the authentication process.”

    In the healthcare environment, the touch-less Face ID authentication can help streamline real-time documentation and communication, without the delays associated with repeatedly entering passcodes or removing gloves to activate Touch ID. For emergent situations, the time savings can be significant.

    “Physicians today are spending almost half their day on EHR and desk work, with repeated authentication prompts wasting valuable time. Enabling Face ID makes it easier to spend more time with patients,” notes Moore. “Providing convenience and speed while maintaining HIPAA compliance in a secure texting and communications platform is one of our main goals”

    For clinicians who have upgraded to the iPhone X, Telmediq will prompt to adopt system-level preferences for Face ID support.

    About Telmediq

    Telmediq is a leader in healthcare communications solutions for large hospital systems and acute care facilities. Telmediq provides a unified clinical communication platform that integrates over 40 clinical systems (EHR, scheduling, lab, nurse call) and helps match technology with the way people work. Telmediq provides an integration and consolidation roadmap to reduce software and support costs, improve workflows and provide a single source for analytics, auditing and reporting.  Our clients reduce wait times, improve patient handover times and reduce costs while improving patient satisfaction and safety.

    For additional information about Telmediq, visit Telmediq.com | Follow us @Telmediq | Connect on LinkedIn

    Media Contacts:
    Gabrielle Eagles
    Marketing Manager
    Telmediq
    [email protected]
    206.960.4202

     

    Posted 11.28.2017

  • Vital Images® Showcases Powerful Enterprise Imaging Solution at RSNA 2017

    Introducing enhancements to advanced visualization, image sharing, and prescriptive analytics solutions

    MINNETONKA, MN – November. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vital Images will showcase enhancements to its powerful enterprise imaging solutions at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago, November 26 – December 1 in booth #7323.  Built on an over 25-year pioneering legacy in the imaging industry, Vital continues to expand on three product lines that make up its Vitrea® Enterprise Imaging portfolio: Vitrea Vision, Vitrea Connection, and Vitrea Intelligence.

    “We encourage RSNA visitors to work with our team of experts to build a simplified enterprise imaging strategy that can help to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and improve clinical outcomes for your organization and patients,” says Vice President of Marketing, Mike LaChance.

    This year at RSNA, Vital is highlighting key enhancements to their comprehensive enterprise imaging portfolio including advanced visualization, image sharing, and financial analytics solutions.

    The newest version of Vitrea Advanced Visualization delivers a cohesive user interface across all modalities and all deployments. With its intuitive design and superior applications, Vitrea software facilitates improved clinical workflows across all departments. In addition, many new application specific enhancements have been added to the solution.

    The Vitrea Connection line is showcasing an image sharing solution that automates the labor-intensive and error-prone manual processes of getting outside images, stored on physical media or within another PACS, VNA or image sharing system, into your primary clinical systems and workflows.

    The Vitrea Intelligence line is featuring Opportunity Navigator, a prescriptive financial analytics solution that presents users with a menu of available financial “opportunities” and continuously directs users toward specific actions to increase revenues or avoid costs. With Opportunity Navigator’s powerful recommendation engine, users will always have actionable information at their fingertips to achieve their financial objectives and organizational goals.

    “Vital is driven to innovate because we know that people and data are always in motion,” explains President and CEO, Jim Litterer. “We believe that relevant data must be readily available for interpretation. We bring clarity and context to information so that clinicians stay connected to the evolving patient story.”

    About Vital Images
    Vital Images, Inc., a Canon 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 and anywhere. For more information, visit www.vitalimages.com, or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.

    Vital Images and Vitrea are registered trademarks of Vital Images, Inc. in the US and may have protection in other countries.

    For more information contact:
    Diane Hunt
    Director, Marketing
    Vital Images
    952.487.9866
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.22.2017

  • Evanston Regional Hospital Chooses Novarad PACS/RIS

    Medical software company signs Southwest Wyoming medical center

    EVANSTON, WY – November 21, 2017 – Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with Evanston Regional Hospital of Evanston, Wyo. to install its PACS and RIS software.

    “Novarad looks forward to a successful partnership with Evanston Regional Hospital, and we are proud to support the hospital’s mission to be a place of healing, caring, and connection,” Fred Trovato, Global Senior Vice President of Sales at Novarad said.

    Evanston Regional Hospital is a 42-bed facility with complete inpatient and outpatient care. The facility provides patients with diagnostic and therapeutic services, including medical and surgical services, emergency care and a sleep lab. The hospital recently received national recognition from The Chartis Center for Rural Health and the National Organization of State Office of Rural Health (NOSORH) for overall excellence in quality.

    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.

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    Founded by a radiologist over 20 years ago, Novarad has demonstrated Best in KLAS expertise in the three phases of enterprise imaging—viewing, workflow, and storage—which allows it to customize meaningful enterprise imaging solutions to fit the unique needs of each healthcare professional. Providing both easily deployed modular products and fully customizable enterprise imaging solutions, the company has installed over 1000 systems globally with KLAS-confirmed, market-leading retention rates. The company is best known for product functionality and constant development; its products have a reputation for being easy to learn and use, yet feature-rich for even the most advanced users. Visit Novarad.net to learn more.

    Media Contact:

    Kristi Alvarado, Media Relations Contact at Novarad | 801.642.1001 | [email protected]

    Posted 11.21.2017

  • CHIME Sharpens Focus on Patient Identification Mission, Encourages Stakeholders to Join in Solution

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Nov. 15, 2017 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced today that after nearly two years of work and a great deal of deliberation, CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust has decided to suspend the National Patient ID Challenge. CHIME remains committed, however, to finding a national solution that accurately identifies a patient 100 percent of the time, and will continue to make it a top priority.

    “We firmly believe that accurate patient identification is fundamental to patient care today and that innovation will lead to better, more affordable, more accessible and more equitable care,” said Russell Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME. “Though we’ve made great progress and moved the industry forward in many ways through the Challenge, we ultimately did not achieve the results we sought to this complex problem. We decided the best course for addressing this patient safety hazard is to redirect our attention and resources to another strategy.”

    CHIME will assist in developing a Patient Identification Task Force through CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust, the CHIME affiliate that sponsored the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge. CHIME played an integral part in activating the conversation about the importance of a national patient identification solution and is well positioned to bring together health IT leaders from the provider community and industry as well as policy makers and others to build a multisector task force.

    CHIME commends the Challenge innovators for their commitment to improving healthcare and is encouraging them to participate on the task force.

    “We will continue to lead, but we cannot do this alone,” Branzell said, noting that Washington has signaled a possible easing of restrictions on supporting a national patient identification solution. Still, these actions are not sufficient to meet CHIME’s goals. “We need industry and government to join us with the same level of passion and commitment that our members show in their positions as CIOs and senior health IT executives.”

    This is the final update on the CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust National Patient Identification Challenge.

    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.

    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2017

  • Banner Health Selects Health Catalyst Data Operating System to Support Outcomes Improvement Across Six States

    Analytics platform to deliver real-time insights for improvement

    SALT LAKE CITY, UT and PHOENIX, AZ –  November 15, 2017 – Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, announced a multi-year agreement with Banner Health to implement the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) across the health system’s enterprise, in conjunction with outcomes’ improvement professional services.

    Regarded and recognized as a top health system in the country for the clinical quality consistently provided to patients in its hospitals, nonprofit Banner Health operates 28 hospitals, including three academic medical centers and other related health entities and services across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.

    Health Catalyst’s DOS platform will simplify the sharing, analysis and availability of information from multiple Banner data systems in an effort to improve health and achieve clinical and financial quality targets. A staff of Health Catalyst improvement specialists will work onsite with Banner’s physicians, administrators and quality teams to leverage the DOS platform, which includes a vast suite of products and analytic accelerators, optimized with artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing to enhance the health system’s high-performance improvement program.

    “As Banner continues to pursue the delivery of value-based care while eliminating unnecessary variation across our health system, we believe Health Catalyst’s innovative capabilities will better enable us to make proactive, data-driven decisions for the populations we serve,” said Ryan Smith, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for Banner Health.

    Working with Banner’s existing IT systems, DOS will serve as an important platform for the health system’s analytical backbone, with the ability to integrate and analyze critical data from over 200 of the most popular data sources, including third-party electronic health records (EHRs), data warehouses, claims processing systems, financial systems, wearables, genomics, and socio-economic indices.

    “We are extremely proud that Banner Health, one of our nation’s most admired health systems, has chosen us to further improve their quality programs,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “Clinical and financial decision support at the point of care is almost nonexistent in healthcare. With DOS, we are making decision support at last affordable and effective, increasing the value of existing systems like electronic health records, and making new software applications possible, too.”

    About Health Catalyst

    Health Catalyst is an insight-producing 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 healthcare systems and physician practices to commercial payers. 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 Banner Health

    Headquartered in Arizona, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system owns and operates 28 acute-care hospitals, Banner Health Network, Banner – University Medicine, Banner Medical Group, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services, including family clinics, urgent care services, home care and hospice services, pharmacies and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in six states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. For more information, visit www.BannerHealth.com.

    For more information contact:
    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications
    510-417-0612
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2017

  • Some Fun Facts and Special Thanks to CHIME17 Sponsors

    11.14.17
    By CHIME Staff

    CHIME17 in San Antonio, Texas, proved to be a great event for all. Here are some fun Fall Forum facts that you may not have known.

    • Congratulations to Mike Celetti (global healthcare solution lead at Pure Storage), Nathan Danner (manager, business development at 314e Corporation) and Sanjay Purushotham (executive director of information services at Bon Secours Baltimore Hospital). They won the Annual Charity Golf Outing sponsored by Optimum Healthcare IT.
    • Cyndi Cahill (partner at Pursuit Healthcare Advisors) and Cara Babachicos (senior vice president and CIO of South Shore Hospital) won the Halloween costume contest with their renditions of Cyndi Lou and the Grinch.
    • The Nov. 1 keynote by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal was the first event to be live streamed at a CHIME forum. BlueTree Network sponsored the live streaming of the three keynotes and Leadership from the Edge. Spok sponsored the keynote.
    • CIOs who attended Focus Groups donated more than $18,000 in honorarium proceeds to the CHIME Education Foundation.
    • Foundation firms held 99 in-person Focus Groups, in which more than 270 CIOs attended.
    • Leadership from the Edge, a new feature for CHIME’s Fall CIO Forum, made its debut on Nov. 3. In another first, the three sessions were live streamed and archived.
    • Fundraising events at CHIME17 netted $32,400 for the charity Direct Relief.

     

    Many thanks to all of the CHIME17 sponsors:
    Agfa Healthcare
    Allscripts
    Apex Systems
    Avaap
    Bluetree Network
    Cerner
    CitiusTech
    CoverMyMeds
    Cumberland Consulting Group
    CynergisTek
    DrFirst
    Divurgent
    Ellkay
    Epic
    ESD
    ExtraHop
    Fujifilm
    HealthCast
    Huntzinger Management Group
    Hyland
    Impact Advisors
    Imprivata    		 Intelligent Medical Objects
    InterSystems
    KPMG
    Lenovo Health
    Mediant Health Resources
    Medicity
    MediQuant
    Nordic
    NTT Data
    Optimum Healthcare IT
    Oxford
    PatientSafe Solutions
    Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company
    Pure Storage
    Qlik Healthcare
    Stoltenberg Consulting
    Spok
    TelmedIQ
    The Chartis Group
    Transcend Insights
    VMware
    314e Corporation

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    Posted 11.14.2017

  • First Baptist Medical Center selects Novarad’s PACS

    Medical software company signs Texas medical center

    DALLAS, TX –  November 14, 2017 – Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with First Baptist Medical Center of Dallas, Texas to install its PACS and RIS software as part of an effort to improve patient experience.

    “We’re pleased to be able to provide software for one of the most respected medical facilities in Texas,” said Fred Trovato, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Novarad. “First Baptist Medical Center provides a wealth of specialized services in a caring and compassionate manner. We are honored to partner with them.”

    First Baptist Medical Center is a premier North Texas surgical specialty hospital that offers advanced and minimally invasive surgery. The center’s areas of specialization include bariatric surgery, general orthopedics, neurosurgery, pain management, plastic surgery, spine surgery, and more.

    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.

    # # #

    Founded by a radiologist over 20 years ago, Novarad has demonstrated Best in KLAS expertise in the three phases of enterprise imaging—viewing, workflow, and storage—which allows it to customize meaningful enterprise imaging solutions to fit the unique needs of each healthcare professional. Providing both easily deployed modular products and fully customizable enterprise imaging solutions, the company has installed over 1000 systems globally with KLAS-confirmed, market-leading retention rates. The company is best known for product functionality and constant development; its products have a reputation for being easy to learn and use, yet feature-rich for even the most advanced users. Visit Novarad.net to learn more.

    Media Contact:

    Kristi Alvarado, Media Relations Contact at Novarad | 801.642.1001 | [email protected]

    Posted 11.14.2017

  • A Tribute to Outgoing Board Member David Finn

      11.14.17
    By Marc Probst, CHCIO, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare

    At the end of this year, David Finn will step down from his role as a CHIME Foundation Board member. David’s contributions to the board have been invaluable, and his vision and leadership will continue to influence CHIME’s mission well beyond his tenure as a board member.

    David Finn, Health Information Technology Officer, CynergisTek Inc.

    David Finn, Health Information Technology Officer, CynergisTek Inc.

    Let’s start with his area of expertise: security. David recently became the first executive vice president of strategic innovation at CynergisTek, a healthcare cybersecurity and information management company. His three decades-long career includes the position of health information technology officer at Symantec Corporation and vice president and CIO at Texas Children’s Hospital. He was one of two CHIME members to serve on the federal Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, which released recommendations for improving healthcare cybersecurity in July.  

    I credit David’s foresight for CHIME’s current focus on cybersecurity. David pushed the board, as the body that determines CHIME’s strategic direction, to look beyond what we traditionally pursued and make cybersecurity a priority. He was a driving force behind the creation of the Association of Executives in Healthcare Information Security, or AEHIS, which CHIME launched in 2014. He emphasized the importance of having an educational and networking association to keep chief information security officers well informed and engaged. AEHIS now has more than 700 members.

    Today, CIOs and CISOs in CHIME and AEHIS have access to resources that can help them better protect patient information and prevent or mitigate cyberattacks. That alone is quite a legacy.

    David also has made me a better board member. He taught me how to listen and to evaluate information to reach sound strategic decisions. He is not a person who talks a lot but he gets a lot done. Cybersecurity and AEHIS are just a few examples of that.

    The CHIME Board and CHIME have benefitted greatly from David’s participation as a board member. We are smarter, more confident and more competent because of him. It has been a privilege to work with him. Please join me in giving David a heartfelt “thank you” for his commitment to our industry, for his integrity and for his generosity throughout the years.

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    Posted 11.14.2017

  • Award Winner Dana Sellers Reflects on Lessons Learned over 30+ Years

      11.14.17
    By Arika Lycan, Specialist, CHIME Foundation

    Dana Sellers, co-founder and retired CEO of Encore Health Resources, has had quite an impressive role in the industry over her healthcare IT career, serving as president and COO of Healthlink, a partner at IBM’s Global Business Services, and then as Encore’s founder and CEO since its inception in 2009. In over 30 years of leadership in healthcare IT, Sellers has overseen and supported projects and relationships through which many plans and hopes for the world of healthcare IT have come to fruition.

    Her dedication to healthcare IT and her leadership recently earned her the CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award.

    Dana Sellers, Co-Founder & retired CEO, Encore Health Resources

    Dana Sellers, Co-Founder & retired CEO, Encore Health Resources

    Sellers’ passion for the healthcare industry can be seen in her tireless efforts to bring together providers, payers and other organizations to improve the system from the inside out. Her peers characterize her as a “key contributor and leader in healthcare,” highlighting her ability to strategize and turn “critical needs into productive services that have helped thousands in healthcare IT.”

    The value of Seller’s experience is clear when speaking with her; she has gained a great deal of insight and perspective from her time in the industry. Reflecting on the health IT field, the biggest change she has seen during her 30-plus year tenure has been, “the ability to access and use information effectively to give patients smarter and safer treatment.” Even in the last 10-15 years, the benefit of thoughtfully applied technologies and solutions has made itself evident time and time again.

    In an interview, the Texas native reflected on the then-recent Hurricane Harvey disaster in Texas and the drastic improvements that healthcare IT technology and systems have made for emergency/crisis care in the last decade and a half. After Katrina hit Louisiana in 2004, many people flocked to the Houston area with no records or health information to share as they sought treatment. This resulted in patients, under great stress, trying to recall and relate their care needs to physicians and care teams, which could result in less-accurate care.

    Comparing the events of Hurricane Katrina with the recent response to Harvey, she pointed out the stark contrast. The Houston area saw over 50 inches of rain and extreme flooding. In the aftermath of the storm, a clinic quickly set up in the Astros baseball stadium was able to provide a full range of care. Physicians and staff could (with consent) access patient records from other cities and health systems, enabling them to give better, more accurate care.

    The impact of Sellers’ past partnerships can still be felt today. A great “full-circle” personal story that Sellers shared dates to a project back in 1992 when IMG, (who then transitioned to Healthlink) partnered with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. This was before the terms “EMR” and “EHR” existed, and they were just called “Clinical Systems.” Texas Children’s asked for Healthlink’s support to create a vision for collecting and storing client data. What would this system look like? How would it be implemented? How would it help their clients?

    Sellers and her team did industry research. They held focus groups with doctors and patients. They had many talks with administrators and the Texas Children’s team, and put together a vision.

    Fast forward 20 or so years, to when her granddaughter was born at Texas Children’s in 2015. Sellers expressed how surreal it was, to have a personal experience with the hospital, and to see that, “the picture we painted came true, and it was better than any of us imagined.”

    Looking into her crystal ball to see the future of the industry, Sellers anticipates that two big hurdles will be improving the ways in which data is shared and the sharing capability in general between organizations and across communities, and accurate patient matching. Additionally, she sees that there is still a great disparity in data standards and the way data is captured. This means, “an opportunity to use clinical data — to learn from it and change practice and … we are just at the beginning of our capability here.”

    Since retiring in June 2017 from Encore, Sellers has been enjoying her newfound free time. Sellers, who lives in Austin, is able see a lot more of her husband, as well as her son, daughter-in-law and her 2-year-old granddaughter. She still has a hand in the healthcare IT realm; she serves on the emids board and the HIE Greater Houston HealthConnect board.

    Sellers was presented with the CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award on Nov. 2 at the CHIME17 Fall CIO Forum. On winning the award, she remarked, “I’m really just a small part of the work that has taken place. It’s truly a tribute to my team and the providers we have worked with and their dedication, and I hope I played a small part in that.” The Industry Leader Award is an honor of which she is truly deserving.

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    Posted 11.14.2017
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