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Woman’s Hospital Selects Health Catalyst to Advance Quality Care and Population Health
Louisiana speciality hospital for women and infants, one of nation’s largest, focuses on data analysis and connectivity to improve patient care
Salt Lake City, UT – August 30, 2018 –Woman’s Hospital, a leading expert on pregnancy and childbirth, has selected Health Catalyst, a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, to help improve the health of the communities it serves. Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Woman’s will implement the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) to solve the problem of information systems that hold critical data in silos, inhibiting population-based health management and thwarting the coordinatation of care across communities.
Woman’s is a private, nonprofit organization that is committed to being the national leader in women’s and family-centered care, achieved through innovation, evidence-based practices, and strategic partnerships. Consistently recognized for its care of women and infants, Woman’s is a multi-year recipient of the Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award® for outstanding patient experience and has earned the Top Performer on Key Quality Measures award from The Joint Commission.
“Peter Drucker said ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it,’ and with Health Catalyst we believe we’ll have the knowledge, tools, and experience to utilize our existing data to measure and drive sustainable improvement in clinical, financial, and operational outcomes,” said Stephanie H. Anderson, CPA, MBA, Woman’s Hospital’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. “We are committed to improving the health of our patient population and in Health Catalyst I think we’ve found a long-term partner who can assist us in building a data-driven culture for continuous and sustained process improvement.”
Population Health Through Better Data, Interoperability
Most physician practices in the Baton Rouge region document and track patient care using third-party electronic health records (EHR) and related software applications that often fail to communicate with each other. The lack of interoperable IT systems makes it difficult to coordinate the care of discharged patients. DOS, along with Health Catalyst’s health information exchange (HIE) capabilities, will enable Woman’s Hospital staff to more effectively communicate and coordinate care across a wide variety of IT systems.
DOS is a data-first, analytics and application platform that transforms raw data from virtually any data source into Deep Data—data that is meaningful, actionable, and provides actual business value at a lower cost. DOS accomplishes this by integrating and analyzing critical data from over 200 of the most widely-used data sources, including Woman’s Meditech EHR, and delivering real-time decision support within the existing workflows of clinicians, administrators and other healthcare professionals.
“Woman’s Hospital is nationally recognized for excellence in care for women and infants and we are proud of this opportunity to help them further advance their quality care objectives,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “The DOS platform, along with Health Catalyst’s proven methodologies, will provide Woman’s with rich clinical data for in-depth analytics and reporting, as well as the data connectivity and workflow coordination they need to further improve care across their community.”
Woman’s engagement with Health Catalyst began as a quality improvement consulting project that built the foundation for outcomes improvement. As the organization began launching several population health initiatives, leaders recognized an increased need to consolidate data and leverage advanced analytic techniques. Hospital leaders selected Health Catalyst’s DOS platform based on the success of the consulting project, as well as the recommendation of another Louisiana customer of the company.
Under the agreement, Woman’s will have access to Health Catalyst’s library of technology solutions built on the DOS platform, and content culled from the company’s outcomes-improvement work with health systems across the country. Health Catalyst applications address the most pressing concerns of healthcare organizations, including managing population health; gaining a comprehensive view of the true cost of care; empowering executive decision support with a dashboard view of enterprise-wide performance; benchmarking and prioritizing improvement opportunities; and monitoring, detecting, predicting and preventing threats to patient safety, before harm can occur.
About Woman’s Hospital
Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is one of the first specialty hospitals for women and infants. Since opening in 1968, it has welcomed more than 300,000 babies, making it one of the largest delivery services in the country and the largest in Louisiana. Additionally, Woman’s operates the highest-level neonatal intensive care unit in the state and cares for infants who are extremely premature, are critically ill or require surgical intervention. The hospital is also recognized for its expertise in mammography as well as breast and gynecologic cancer care. As a private, nonprofit organization, all funds are reinvested into the hospital to continue Woman’s mission to improve the health of women and infants through the latest technology, a highly qualified staff and critical community programs and services.
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 unleash and integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™)—a next-generation data warehouse and application development platform powered by data from more than 100 million patients, and encompassing over 1 trillion facts—helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. Our technology and professional services can help you keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes, communities, and workplaces, and we can help you optimize care delivery to those patients 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 @HealthCatalyst on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
For more information contact:
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications
510-417-0612
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Q&A with Board Member Carina Edwards on Women HIT Leaders
8.30.2018
By Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public RelationsQ: Why is it important to have women represented at the executive level in the healthcare IT industry?
A: There are countless studies that show diversity of all kinds at the executive level is critical. A recent McKinsey study found that the highest-performing companies are those with women in revenue-generating roles on their executive team. In fact, those companies in the top-quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 21 percent more likely to outperform on profitability and 27 percent more likely to have superior value creation. The trend in the technology industry is positive, but we still have a long way to go to achieve full diversity across all ranks of the organization. In the healthcare IT industry, it’s important to note we have an amazing opportunity to bridge the gap, as the majority of users of health IT are women. While male MDs outnumber female MDs nearly 2:1, according to the U.S. Census Bureau 3.2 million (91 percent) of nurses are female, and only 330,000 (9 percent) are male. Our goal should be to ensure this demographic understands their career options as their knowledge can translate into amazing solutions to improve patient care.
Q: Can you cite examples, based on your experience as a female health IT executive, where having the perspective of a woman leader contributed to an improvement? This could be in a process, product, to the culture, etc.
A: I think the best example is that of the 3.2 million female nurses in the workforce. The firsthand experience that RNs have with technology workflows, including providing care at the patient bedside, understanding operations, using shared workstations, and logging in and out of various devices and applications, has uniquely positioned them to drive innovation and rise to the ranks of executives and CIOs. While technology expertise is valuable, you can never underestimate the powerful contribution from those on the front lines when you’re looking to innovate.
Q: Early in your career, did you have a woman mentor who helped you?
A: I have been fortunate to have had many bright and talented mentors at all stages of my career – both men and women – inside and outside of the healthcare industry. For me, the key to finding and benefiting from a good mentor is to be continuously curious and open to feedback, new ways of thinking and achieving results.
Q: How did that affect your career trajectory?
A: Great mentors provide a mirror. They aren’t emotionally attached to your situation, so they can provide perspective. I have two great examples of how this feedback has supported my career trajectory. Those who know me know I’m very passionate and very transparent. I have a long history in team sports and I love to win. The lesson I learned from a great mentor and former boss, was knowing when to win…. “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” This is a great lesson for everyone. You will be in situations where you know more and you can win the argument at hand, but the goal of leadership is leading everyone to the same outcome. In these situations, it’s critical to question and allow the team members to understand all points of view, because the outcome will surprise even you, and you’ll get a larger benefit together.
The second example is about style. Back to… I’m passionate; I wear my heart on my sleeve and people tend to know how I’m feeling about a situation. I’ve had executive coaches who have tried to change that part of me, but it was a mentor who pointed out, “You decide who you are, how you can live true to yourself first and foremost, and then you can decide what you want to change.” Today, I’m much better in negotiations because I’ve learned how and when to mask that transparency. But, as a leader, I’m all passion, full transparency all the time. Being your authentic self as you hone your craft is how great leaders excel.
Q: Are there certain characteristics about the healthcare IT industry that are conducive for women to excel and rise to leadership positions?
A: Healthcare IT is not unique when it comes to requiring diversity at the executive level, but it does have a broader pool of talent than traditional technology industries. This is due to the need for depth in clinical workflow, understanding when solutioning technology drives healthcare solutions. There’s a larger pool of female talent with depth in clinical understanding as well as depth in traditional technology. As an industry, we need to engage these individuals to understand their career path options.
Q: Are there also characteristics that pose an impediment? Are these endemic to the healthcare IT industry or more a factor of the technology sector as a whole?
A: Despite facing the same impediments that other industries face, healthcare is at a turning point, and that means there is opportunity for smart, passionate people across the board. To a certain degree, there is chaos right now as the industry transforms, and that opens doors for problem solvers, visionaries and leaders, regardless of gender, ethnicity, etc. Unlike in many other industries, the never-ending search for knowledge and innovation is the prerequisite for getting ahead in healthcare.
Q: What lessons have you learned as an executive that have been helpful in your role as a CHIME Board member?
A: Another great lesson learned from a mentor: “Just because you can run operations and give great operational advice… does not mean you should.” At the executive level, all of us come with great operational depth of understanding, but our focus as board members is mission/vision, strategy and holding the organization accountable to operational excellence. Across the CHIME Board, we hold ourselves accountable to be a strategic board. When we dive into operations, we quickly recognize it and reorient our focus to mission/vision, strategy and accountability.
Q: What outcomes would you like to see occur from Women of CHIME? How can they be achieved?
A: The Women of CHIME initiative has the opportunity to engage not just the current leaders, but the next generation of leaders. I would like to see programs and dialogue at both the executive level and at the next levels down: programing to share leadership lessons and curate conversations to empower the current leaders and the next two levels down, sharing strategies for advancement through education and mentorship opportunities. The education should come from a diverse set of perspectives (men, women, minorities and LGBTQ).
Q: Is there anything you would like to add?
A: Not everyone wants to be an executive, and behind every great executive is an amazing team. It’s our job to ensure that EVERYONE has the opportunities and knows the strategies on how to become one if that is their dream. Engaging with your employees, ensuring they understand their value to the organization and providing an open forum for career conversations allows both employees and organizations to win long term.
Editor’s note: Below is a list of CHIME members and members of CHIME Foundation firms who currently serve on any CHIME board who made Becker’s “Female Health IT Leaders to Know” report:
- Pamela Arora, senior vice president and CIO, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas
- Bobby Byrne, senior vice president and CIO, Advocate Health Care
- Melinda Costin, senior vice president and CIO, JPS Health Network
- Carina Edwards, senior vice president of customer experience, Imprivata (CHIME Board, CHIME Foundation Board, CHIME Education Foundation Board)
- Judith Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems (CHIME Education Foundation Board)
- Rhonda Jorden, chancellor for information technology and CIO, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Patricia Lavely, senior vice president and CIO, Gwinnett Medical Center
- Amy Merlino, Enterprise CMIO, Cleveland Clinic
- Kristin Myers, senior vice president of technology, Mount Sinai Health System
- Jamie Nelson, senior vice president and CIO, Hospital for Special Surgery
- Tanya Townsend, system senior vice president and CIO, LCMC Health
- Anna Turman, CIO, Chadron Community Hospital
More Inside CHIME
CHIME’s Salary Survey to Highlight CIO Pay Trends – Leighann Hibbard
News of Note – Candace Stuart
Have an Innovation to Share? Here’s an Opportunity – Ed Marx
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Have an Innovation to Share? Here’s an Opportunity
8.30.2018
By Ed Marx – CIO, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OHI need your help. Have you ever wanted to be part of writing a book? Here is your chance to help create “Voices of Innovation…. Fulfilling the Promise of Information Technology in Healthcare.”
Sponsored by HIMSS, “Voices of Innovation” will be a collection of essays written by real-world innovators – like you. Everyone speaks of innovation, yet few fulfill its calling. Many point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but not many replicable innovative processes have emerged.
This book will be a culmination of demonstrated examples, techniques and successful front-line innovations from your own organization so others might experience the same success in their respective organizations.
“Voices” will bring together and deliver in these personalized essays with repeatable techniques supporting innovation. This in turn will help others leverage skills and talents yielding superior business and clinical outcomes supporting healthcare information technology innovations.
Voices will be divided into multiple chapters. The chapters will leverage the HIMSS Innovation Pathways work previously developed, including:
- Blend Cultures
- Use People with IT
- Create Roadmaps
- Collaborate and Listen
- Communicate and Eliminate Barriers
- Stress Simplicity
- Recognize and Reward
- Co-Create Solutions
Interested? If you can write a two- to three-page essay on how you have leveraged innovation in the context of one of these chapters, please email me at [email protected] and I will send you more details. We have an aggressive publishing deadline and submissions must be received by Sept. 15.
More Inside CHIME
Q&A with Board Member Carina Edwards on Women HIT Leaders – Candace Stuart
CHIME’s Salary Survey to Highlight CIO Pay Trends – Leighann Hibbard
News of Note – Candace Stuart
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CHIME’s Salary Survey to Highlight CIO Pay Trends
8.30.2018
By Leighann Hibbard – Specialist, MembershipSix years ago, the majority of CHIME members who participated in the CHIME CIO Compensation Survey reported receiving minimal pay increases that year. Has the trend continued? CHIME is conducting a survey this year to find out.
Last week CHIME opened the 2018 Salary Survey to members to assess compensation for senior healthcare IT executives in the U.S. The survey consists of 23 multiple choice questions that include demographics, job structure, organization type, base salary and benefits, job satisfaction and more. It should take only about 15 minutes to complete.
All responses are anonymous. The results will allow members to compare their salary to their peers and identify trends in the industry that will help inform career decisions.
The survey will remain open through Oct. 14. We expect to announce high-level results in October and make a detailed report based on the data available at the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum, which will be Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in San Diego.
To complete the survey, go here. For more information about the forum, go here. Hotel and registration information are available here.
If you have any questions about the survey, contact me at [email protected].
More Inside CHIME
Q&A with Board Member Carina Edwards on Women HIT Leaders – Candace Stuart
News of Note – Candace Stuart
Have an Innovation to Share? Here’s an Opportunity – Ed Marx
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News of Note
8.30.2018
By Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public RelationsCHIME’s Daniel Barchi to give keynote at AEHIA/AEHIS/AEHIT Fall Summit: Daniel Barchi, senior vice president and CIO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, will share how one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers advances healthcare using IT during the annual AEHIA/AEHIS/AEHIT Fall Summit in San Diego. Barchi, a dynamic speaker renowned for the successful implementation of innovative technologies in healthcare systems, will provide the opening keynote address on Oct. 31. For more information and to register, go here.
Time is running out to take advantage of bundled pricing deal: CHIME members who act quickly can still bundle the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum in San Diego with the CHIME Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C., and save nearly $450. Members who register for CHIME18 by Aug. 31 can then register to attend the Advocacy Summit at half the cost. The Advocacy Summit is our newest educational and networking event. To learn more about the Advocacy Summit, go here. To register for CHIME18, go here. The bundling option will appear during the registration process.
More Inside CHIME
Q&A with Board Member Carina Edwards on Women HIT Leaders – Candace Stuart
CHIME’s Salary Survey to Highlight CIO Pay Trends – Leighann Hibbard
Have an Innovation to Share? Here’s an Opportunity – Ed Marx
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Redox Awarded Patent for its Electronic Medical Record Integration Technology
Enables true interoperability and unparalleled scalability to organizations using the Redox Network.
Madison, WI – Aug. 29, 2018 – /PRNewswire/ — Redox, healthcare’s leading integration platform, announced it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 9,996,664 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its systems and methods for translating messages between healthcare delivery organizations and technology vendors. Leveraging a series of reusable configuration records, Redox standardizes how medical record content is represented and enables true interoperability between entities that exchange data. The Redox Platform streamlines data exchange between members of the Redox Network.
“Electronic medical records are notorious for inconsistencies in data format and representation. This variation has made it difficult for healthcare delivery organizations to exchange information with affiliates and technology vendors,” said James Lloyd, co-founder and chief technology officer at Redox. “The Redox Platform establishes reusable infrastructure to scale healthcare data exchange across many partners. This approach fundamentally changes the way healthcare organizations exchange data. We believe the methodology covered by this patent is the key to solving healthcare’s biggest interoperability challenges.”
How It Works
Redox dramatically simplifies the way organizations exchange healthcare data by eradicating the issue of inconsistent data formats. Messages may be transmitted and/or received in any message format or structure associated with the healthcare entity. A configuration is then applied to normalize the medical record content ensuring consistency regardless of the source of the information. A second configuration structures the data for the receiving system.This design allows healthcare delivery organizations to continue using already installed software. Application developers code once to the Redox API and scale anywhere, independent of underlying technology or configurations.
“Traditional healthcare integration methods create point-to-point connections between two organizations. These solutions are slow to implement, costly to maintain, and provide no benefit to the broader healthcare ecosystem,” added Lloyd. “The Redox Platform supports healthcare delivery organizations of all sizes and powers the integration strategies of leading care coordination, chronic care management, durable medical equipment, patient engagement, revenue optimization, and telemedicine providers. Every organization powered by Redox is a member of the same interoperable network.”
About Redox
Redox accelerates the development and distribution of healthcare technology solutions with a full-service integration platform to securely and efficiently exchange data. Healthcare delivery organizations and technology vendors connect once and authorize the data they send and receive across the most extensive interoperable network in healthcare. Redox exists to make healthcare data useful and every patient experience a little bit better. Redox was recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018.Learn how you can leverage the Redox platform at www.redoxengine.com.
Media Contact
Niko Skievaski
[email protected]SOURCE Redox
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CitiusTech Makes Strategic Investment In FluidEdge Consulting, Expands Healthcare Consulting Services
Princeton, NJ – August 28, 2018 CitiusTech, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions and services, announced today that it has made a strategic investment in FluidEdge Consulting (FluidEdge), a national healthcare management consulting company headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.
FluidEdge focuses its capabilities within the operations and IT areas of health plan, life sciences and provider organizations. The organization has an experienced team of healthcare technology and management consulting professionals with deep expertise in business, operations, and technology, along with a strong understanding of emerging trends in value-based care.
“FluidEdge has excellent business and technology consulting capabilities. Our partnership with FluidEdge enables us to strategically engage with healthcare customers, leverage technology to define enterprise solutions, and build and deploy these solutions to drive business performance,” said Rizwan Koita, Chief Executive Officer of CitiusTech.
CitiusTech has successfully developed deep and long-term relationships with leading healthcare organizations and technology companies. The company reached over $130 million in revenue in 2017 with a CAGR of over 30 percent over the last five years, through a mix of healthcare technology services and platforms. CitiusTech was ranked in the 2018 Healthcare Informatics (HCI) 100 list, putting it among the top 100 companies in the U.S. healthcare industry for the third consecutive year.
“We are excited to partner with CitiusTech. CitiusTech’s sizeable industry presence and strong technology team complement our core competencies and give us the ability to compete effectively on larger contracts and derive significant cost advantages. We also anticipate multiple opportunities to jointly develop world-class solutions to address complex industry needs. We are looking forward to this partnership,” says Shawn Archambault, President of FluidEdge.
About CitiusTech
CitiusTech (www.citiustech.com) is a specialist provider of healthcare technology services and solutions to medical technology companies, providers, payers and life sciences organizations, with over 3,000 professionals worldwide. CitiusTech’s services and solutions include healthcare software development, healthcare interoperability, regulatory compliance, BI/analytics, consumer engagement, care coordination and population health management. CitiusTech helps customers accelerate innovation in healthcare through solutions and accelerators for clinical quality reporting, healthcare big data, cloud computing, mobile health and predictive analytics. With cutting-edge technology expertise, world-class service quality and a global resource base, CitiusTech consistently delivers best-in-class solutions and an unmatched cost advantage to healthcare clients worldwide.
About FluidEdge Consulting
For over a decade, FluidEdge Consulting (www.fluidedgeconsulting.com) has provided healthcare organizations with comprehensive consulting solutions by integrating their business needs, corporate goals, industry trends and information technology. With a team of over 120 professionals, FluidEdge Consulting provides strategic planning, implementation services, program and project management and business transformation services to healthcare organizations, which include health plans, life sciences companies, large provider systems, and healthcare technology firms. FluidEdge has been ranked in the Inc5000 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States for six consecutive years.
CitiusTech Media Contact:
Priyal Shah
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Novarad Number One in Customer Satisfaction on Gartner Peer Insights VNA Category
Medical imaging company recognized by healthcare professionals and technology decision-makers.
Salt Lake City, UT – August 28, 2018 Novarad Healthcare Enterprise Imaging has taken the number one spot on Gartner’s Peer Insights technology review platform, outranking every other competitor in the Vendor-Neutral Archive (VNA) market category. Novarad has five times as many 5-Star reviews as the 2nd place vendor.
Gartner Peer Insights is an online platform of anonymous ratings and reviews of IT software and services. The reviews are written and read by healthcare professionals and technology decision-makers throughout the industry. The goal is to help leaders make more insightful purchase decisions and help technology providers improve their products by receiving objective unbiased feedback from their customers.
Says one healthcare industry CIO in their review, “We’ve changed the radiology area completely with Novarad’s software, and that helped us grow as a hospital and a social service provider. Novarad is part of our success.”
Other reviewers cite the reliability of the product and the exceptional customer support program.
“The software is easy to use and can pretty much run itself,” said another reviewer, a lead radiology technologist in the healthcare industry.
“NovaPACS has been an excellent product. It has met all our needs and more. Their customer service is amazing,” noted one radiology department manager. “If it can’t be solved immediately, they follow up afterwards to make sure all the issues were resolved to your satisfaction.”
You may view all of Novarad’s product reviews on Gartner’s website HERE. To learn more about Enterprise Imaging, VNAs and NovaPACS or to obtain information on Novarad’s other products, please visit our website, www.novarad.net, or follow us on Twitter, @NovaradCorp.
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About Novarad
For over 20 years, Novarad has enabled healthcare providers to solve their imaging problems through its full diagnostic suite. Today, Novarad’s specialized enterprise imaging and workflow solutions continue to improve upon industry standards and empower healthcare providers everywhere to solve problems. Through customizable workflow and imaging solutions, Novarad encompasses medical imaging needs. Visit Novarad at www.novarad.net for more information.
Media Contact:
Kristi Alvarado, Media Relations Contact at Novarad | 801.642.1001 | [email protected]
Posted 8.29.2018 -
2018 CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum
CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum | March 4-5, 2018 | Wynn Las Vegas & Encore Resort | Las Vegas, NevadaLeading the Next Wave of Healthcare Transformation
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Registration & Hotel
Registration is now open. Visit the HIMSS18 conference website to complete your registration for the CIO Forum. You’ll need your CHIME membership number: _MEMBER_ID_
Hotel rooms are going quickly… book your room today! Rooms will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.- Select “book your room”
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Agenda
Sunday, March 4, 2018 COLLAPSE/EXPANDSponsors
Monday, March 5, 2018 COLLAPSE/EXPANDSponsors
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 COLLAPSE/EXPANDWednesday, March 7, 2018 COLLAPSE/EXPANDThursday, March 8, 2018 COLLAPSE/EXPAND
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Speakers
Nicholas Webb
Nicholas Webb is a world-renowned enterprise strategist, best-selling author and futurist. An innovator with more than 45 patents, he invented one of the first wearable technologies and one of the world’s smallest medical implants. He is the author of The Innovation Playbook, The Digital Innovation Playbook and the best-seller What Customers Crave.
In this provocative session, he will discuss top five trends that will shape the future of healthcare, healthcare as a consumer product and designing market-leading patient experiences using the Internet of things, wearables and interoperability. He will also speak about the importance of leaders who can institutionalize “intrapreneurship” as a way to innovate in disruptive times and build superstar organizations.
Dr. Robert Wachter
An international expert on the impact of Health IT and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, Dr. Robert Wachter will provide a unique perspective on healthcare’s digital journey and what it will take to be successful. In his widely cited work, he has highlighted the surprising impact of EHRs on workflow and communication. Moreover, his observations regarding the “digital squeeze” on doctors are at the heart of the struggle many healthcare organizations face.
Wachter, named in 2015 by Modern Healthcare magazine as the most influential physician-executive in the U.S., is a practicing physician, chairman of one of the top departments of medicine in the U.S., and he chaired the National Advisory Group on HIT in England. He’ll offer new insights and practical steps to overcome the so-called “productivity paradox” of IT as it relates to healthcare.
Seth Mattison
Seth Mattison is an internationally renowned expert on workforce trends and generational dynamics. As Founder and Chief Movement Officer of FutureSight Labs, Seth advises many of the world’s leading brands and organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership, and the future of work.
His ideas have been featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail and he was recently named to the Editors’ Picks for Favorite Speakers for 2013 by MeetingsNet. Over the past five years Mattison has shared his insight with thousands of business leaders around the world and has received accolades from many of the world’s best brands including: MasterCard, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, Cisco, State Farm, Merrill Lynch, Dow, and Deloitte.
Liz Murray
Liz Murray rose from some of New York’s meanest streets to graduate from the Ivy League and has become an international speaker. The child of drug-addicted parents, she was homeless at age 15 – but determined to not to be defined by her circumstances. She earned her high school diploma in just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard University that would turn her bleak past into a future filled with possibility.
Her memoir, Breaking Night, made the New York Times’ best-seller list and her presentations have inspired audiences around the world. In this session, she will share how perseverance, vision and the support of others can help you overcome adversity. In addition, she will discuss how you can adjust your thinking to lead a more purposeful life and how you can encourage others to follow the same path.
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CHIME CIO Golf Outing
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Located at: Bali Hai Golf Club
11:30 a.m. – Transportation departs hotels (Wynn & Venetian/Palazzo)
12:00 p.m. – Box lunches at golf course
12:30 p.m. – Shotgun tee-off
5:00 p.m. – Depart course for hotels
The only championship course located directly on the famed Las Vegas Strip, Bali Hai is a pleasantly unexpected, golfers tropical paradise. Playing to 7,002 yards this Schmidt/Curley design is highlighted by 7 acres of water features, a spectacular island green, more than 4,000 trees including 2,500 stands of towering palms and 100,000 tropical plants and flowers. Transition zones are accented with Augusta white sand and set off by black volcanic rock outcroppings. Amazing views of the Strip can be found from fairways and tee boxes throughout the course. The course has earned many awards and accolades including one of “America’s Top 40 Resort Courses” by GolfWeek, “Best High-end Resort course in Las Vegas” by VegasGolfer, “Best Places to Play” Golf Digest and many more. Consistent with many of the world’s finer golf clubs, caddies are available to make your round even more enjoyable.
Reserve your rental clubs when you sign up (payment will be taken onsite)
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Sponsorships
Opening Reception Cerner 
Opening Keynote Speaker Philips 
Annual Golf Tournament $30,000 Closing Reception Hyland 
Keynote Speaker Optimum 
Keynote Speaker $30,000 Closing Keynote Speaker $40,000 CIO Forum Lobby Banner $15,000 CIO Apparel $25,000 CIO Forum Coffee Breaks $20,000 CIO Forum Attendee Giveaway InterSystems 
CIO Forum Attendee Giveaway $15,000 CIO Recharge/Refresh Bag $20,000 Streaming Presentations $20,000 Branded Pads of Paper & Pens $10,000 CIO Forum Networking Breakfast $10,000 CIO Forum Networking Luncheon $18,000 CIO Forum Attendee Lanyards Optimum Conference Proceedings Webpage $15,000 Water Stations (cups/bottles) $15,000 Attendee Pad Folio Epic 
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Fall Summit’s Roster Includes Healthcare IT Leader Daniel Barchi and CNN’s Sanjay Gupta
Fall Summit’s Roster Includes Healthcare IT Leader Daniel Barchi and CNN’s Sanjay Gupta
ANN ARBOR, MI, Aug. 22, 2018 – Daniel Barchi, senior vice president and CIO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, will share how one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers advances healthcare using IT during the annual AEHIA/AEHIS/AEHIT Fall Summit in San Diego. Barchi, a dynamic speaker renowned for the successful implementation of innovative technologies in healthcare systems, will provide the opening keynote address on Oct. 31. Sanjay Gupta, M.D., senior medical correspondent for CNN, will give the closing keynote on Nov. 2.
The second annual Fall Summit will bring together chief applications officers, chief information security officers, chief technology officers and other top-ranking senior healthcare IT professionals in an educational and networking event curated to meet the rapidly changing demands in healthcare. The summit, which is scheduled for Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at the Omni San Diego Hotel, is open to non-members as well as the three associations’ more than 2,000 members.
Barchi leads 1,000 informatics and technology specialists who deliver the tools and data that physicians and nurses use to provide acute care and manage population health at NewYork-Presbyterian. They also serve NewYork-Presbyterian’s partner medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Barchi and his team have played critical roles in the rollout of NewYork-Presbyterian’s telehealth program and other digital health initiatives.
He previously led healthcare technology as CIO at Yale New Haven Health System and Yale School of Medicine and earlier as CIO of the Carilion Health System. He was president of the Carilion Biomedical Institute and director of technology for MCI WorldCom. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and began his career as a U.S. Naval officer. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal for leadership and the Southeast Asia Service Medal for Iraq operations in the Red Sea.
Gupta is the multiple Emmy award-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN and host of CNN’s “Vital Signs.” A practicing neurosurgeon, he regularly reports on natural disasters and humanitarian crises around the world. He has also covered a wide range of health topics – including disease outbreaks, the opioid crisis and medical marijuana – since joining CNN in 2001. He will discuss how he balances his two careers, medicine and media.
The Fall Summit is organized by the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA), the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology (AEHIT), which were launched in 2014 under the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
CHIME also is holding its annual CHIME Fall CIO Forum in San Diego on Oct. 30-Nov. 2. Attendees at the Fall Summit are welcome to attend two closing day highlights at CHIME’s Fall CIO Forum: the keynote by Gupta and presentation of the CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired awards. The Most Wired awards honor hospitals and health systems whose exemplary use of healthcare IT has helped improve patient care in the past year.
For more information about the Fall Summit, go here. To register, select a specialty and follow the registration prompts. Contact [email protected] if you have questions.
Editor’s note: Members of the media are welcome to attend the AEHIA/AEHIS/AEHIT Fall Summit. Email [email protected] with a request to be added to a media list.
About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,700 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners 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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Montgomery General Hospital Signs for MEDITECH Expanse with Subscription-Based MaaS Model
MEDITECH’s Software as a Service model (MaaS) will reduce the complexity of procuring, deploying and managing a modern EHR at Montgomery General Hospital.
Westwood, MA – August 22, 2018 Montgomery General Hospital (WV) will be the first customer to launch the contemporary, cloud-based subscription model, MEDITECH as a Service (MaaS). The modern tools, minimal hardware requirements, and streamlined implementation are some of the factors that led Montgomery to select the MaaS model to power MEDITECH’s Expanse Enterprise Health Record (EHR).
“MEDITECH is excited to deploy Expanse through the cloud-based MaaS model at Montgomery General Hospital,” MEDITECH Executive Vice President Helen Waters said.
“The cost, quality, and regulatory pressures for our customers are mounting. MaaS’ emphasis on fiscal responsibility and long-term sustainability positions Montgomery General Hospital to thrive in today’s value-based healthcare paradigm.”
Montgomery General Hospital, a 25 bed, critical access facility, providing care to over 1,000 inpatients, 40,000 outpatients, and over 10,000 emergencies, will officially kick off the MaaS implementation in September.
“With the MaaS model, the implementation complexity is reduced to allow our organization to focus on what’s most important — patients,” said Denzil Blevins, chief information officer at Montgomery General Hospital.
“MEDITECH has proven to be a supportive, dedicated, and loyal partner over the past 27 years and we’re eager to spearhead the MaaS model and deploy MEDITECH Expanse.”
Many of the challenges of procuring, deploying and managing a modern EHR will be simplified at Montgomery General Hospital with MaaS through:
- Simple subscription. The monthly Software as a Service subscription model requires minimal capital outlay and provides secure, sustainable services at a predictable operational cost.
- Streamlined contracting. MaaS is delivered as a consolidated agreement, including software licenses, implementation, data center operation for MEDITECH and third-party vendors.
- Accelerated implementation. The implementation at Montgomery General Hospital will be streamlined using evidence-based best practices, coupled with dedicated support by MEDITECH.
- Consolidated System Management. The private cloud-based infrastructure and use of best practices alleviate operational responsibilities and put less strain on technical resources. This means organizations can focus more on patient care and less on maintaining an EHR.
MaaS, which was announced in November, provides a simple monthly subscription service at a predictable cost while boasting an array of mobile physician tools, interoperability initiatives, standard content, and clinical decision-support tools all accessed through your browser.
Learn more about the contemporary MaaS subscription model by viewing this recorded webinar.
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314e Leadership & Sales Team Expansion
FREMONT, CA – August 22, 2018 – 314e Corporation, a Healthcare IT solutions company is expanding its leadership roles. 314e is announcing the following appointments:
- Alok Sharma is promoted to the role of Chief Operations Officer.
- Casey Post has recently joined 314e as Vice President, Strategic Accounts
- Kat Mako will serve as Regional Vice President, Sales
- Michelle Sanders is hired as Business Development Manager
Alok Sharma has been an integral part of the 314e team for the past 9 years. His continuous focus and dedication to growing the company has been key to consistently expanding 314e’s high standard of sales, account management, recruitment and service delivery teams. Alok also manages several key 314e client relationships and vendor partnerships and is an active participant in multiple HIMSS and CHIME events. With a customer-first approach at the core of his work philosophy Alok has nurtured and secured trusted partnerships with multiple clients. This approach has led to many great accomplishments for 314e including receiving the 2018 Best in KLAS for Technical Services earlier this year.
Casey will be responsible for the leadership of the 314e sales team, developing new business opportunities, managing strategic accounts and creating customized solutions for 314e’s clients around the many 314e service offerings. Casey brings over 10 years of Healthcare IT experience to 314e. He has been involved with CHIME, HIMSS and has supported dozens of clients. He has previously served in leadership roles overseeing several complex engagements with large multi-facility organizations. His expertise centers on creating value-based solutions for clients and developing long-lasting partnerships. Casey is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and will work with many of 314e’s strategic clients and support the growth of 314e across the U.S.
Kat Mako epitomizes integrity, trust, and quality in every detail regarding healthcare IT solutions. With more than 18 years of experience in executive sales leadership, Kat takes pride in providing best in class, state-of-the-art, and scalable solutions to healthcare organizations, including Advisory, Implementation, Training, Activation, Financial, and Professional Services. Kat is passionate about healthcare, aspires to lead by example, and ensures client advocacy at every stage of a project. Kat is based in Denver, Colorado and will focus on extending 314e’s reach and managing clients in the Western U.S.
Michelle has over 8 years of experience working in the Healthcare IT space, focusing on Epic clients as a business development manager and recruiter. She offers a perspective to clients that brings her knowledge of staffing and consultant skillset requirements, as well as a deep understanding of EHR system functionality. Michelle resides in Atlanta, Georgia and will be responsible for extending 314e’s reach and managing clients in the Southeastern U.S.
314e’s CEO, Abhishek Begerhotta, stated: “Alok has been managing various operational activities at 314e for a decade now. It is time that his role is formalized as Chief Operations Officer. This is great news for our employees and customers as it will allow 314e to drive operational efficiencies. It also enables the organization to focus on future strategic offerings to customers.”
About 314e Corporation
314e Corporation is a full-service Healthcare ONLY Information Technology solutions and services company headquartered in Fremont, California, with a regional office in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Since 2004, 314e has supported over 150 healthcare providers across the country with IT Advisory, EHR, business and departmental application implementation and support, Business Intelligence, Integration and Interoperability, as well as Security and Infrastructure services. 314e was recently named 2018 Best in KLAS in Technical Services. To learn more about 314e, visit www.314e.com.
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