Senior Executive / CIO Sessions

Description:
Healthcare is in a constant state of change. Two major forces are shaping the future of healthcare: 1) Relentless pressure on healthcare to deliver value in terms of quality, reliability, and access at an affordable cost; and 2) The movement to expand coverage to all Americans. Focus will be on political, economic and strategic context of change in healthcare and examine how the various actors are preparing for the future. Ian will identify the leadership challenges and opportunities that lie ahead and will provide strategic insights on how organizations and individuals can flourish in the years' ahead.

Speaker Information:
Ian Morrison, PhD
Author, Consultant and Futurist

Room:
S100

Fee:
$295.00

Description:
The goals of this presentation will be to outline the cultural changes that occur during medical training and explain how these changes create barriers to the adoption of the tenets of quality improvement. In this provocative talk, Dr Nash will demonstrate how physicians, nurses and other health care providers view self evaluation, evidence based practice and other elements of standardization. The CIO role in overcoming these barriers will be highlighted.

Speaker Information:
David Nash, MD, MBA
Founding Dean, Jefferson School of Health Policy and Population Health

Room:
S100

Fee:
$295.00

Description:
High quality technology services and business process improvements are standard requirements for a CIO. Having developed a unique understanding of the total business, the new CIO will focus on the end customer, setting strategy for new products and services using technology. Hear one CIO's journey into the business of revenue creation.

Speaker Information:
Ellen Barry, MBA
CIO, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition of Chicago

Room:
S100

Fee:
$295.00

Description:
Health care has been through a long period of turbulence and constant change with information technology at the heart of many of those changes. For health systems to stay successful requires leaders who can keep a deep sense of personal wellness and purpose while leading others with enthusiasm. This closing keynote will help you reconnect with the purpose of your work and discover ways to create spirited teams.

Speaker Information:
John Izzo, PhD
Author, Public Television Host, Corporate Culture Expert

Room:
S100

Fee:
$295.00

Description:
HIT is evolving to facilitate decision making, providing visibility into operations and exposing leadership challenges. This session highlights eliminating process friction to drive outcomes through culture change and interdepartmental collaboration.

Speaker Information:
Linda Reed, RN, MBA
Vice President and CIO, Atlantic Health
Linda Kosnik, RN, MSN, APN
Chief Nursing Officer and VP, Clinical Services, Vistaar Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

Level:
Introductory

Objectives:

• Examine how technology can create visibility and support leaders in aligning resources to meet fluctuating patient demand
• Discuss basic microsystem theory and its impact on patient flow
• Describe the basic principles of demand capacity management
• Analyze the leadership and cultural change challenges required to implement informed decision making and "patient-focused processes"

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 100 c

Description:
This presentation describes the creation and deployment of an enterprise-wide clinical data repository and clinical viewer. All salient data captured across care settings is available via the CV.

Speaker Information:
Frank Clark, PhD
Chief Information Officer and VP, Medical University of South Carolina
Mark Daniels, PMP, CPHIMS, MS
Program Manager, Medical University of South Carolina

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Evaluate the healthcare IT model of the future.
• Appraise the benefits of scaling robust functionality across all care settings.
• Examine enterprise-wide clinical viewer.
• Understand why this model will be appropriate for community based hospital organizations as well as closed staff organizations.
• Discuss pros and cons of single sign-on.

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 100 c

Description:
With hospital consolidations being so prevalent these days, this session will illustrate the importance for each IT department to understand how to make the consolidation process work best for all concerned.

Speaker Information:
Richard Temple
Chief Information and Business Intelligence Officer, AristaCare Health Service
Carol Brown, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Program Dir., Healthcare IT Mgmt., Stevens Institute of Technology

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Identify the key things that IT organizations need to think about to make the consolidation a success from a technological standpoint
• Understand the pros and cons of different types of likely standardizations across organizations
• Work through the likely cultural barriers that arise, address everyone's needs, and optimize the "end state" for all parties

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 100 c

Description:
Evans will present a unique and simple approach to Information Services' strategy planning by analyzing the unlimited possibilities of an Information Services heaven and creating the roadmap to get there.

Speaker Information:
Terry Evans, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Chief Information Officer, Thibodaux Regional Medical Center

Level:
Advanced

Objectives:

• Define the wants and challenges for Information Services
• Assess where you are and where you are not with your Information Services planning
• Complete a gap analysis of your Information Services' strategy plan to your hospital's strategy plan
• Create a simplistic approach to face the everyday brutal facts, such as lack of funding, lack of interfaces, and prior commitments
• Identify ways to communicate the Information Services' mission to hospital executives and staff

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 103 b

Description:
A novel hospital discharge application comprised of process redesign with embedded telecommunication technology drives earlier hospital discharge, reduces nurse workloads, saves money and enhances revenue opportunity.

Speaker Information:
John (Rick) Schooler, FACHE
Vice President and CIO, Orlando Healthcare
Marc Demers, MD, FACS
Surgical Oncologist, Orlando Healthcare

Level:
Intermediate

Objectives:

• Recognize the savings and efficiency that process redesign coupled with telecommunications technology brings to discharging the hospitalized patient.
• Interpret the benefit to patients that connectivity and automation provide by reducing the number of telephone calls nurses field, and allowing them to spend more time at the bedside.
• Identify the opportunities for continuous improvement of the hospital discharge process provided by automation and database analysis.
• Calculate both the savings and revenue opportunity that hospital discharge process redesign affords.

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 100 c

Description:
An expert in healthcare physicians and CIO recruitment will moderate a discussion by CIOs and CMIOs on collaborative approaches to effect success in clinical systems initiatives.

Speaker Information:
Patricia Skarulis
Vice President and CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
David Artz, MD, MBA
Medical Director of Information Systems, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Steve Margolis, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, Orlando Regional Healthcare
John (Rick) Schooler
Chief Information Officer, Orlando Regional Healthcare

Level:
Advanced

Objectives:

• Describe the increased importance of the CMIO role in today's IT market
• Identify the areas of interface between the CIO and CMIO
• Review the results of a comprehensive survey that speaks to current reporting structures and future expectations
• Discuss real time examples of how success was achieved in collaboration between the two positions
• Define the strategy for CIOs andCMIOs to bring their organizations maximum productivity in clinical systems initiatives

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S 100 c