Track 8: Healthcare System and Hospital CIO/CTO Summit

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In Association with: eHealth Initiative, Health Technology Center, Most Wired, Association of Medical Director of Information Systems

Applying Technology-Intensive Industry Experience to Kaiser Permanente

• Creating a context for employing IT in health care vs. technology-intensive industries
• Lessons learned from banking and telecommunications industries
• Kaiser’s challenges to overcome the EMR roll

J. Clifford Dodd, SVP, CIO and CAO, Kaiser Permanente

Greg Walton, CIO, Carilion Health System

• Role of providers and payers to reduce variability in outcomes
• Defining interoperability and standards
• Discussion of cost-effective patient safety technologies (e.g. electronic ICU, RFID, CPOE, wireless, bar coding, remote chronic disease management)
• Leapfrog Group’s 4th Leap

Panelists:
Marc Probst, Vice President and CIO, Information Systems, Intermountain Health Care

William W. Stead, M.D, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Head of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• - EMR adoption rates, breadth of functions and scalability
• - Development timeline
• - Implementation challenges

Moderator:
Alden Solovy, Executive Editor, Hospital & Health Networks; Associate Publisher, Health Forum

John Hummel, SVP and CIO, Sutter Health

• Electronic ICU, RFID, CPOE, wireless, PAX, bar coding, remote chronic disease management
• Bringing IT investments to the board of directors
• Roles and responsibility - Who pays, who runs

Moderator:
Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH, Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center

Rick Skinner, Vice President, Information Services/CIO, Providence Health System

• Reducing the claims administration costs through connectivity with payers
• Aligning operations to improve revenue cycle management
• Auto adjudication to reduce payment cycle

Tom RoyerCEOChristus Health

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