Focus Areas for 2007

In 2007 specialized seminars and emphasis is being placed on the top technological trends affecting the practice of healthcare today as told by leading thought leaders in healthcare including:
  • Policy and Healthcare Trends Impacting Technology adoption in healthcare including P4P and quality Initiatives, security and privacy of patient data, demographic shifts, and consumerism in healthcare.
  • Maximizing the Use of Healthcare Data in Decision Making including data mining, analysis and visualization of data to better provide personalized and patient-centric healthcare services, web enabled CRM, and other data driven process improvements and services.
  • Navigating the Information Age: eHealth and the Consumer Driven Movement by providing costs and quality transparency to consumers, interactive health communication, personalized disease management and wellness programs, personalized education, patient-centric portals, online physician visits,.
  • Healthcare Information Technologies including Funding, Adoption and Implementation ** RHIO financing, adoption, and interoperability ** EMR/EHR planning, adoption and implementation** Safety and Quality Initiatives including Bar-Coding RFID, CPOE, and E-prescribing ** transitioning from paper to digital practices and advanced topics including **Clinical Decision Support ** Data Warehousing and Management and **Personalized Medicine.
  • Identifying and Utilizing Data Sharing Convergence Points between payer, provider, academic research, pharma and biotech constituents; improving the quality, cost-effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery and to create a more proactive and responsive healthcare delivery system.
  • Pervasive, Remote and Wireless Technologies including new business models extending the reach of remote patient management and the use of consumer-centric technology to meet changing demographic needs and the evolving landscape of healthcare.
  • Balancing The Mission of Clinical Quality and Efficiency through process redesign and applying smart technology to Improve Financial Outcomes by streamlining operation room operations and procedural medicine, improving hospital process flow, and setting standards, clear priorities, and a premium for innovation when planning and implementing new technology driven systems.