2009 Fall Forum

Healthcare Reform and Achieving Meaningful Use:
The Pivotal Role of Clinical Business Intelligence

Host: Douglas D. Hawthorne, FACHE, CEO, Texas Health Resources and recipient of HIMSS CEO IT Achievement award

Today leaders use IT to enable care and quality, but reform demands more. We reveal overall reform status, its further implications for IT, and demonstrate how organizations can optimize existing data to improve care, manage populations and be paid for quality. National leaders will share successes, with an emphasis on achieving Meaningful Use through Clinical Business Intelligence (CBI).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This Forum is designed to be an interactive experience for SI member executives who are accountable for, and stakeholders in, optimizing reform opportunities, including the use and impact of CBI initiatives to improve all aspects of healthcare performance.

FORUM GOALS AND FORMAT

• Industry leaders and successful practices are featured; opportunities for sharing industry direction, success factors and lessons learned are a consistent theme at SI. Each provides actionable takeaways for Forum participants.
• SI Forums are intimate sessions, designed for executives from all functional areas who will benefit from peer collaboration, information sharing and networking.
• Our platform is participation as well as presentation, so come prepared for relaxed, informal and highly interactive sessions with industry authorities and senior management teams from leading US health systems.

Attire: Business or Business Casual

FORUM DESIGN & OBJECTIVES
Participants in this Forum will:

• Hear from and share views with the retired CEO of a major US corporate employer and Vice Chair, THR.
• Obtain the latest on healthcare reform from leading authorities.
• Gain insights from the CEO of a leading healthcare alliance.
• Review lessons learned from leading practices in Clinical Business Intelligence.
• Learn about industry-leading results in using CBI tools to improve quality, efficiency and safety.
• Obtain facts on replicable approaches to CBI and its potential to impact clinical operations.
• Share insights with members, sponsors and other national leaders during open panel discussions.
• Interact throughout the meeting with executives from leading healthcare systems.
• Participate in demonstrations of advanced EHR and CPOE at THR’s Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth.
• Discuss issues and solutions in an interactive, interdisciplinary and informal setting.

ACCREDITATION
HIMSS has approved this conference for continuing education credit toward renewal of the CPHIMS credential. HIMSS Conference Contact Hours Form