Healthcare Roundtable
VMXpo 2014 on October 7th at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, TX.
In conjunction with DELL MEDICAL, we have added a whole section to VMXpo targeted at healthcare in the afternoon sessions, culminated by a healthcare CIO roundtable at 3:00pm. Several prominent CIOs will be discussing the key issues today that face healthcare in IT, especially as it pertains to desktop virtualization. You can come and stay all day, or come after lunch for the healthcare specific sessions.Here are more details:
PANELISTS:
R. Todd Thomas is the Chief Information Officer for the Austin Radiological Association MSO, LLC (ARA), a specialty health care organization offering a complete range of medical imaging services throughout central Texas. Prior to joining ARA, Todd was a software programmer for Medaphis Physician Services Corporation where he developed interfaces to multiple healthcare applications. With over 20 years of healthcare IT experience, his technical leadership has garnered ARA multiple technology awards from IT publications.
George Suarez, CIO of CommuniCare Health Centers. CommuniCare Health Centers is a full-service primary healthcare system serving in both Bexar and Hays counties. They offer an array of services including pediatric medicine, family medicine, senior care, women's health, podiatry, dental, behavioral health, minor surgery clinic, WIC services, vision care and pediatric speech therapy. They deliver care through nine (9) clinic locations utilizing integrative primary care practice, highly trained healthcare providers, state of the art diagnostic equipment, and electronic health records.
Val King. In addition to being CEO of Whitehat Virtual Technologies, Val is also CIO for Val Verde Regional Medical Center (VVRMC) in Del Rio, TX. As part of that position, Val has guided VVRMC as they completely rebuild their IT infrastructure and move into the 21st century. The hospital is a McKesson Paragon user, and Val has dealt with all the technical, political and compliance issues that come as part of implementing this type of EMR solution. Because of this dual role, he is uniquely position to understand both the business and IT aspects of healthcare in the U.S. today. Val does not sleep much.
TOPICS to be DISCUSSED:
- What are the top 3 issues your IT organization is dealing with?
- Is Informatics part of IT or a separate department? How have you been able to successfully coordinate these two departments to improve IT quality or improve care?
- What is Its role in your facility to help reach Meaningful Use and assist with physician adoption? What are the challenges you have faced? What has worked for you?
- Healthcare projects continue to increase while IT resources are static or being cut, how are you maintaining service levels in this environment?
- How are you handling requests from clinics/physician offices to access your electronic medical records? How are you meeting these requests while still meeting your security requirements?
- What virtualization technologies are you leveraging in your environment? Server, desktop, application virtualization? What are you doing today, what is on your roadmap?
- Where are you on the road to EMR adoption in your facilities? Have you been able to fully leverage EMR capabilities How are you achieving optimal EMR benefits?
- How are Revenue cycle management initiatives and ICD-10 requirements impacting your organization?
- Are you seeing/how are you meeting requests for deep analytics to help CEO/CFOs get a deeper analysis on the healthcare services you provide?
- What Telehealth initiatives are you seeing and how is your organization managing deployment and securing of these resources?
- How are smartphones and tablets impacting your IT strategy?
- Population health management. The move from "find it, fix it medicine" to population health management is driving the need for new applications, new data, new uses of data, and new levels of integration. Are you seeing any of these initiatives? What impact is this having on IT today?
