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3rd Annual Georgia Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference
sponsored by HIMSS Georgia Chapter
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Georgia
Hospital Association &
Georgia Chapter HFMA &
Georgia AAHAM Chapter
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Georgia International Convention Center, College Park, GA
Thursday, September 25th - 7:30a.m. – 3:15p.m.
Show floor: Salon Ballrooms 4-8 combined
Breakout Meeting Rooms: Salon Ballrooms 1-3;
Italian, Kenyan, & Swiss Suites |
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7:30am-8:55am
Exhibits Open |
Buffet Breakfast & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs |
8:55am-9:00am
Exhibits Closed |
Welcome & Morning Agenda Overview – Salon Ballrooms 4-8 combined, Main Stage |
9:00am-9:45am
Exhibits Open (Optional) |
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Technical Project Manager
VCU Health System Information Services |
Presentation Topic: Generating Value from the Converged Wireless Hospital
Presentation Topic Overview: Healthcare is a highly mobile environment that requires access to mission- and life-critical applications and information everywhere, every time. Wireless equipment and technologies allow for greater clinician mobility, but without guaranteed coverage, mission- and life-critical processes can suffer greatly. With a converged wireless solution, hospitals can rely on the ubiquitous delivery of voice, data, location and clinical wireless services throughout the entire facility. Reliable wireless coverage can help to improve workflow efficiency, enhance the patient care experience and provide increased patient safety. A converged wireless solution also enables facilities to adapt quickly and inexpensively to future wireless technologies as they become available (e.g., location/tracking). The ability to increase care team collaboration, improve workflow and patient outcomes through a comprehensive, future-ready converged wireless platform generates an unmatched value in the healthcare market. |
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Presentation Topic: Managing Critical Output in a Healthcare Environment
Presentation Topic Overview: Patient Care is often reliant on successfully delivering critical documents to their appropriate destinations as efficiently as possible. Time sensitive documents such as Bar Code labels, Medication Histories, Pharmacy labels etc. need to accompany the patient through their course of treatment without delay. Traditionally most healthcare applications rely on the underlying operating system for delivery of such patient sensitive critical data, resulting in unnecessary delays and administrative overhead. The solution presented will discuss how a single enterprise-wide delivery methodology can enhance patient care and lower costs throughout the organization. |
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Presentation Topic: From Desktop to DICOM - How EMC is driving virtualization in Healthcare
Presentation Topic Overview: EMC and Vmware are leading the industry in new and innovative ways to increase the utilization of your servers, files, and storage through the use of virtualization technology and deliver timely information, expedite patient care diagnosis, improve clinical workflow, and speed time to treatment. This presentation will cover new and innovative ways to increase the utilization of your servers, files, and storage. |
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Presentation Topic: Hospitals and their goal to “Manage, Protect and Comply”
Presentation Topic Overview: This presentation will overview building automated and self-sustaining processes in hospitals that improve business performance and result in compliance |
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Presentation Topic: Using information exchange to improve physician satisfaction and increase referral revenue
Presentation Topic Overview: The continuing growth in physician practice EMR adoption is creating a new challenge for hospitals – how to provide electronic information exchange with physician practices to maintain physician referral loyalty. Traditional information exchange solutions are too expensive and technologically challenging to allow most hospitals to justify the investment. However, as large, influential practices deploy EMRs, they are demanding electronic exchange in order to lower administrative costs and improve clinical decision-making. This trend is rapidly creating competitive pressures for hospitals as national and regional reference labs, competing acute facilities and other outpatient service providers offer electronic exchange. This session will introduce a new solution to the electronic exchange challenge. In this session, you will learn how any hospital can easily and rapidly deploy an exchange solution with minimal budget, utilizing existing technical resources. Learn how other hospitals have used this new generation of exchange technology to improve physician loyalty and protect – even increase – their referral business. |
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Presenter Company: InfoLogix
Swiss Suites Room |
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Presentation Topic: Technology – The solution or the vehicle?
Presentation Topic Overview: How to use technology as an enabler for change to optimize the value of your investment. Regardless of whether you are investing in software program for a small department or an EMR for an entire hospital system we will provide the attendee with a tried and proven methodology to maximize the return and value on investment. Tools such as process design, change management, risk mitigation and utilization of best practices help to get the most out of your investment. We will share some of our stories about what works and what doesn’t. Take Away Proven methodology to achieve benefits realization for almost any technology investment. |
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9:45am-10:15am
Exhibits Open |
Break & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs (refreshments available) |
10:15am-11:00am
Exhibits Open (Optional)
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Morning Event Sponsor Conference Presentations
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Presenter Company: IBM
Salon # 1 |
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Global Solutions Manager, IBM Mobility and Wireless Services
Integrated Communications Services
IBM Global Technology Services |
Presentation Topic: Healthcare Mobility and Wireless Services
Presentation Topic Overview: Imagine having virtually every healthcare facility resource available at the point of care....bringing information from medical specialists, clinicians, patient records, and skilled nursing staff right to the patient bedside, examination room or emergency treatment center. Imagine being able to increase the time healthcare professionals spend with patients, instead of time spent searching for colleagues, equipment or patient records. Imagine collaborative treatment plans prepared and delivered on demand. Imagine no longer. In an environment where "anytime, anyplace" communications is key - wireless and mobility solutions allow healthcare providers to dramatically improve decision making processes and bring more resources directly to the point of care. |
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Presentation Topic: Next Generation Clinical Application Access - Ease and Speed
Presentation Topic Overview: This presentation will discuss how to deliver an enterprise wide virtual desktop within Healthcare Provider environments. This discussion will focus on technologies that will improve clinical application access and use, such as: SSO (single sign-on), Roaming Sessions, Advanced Authentication, and central IT management. The trend to combine these technology capabilities gives strategic advantages to the IT staff and the Clinical user community. De-coupling the critical user workspace information from the operating system and applications, thereby improving productivity whilst concurrently lowering IT cost, and allowing this approach to compliment existing Software deployments; allows the IT staff and the clinical end users to have : ease & speed. |
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Presentation Topic: IT: The Decision Partner of Surgery
Presentation Topic Overview: For too long, surgical services has focused on clinical advancements while ignoring the potential impact of a partnership with the IT department. Changes in reimbursement, the cost of surgical supplies, and regulatory reporting requirements have changed the role of the Surgical Services Director. The director’s of today must have timely and accurate information to efficiently manage the hospital’s greatest source of revenue. This session will explore how an appropriately utilized IT system can become the spearhead of decision making for the service line. Participants will take away basic metrics which can be applied to their institutions along with examples of the financial impact of partnering with their surgical services leaders. |
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Presentation Topic: Mobility for Caregivers: New Solutions to Help Your Staff Be More Efficient
Presentation Topic Overview: Caregivers are becoming more and more encumbered with administrative tasks that restrict their time with patients. Additionally, HIPPA and other regulations require that patient information be better secured. This presentation will provide insights into new solutions and technology that can assist caregivers in improving the quality of patient care. It will also show how patient information can be made readily available and more secure with less effort, resulting in a higher quality of patient care, fewer medical errors, more secure data, and compliance with regulations. |
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President and CEO
Georgia Cancer Coalition |
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President & CEO
Maestro Strategies, LLC |
Presentation Topic: Building Bridges through Quality Metrics & Information Exchange - A Statewide Collaboration Story
Presentation Topic Overview: This presentation will provide insight into the history, current and future of quality information sharing within healthcare. A case study will highlight the unique approach being used to build a successful statewide quality information exchange. Finally, key lessons learned will be shared to guide other organizations interested in sharing data through quality information exchanges. |
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Presenter Company: SolCom
Swiss Suites Room |
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Presentation Topic: The Real Value of Getting "Paperless"
Presentation Topic Overview: The move to electronic documents is a commendable effort for any facility dealing with thousands of documents and transactions. Aside from the obvious benefits of saving paper and storage space, becoming paperless welcomes a list of real cost savings and productivity gains for a hospital.
Learn how hospitals across the U.S. and Canada are overcoming the barriers of getting paperless and turning a long-term goal into a reality within 3 months.
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11:00am–11:30am
Exhibits Open |
Break & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs (refreshments available) |
11:30am–12:15pm
Exhibits Open (Optional)
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Morning Conference Panelist Discussion Tracks & Presentations
*note:(Some discussion topics may change or be substituted for another during the summer. Check back periodically leading up to event time for the latest). Additional panelists to be listed soon.
Salon # 1
Healthcare Executive IT & IS Panel Discussion
sponsored by: HIMSS Georgia Chapter |
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President, GAHIMSS
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VP & CIO, Gwinnett Medical Center
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Director of IT / CIO
Crisp Regional Health Services
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VP, Chief Information and Supply
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta |
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- Building Better Business Partnerships
- Future Healthcare IT issues to be thinking about now
- Delivering Highest Quality Healthcare using Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Can IT Improve Medical Staff Productivity?
- practitioner adoption of technology
- Community-wide EMR; EMR Standardization
- Disaster Recovery, Hot Sites vs. 2nd Data Centers
- Disaster recovery and data protection
- Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
- Lower IT Operational Costs
- Improving healthcare workflow
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Salon # 2
Clinical Informatics & Technology Panel Discussion
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Medical Chief Information Officer
United States Central Command
Command Surgeon's Office
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Clinical Informatics Specialist,
Hamilton Health Care System |
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- IT in clinical settings: successes
- Clinical documentation systems into the EMR
- Using technology to affect clinical quality
- Clinical Documentation Standardization: best practices
- Data Warehouse of clinical data
- Wireless Clinical Technology: advantages/successes
- Home Based Care and Clinical Technology
- Integrated clinical systems for therapists services, inpatient and outpatient
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Salon # 3
Connecting for Success |
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Director Patient Accounts, Gwinnett Hospital System, Lawrenceville, GA
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Georgia HFMA – President Elect 2008-09 &
Product Management Revenue
Cycle Solutions, McKesson
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| *Topic Overview: This session will provide an overview of a partnership approach in implementing new technology within a healthcare organization. Open communications is key to making connections in people, process and technology. |
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Italian Room
Advancing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records - Discussion
sponsored by: HIMSS Georgia Chapter |
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Moderator:
Sr. Director, Healthcare Information Systems, HIMSS |
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- Advancing the adoption of Electronic Health Records
- Physician / Hospital Electronic Health Record Integration
- Collaborating efforts with physicians to make EMR successful
- Electronic Health Records: Health Systems
- EMR & Patient Management System Implementation
- Electronic Medical Record implementation and public access
- How do we print everything in the electronic record?
- Release of a complete, legal electronic medical record
- RFID in Healthcare- What new, where is it going?
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Kenyan Room
Healthcare Compliance & Information Security Panel Discussion
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Moderator:
Chief Information Officer
Oconee Regional Medical Center |
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Discussion Panelist:
Applications Director & Information Security Officer
Henry Medical Center |
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- Compliance software systems
- JCAHO Accreditation for Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
- Post HIPAA - how has it impacted workflow
- HIPAA Compliance & Auditing: keeping ahead of the curve
- HIPAA Security: strategies that are working well
- How to Implement EMR's in Physician Offices under revised Stark Legislation
- E-prescribing and mandates
- Securing confidential data with IT
- Wireless security issues related to HIPAA
- Healthcare security controls -what new?
- Physician Compliance within a hospital setting
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Swiss Suites Room
Where Do You Begin When Implementing Project
PortfolioManagement: Process or Technology
sponsored by:
Project Management Institute - Healthcare Special Interest Group
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Sr. Project Manager
Southern Regional Medical Center |
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Manager of Client Services
Solution Q Inc. |
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*Topic Overview: Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic method of maximizing the value of an organization’s project investments. Many healthcare executives know they need to start a PPM initiative at their facility, but they don’t know where to begin. Should you begin with establishing process or technology? This session illustrates the pitfalls of either a pure process or a pure technology approach and provides you with a proven approach for successfully implementing Project Portfolio Management. Southern Regional Medical Center will discuss their approach taken to implement PPM enterprise wide, lessons learned and best practices. There is an important balance between people, process and technology that needs to be established and you will be provided with a roadmap to achieve PPM success. |
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12:15pm–1:15pm
Exhibits Open |
Luncheon buffet & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs |
1:15pm–2:00pm
Exhibits Open (Optional) |
Afternoon Event Sponsor Conference Presentations
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Presenter Company: IBM
Salon # 1 |
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Chief Medical Officer
IBM Corporation., Global Healthcare Industry, Provider Segment |
Presentation Topic: Think Outside the PACS Enterprise Medical Imaging Storage Solutions
Presentation Topic Overview: Medical imaging healthcare systems are typically designed around clinical workflow and medical specialty modalities. Their images are stored in isolated repositories with limited sharing of relevant health information to provide clinical context or cross-specialty knowledge integration. Emerging healthcare trends toward patient centric networks are driving our industry toward enterprise solutions for cross-specialty, decentralized enterprise data storage, information lifecycle management and PACS interoperability with direct access to medical images from electronic medical record systems. This presentation will explore the business drivers, value proposition, and current industry best practices to achieve these clinical objectives across medical specialties. |
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Presentation Topic: Automating IT Compliance for the Healthcare Industry
Presentation Topic Overview:This session will provide an Overview of the IT requirements from a Joint Commission and HIPAA perspective and highlight how Healthcare organizations can automate IT controls checks to align with Healthcare regulations. This session will provide insight on how to best prepare for IT Regulatory Audits. |
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Presentation Topic: Anesthesia Information System Adoption
Presentation Topic Overview: Anesthesia represents the last barrier of acceptance to electronic information systems. This presentation explores the dynamic that exists between facilities that desire an Anesthesia Information System and the Anesthesiologists who are resistant to such a system. Based on their experience with bringing other areas online with electronic documentation, facilities expect to see great financial, reporting, and patient safety gains from bringing anesthesia online with a system. Anesthesiologists, however, have real concerns about losing control of their records and increasing their risk for litigation if they are forced to go live with an electronic system. The solutions explored will be based on real-life accounts of anesthesia system adoption and will leave viewers with strategies for successful adoption of anesthesia information systems. |
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Presentation Topic: Mobility for Caregivers: New Solutions to Help Your Staff Be More Efficient
Presentation Topic Overview: Caregivers are becoming more and more encumbered with administrative tasks that restrict their time with patients. Additionally, HIPPA and other regulations require that patient information be better secured. This presentation will provide insights into new solutions and technology that can assist caregivers in improving the quality of patient care. It will also show how patient information can be made readily available and more secure with less effort, resulting in a higher quality of patient care, fewer medical errors, more secure data, and compliance with regulations. |
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President and CEO
Georgia Cancer Coalition |
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President & CEO
Maestro Strategies, LLC |
Presentation Topic: Building Bridges through Quality Metrics & Information Exchange - A Statewide Collaboration Story
Presentation Topic Overview: This presentation will provide insight into the history, current and future of quality information sharing within healthcare. A case study will highlight the unique approach being used to build a successful statewide quality information exchange. Finally, key lessons learned will be shared to guide other organizations interested in sharing data through quality information exchanges. |
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Presenter Company: SolCom
Swiss Suites Room |
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Presentation Topic: The Power of Workflow Automation
Presentation Topic Overview: The healthcare industry is under pressure to decrease expenses and Improve productivity. Other, bigger and even more expensive industries are doing it and with less people. Their advantage - workflow automation.
Workflow automation takes electronic information and puts it to work. Information automatically and electronically passes to those who need it throughout a process (for example, chart analysis, coding, deficiency completion, etc.).
This allows a paperless environment to not only collect information electronically, but also forward the information electronically. Workflow automation eliminates having to print records out for review and allows multiple users to process their part of the record.
Learn how hospitals across the U.S. and Canada are becoming paperless and enhancing their paperless environments with workflow technology. |
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2:00pm–2:30pm
Exhibits Open |
Break & network with other attendees and exhibiting company staffs (refreshments available) |
2:30pm–3:15pm
Exhibits Open (Optional) |
Afternoon Conference Panelist Discussion Tracks & Presentations
*note:(Some discussion topics may change or be substituted for another during the summer. Check back periodically leading up to event time for the latest). Additional panelists to be listed soon.
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Presentation Topic: Managing Critical Output in a Healthcare Environment
Presentation Topic Overview: Patient Care is often reliant on successfully delivering critical documents to their appropriate destinations as efficiently as possible. Time sensitive documents such as Bar Code labels, Medication Histories, Pharmacy labels etc. need to accompany the patient through their course of treatment without delay. Traditionally most healthcare applications rely on the underlying operating system for delivery of such patient sensitive critical data, resulting in unnecessary delays and administrative overhead. The solution presented will discuss how a single enterprise-wide delivery methodology can enhance patient care and lower costs throughout the organization. |
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Presentation Topic Overview: (check back soon) |
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Salon # 3
Healthcare Business Transaction and Financial Systems Panel Discussion
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Georgia HFMA – President Elect 2008-09 &
Product Management Revenue
Cycle Solutions, McKesson
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Georgia HFMA –
President 2007-08 & Senior Manager
Pershing Yoakley & Associates
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Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
West Georgia Health System
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- Increased revenue with electronic documentation
- Coding and Documentation to optimize reimbursement
- Software solutions that help manage account receivables
- Healthcare electronic data and payment interchange options
- IMPROVEMENT OF OUR REVENUE CYCLE
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Presentation Topic: Using Innovative Communication to Create More Time for Patient Care
Presentation Topic Overview: Health care is a mobile, communications-intensive, function-oriented and information-rich environment, but the methods of moving information and communicating haven’t yet adapted. A great deal of attention has been paid to the digital evolution of the health care industry—yet the digital evolution will not succeed without a strategic shift to dynamic communications. Response times are critical for healthcare practitioners. Delayed reactions caused by slow, inefficient processes and disparate communications systems compromise patient care. A dynamic, unified communications environment enables collaboration in real-time throughout large, multisite health care systems, decreases the time to deliver care and thus increase quality of care, improve clinician satisfaction and operational efficiencies. In this session we will discuss how to apply communication technologies to improve clinical and administrative workflows for acute, home care and hospice health care systems. |
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Presentation Topic: From Desktop to DICOM - How EMC is driving virtualization in Healthcare
Presentation Topic Overview: EMC and Vmware are leading the industry in new and innovative ways to increase the utilization of your servers, files, and storage through the use of virtualization technology and deliver timely information, expedite patient care diagnosis, improve clinical workflow, and speed time to treatment. This presentation will cover new and innovative ways to increase the utilization of your servers, files, and storage. |
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Presenter Company: InfoLogix
Swiss Suites Room |
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Presentation Topic: Technology – The solution or the vehicle?
Presentation Topic Overview: How to use technology as an enabler for change to optimize the value of your investment. Regardless of whether you are investing in software program for a small department or an EMR for an entire hospital system we will provide the attendee with a tried and proven methodology to maximize the return and value on investment. Tools such as process design, change management, risk mitigation and utilization of best practices help to get the most out of your investment. We will share some of our stories about what works and what doesn’t. Take Away Proven methodology to achieve benefits realization for almost any technology investment. |
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3:15pm
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Event is Over/Concludes |
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