HealthIT Insight

Healthcare Providers

Health IT Insight 2009 will show you the latest technologies and collaborative initiatives that are extending provider business models, IT strategies and portfolios and creating "virtual" healthcare enterprises.

Key topics and issues to be addressed in a dedicated Provider Track and collaborative sessions include:

Top 10 business and IT initiatives for healthcare providers through 2010: How will these shape your IT strategies and investment priorities?

Top 10 payer business and technology initiatives through 2010: How will payer initiatives affect provider business and IT strategies?

Consumer Directed Health Plans and other high-deductible forms of health insurance: What are the business and IT strategies needed to optimize your response?

Payer-Provider Collaboration: What are best practice collaborative initiatives and success factors between payers and providers?

Pay for performance update: Is any alignment in sight? What is the best strategy for 2009-2010 P4P investment?

Payer Influence: How can (should?) payers influence clinical data exchange and provider adoption of technology (e.g., RHIOs, electronic health records)?

Server, desktop and storage virtualization: Learn how one leading edge healthcare provider organization is reaping significant economic advantage by harnessing the power of this technology.

RHIOs, HIEs and the NHIN: What's hype and what's hope? Many provider organizations have sat on the sidelines. Is now the time to get in the game?

Telemedicine: The next frontier for healthcare IT represents many technologies addressing not one, but many different clinical processes. What are the distinct sub-segments of this market and what is driving and what is inhibiting its spread? What does the future hold in the areas of patient care, care management and disease management?

EMRs, CPOE, and point of care devices: What are the latest form factors and their strengths and weaknesses? What are the most popular form factors in use today at, and future buying plans of, provider organizations?

Business and clinical intelligence applications: How have leading edge provider organizations harnessed the power of this technology and what have they achieved?