Videos

Katrina Miller and Esther Lee of L.A. Care Health Plan discuss the challenges of managing the data from different population sets and the importance of top level support in getting big data initiatives off the ground.

Sponsored by Xerox. While there is optimism around the shift, payers and providers have a long list of concerns. Where is the industry finding the most challenge now?

Steve Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS, talks about some of the major announcements and activities at HIMSS16, including new government funding for health IT and emerging new payment models.

How has investment in health IT provided real value to your hospital or health system? Rod Piechowski, Senior Director of Health Information Systems at HIMSS, discusses how organizations should now analyze the value of health IT more critically to achieve better outcomes.

Nephi Walton, MD, MS, of Washington University School of Medicine, shares an example from his experience using data analytics to help predict unanticipated surges in patient volume, allowing the children's hospital he worked at to forecast the need for increased staffing and budget accordingly.

"There can be a snowball effect, where you have more and more costs that often could have been prevented by just doing better primary care." - James A. Colbert, MD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Linda Burt, Chief Financial Officer for Nebraska Methodist Health System, talks about how her organization has adapted to the ever-changing financial landscape in healthcare by adding specialized staff and adopting new technologies.

Bert Zimmerli, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Intermountain Healthcare, enthuses about wireless technology, sensors and connected health as they pertain to the growing focus on revenue cycle management in healthcare.

Jeffery D. Hurst, SVP Finance at Florida Hospital, describes changes in revenue cycle management at his organization, including a new focus on analytics and an emphasis on driving patient engagement.

In this video from the Healthcare Triage series, writer Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS, explains how we can measure the efficacy of therapies by using the utility value of different health states as a proxy for quality.