September 27, 2011
HIE Leadership and Sustainability: Availity and Sandlot
In the fourth class of the NeHC University Fall semester, Health Information Exchange (HIE) organizations Sandlot and Availity continue the Spotlight Learning Series on HIE Leadership and Sustainability. Executives from these two HIEs will discuss their organizations' backgrounds, business models, critical success factors, key challenges, connectivity strategies, value propositions and impact in their communities, and future outlook. Leaders will also discuss how they are positioning their organizations to be successful in an environment requiring increased accountability, their strategies for consumer engagement, and how they have designed their business models to help ensure long-term sustainability.
Presenters:
Kimberly Alise, CEO-Sandlot
September 21, 2011
Clinical Decision Support- Improving Patient Outcomes and Cost Effeciency
This session will show how organizations can prepare themselves for accountable care by aligning clinical and financial data from key sources, including internal organizational department data, external community stakeholders, healthcare providers and other strategic partners. This session will also show how all healthcare community stakeholders- physicians, health systems, payers and patients- benefit from a shared source of data and measures. The audience will see clinical case outcomes from recent patient encounters that show the necessary elements to achieve optimal care coordination, reduced costs and increased patient satisfaction.
Presenter:
Tom Deas, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Office, Sandlot LLC
March 26, 2011
Evolving to an ACO: Better Patient Outcomes and Lower Expenditures
This session will show how the fundamentals to ACO formation, HIE and clinical decision support tools improve quality of care, cost efficiencies, and overall patient and physician satisfaction.
Presenters:
Tom Deas, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Office, Sandlot LLC
March 23, 2011
Laying the Foundation for Accountable Care
The momentum for health information exchange (HIE) is shifting the focus of the healthcare enterprise to its integration with the medical community. This webinar will discuss HIE from an enterprise perspective, and share best practices learned from North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP), a 600+ physician IPA and one of the nation's leading commercial examples of successfully deploying Lawson Enterprise Exchange along with Sandlot services and point-of-care clinical decision support tools.
Presenters:
Lynne Dunbrack, program director, IDC Health Insights
Tom M. Deas, Jr., MD, Sandlot, LLC
Jerry Rankin, industry strategy director, Lawson Healthcare
December 9, 2010
Sandlot Large Physician Group Leverages HIE for True EMR Interoperability
North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP), a 600 MD IPA in Ft. Worth, Texas is a pioneer in successfully driving large scale clinical integration, improving quality, managing cost and improving provider and patient satisfaction through its Health Information Exchange (HIE) and integrated EMRs – SandlotConnect. The HIE is interoperable with seven hospitals, two national laboratory providers, two e-prescribing systems, two major radiology groups and three EHR applications. There are more than 1.5 million unique patients participating, generating 50,000 clinical transactions each day. Come hear how NTSP and Lawson are successfully driving HIE.
Presenters:
Thomas M. Deas Jr. MD, Chief Medical Officer, Sandlot
Jerry Rankin, Director - Product Management, Lawson
