Healthcare and Automation - Not Smarter Machines: Smarter Man-Machine Processes

Overview:

Healthcare is often driven by factors extraneous to but impacting on care delivery: regulation, revenue cycle, supplychain and many others.

Now, enter IT automation as a companion driving force - no longer in the business office but out on the floors. Old news, but still a problem that needs to be addressed: how to best integrate it smoothly.

Why you should Attend: There are many examples of successful EMR, HIE, and other automation implementations within American healthcare.

There are also many examples of projects not going according to plan, with the attendant cost-overruns and missed schedule dates. Equally important is that even the dates that are met often don't deliver as promised.

How can this be avoided? This session will explore this question and provide some thoughts and answers.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Hype points - define and eliminate
• True points - define the real concerns and clarify them
• Starting point - where to begin, steps to take, and decision points

Who Will Benefit:

• COO
• CIO
• CISO
• CPO
• CFO
• Other Business and Technology leaders within a Healthcare Organization

Speaker Profile
Ross A. Leo has been in Information Systems for more than 35 years, and an Information Security professional for much of that time. He has worked internationally as a Systems Analyst/Engineer, and as a Security and Privacy Consultant. His past employers include IBM, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Rockwell International. A NASA contractor for 22 years, from 1998 to 2002 he was Director of Security Engineering and Chief Security Architect for Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Leo was the Director of Information Systems, and Chief Information Security Officer for the Managed Care Division of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.