Given the touch-and-go prospects for healthcare reform during the months planning Scottsdale Institute’s Spring 2010 Conference, our topic “Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform” was a big gamble. But what a payoff. From the first executive session to the final town hall, the seventeenth annual SI conference was unabashedly the best ever in...
"Healthcare Reform and Achieving Meaningful Use: The Pivotal Role of Clinical Business Intelligence" Texas Health Resources hosted the Scottsdale Institute Fall 2009 Forum September 24-25 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Given the national imperatives of meaningful use and health reform as well as the increasing need for business intelligence...
There might be some irony in the fact that Scottsdale Institute’s 16th Annual Spring Conference, held April 29 to May 1, 2009, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, was titled “IT Business Case, Value and Cost.” Good topics, covered well, as always, but the business-like title belied the sizzle...
"“Realizing the Promise of Healthcare IT” Hosted by Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Members create a call to action Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Conference, held September 25-26 at the brand new Prentice Women’s Hospital at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, blazed a new trail in terms of speakers, content and collegiality. Peter J. McCanna, executive vice president, administration, and...
"IT Enabling Community Care" Scottsdale Institute’s 15th Annual Spring Conference, held April 16-18 at the Camelback Inn, lived up to a vintage year with the best SI gathering ever. More than 115 executives from 30 member organizations joined together to discuss how IT enables community care—and demonstrated that SI member organizations are...
"Consumer-centered Care, Part Two What Consumers Want: Gleanings from SI’s Fall Conference" In keeping with Chairman Stan Nelson’s vision, we maintain a steady-as-you-go approach to thought leadership in the IE report. So, when we say the Fall Conference at Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta was perhaps the best ever in terms of speakers, content, hosts and tours,...
"Informatics and Technologies Transforming the Delivery of Care" Over 100 attendees representing more than 52 member organizations, sponsors and guests gathered together in blissful spring desert weather at Scottsdale Institute’s 13th Annual Spring Conference held April 25-27 at the Camelback Inn. Leading healthcare executives from across the nation tackled the issue of how IT...
"The IT-Quality Link " New York City’s Central Park South in the heart of Manhattan provided an urbane backdrop for Scottsdale Institute’s most successful fall conference yet, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Sept. 28-29 at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel. Herb Pardes, MD, president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian, welcomed 120 attendees from more than 50 member organizations and sponsors to the conference,...
"Physician Leadership in Information Technology" Nearly 140 attendees representing more than 52 member organizations, sponsors and guests graced the Camelback Inn April 6-8 at our annual spring conference, which was unmatched in its quality of speakers, presentations, audience participation—and beautiful desert weather. Heavy hitters keynoted general sessions, top industry experts led lively executive breakouts and...
Stan Nelson, Chairman of the Scottsdale Institute, welcomed attendees and thanked John Glaser, CIO, and his Partners HealthCare team for hosting S.I.’s fourth fall conference. Mr. Glaser also welcomed everybody to Partners and Boston, which has an incredible concentration of world-class healthcare facilities. Partners is the largest non-governmental employer in Massachusetts, with 4-million outpatient visits, 160,000 admissions, $1 billion...
