The eleventh annual Scottsdale Institute Spring Conference, “Meeting the Future: The Role of IT and Process Improvement,” was held April 14-16, 2004, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Ariz. A record attendance of executives from leading healthcare organizations and government agencies provided a veritable Who’s Who of healthcare....

The Third Annual Scottsdale Institute Fall Conference was held Oct. 16-17, 2003, at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Having our fall conference at a member site like M.D. Anderson has proven to be a popular strategy because 1) it provides a real-world setting for conference presentations and panels, and 2)...

The ninth annual Scottsdale Institute Conference, “From Strategy to Reality—Leading the Cultural Transformation,” was held April 18-20, 2002, at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona. One hundred executives from leading healthcare organizations participated in what turned out to be one of the Institute’s most interactive and dynamic conferences. Sublime weather provided a relaxed backdrop to...

The Scottsdale Institute’s eighth annual Membership Conference was held at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 4-6, 2001. A record number of attendees heard a variety of speakers and topics ranging from Bill Dwyer’s compelling look at how pharmaceuticals and genomics is changing medicine to Don Wegmiller’s richly...