"Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform 2012" Hosting a great annual conference is one way for a nearly 20-year-old organization to get better every year and that’s exactly what we achieved at Scottsdale Institute’s Spring 2012 Conference, which extended and deepened our discussion of how to excel in patient care and population...
“Becoming Accountable In Healthcare,” hosted by St. Vincent Health/Ascension Health, Indianapolis. Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, held October 6 – 7, 2011, at the brand-new JW Marriott in Indianapolis, brought us to a large faith-based health system that is focused on mission as it moves forward like other...
"Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform 2011" Reflecting the unfolding nature of healthcare reform, Scottsdale Institute’s Spring 2011 Conference advanced last year’s theme. We have a lot to talk about after a year into reform, and our speakers did not disappoint the 100 attendees from SI member organizations and sponsors at the Camelback Inn...
"Enabling Best Practice Care", hosted by Intermountain Healthcare. Scottsdale Institute’s Annual Fall Forum, held September 30–October 2, 2010, at the stunning Snowbird Conference Center in Snowbird, Utah, literally brought us home to one of America’s pioneer health systems. SI Chairman Stan Nelson introduced Charles Sorenson, MD, CEO of Intermountain...
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,...
