Examples of seminars previously offered by Charter Solutions. If you are interested in scheduling one of these topics for your company, please contact Mark Jahn

Leveraging Information to Deliver Quality Care at the Appropriate Cost

Establish a systematic, evidence-based approach to achieve quality, reduce waste and optimize costs. Specifically that means to:

• Identify variation in clinical process
• Implement best practices
• Turn data into useful information
• Make it easy for clinicians to do “the right thing”

Objectives of this session:

• Present case studies of systematic quality improvement
• Introduce the Adaptive Improvement Framework ™ principles:
• Prioritization – Key Process Analysis
• Clinical Integration – Clinical Management Infrastructure
• Measurement System Infrastructure – Adaptive Data Warehouse™
• Implementation Support – Care Process Modeling

Pathway to Achieving Meaningful Use and Stimulus Funding

Using Healthcare Analytics will not only set the stage for success but create lasting long term value for your organization.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) including the HITECH provisions call for significant Electronic Health Record (EHR) compliance reporting. Meaningful Use of an EHR encompasses all relevant components of the Patient’s record and will include multiple transactional applications and clinical repositories. Utilization of a Data Warehouse and Healthcare Analytics will not only enable bringing the Enterprise into compliance but also set the stage for long term management of key clinical performance indicators.

This session will look at the data requirements for the analytical data warehouse and implications on transactional feeder systems.

• Understanding the Meaningful Use Criteria
• Identifying data requirements / sources
• Managing data quality, and
• Creating the framework for analytical success

 

Building a Business Case for Healthcare Analytics

Based upon feedback from our last seminar (Dashboards and Scorecards - Keeping Your Fingers on the Pulse of Healthcare), we are now offering a seminar focused on building a business case for Healthcare Analytics.  Some of the main areas of concern expressed are:

• Increasing quality performance
• Reducing the cost of providing regulatory reporting
• Realizing available federal funding for tracking quality metrics, and
• Capturing all earned revenue

Acquiring funding and executive support for an analytics program can be daunting. Generally, the most significant challenge comes in building a justification that will be endorsed, funded, and supported by key leadership. Join us as we explore how to build key components to a successful business case for healthcare analytics:

• Exploring financial impacts - Return on Investment (ROI) opportunities
• Identifying and targeting key pain points
• Identifying and engaging the right executives
• Building a right-sized approach

Dashboards and Scorecards:
Keep Your Finger on the Pulse of Healthcare

With increasing financial and reporting pressures driving business changes in the healthcare provider landscape, trying to keep your finger on the pulse of your business operations and react effectively and efficiently is becoming more crucial to the success of your healthcare organization. Having accurate, reliable solutions is a must, defining the right metrics and areas to monitor, critical.

This session discussed the value of creating specific dashboards and scorecards for running your organization:

• Understanding and managing financial performance
• Tracking quality and safety metrics
• Understanding patient flows
• Monitoring operations

 

Agile Architecture: Realizing IT Flexibility in a World of Business Change

Agile architectures allow systems to react to business changes with minimum effort or impact on core system code.  This presentation defined the need for agile architecture and then illustrated how key tools and approaches can act as enablers in their creation and maintenance. It also addressed key challenges facing today’s IT and Business leaders, such as:

• How do I keep my architecture flexible and stable enough to respond to change and control costs?
• What application development or architecture methodologies help facilitate the standardization of skills?
• How can we better deliver rapid application integration, data migration, or system consolidation for a newly combined enterprise?
• If we move away from packaged ERP to a best-of-breed solution, can IT still efficiently deliver on business services?

 

SOA - The Buzz and the Reality

This seminar covered the following topics:

• Discover the various facets of SOA
• Recognize opportunities to leverage SOA
• Discuss SOA limitations
• Discover and prioritize quick-hits for SOA success
• Develop strategies to overcome typical SOA pitfalls

Risk Management and Security in SOA

Enterprises are using SOA and Web Services to integrate and decentralize systems as never before. But classic IT “castle and moat” style security architectures don’t work well in these environments. This session describes a business risk management approach to building security into an SOA strategy. We review architectural approaches, key risk management decisions, personnel, and metrics that allow security services to enable growth and interoperability.