UGC 2005: Presentation Abstracts

BayCare Health System: "Improving Clinical Outcomes and Achieving Pay-for-Performance Goals"

Baycare is one of 278 hospitals participating in the Premier/CMS Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project. This is a 3 year project linking Medicare payment with quality measures, with increased reimbursement for those hospitals with the best quality measures. This presentation will review some of the insights BayCare have had into care processes and some of the subsequent process improvements.

"Integration with Eclipsys Sunrise DSS (TSI) and Inpatient Utlization Models"

This presentation will review BayCare's IT infrastructure and models, and outline the six sigma quality program that has recently been introduced.

Florida's Natural Growers: "Diver - It's What's for Lunch: Moving All Corporate and Departmental Reporting to Diver"

Florida's Natural Growers, one of the nation's leading producers of orange juice products, has implemented Diver across the enterprise, making it the standard organizational reporting tool. While information silos have been effective for departmental reporting in the past, making information available to the entire organization opens possibilities to integrate data from across the company. This provides better understanding and decision-making based on deeper, richer sets of data, reports and graphical views.

Lee Memorial Health System: "Improving ED Throughput, Patient Flow, and a Look at LMHS' Award-Winning HR Practices"

Lee Memorial uses HospitalAnalysis widely throughout the organization. Thie presentation focuses on measuring and improving ED productivity, plus a look at Lee Memorial's award-winning HR practices.

Mutual Distributing: "Leveraging Models through DivePort"

This presentation discusses how DivePort enabled Mutual Distributing to securely share information with other companies over the internet. By making slight modifications to existing models that were used internally, and by using the flexibility and security afforded by DiveLine, it was possible to easily create customized sales and account information tailored for and accessible by each supplier.

Parkview Health: "Implementing a Provider Network Reporting Portal using DI-DivePort"

The managed care services division of Parkview Health use ManagedCareAnalysis to manage HMO, PPO and TPA contracts. This presentation will review Parkview's use of DivePort to deliver information to its provider network.

River Valley Health: "Transitioning from MEDITECH ESS to an Integrated Decision Support Environment"

River Valley Health serves a population of 165,000 in New Brunswick. This presentation will discuss River Valey's recent adoption of HospitalAnalysis to help a transformation to a culture of evidence-based decision making.

Roland Corporation: "DivePort - Experiences of an Early Adopter"

This presentation will provide a brief discussion of DivePort pages, portals and portlets. It will answer the question "Where does DivePort fit in to the overall information delivery strategy"? And, "Who are the targeted users?" Session participants will learn how Roland approached the development and deployment of DivePort, the data chosen for presentation, and how to differentiate the views for specific groups of users. In addition, a live demonstration will show DivePort in use today, along with html pages to provide help-text guidance for the users, and how administrators customize the pages with external content.

Trellis Healthcare Consulting and Phoenix Health Plan: "Medicaid Utilization"

Phoenix Health Plan covers over 100,000 lives in 3 Arizona counties. This presentation will review some of the many models have been developed to provide management insight into key areas such as claims, physician utilization, and bed days.