CareScience to Host Expert Panel on Strategic Approaches to Public Reporting & Pay-for-Performance Initiatives.PHILADELPHIA -- CareScience 2006 Spring Educational Symposium to Address Challenges of Public Reporting and New Financial Incentives for Quality and Performance Improvement CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX) providing care management, clinical analysis and clinical quality improvement solutions, will host clinical and executive experts from leading healthcare organizations from across the country at its 2006 Spring Symposium, entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Public Reporting & Pay-for-Performance: Strategies for Success." The event will be held on Monday, May 22, 2006 at the Ritz Ritz elegant and luxurious hotel opened in Paris in 1898 by César Ritz; hence, ‘ritzy, putting on the ritz.’ [Fr. Hist.: Wentworth, 429] See : Luxury Carlton Hotel Carlton Hotel can refer to:
The CareScience(TM) 2006 Spring Symposium will provide a forum for the nation's leading healthcare executives, physician leaders and quality improvement practitioners to discuss developments in public reporting and pay-for-performance and how these initiatives will impact their organizations. The goal of the Symposium is to impart participants with the understanding and ability to design strategies that will meet new requirements, while simultaneously improving quality of care and financial performance at their organizations. "As the industry begins to implement more stringent public reporting requirements and healthcare payers embark on Verb 1. embark on - get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans pay-for-performance programs, hospitals and health systems will need to analyze and adapt their clinical and administrative processes accordingly to achieve efficiencies, manage resources and stay focused on quality of care," stated Thomas Zajac, president of CareScience and executive vice president for Quovadx. "We look forward to hosting this assembled panel of experienced leaders, many of whom have helped create, guide and implement public reporting and pay-for-performance initiatives. We feel strongly that this Symposium will help hospital and health system executives and leaders responsible for quality improvement meet new reporting requirements and quality standards head-on, as well as shed light on how they can best position their organizations for financial and clinical success in this new environment." The CareScience 2006 Spring Symposium will include shared experiences and insight by industry leaders, including: --How employers, payers and providers are working together to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. measure sets and craft sensible performance incentives --The impact of proposed CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. requirements on hospitals and how to best prepare and staff for the increased demands --How to adapt objectives of public reporting and pay-for-performance incentives to continue to support quality improvement and patient safety programs --Best practices to establish and implement technology to support public reporting data collection --How to prepare for the changing financial landscape for hospitals in a pay-for-performance world Speakers at the forum, from chief executive and medical officers to industry consultants, will present individually, as well as participate in a panel discussion. The scheduled faculty for the session includes, but is not limited to: --Lawrence M. Schecter, M.D., F.A.C.S., Chief Medical Officer , Providence Providence, city (1990 pop. 160,728), state capital and seat of Providence co., NE R.I., a port at the head of Providence Bay; founded by Roger Williams 1636, inc. as a city 1832. Everett Medical Center --Myron Berdischewsky, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Region, Providence Health & Services --Arnold Milstein, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health, U.S. Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer mer·cer n. Chiefly British A dealer in textiles, especially silks. [Middle English, from Old French mercier, trader, from merz, merchandise, from Latin merx Health & Benefits --Jonathan Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., President & Chief Executive Officer Qualis Health --Dave Edwards, Chief Medical Officer, Banner Desert Medical Center --Kristine Martin Anderson, M.B.A., Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., referred to as Booz Allen is one of the oldest strategy consulting firms in the world.[1] The firm formerly had two consulting divisions: WCB (Worldwide Commercial Business, also known as “The Commercial Side”) and WTB --Jolene Goedken, M.S., B.S.N., Vice President, Medical Services, Sisters of Mercy (R. C. Ch.) a religious order founded in Dublin in the year 1827. Communities of the same name have since been established in various American cities. The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect Health System Event Attendance: The 2006 CareScience Spring Symposium event is open to the public and to the media. To obtain an agenda, a complete list of speakers and topics or to register online today, please visit http://www.carescience.com/symposium. Discounts for attendance and accommodations are available if registration is completed by April 19th -- space is limited and reservations are recommended. To receive a complimentary media pass, please contact Andrea Lashnits at andrea.lashnits@quovadx.com. About CareScience CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (NASDAQ:QVDX), assists hospitals in translating organizational vision and goals into quality improvement plans that optimize optimize - optimisation patient outcomes and operational performance, increase staff efficiency and reduce costs. CareScience supplies the people and technology to help its customers ensure that high-quality care is delivered, throughout the healthcare system, through clinical data access and clinical process transformation. For more information, please visit www.carescience.com. QUOVADX and CareScience are trademarks of Quovadx, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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