Healthcare Reform: What’s the Immediate Impact on Cardiovascular IT?

Originally broadcast on Oct. 2, 2012

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Webinar Overview:

Dana Pfenninger, practice manager, The Advisory Board Company, illustrates how cardiologists and administrators are strategically using business and IT tools to respond to a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have significant impact on healthcare providers and their cardiovascular departments. While the ruling will increase the patient population, revenue and reimbursement pressure for healthcare providers will only continue to mount.  These pressures, combined with the financial rewards and penalties associated with ACA, and the need to deliver measurable patient outcomes and quality levels of care, will have an impact on today’s cardiovascular professionals.

Pfenninger will discuss how your healthcare peers are addressing and finding success against these industry pressures.  James Jay, GM and vice-president, CVIT solutions, GE Healthcare will add to the dialog with deep industry expertise and a discussion on the new Centricity Cardio Enterprise solution – a Web-based, unified enterprise cardiovascular solution that combines imaging, workflow, and analytics and reporting.  Centricity Cardio Enterprise is a comprehensive solution that can help cardiology departments and hospital administrators respond quickly to today’s healthcare challenges.

Presenters:

Dana Pfenninger, practice manager, The Advisory Board Company

Dana  Pfenninger is a practice manager with the Cardiovascular Roundtable. Dana joined The Advisory Board Company in 2003 and has since directed projects within the cardiovascular terrain, including clinical quality, medical cardiology and readmissions, service line organizational structure, physician alignment strategies, and healthcare reform. She has expertise in statistical analysis and has built upon her past experience as a clinical trials coordinator where she published multiple articles on cardiovascular disease in peer-reviewed journals. Dana received her undergraduate degree and master of public health in epidemiology at The University of Michigan.

James Jay, VP and GM, CVIT Solutions, GE Healthcare

James Jay is the vice-president and global general manager (GM) for cardiovascular IT and imaging at GE Healthcare. As the GM, he has global oversight for GE Healthcare’s cardiovascular information technology business developing, marketing and servicing enterprise imaging and information systems products for cardiology departments in healthcare providers, spanning invasive and noninvasive care areas. James brings extensive healthcare IT clinical workflow domain expertise in cardiology and radiology to his role.

James holds a MBA in global management from the American InterContinental University and a BS in computer and information science from the University of Oregon.

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