CentreSource Great Web Developers and Designers

HCA .Net Developer

Emdeon Software Engineer

HealthSpring Business Analyst

Microsoft Technical Account Manager

Here are the results:

1st Place – Team HealthSpring
Mike Mirt
Sonny Terrill
Ben Flatt
Dylan Waters

2nd Place – Team Ciber
Mike Strom
Chuck Minor
Dwayne Collier
Stephen Petricca

3rd Place – Team Peak 10
Drew Fassett
Steve Roadman
Kevin Watford
Phil Reissig

Long Drive – Drew Fassett – Peak 10

Closest to the Pin – Ram Hari – Emdeon

Congratulations to all! It was a very fun day and we hope to see you again next year!

The Naked Hospital is a super roundtable, half day event being held August 26th, 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Jamison Hall in The Factory at Franklin.

Transparency has become even more important in the past year as we begin the healthcare reform discussion. The Naked Hospital is the fist event in Nashville to bring quality, marketing, transparency, and technology in health care together. We will focus on how and why health systems and hospitals should focus on quality reporting as well as financial reporting. At the end of the day,this level of reporting puts additional strains on the information systems and resources deployed by most health systems and hospitals. How will they cope? What is the next step? The Naked Hospital will take the user experience from high level strategy through national and state legislative issues through practical, hands on tools to walk away with.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS ARE:
– Congressman Jim Cooper
– Miriam Paramore (SVP, Emdeon)
– Dr. Stephanie Bailey, MD, MSHSA (Former Chief of Public Health Practice, CDC)
– Michael Boroch (CEO, Smart Room)
– Bill Brown (CEO, Entrada)
– Janet King (Nashville Health Exchange)
- Sean Cassidy (SVP, IBM Global Health Services)
-David Jarrard (Jarrard, Phillips, Cate, & Hancock)

Admission is $50 for NTC members, $75 for non-NTC members, and $200 for a member table of 8. Breakfast and lunch will be served.

Click Here to Register

Naked Hospital is Underwritten by:

Breakfast Sponsor

Lunch Sponsor

Track Sponsors

Follow us at twitter.com/nashtechnology throughout the day or better yet, come join us at the Franklin Marriott in Cool Springs.

8:00 – Welcome

8:05 – Keynote Speaker
Kent Freeman, Chief Technology Officer, Ingram Digital

8:40 – Panel:  How to get Stimulus Money
Moderator:  Richard Taylor, Ciber
Jamie Etheridge, Deputy CIO, State of Tennessee
Miriam Paramore, Sr. Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Emdeon
Ron Holcomb, President/CEO, Pulaski Electric System

9:25 – Break / Networking / Exhibits

9:40 – Annual IT Hiring Trends Report

10:10 – Panel:  “Dashboards, Widgets and Other Components to Track Performance”
Moderator:  Bayard Saunders, Bohan Advertising
Michael Summar, President, The Analytics Group
Garrett Harper, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
Jackson Miller
Major Wang, President, Decision Source

10:55 - Break / Networking / Tabletops

11:15 – Panel:  “It Came from Nashville”
Moderator:  Nicholas Holland, Owner, centre{source}
David Delaney, Griffin Technology
David Ledgerwood, President, ALOC Group LLC
Randy Smith, Smith Travel Research
Ed Braswell, edo Interactive
David Bullock, Co-Author, Barack 2.0
Jeff Gardner, Chief Operating Officer, Value Payment Systems

12:00 - Lunch / Networking / Exhibits

12:30 – Keynote Speaker
Clint Smith, Co-Founder, Emma, Inc.

1:05 – Adjourn

It is a busy time for Emdeon, a provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions and clinical data exchange. Emdeon, who holds the single largest national health information network, has recently launched an initiative that focuses on stopping the use of paper in basic business transactions in the healthcare industry, which in turn will save billions of dollars every year.

“We have partnered with the Center for Health Transformation, founded by Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and are working with federal and state governments, to offer ideas for achieving immediate savings,” Susanne Powell, Director of Corporate Communications for Emdeon, said. “The cornerstone of Emdeon’s efforts is the launch of the U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index™ with a goal of creating a single national reference for tracking the industry’s transition from a paper-based manual system to an efficient electronic one.”

The development of the U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index has been a year in the making. The idea that something needed to be done to conserve paper and save money came about during industry and public policy discussions.

“Miriam Paramore, Emdeon’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Government Affairs, spearheaded the development of the Index to raise awareness of potential savings and bring the industry together to measure progress and overcome any remaining barriers,” Powell said.

The Index is being launched in phases. Phase 1 is complete and highlights cost saving opportunities based on available industry data. Phase 2 is currently underway and includes primary research being conducted in partnership with the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt. Data will be collected directly from payers and providers to provide an accurate measurement of progress. Future phases of the Index will expand its scope beyond medical claims to include dental, pharmacy, worker’s compensation and others. The information provided in each phase will become more specific as the Index progresses.

“The first phase of the Index focused on gathering industry data around five basic healthcare business transactions – eligibility, claim submission, claim status inquiry, claim payment and remittance advice (the paper that shows how much was paid on a claim),” Powell said. “Administrative waste from these five transactions adds up to $30 billion per year – and $11 billion could be saved each year just by going from paper checks to direct deposit.”

Awareness of how much money was being spent on paper for basic business transactions was very low. Thanks to the development of the Index, understanding of the problem is starting to rise. Emdeon has taken, and will continue to take, the steps needed to get out the word.

“Emdeon created a social marketing campaign focused on the question, “What would you do with $30 billion?,” Powell said. “Emdeon also collaborated with the Center for Health Transformation on a whitepaper, “Taking the Paper Out of Paperwork” that was released at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Chicago. Speaker Gingrich also produced a video that talks about the Index.”

Technology is the key to unlocking the savings identified in the Index. Emdeon, and the healthcare industry as a whole, must be aware of the most up-to-date innovations occurring in the technology world. The Nashville Technology Council helps inform companies of these innovations. Emdeon has been a member of the Council since 2004.

“Technology and healthcare are vital parts of the Nashville economy, and the NTC has done a great job of promoting these important industries and fostering dialogue and development among its members,” Powell said. “Emdeon looks forward to an ongoing and productive relationship with the Council.”

For further information about the U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index™ please visit the following links:
US Healthcare Index
www.save30billion.com

Hear more about Emdeon’s efforts with the Stimulus Package at Technology Nashville Conference, May 21st.  Susanne Powell, Director of Corporate Communications, will be representing Emdeon in a panel discussion surrounding “How to Get Stimulus Money.” Click Here to find out more.

Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions that connect payers, providers and patients to integrated and automated key business and administrative functions, throughout the patient encounter. Emdeon is owned by General Atlantic LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC.