Enterprise eHealth Strategy
Transforming health care using information technology
- Program Overview
- Program Objectives
- Registration Information
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Program Overview
Increasing health care cost in the US has reached the tipping point. It is driving down corporate profits,
increasing their financial risk, limiting job growth, and encouraging offshoring. It is a matter of grave concern
to senior executives of private and public organizations, large and small. Information technology will be central
to reining in the costs while simultaneously improving quality and consumer satisfaction. eHealth applications
deployed by employers, providers, pharmaceuticals, insurers, retailers and others can transform health care the
way retailing and financial services industries have been transformed. There is a national effort to mobilize this
transformation. We will discuss and debate the critical barriers to and facilitators of such a transformation
drawing upon on the best current research and the rich experience of the participants, and develop solutions of
immediate value to the participants and their peers in the region. These solutions will be invaluable to developing
an enterprise eHealth strategy to restrain the health care cost from tipping over the enterprise and the economy.
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Program Objective
There is an enormous gap between the state-of-the-practice and the state-of-the practice in containing health care cost:
the problems are known, the solutions are available, but the two have to be brought together. eHealth applications can
bridge this gap. Using information technology, these applications can unleash the power of information to improve quality,
increase accountability, control costs, enhance learning, introduce transparency and in short, transform health care.
An enterprise needs an eHealth strategy to systematically use eHealth applications to respond to the chaotic structure
and growth of health care cost. Such a strategy has to be aligned with the enterprise's business strategy and information
technology strategy. These three strategies together have to encapsulate new business models necessary to contain the
health care cost without compromising quality or satisfaction. They have to contain incentives for consumers to comply
with the best course of treatment and to choose the best insurance plans; incentives for physicians to follow best
practice guidelines and use the best current evidence; procedures for employers to deploy the best tools to obtain and
analyze the data to manage their financial risks and optimize incentives for their employees and incentives for
providers and insurers to reengineer their business processes adopt these applications.
In the course, we will discuss these critical components of an enterprise eHealth strategy. The objectives of this
course will be five-fold:
- To help employers contribute to the top-line and the bottom-line through their enterprise eHealth strategy
- To help health care providers improve quality, reduce cost, and minimize errors through their enterprise eHealth strategy
- To help eHealth application vendors design their deliverables to meet the needs of the employers' and providers' eHealth strategy
- To help insurers tailor their plans to promote effective use of eHealth applications
- To help researchers analyze the critical issues in developing and implementing enterprise eHealth strategies
| Program #: | EES |
| Fee: | $795 |
| Dates: | 20 classroom hours, dates to be announced |
| Time: | 6 - 8:30pm |
| Location: | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Address and Room No: | To be announced |
| Registration Deadline: | To be announced |
| Discounts: | SAVE 15% if you register with a team of 3 or more employees from your organization (a savings of $119.25!)
SAVE 20% if you are a University of Illinois employee, student, or alumni (a savings of $159)! |
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Dr. Arkalgud Ramaprasad
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