The Business Case

EMR Costs and Benefits

Guests: Dr. David Ehrenberger, Broomfield Family Practice and Chief Medical Officer, Avista Hospital
              Doug Bach, CEO and Founder of HD Consult
Date:   Friday, April 2, 2010
Time:  1:00pm- 2:00pm MST

Part 4 of ALN Medical Management's 4-Part EMR Educational Series

We hear a lot about the benefits of using an EMR - improved patient care, decreased medical errors, improved physician productivity, and better revenue cycle performance.  But how do all of these benefits compare to the investment required to implement an EMR? How should you think about the total costs of adopting EMR technology from one-time costs to the ongoing costs? What benefits can you really realize in order to see a positive financial return on your investment?

Join us for the final installment of ALN's EMR series as we review the financial costs and benefits associated with an EMR.  We will learn from the experience of Dr. David Ehrenberger, Broomfield Family Practice and Chief Medical Officer of Avista Hospital, and Doug Bach, CEO and Founder, HD Consult.  They will deliver a real life look at their experiences with EMR investment and provide direction on the best approach to achieve a favorable financial return.

Key Topics
•  The cost model: everything that needs to be considered
•  Tangible benefits: what is real and what is fiction
•  Intangible or hard to quantify benefits
•  The challenges of realizing benefits
•  Setting expectations for payback timing
•  Measuring and reporting the ROI results

About our Guests

Doug Bach
Doug Bach is a Health Information Technology pioneer and founder of HDConsult. Doug understands the healthcare industry from several perspectives, based on his experience with insurance carriers, Medical and Behavioral Health provider communities, IPAs, Community Health Centers and many other provider market segments. With this perspective, Doug can assist healthcare organizations in formulating and executing strategies that allow them to achieve their business goals.

Doug currently serves as the Managing Partner for both HDConsult, and sister company ClinicConnection. He serves as the Project Manager for several Health Information Exchange (HIE) projects and is engaged as the Project Manager for the installation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for a large community health center.

Doug previously served as virtual Chief Information Officer for several organizationsand has worked with a number of organizations to perform IT transitions.Prior to founding HDConsult, Doug spent four years working with several start-up healthcare information technology firms to develop IT designs, business plans and business partner relationships in order to secure venture capital investments.Additonally, Doug spent 15 years at Rocky Mountain Health Care Company where, among other things, he was accountable for IT planning and execution.

For more information about Doug Bach or HDConsult, visit www.hdconsult.net

Dr. David Ehrenberger
Dr. Ehrenberger serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Avista Adventist Hospital and the CMO and Vice President for the integrated Physicians Network.A board certified family practice physician with Broomfield Family Practice, Dr. Ehrenberger attended Tufts University School of Medicine and did his residency at the University of California, Los Angeles.He is also clinical assistant professor of medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dr. Ehrenberger has been actively involved in quality improvement at Avista, and has also been a key driver in the collaborative partnership of four local providers—Avista, the Boulder County Health Department, Clinica Campesina and the Integrated Physician’s Network—who are working together to create an electronic health record initiative for patients.

He holds numerous awards and honors for his work, and prior to joining the Avista team served as clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

For more information about Dr. Ehrenberger or Avista Adventist Hospital, visit www.avistahospital.org

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