Hospital EHR and Healthcare Analytics Google+ Hangout

Note: The video image below will become a live stream of the discussion about 5 minutes before the live video stream begins.

What: A Google+ Video Hangout with John Lynn, Dana Sellers and James Kouba discussing Hospital EHR and Healthcare Analytics.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. EST
Location: About 5 minutes before the event, we’ll embed the video stream on this page or you can find the video stream on the Healthcare Scene Google+ page as well.

Details:
Mark your calendars to join the following healthcare experts as they discuss the latest happenings with hospital EHR, meaningful use and healthcare analytics.

• John Lynn, Founder of Healthcare Scene and Influential Networks
• Dana Sellers, CEO at Encore Health Resources
• James Kouba, IT Strategic and Advisory Services at Encore Health Resources

The video will be available to view live on this page and the recorded video will be embedded on this page after the hangout as well.

If you have any questions you’d like to pose before or during the hangout, send them to @ehrandhit on Twitter and we’ll do our best to incorporate them into the discussion.

Dana Sellers, Chief Executive Officer, Encore Health Resources
Dana Sellers is the CEO of Encore Health Resources, one of the fastest-growing consulting firms in the Healthcare IT industry, and one of Modern Healthcare’s “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” for two years in a row. Dana has more than 25 years’ experience in healthcare, technology, and consulting. She works with healthcare providers across the U.S., helping them bring about positive change through improved processes, enabling technology, and the insights that come from business intelligence and health analytics. Dana has assisted both small and large provider organizations with strategic planning, has managed large clinical transformation projects, and has served as CIO for an academic teaching hospital and for a large integrated delivery network.

Dana has broad experience in healthcare and information technology. Before founding Encore in January 2009, Dana was President and Chief Operating Officer of Healthlink, which at the time was the largest privately-held, provider-focused healthcare information system consulting firm. When IBM acquired Healthlink, Dana served as a Partner in IBM’s Global Business Services organization and leader for the U.S. Healthcare Provider team.

Dana’s career has also included leadership roles in DuPont Healthcare Products and Trinity Computing Systems.

Dana is involved in healthcare and healthcare technology at a national, state and local level. Dana has served on the Board of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the CHIME Foundation, and the CHIME Education Foundation. She is committed to improving the health of her local community, as well, and is a past Chair of the Board of Healthcare for the Homeless in Houston, where she lives.

James Kouba, IT Strategic & Advisory Services, Encore Health Resources
Jim brings Encore nearly 30 years’ experience in designing and delivering IT solutions, including over 25 years of data modeling experience and 20 years in the healthcare industry. He is recognized as an excellent communicator and is effective in large corporate environments as well as in smaller, entrepreneurial settings. Jim has engineered numerous enterprise and warehouse, patient-oriented data models for healthcare, including a healthcare-provider industry model. He has extensive healthcare industry experience covering analytics, business intelligence, systems integration, systems operations, and data integration.