Jim Adams
Mr. Adams leads the research for the Advisory Board’s IT Strategy Council. Previously, he was executive director of IBM’s Center for Health Care Management, focused on global thought leadership. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Adams was a senior leader at Healthlink and Gartner and has C-suite experience in a variety of industries. Mr. Adams serves on national committees and advisory boards for health care organizations and is a frequent speaker on strategic health care IT topics, including accountable care, meaningful use, and ICD-10. Mr. Adams holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Texas Tech University and a MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Tuesday January 17th
Pre Conference Workshops
12:30 p.m. – 01:30 p.m.
Workshop 1: The Health IT Roadmap for Accountable Care
Jim Adams, Managing Director, The Advisory Board Company
Many health care organizations will have to make significant additional investments in IT-related capabilities to help address the shifting of risks for costs, quality and outcomes to providers and individual consumers under accountable care. This session describes the various types or levels of risk that organizations will likely assume under accountable care and the IT-related capabilities that they will need for each type of risk to be successful.
Thursday January 19th
Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit
Keynote
Session Synopsis: Building the Intelligent Accountable Care Enterprise
Health care organizations have spent millions of dollars implementing transaction systems such as revenue cycle management systems or electronic medical record systems. To derive full value from these systems, the data must be used not only to support individual transactions but also to improve decision making through business intelligence (BI) capabilities. This session provides a framework for these BI capabilities that can support flexible reporting, predictive modeling, and other essential analytics capabilities under accountable care. We will also describe the technology components and architecture necessary for an enterprise perspective of BI.
