Scott Whyte
Bio
Mr. Whyte is the Senior Director of Physician and Ambulatory IT Strategy at Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), a 41 hospital system in California, Arizona and Nevada. In his role, Mr. Whyte oversees IT strategy and advanced IT projects to serve physicians and patients in CHW’s communities. His role includes leading CHW’s IT planning for the ARRA, Health Care Reform and Health Information Exchanges. Prior to joining CHW in 2005, Mr. Whyte was Vice President and CIO at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and has spent over 17 years consulting with Ernst & Young, Siemens Medical Solutions and Capgemini to hospitals, health insurers and life sciences companies. He has spoken nationally on topics including portals, health information exchanges and genomics. Mr. Whyte currently serves on the State of California’s HIE Technical Advisory Board (Cal eConnect). Mr. Whyte founded and served as Co-Chairman of the HL7 Clinical Genomics Special Interest Group which is working with an international team of physicians, biopharmaceutical specialists, bioinformatics specialists and regulators to develop an international data exchange standard for genetic information. Mr. Whyte graduated from the University of Arizona magna cum laude with a B.S.B.A. in Management Information Systems and magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics. Scott is active in the community as a board member for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and a board member of his local church.
Thursday January 19th
Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit
Session Synopsis: Establishing a Roadmap for ACO reporting and Analytics Capabilities
Government and commercial health care reform are accelerating the need for clinical, business and operational analytics in order to improve quality and reduce costs. How is this even possible since most of the physician, hospital, other provider and payer organizations are completely separate and lack integration? How do organizations jointly determine what to measure and what tools are needed to collect and aggregate information from such diverse participants and systems? Learn how Catholic Health Care West (CHW) gathered requirements from stakeholders, evaluated vendors, selected a system, and conducted Proof of Concepts (POCs) from a group of over 25 Clinical Integration solutions. A transparent look at the goals, approaches, challenges, outcomes and lessons learned will be shared.
