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Web Conferences
U.S. Healthcare Payer IT Consulting Market in the Era of Reform
May 28, 2013 – 1:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern time
In the short term, payers and their IT consultants are focused on
meeting the needs of reform, but is reform consuming too much of their
attention? What are the key medium-term and long-term challenges that
payers will face and rely on their IT consultants to help them
overcome? Will payers and their IT consultants be prepared and aligned
to meet these medium and long-term challenges together or in
competition with each other?
Join IDC Health Insights for a complimentary, one-hour web conference
for a look into the evolution of relationships between U.S. healthcare
payers and IT consultants. Attendees that would benefit include
executives from both payers (leaders from IT, strategy, procurement,
and line of business) and IT consulting firms (leaders from payer
healthcare practices, strategy and competitive intelligence). Topics
that will be covered include:
- The current trajectory of IT services spending by US healthcare payers
- How IT consultants are differentiating themselves in 2012 and 2013
- Best practices for payers managing IT consulting relationships
- Future outlook
- How reform is restructuring the payer marketplace, introducing a new dynamic of coopetition between payers and IT consultants
- How technology innovation will drive evolution of IT consulting offerings
- Building relationships between IT consultants and payers in tactical and strategic terms
IDC Health Insights research analyst, Sven Lohse, and program director, Janice Young, will present.
IT Cloud Decision Economics: Crafting a Mature Cloud
Strategy
June 19, 2013 – 11:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern time
Over
the past several years, many IT organizations have experimented with private and
public cloud solutions on an ad hoc and often opportunistic basis. From
Infrastructure-as-a-Service to SaaS to PaaS to vendor proprietary cloud
solutions and open source options. Debates rage as to whether public cloud will
displace private cloud and which app should run where. All of this in the
context of an assurance that data stored in the cloud will be secure and
available AND comply with industry regulations and mandates.
In reality,
IDC expects that large organizations will have long term dependence on complex,
hybrid infrastructure, middleware and application environments that span public
and private clouds, physical and virtual distributed servers, and even mainframe
based processes. As cloud solutions seek to move from ad hoc pilots to
production operations, it is critical that your organization craft a mature
cloud strategy that steps back from the hype and asks some fundamental questions
such as:
- What are the key design principles and evaluation criteria that should shape
your organization's cloud strategy for the next 3 years?
- What applications, workloads and business groups would most benefit from
self service, dynamic, elastic scaling and consumption based chargeback or
billing?
- What will be the most important IT and business process changes required to
effectively monitor, govern, and optimize hybrid cloud environments?
- At what pace is your organization likely to be able to transition from ad
hoc to optimized hybrid cloud architectures?
Join Research Vice
President of IDC Enterprise Systems Management Software, Mary
Johnston Turner, Research Director for IDC Government Insights, Shawn McCarthy, and Vice President & IT Executive Advisor
of IDC’s CIO Agenda program, Joe
Pucciarelli, for an interactive discussion and audience polling about
crafting a mature cloud strategy for your organization.
Uncover Excellence in Risk Based Site Monitoring
Presented by: HCL
June 18, 2013 - 10:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern time
Over the last decade,
pharmaceutical industry has experienced a steep decline in R&D
productivity. Even though the R&D spend has tripled, the number of
new drugs approved by FDA have reduced to 30%, thus increasing the
pressure on pharmaceutical industry to bring in efficiencies in every
process. Site monitoring constitutes 45% of the annual Clinical Trials
expenditure in the R&D spend for a typical Pharma and optimization
of clinical trial site monitoring is high on sponsors’ agenda.
Alan Louie - Research Director, Clinical Development, Strategy and Technology at IDC Health Insights will present Growing Complexity Driving Need for Life Science Portfolio Agility.
Industry Events
CIO Summit Europe
May 21-23, 2013 - Kilkenny, Ireland
The
CIO Europe Summit is a consortium of CIOs and Senior IT Executives from
Large Fortune 500 Enterprise Organisations who are currently investing
in innovative solutions that will positively impact their bottom line.
This highly interactive strategy session features program topics set
entirely by IT executives. The summit combines high-level roundtable
discussions with next-generation technology solutions that address the
most pressing challenges the industry faces. The format is structured
enough to effectively organize roundtable discussions on all the most
pressing topics, but open enough to allow for changes that will
inevitably occur when 65 industry leaders interact over 3 days. IDC
Insights is a content partner. Senior Vice President, Meredith Whalen, and IT Executive Advisor, Joseph Pucciarelli, will participate.
Breakfast Briefing: IT and Social Business: In the Enterprise and Beyond the Firewall
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 7:30 - 10:00 AM – Chicago, IL
Businesses
are increasingly adopting social technologies both within the
enterprise and beyond the firewall. IDC believes that these
technologies offer significant business value if properly
implemented. Enterprise Social Networks provide new opportunities
for collaboration and process improvement. They have also created
new end user expectations. Social technologies are also
transforming the customer experience. However, while CIOs are
asked to meet the changing demands within the enterprise, CMOs are
often moving unilaterally to develop customer facing strategies and
solutions. Join us for this breakfast briefing where Michael Fauscette, Group Vice President, Software Business Solutions, IDC and David McNally, IT Executive Advisory, IDC Insights will be the presenters.
Next-Generation Healthcare Summit
June 19-21, 2013 - Denver, Colorado
As
healthcare costs continue to rise, health providers around the country
feel a sharp sense of urgency in deploying information technology to
lower costs, reduce medical errors, enhance outcomes, and spur
efficiency in an industry known for legendary inefficiency. The summit
will provide a number of different networking channels to execute and
promote business. The Information and Technology executives will have
the transparency of pre-selecting business meetings with solution
providers who are specific to their business challenges and areas of
future investment. The agenda includes interactive workshops and
features working lunch roundtable discussions, which will be comprised
of a moderator, panelists and industry leaders discussing modern day
issues affecting healthcare. Attendance is comprised of the most
well-respected executives in the Healthcare industry, and the meeting
format is designed to surpass the traditional exchange of business
cards and allow executives to have a good discussion on a personal
level. IDC Health Insights is a content partner for this event;
analysts Cynthia Burghard and Lynne Dunbrack will participate.
mHealthWorld Congress + TeleHealth Congress
July 24-26, 2013 - Boston, Massachusetts
As
the nation's healthcare landscape shifts to more consumer driven and
accountable care models, mobile platforms, telehealth and other
technology solutions are becoming a means to connect to the patient
outside the traditional clinical setting. mHealth + Telehealth
World 2013 is for health care executives interested in hearing
proven strategies for taking mHealth and Telehealth models from
innovation to value. IDC Health Insights analyst Lynne Dunbrack
will be moderating the keynote panel: The Urgency for Connected Health:
How Organizations are Addressing: ACOs, Health Reform, Physician
Shortages, and Consumer Demand.
Health IT Summit - Institute for Health Technology Transformation
August 21-22, 2013 - Seattle, Washington
Each
year, the Institute hosts a series of events & programs which
promote improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of health
care through information technology and facilitating knowledge
exchange. iHT2 include a variety of guest speakers and keynotes
representing many diverse sectors within health care. The unique agenda
features a preview of the latest healthcare technologies, industry
panels with healthcare luminaries, product demonstrations from leading
vendors, and high-level content from researchers reporting on the
healthcare industry. On August 21, IDC Health Insights research
director, Cynthia Burghard,
will moderate two panels: "Accountable Care Organizations: Success Can
Be Yours!" and "Data & Analytics: How to Leverage EMRs and Your
Data."
IDC Pan-European Health Executive Summit 2013
September 10-11, 2013 - United Kingdom
This
exclusive event will be a valuable opportunity for you to network and
exchange thoughts with IT and line-of-business executives from the
European healthcare sector. During this summit, the IDC Health Insights analyst team
will drive discussions on "Three Forces of Healthcare Change:
Personalization, Integration, and Industrialization." With
contributions from an advisory board formed of industry experts and
healthcare providers, the event will answer key questions on current
and emerging challenges for the healthcare sector in 2013 and beyond.
CIO Summit Europe
November 5-7, 2013 - Berlin, Germany
The
CIO Europe Summit 2013 will once again serve as an arena for senior
level executives to engage in clear and focused dialogue with their
peers and examine their management objectives in a relaxed and vibrant
environment. Influential corporate leaders will discuss relevant issues
that will improve their businesses and help them streamline and take
advantage of the essential IT initiatives that the current business
culture requires. While cutting costs and leveraging spending are
always important elements in an economic downturn, it is up to CIOs to
ensure their companies are utilizing the best possible products and
services. In an increasingly “sink or swim” environment, the CIO Summit
brings together CIOs whose vision and eagerness to improve separate
them from the rest of the pack. IDC Executive Vice President &
Chief Research Officer, Crawford DelPrete, will participate.
Healthcare IT Summit
November 17-20, 2013 - Palm Springs, CA
With
the presidential election behind us, Healthcare CIOs have a picture of
the future of healthcare. CIOs will need to embrace and support
major changes to their organizations’ business models whether they are
provider, payer or both. As a result, a new generation of IT leadership
is emerging equipped with the business and technology skills to support
new healthcare business models, the growth of electronic medical
records and the emergence of accountable care organizations, to mention
a few. In addition to supporting those initiatives, healthcare CIOs are
continuing their focus on increasing operational efficiencies that
produce better clinical outcomes and leverage technologies—cloud,
mobility and security—aimed at improving staff and patient engagements.
Healthcare CIOs have grown comfortable with change because they
understand it is the one constant in their business. The
following IDC Health Insights analysts will be speaking at the
confernce: Cynthia Burghard, Research Director, Lynne Dunbrack, Program Director, Connected Health IT, Judy Hanover, Research Director, Provider IT Strategies, Scott Lundstrom, Vice President of Research and Janice Young, Program Director, Payer IT Strategies.
[Note: Event descriptions are paraphrased from information on the
events' web sites and are not meant to represent IDC's evaluation of the
events.]