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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:


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:


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.


Web Conference

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

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.


mHealth Congress + TeleHealth 2013

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

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

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.]