Complimentary Webinar: Deliver Highest Quality Care While Meeting Pay-For-Performance...

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Fri Sep 5, 2008 6:13am EDT

Complimentary Webinar: Deliver Highest Quality Care While Meeting
Pay-For-Performance Challenges

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- To deliver the highest quality
patient care while meeting "Pay-For-Performance" challenges posed by CMS and
private payers, Saint Vincent Health Center implemented breakthrough
information technology solutions and process improvement innovations.  Saint
Vincent's strategy paid off.  It has been honored with three prestigious
quality performance awards while achieving huge cost savings without any
additional staff.  Attend The Science, Business and Art of Delivering Quality
Care Webinar and learn how they did it.
    "The Science, Business and Art of Delivering Quality Care" Webinar will be
held on Thursday, September 25, 10 AM Pacific, 12 Noon Central, 1 PM Eastern.
    Visit http://www.lumedx.com/QualityCare/ for more information and to
register.
    HIGHLIGHTS:
    --  How to plan, implement and successfully maintain innovations to meet
the challenges posed by the increasing number of pay-for-performance
initiatives from CMS and private payers
    --  What you risk financially, clinically, and operationally if you don't
prepare for the massive changes created by CMS and Payer mandates
    --  How to approach compliance and quality issues using prospective,
concurrent and retrospective information flow
    --  How to successfully introduce -- and gain acceptance of -- process
changes: the art and science of reaching consensus and overcoming fear of
change, fear of new technology
    --  Tactics you can deploy to ensure optimal revenue for DRG payments,
Hospital acquired conditions ("never events"), mandated quality reporting
metrics
    --  Insights and lessons learned after 9 years and winning more than three
national awards for quality
    "The Science, Business and Art of Delivering Quality Care" Webinar is
essential viewing for heart centers looking for hands-on knowledge and
field-tested experience in developing a successful program for ensuring
quality care, meeting CMS and private payer mandates while managing costs.
For more information and to register, visit http://www.lumedx.com/QualityCare/
    "The Science, Business and Art of Delivering Quality Care" is part of the
Success In CVIS Webinar Series, sponsored by LUMEDX Corporation
(http://www.lumedx.com), a leading provider of fully integrated cardiovascular
imaging and information solutions.  For more information about Success in
CVIS, including speaking opportunities, contact Randy Marc Lasnick, Director
of Marketing, LUMEDX Corporation: rlasnick@lumedx.com, or call 510-903-2092.
SOURCE  LUMEDX Corporation

Randy M. Lasnick, Director of Marketing of LUMEDX Corporation,
+1-510-903-2092, randy.lasnick@lumedx.com
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