Breif overview highlighting a few issues currently facing health care today.

1. Dave Lingerfelt

2. Learning Objectives
 Overview of Current Issues Facing Healthcare
 Discuss Current Technology Trends
 Time is a Factor…only 2 for today

3. Meet your tour guide…
Dave Lingerfelt, MBA
• Health Care IT Professional
• 10 years experience in Health IT
• No point here, people learn
better in sets of 3!

4. The Problem
• # of workers currently
trained does not meet
demand of industry
• Aging population
• “Sicker quicker”
• Growing population of
“Worried Well”

5. The Villain(s)?
We have to blame somebody right?

6. We’ve come a long way baby!
First U.S. Surgical
Amphitheater

7. Technology Today

8. Technology Today
Reported that 62% of physicians use an
iPad at the point of care.
Over 80% of physicians use smart
phones and smart phone apps daily
as a part of patient care activities

9. What’s ahead?
What Does the Health Care of Tomorrow Look Like?
• Patient Centered Care
• Outcomes Based Medicine/Payment Systems
• Greater Emphasis on Population Health
• Increased focus on Consumer Driven Medicine
NBC News

10. More Data
Current Trends in Information Technology Enable
Storage of Exponentially More Data.
• Average Health System has an EMR Database of 2-
3 Terabytes
• Rate of data storage is growing exponentially
• Successfully mapped human genome model 10
years ago
**1TB = 1 trillion bytes = 1 thousand gigabytes
OR
Roughly 472 hours of HD quality video

11. IT jobs in healthcare are expected to
grow by 20% annually through 2018.
Lucas Mearian, ComputerWorld, September 26, 2012.
Health IT Industry
The healthcare industry is leading
the market in IT job creation,
according to the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics job placement
services.
Purpose: Improve quality of patient
care!

12. National Survey Results
The need for IT staff in the nation’s
healthcare facilities is more critical
now than two years ago.
Two-thirds of healthcare operations in the
U.S. are reporting a shortage, (67% of 163
hospitals or healthcare systems), survey of CIOs.
July 2012, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)

13. Tipping Point – Are We Ready?
Do we have the workforce?
• Nationally recognized shortage.
• Continue to drain the shrinking
pool of employed health IT
professionals.
• ARRA/HITECH Section 3016, 2010
training to support new wave of
professionals.
• U.S. Department of Labor supports
training for health IT workforce
gaps via H-1B program.
More Health IT for Practitioners:
More “Practitioners” for Health
IT

14. Who’s Affected?
• Hospitals
• Physician Practices
• Insurance Companies
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Employers
• Medical Schools
• Software Vendors
• Device Manufacturers

15. Deadlines Looming
• Two Major deadlines for HCIT industry
• ICD-10 upgrade Oct 2014
• Stage 2 Meaningful Use 2014
• Deadline for electronic claims submission to CMS
• Major Health Systems Upgrade Software every 18-36
Months
• Average upgrade end-to-end is 9-12 month
project
• In short, the work is never done
• “Need to be perfect at getting better” – Thomas

16. The End
Dave Lingerfelt
Email:
davelingerfelt@gmail.com
Phone: 913-221-7956
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/daveli
ngerfelt/

17. Resources
HOAHIMSS.org and HIMSS.org
Kansas HIT Regional Extension Center
 http://www.kfmc.org/rec/
HealthIT.gov
AHIMA.org
CMS.gov