Recombinant To Address ACO Data Management And Big Data Opportunities In Healthcare At CHIME12 Fall CIO Forum

Company Will Jointly Present With Clients Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative and UCLA Health System

Newton, MA (Marketwire) - Recombinant, a provider of data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions for healthcare performance management, personalized medicine and translational research, will deliver two presentations with client executives from the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative (NNEACC) and UCLA Health System at the 20th Annual College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Fall CIO Forum, October 16 - 19 in Indian Wells, CA. Sessions include managing information within an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model and capitalizing on big data assets. The presentations are part of the Organizational Performance and Emerging Issues in Healthcare and Health Information Technology tracks, respectively. Recombinant is a CHIME Foundation member.

Healthcare Data-as-a-Service for Big Data Challenges
Virginia McFerran, CIO, UCLA Health System, and Jason Oliveira, Managing Director, Health System Consulting, Recombinant, will present "Healthcare Data-as-a-Service for our Big Data Challenges" on Wednesday, October 17 from 11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m. The session will recount the journey of UCLA Health System and its academic partners in strategizing, designing and establishing its xDR data-as-a-service architecture, including best practices and lessons learned.

"Emerging data sources such as EHRs, HIEs, patient portals, and the increasing availability of genomics and proteomics information are pushing health systems into the reality of having to manage massive amounts of data. As more health systems pursue secondary uses of data many quickly realize that they lack an enterprise data management strategy to efficiently exploit their big data assets," said Oliveira. "Virginia and I will help attendees gain a deeper understanding of what managing 'big data' means in terms of new information technology requirements, and what emerging approaches are being taken by the industry by focusing on the experience of our client, UCLA Health System."

Defining and Meeting the Core Data Requirements of ACOs
David Wennberg MD, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, NNEACC, and Mark Golberg, Managing Director, Healthcare Provider ACO, Recombinant will present "Defining and Meeting the Core Data Requirements of ACOs" on Thursday, October 18 from 11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m.

"ACOs cannot deliver on the promise of improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes and reducing cost without the ability to identify, prioritize, access, and integrate data from internal and external clinical, claims, financial and other critical systems," said Golberg. "The scope, reliability and timeliness of data, in turn, impact downstream applications including knowledge management, decision support, business intelligence, and advanced analytics systems. Dr. Wennberg and I will discuss key issues of ACO data and information management and practical trade-offs often required in ACO network development based on our experience with NNEACC."

"The CHIME Fall CIO Forums combine the best speakers and healthcare IT educators in the nation with unparalleled opportunities for CIOs and healthcare IT executives to network with their peers and collectively share solutions, solve problems and address challenges," said Peter Emerson, Chief Executive Officer, Recombinant. "We are pleased to join with our clients the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative and UCLA Health System to share our pragmatic experience and expertise at the 20th CIO Fall Forum."

About Recombinant
Recombinant provides leading-edge data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions to healthcare providers, academic medical centers and life science researchers to deliver higher quality outcomes, accelerate personalized medicine, and lower costs. Our team of industry veterans is focused on improving the flow of reliable data to power clinical and research applications in a secure, compliant environment. For more information about Recombinant's products and services, visit www.recomdata.com.

About NNEACC
Founded by three healthcare systems -- Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems and MaineHealth -- along with Dartmouth College, NNEACC is a shared services organization supporting new models of clinical care required to deliver on the Triple Aim -- better care, better health at lower cost -- through business intelligence software and process improvement services.

About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,400 CIO members and over 87 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit www.cio-chime.org.