Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Improving Your Operations Performance

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The Healthcare Financial Management Association of Western New York is

pleased to present the following educational meeting:

“Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

‐ Improving Your Operations Performance”

4.5 Hours

CPE

Credit

When:

Tuesday,

December

2,

2014

Registration: 8:00 AM

Program: 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM

Where:

Courtyard

By

Marriott

Hotel

4243

Genesee

Street

Cheektowaga,

NY

14225

Directions:

www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bufap

‐

courtyard

‐

buffalo

‐

airport/

Program Agenda

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Steven Berger, FACHE, FHFMA, CPA – Dramatically

Improving Hospital Bottom Lines Through Effective Labor Analytics and

Management

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10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Steven Berger, FACHE, FHFMA, CPA – Capabilities

and Importance of the Cost Accounting and Patient Analytics Function in

Successful Hospital Financial Management

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Lunch

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM J. Bryan Bennett, CPA – Data Analytics and BI

Effective Use of Clinical and Financial Data

Speaker Biography

Steven

Berger,

FACHE,

FHFMA,

CPA

President

Healthcare

Insights

Steven Berger is President of Healthcare Insights, LLC, which specializes in the teaching and consulting of healthcare financial management issues. In addition, Healthcare Insights has developed INSIGHTS, a management accountability and decision support software solution for the healthcare industry. Prior to his role at Healthcare Insights, Mr. Berger was Vice President, Finance for seven years at 250‐ bed Highland Park Hospital in suburban Chicago, Illinois. Before Highland Park Hospital and since 1978, he has been a hospital or health system finance officer in New York, New Jersey and Missouri. Mr. Berger has 39 years of healthcare financial management experience. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in History and a Master of Science in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a CPA, a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA)

where he has served as President of the First Illinois Chapter. Mr. Berger also served a three‐year term on the HFMA’s National Board of Examiners and was recently the Regional Executive of Region 7 of the HFMA. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE).

In addition, over the past several years he has presented many healthcare finance related seminars throughout the United States and Canada including several two‐day classes such as Fundamentals of Healthcare Financial Management, Turning Data into Useful Information and Hospital Financial

Management for the Non‐Financial Manager. He has also co‐written articles on healthcare information systems that were published in Healthcare Financial Management magazine, including a February 2007 Award – winning article on Treating Technology as a Luxury – Ten Necessary Tools, an August 2004 Award – winning article on the Ten Ways to Improve Cost Management in Hospital, an April 2002 management column and a February 2000 commentary in Modern Healthcare on the lack of training in the healthcare industry His most HFM article was published in August 2012, titled, Back to the Basics: 5 Ways to Pick Low‐Hanging Fruit.

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Additionally, Mr. Berger is the author of “Fundamentals of Healthcare Financial Management,” originally published in 1999 by McGraw‐Hill and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. This book was written from a practitioner’s point of view and is a distillation of Mr. Berger’s many years on the inside of healthcare institutions. The fourth edition of the book was published in July 2014 and is available at www.josseybass.com . Additionally, Mr. Berger’s 2008 book, “Understanding Nonprofit Financial

Statements, Third Edition”, was published by BoardSource and is available at www.boardsource.org His book, “The Power of Financial and Clinical Metrics: Achieving Superior Results in Your Hospital” was published in March 2005, by Health Administration Press, and is available at www.ache.org.

J. Bryan

Bennett,

CPA

Healthcare

Consultant

Insight

Data

Group

J. Bryan

Bennett

is

a

Healthcare

Technology

Strategist

with

extensive

experience

helping

healthcare

organizations

implement

technology

strategies

and

solutions

to

improve

operations

and

patient

care.

He

is

also

a

university

professor,

author

and

national

speaker

on

the

subjects

of

healthcare

technology,

leadership

and

customer

relationship

marketing.

Bryan

is

an

internationally

renowned

data

‐

driven

business

strategy

and

customer

‐

centric

marketing

solutions

professional.

He

has

more

than

15 years

of

experience

delivering

data

and

database

marketing

solutions

to

clients

in

the

banking,

credit

card,

investment,

telecommunications,

pharmaceutical

and

insurance

industries.

His

work

has

led

to

the

identification

of

new

customer

insights

and

business

opportunities

resulting

in

improved

operations

and

efficiencies.

Bennett

has

been

published

in

several

national

and

international

journals

and

co

‐

authored

the

CRM

implementation

vision

selected

by

The

Gartner

Group

as

one

of

the

three

most

complete.

This

vision

has

become

the

foundation

for

most

successful

CRM

implementations

today.

Prior

to

starting

Insight

Data

Group,

Bennett

provided

data

strategies

and

database

marketing

solutions

for

clients

such

as

Chase,

State

Farm,

BellSouth,

Pharmacia

and

Proctor

&

Gamble

while

working

for

large

data

providers

such

as

ChoicePoint,

Acxiom

and

Equifax.

Bennett

is

a

member

of

the

Chief

Marketing

Officer

Council,

Reuters

Insight

Community

of

Experts,

Gerson

Lehrman

Group

Consulting

Council

and

the

IT

Senior

Management

Forum.

Bennett

holds

a

Master

of

Business

Administration

degree

(1985)

in

marketing,

finance,

management

policy

and

management

information

systems

from

the

Kellogg

Graduate

School

of

Management

at

Northwestern

University

and

a

Bachelor

of

Science

degree

(1980)

in

accounting

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