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The Strategic Business Summits division of CDM Media was derived from the need for face-to-face interaction between our technology solution provider clients, analyst partners and industry IT leaders across several verticals. While many business professionals’ days are consumed with online work and communication, the SBS Division of CDM Media puts the value of a face-to-face business meeting back into the ROI category.

SBS Division

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The Strategic Business Summit division specializes in gathering top analysts and our associated community of top IT executives in order to build business relationships in a relaxed, yet focused setting. Our extensive experience in technology event planning and effective agenda development ensure that each technology conference is productive and valuable for all attendees. We set up vertical-based technology summits that center around one-on-one business meetings with high-level executives from Fortune 1000 companies.

When it comes to organizing technology events, CDM Media is second to none. Countless time and thought goes into selecting everything from the ideal venue to the most effective media partners and technology solution providers available to our VIP delegate audience at the event. We engineer meetings between preferred clients and vendors, and invite only the most appropriate level of IT executives to ensure not only exclusivity at the event, but also efficient business meetings.

All summits put on by the SBS division focus on a single vertical and are strictly invitation only to the highest level of our IT community contacts. Our events allow you to spend 30 minutes with CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, and others in some of the most incredible resorts in the world, to bring exciting technology business ideas to the forefront of the industry.

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The CDM Media team announced today the company's 2012 technology and CIO event schedule.

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MetroWest Health Care Alliance The average time for Care360 EHR implementation for MetroWest was less than 30 days, and transition from paper to 100 percent electronic patient files for most offices occurred incrementally over a four-week period.

Royal Bournemouth Hospital: Customer Case Study Using the Vitrea Enterprise Suite, the Royal Bournemouth Hospital has dramatically increased the use of cardiac studies, increased collaboration between physicians, allowed physicians to access cardiac studies from anywhere including home, and improved patient care.

Boston Medical Center selects Self-Encrypting Drives to secure Protected Health Information (PHI) on laptop computers

Above the Clouds Whether you're below, in, or ahead of the cloud computing trend, a good PACS vendor provides the options you want and the flexibility you need. Rick Adams immerses himself in high technology every day, and when it came time to select a new PACS, he chose an onsite system. Adams is PACS administrator at St. John Medical Center, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which conducts 330,000 studies per year.

The FACE Outcomes Reporting Suite The beauty of the FACE Outcomes Software lies in its ease of use. FACE was the winner of the Best NHS Scotland eHealth initiative supporting quality improvement of patient service or outcomes 2010.

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Fixmo SafeZone is a powerful solution to manage the risks associated with allowing employees to access and store private corporate data on personal-liable or corporate-liable smartphones and tablets.

Mobile Risk Management Smartphones and tablets have changed the way we work, play, communicate and navigate our way through the physical and virtual worlds. We're now seeing mass proliferation of connected mobile devices across consumer, business and government markets.

Introducing a Capacity Management Maturity Model As greater demands are placed on IT for efficiency and productivity, it is becoming more important for IT organizations to adopt more sophisticated methods; in other words, IT management processes must become more "mature".

Providers' Perceptions: Mobility in Healthcare The attributes providers perceive to be most important to their mobility vendor relationship include track record/proven solution, price, reliability, integration/interoperability and support. Learn more about Providers' Perceptions in this Porter Research and Billian's HealthDATA study.

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CLiP - the healthcare coding engine CLiP by Clinithink is a fast and accurate indexing, coding and analytics engine that allows healthcare providers to add meaning and get knowledge from unstructured healthcare data. This online demonstration will give you a flavour of what our technology can do and how it can help your organization.

Merging Healthcare and Technology for a Greener Organization - Bill Spooner, CIO at Sharp Healthcare, gives an overview of the role technology plays in greening the organization, including the use of EMRs, connecting facilities in different locations, and establishing a paper-light facility.

Successful EMR Implementation - In this Thought-leadership Series podcast, Janice Newell, CIO of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, speaks about the challenges and benefits of EMR implementation at clinics and hospitals, gaining buy-in from contracted healthcare workers, and gives advice on how to begin an EMR implementation.

Leveraging EMRs for Young Patients - In this interview, Praveen Chopra, CIO and Supply Chain Officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, discusses the EMR implementation process, including how to get corporate buy-in, training the doctors and nurses on the system and designing the system with new born to 18 year old patients in mind.

A Closer Look at Electronic Health Records - In this Thought-leadership Series Interview, Suzanne Kosub, CIO of Concentra, the largest provider of employer health care services in the U.S., talks about EHR implementation, including the security of patient information, the importance of data and provides tips on how to train staff on new systems.

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