Scottsdale Institute

Dick Thompson, President, Quality Health Network, Colorado, describes how hospitals, labs, physician groups and Rocky Mountain Health Plans have come together to deploy an Electronic Medical Record for physicians, a […]

Rebecca Craig, Administrator, Harmony Surgery Center, Poudre Valley Health System, Ft. Collins, CO. This multispecialty Ambulatory Surgery Center is part of a comprehensive medical campus that combines physician offices, a […]

Davis Bu, MD, MA and Eric Pan, MD., The Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners Healthcare, Boston. CITL is completing a study of the value of IT-enabled diabetes management (ITDM). […]

Robert Dolin, M.D., Kaiser Permanente, HL7 Board Member and Co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee, and Liora Alschuler, HL7 Board Member; Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents TC; Co-Editor, CDA; […]

Joann Kern, RN, VP Clinical Solutions and Chief Nursing Officer, HealthVision. Hot buzzword or something you can actually see and touch? New agreement on standards and new technologies are opening […]

Steve Pelton, Chief Information Officer, Central Region, Ministry Healthcare, Weston, WI, describes successes and lessons learned when opening an all digital hospital. He includes the initial digital vision and strategy, […]

Tony Keller, Director, Enterprise Data Management, and Faye Sheppard, Director of Risk Management, Texas Health Resources, review an internal application that automates error reporting and won both the CHIME Innovator […]

Keith J. Kaplan, MD, Attending Pathologist at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago. The technology and the rationale for utilizing […]

Chris Young, CIO, St. Thomas, Nashville reviews his pilot smart card implementation with a controlled population in Nashville, He covers drivers, projected benefits, lessons learned and opportunities for the future. […]

Adam Gale, COO, KLAS, Orem, UT. KLAS completed their 4th annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking with nearly every live hospital in the country doing CPOE. This […]

Joe Casper, Senior Vice President, FCG, describes the evolution of a clinical portal solution at University Hospitals in Cleveland, now in use by over 2,100 users, with plans to support […]

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Telemedicine, Khinlei Myint-U and Douglas McClure, Corporate Directors, Partners Healthcare, Boston. Dr. Kvedar explains the concept of “connected health” and why there is an […]

Learn how Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center, a 517-bed medical center, conducted a comprehensive process redesign to improve total patient throughput. In this teleconference, presenters Jeffrey Brickman, Chief Executive Officer, […]

Scott Holbrook, KLAS, Orem, UT. KLAS’ first-ever Clinical Portals Study looks at the web portals offered by HIS, CIS, Specialty and Healthcare Industry integrator vendors as solutions for giving physicians […]

Patrick Harding, Brigham and Women’s Hospital eMAR IS Project Manager, Lead Analyst, Cindy Spurr MBA, RN, BC, FHIMSS, Corporate Director, Clinical Systems Management, Partners Healthcare, Anne Bane RN, MSN, eMAR […]

Louis J. Capponi, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, NYCHHC reviews NYCHHC’s strategic initiative to address chronic illness including the chronic care model and the role of registries. He describes the […]

Legacy Health System, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Nebraska Methodist Health System form an expert panel to share recommendations and lessons learned in process redesign for Medication Reconciliation. Melinda Muller, MD, […]

Robert H. Dolin, M.D., Kaiser Permanente, HL7 Board Member and Co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee presents the Kaiser rollout of SNOMED within their EHR. Dr. Dolin provides […]

Keith MacDonald, Research Director, FCG Emerging Practices, details the options that IDNs, Hospitals, IPAs, MSOs and RHIOs have for offering and/or hosting EHRs and related IT solutions for a physician […]

Douglas McNair MD PhD, Sr. Vice President and Research Director, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, reviews proven methodologies that you can use now to evaluate your own ADE reduction relative to […]

Douglas Thompson, Senior Manager, FCG, reviews data from a recent research project on three technologies that have been proven to support the reduction of ADE’s, when and why they do […]

Karen Ondo, Executive Vice President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As legacy solutions are replaced there is considerable investment in sophisticated application portfolios with the expectation is that these solutions will […]

Douglas I. Thompson, FCG Director and Chair of HIMSS Task Force on CIS Benefits Measurement, reports on the data collected thus far in the pilot. Data has been entered by […]

Jonathan Manis, CIO, and William F. Morgan, System Director of Support Services, Provena Health, Frankfort IL, describes the benefits and results from aligning IT incentives with organizational performance improvement. The […]

Bert S. Reese, MBA, VP and CIO, Sentara Health Systems, Norfolk VA, describes what CEO’s demand of today’s CIO and what constitutes a high performing CIO and IT organization.  Conclusions […]

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem UT Presentation and audio recording links available upon request. Contact the Scottsdale Institute at scottsdale@scottsdaleinstitute.org

John W. Frein, MBA, PMP, Senior Process Engineer, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids MI, describes planning, organizing and executing IT process improvement using the tools and techniques of Lean Healthcare and […]

John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, and Charles Parisot, CareGroup/Harvard Medical School, Boston. To match patient records interoperably in a distributed and complex healthcare system, the proposed Common Framework has mapped […]

Steven S. Eisenberg, MD, Chief Science Officer, UnitedHealthcare, Edina, MN.  Fueled by business coalitions and large employers, Managed Care Organizations have been tasked to provide physician and hospital quality and […]

Chris Lane, ITS Business Services, Catholic Healthcare West, leads a presentation and discussion comparing web investments relative to organizational size and complexity. Comparisons include web portal vendor, hardware, staffing and […]

Kent Gale, CEO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Healthcare executives question the adoption rate of electronic tools, depth of use, and cost to achieve a paperless environment. KLAS combines two different […]

Denise M. Abshire, Supervisor Central Supply/Materials Management, Christus St John Hospital, TX, describes RASMAS; an innovative, web based solution for dramatically improving the ability to respond to product and drug […]

Scott Young, MD, Director, Health IT Portfolio, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. Dr. Young describes select aspects of the Health IT Portfolio, which consists of over 100 […]

William McClatchey, MD, CMIO, Piedmont Health System, Atlanta, describes unanticipated experiences and compares the big bang approach with a gradual rollout in terms of impact on safety and adoption. Data […]

Jonathan Manis, CIO, and William F. Morgan, System Director of Support Services, Provena Health, Frankfort IL, describe the benefits and results from aligning IT incentives with organizational performance improvement. The […]

Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chair, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). CCHIT is an independent, HHS funded organization established to accelerate the adoption of HIT by creating a sustainable […]

Neil A. Martin, MD, Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, describes UCLA’s solution for ubiquitous access to real-time patient data in a highly mobile environment. The […]

Ed Marx, CIO, University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, describes the critical role of governance in developing and supporting business strategy.  Working governance principles and a framework which you can adopt […]

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews research from the 2006 KLAS CPACS Report.  Included are issues impacting the CV Department and the greater IT enterprise. The […]

David C. Kibbe, MD MBA, Director, Center for Health information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians, Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Kibbe explains that, around the country the idea of the […]

Roberta E. Testor, MA, MSS, Director, IT Knowledge Systems, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, demonstrates how a data warehouse can support analysis of patient flow throughout the organization. She […]

Nancy Pratt, RN, MSN, Sr. VP, Clinical Effectiveness, and Bill Spooner, CIO, Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA, describe how they apply technology tools in real time at the point of […]

Eric Pifer, MD, CMIO, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and David C. Classen, MD, MS, VP, FCG, Long Beach, CA, and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Utah.  […]

Adam Gale, EVP and COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, describes the tremendous growth in the ambulatory EMR market, with hundreds of EMR vendors offering products to physician practices. He discusses […]

Bennett Davis, Hewlett Packard, reviews the issues involved with developing realistic storage architectures for the expanding requirements of medical image and record management. He explores the demands of long term […]

Dave Garets, CEO, HIMSS Analytics, reviews data comparing SI member organizations to each other and to general industry utilizing their EMR Adoption Model. Data will be anonymous, but you will […]

Mimi Hassett, MS, RN, FHIMSS, Director of Clinical Informatics, Berkshire Health Systems, Pittsfield, MA, describes how nursing can optimally lead and support the successful integration of information systems, including development, […]

Walter Sujansky, Sujansky & Associates, LLC, San Carlos, CA oversees the development of this new standard.  He presents The EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards (ELINCS) project, which is developing the […]

Ross C. D’Emanuele, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN. This session explains the new anti-kickback and Stark regulations allowing the donation of certain electronic technology items and services to […]

Ken Kleinberg, Senior Director, Healthcare Solutions, Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, NY, presents an industry update and case examples of mobility in healthcare including Medication Administration, Specimen Collection, Remote Patient Monitoring, Hospital/Nurse […]

Deb Pappas, Vice President, Courion Corporation, will review findings from “Information Security Executives on the Front Lines”, an independent market research study published by Executive Alliance and Courion. Survey results […]

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews six years of on-going research on Radiology PACS. He covers PACS from the perspective of three main environments: Large Acute, Small […]

Jeff Blair, VP, The Medical Records Institute (MRI), provides his fourth annual review for SI Members of MRIs Seventh Annual Research Study. The Survey reveals insights into motivations, applications being […]

Kim Pederson, EVP, Project Excellian, Dr. Andrew Mellin, Excellian Medical Director, and Susan Heichert, Excellian Implementation Director, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis. As Clinical Documentation moved into the final mandate […]

William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, and Paul Tang, MD, CMIO, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Sutter Health, and […]

Ian Temple, RN, MBA, Manger, Integrated Digital Enterprise and Solutions (IDEAS), First Consulting Group, defines the differences and linkages between CIS, CVIS and Cardiology PACS. The components and value of a […]

Michael Shrift, MD, MBA, CMIO, Centura Health, and Michael Mignoli, MD, Denver. Dr. Shrift describes how Centura Health decided upon and implemented a practical connectivity strategy for their private practice […]

Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, MS, medical informaticist, Intermountain Health Care, and Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Saverio Maviglia, MD, hospitalist and informaticist, Brigham and […]

Lou Ciraldo, Division Information Officer, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Vincent Norlock, Consulting Manager, First Consulting Group, present a case study on the creation of an architectural framework for enterprise-wide […]

Joel S. Shoolin, DO, MBA, VP Clinical Informatics, Margie Hunssinger, RN, BC, Mgr. Clinical Analysts, CareConnection, Steven Sundberg, RPh, Pharmacy Director, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, and Paul Cook, Riverpoint Consulting, […]

Eric Alper, MD former Patient Safety Officer at UMass Memorial Medical Center, describes their story of how the process for medication reconciliation was designed and implemented across the medical center. […]

Ian Temple, RN, MBA, Manger, Integrated Digital Enterprise and Solutions (IDEAS), First Consulting Group, reviews key strategies for implementation with an emphasis on critical workflow issues. He describes impediments to […]

Jason Hess.

Les Swanson, Director of Physician Support Services, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX, describes the development and implementation of the clinical portal and benefits realized to date, including: remote and real […]

Babette Apland, Senior Vice President, Health and Care Management and Provider Relations, HealthPartners Minnesota presents the implementation of the program that denies reimbursement to providers when Never Events are detected. […]

Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH, Senior Scientist at Mass General Hospital’s Institute for Health Policy and Director of Disease Management Programs, Partners Healthcare, Boston. This session includes a description of […]

Kent Gale, President, KLAS, Orem UT, explores interoperability from an overall industry perspective with a drill down on how vendors are perceived. He discusses how close provider organizations are to […]