Colorado Network: Quality Agenda Drives Interoperability
January 19, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTDick 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 […]
Automating Ambulatory Procedure Notes
January 23, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTRebecca 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 […]
CITL Reports on the Value of IT in Disease Management
January 26, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTDavis 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). […]
HL7 Implementation Guide for the CCR
January 30, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTRobert 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; […]
True Interoperability
February 1, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJoann 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 […]
Opening the Digital Hospital
February 7, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CSTSteve 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, […]
THR’s Safety Action Learning tool (SALT)
February 8, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CSTTony 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 […]
The Business Case for TeleHealth
February 21, 2006, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CSTKeith 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 […]
Smart Card Implementation: Benefits and Lessons Learned
February 27, 2006, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm CSTChris 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. […]
CPOE Outlook: 2005 vs. 2006
March 2, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CSTAdam 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 […]
HIPAA Security: A Discussion of Issues and Solutions
March 8, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CSTBob Gross, HIPAA Program Manager, University of Chicago Hospitals, and Suzi Birz, Principal, HiQAnalytics, conduct an open forum around key issues currently being addressed at the UCH. Even though the […]
Integrating the Enterprise: a University Hospitals Health System case study
March 15, 2006, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CSTJoe 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 […]
The Connected Health Imperative
March 16, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CSTJoseph 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 […]
Improving ED Patient Flow at Provena Health
March 20, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CSTLearn 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, […]
Clinician and Physician Portals Update
March 21, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTScott 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 […]
Bar Coding and Smart Pumps Impact Safety at Partners Healthcare
March 23, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CSTPatrick 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 […]
Chronic Disease Registries: Supporting Proactive Care and Performance Improvement at New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
March 29, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTLouis 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 […]
Medication Reconciliation: Insights on Advanced Practices
April 18, 2006, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTLegacy 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, […]
Enterprise Deployment of SNOMED at Kaiser
April 24, 2006, 10:30 am - 11:30 am CDTRobert 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 […]
Options for Hosting Community IT Solutions
April 26, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKeith 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 […]
Quantitative Methods for Measuring Your ADE Reduction
May 3, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDouglas 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 […]
A Comparison of Effectiveness in Reducing ADE’s: CPOE, Bar Coding, and Smart Pumps
May 4, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTDouglas 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 […]
KLAS on Workflow
May 9, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKaren 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 […]
Systems Benefits Measurement: Update on the HIMSS/SI Pilot Data Collection
May 10, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDouglas 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 […]
Go Lives or Saved Lives? Aligning IT Incentive Comp with Clinical Outcomes
June 1, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJonathan 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 […]
Dynamics of the Future for the CIO
June 2, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTBert 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 […]
KLAS on Speech Recognition and Transcription Outsourcing
June 6, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem UT Presentation and audio recording links available upon request. Contact the Scottsdale Institute at scottsdale@scottsdaleinstitute.org
Making IT a Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine
June 7, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTJohn 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 […]
Using Knowledge Management Tools in Clinical Decision Support at Partners Healthcare
June 9, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTTonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, Corporate Manager, Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, reviews the benefits of using KM tools in the CDS function. How KM tools […]
Connecting for Health’s Common Framework Model and IHE’s PIX/PDQ
June 12, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTJohn 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 […]
Project Management Office: a University of Illinois Medical Center Case Study
June 13, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRose Ann Laureto, FCHIME, CIO, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, describes the benefits achieved and lessons learned from the implementation of a PMO to address comprehensive IT planning. This […]
Managed Care Perspectives on Hospital Quality and Cost
June 19, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDTSteven 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 […]
Portal Metrics: Benchmarking Web Investments
June 29, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTChris 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 […]
KLAS on Clinical Market Share
July 11, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKent 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 […]
Management Tool for Product Recalls: Risk and Safety Management Alert System
July 13, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDenise 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 […]
AHRQ on Demonstrating the Value of Healthcare IT
July 24, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTScott 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 […]
Lessons Learned from 100% Implementation of CPOE in Community Hospitals
July 25, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTWilliam 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 […]
Go Lives or Saved Lives? Aligning IT Incentive Comp with Clinical Outcomes
July 31, 2006, 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTJonathan 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 […]
CCHIT: A Catalyst for Health Information Technology Adoption
August 3, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTMark 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 […]
Mobile Applications for High Acuity Care: Technology, Clinical Utility, and Physician Adoption
August 7, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTNeil 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 […]
IS Governance Leadership Model: UHHS Case Study
August 10, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTEd 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 […]
KLAS on Cardiology
August 15, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJeremy 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 […]
HIE’s and PHR’s Implement the CCR Standard
August 21, 2006, 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTDavid 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 […]
Data Warehouses in Support of Patient Flow
August 22, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRoberta 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 […]
Integrating Technology for Patient Safety at Sharp Healthcare
August 29, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTNancy 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 […]
The Leap of Faith: the Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool – A U Penn Case Study
September 8, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTEric 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. […]
KLAS on EMR Systems: Large, Medium and Small
September 12, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAdam 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 […]
Cost Effective Healthcare Storage Architectures
September 13, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDTBennett 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 […]
Benchmarking EHR Adoption Levels Across SI Members and the Industry
September 14, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDave 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 […]
A Case Study in Defining the Nurse Informatics Specialist Role
September 19, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTMimi 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, […]
ELINCS: the Emerging Lab Standard and Implications for your Lab Applications and EHR
September 20, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTWalter 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 […]
Interconnected EHR: How New Stark and Anti-Kickback Regulations Help
September 25, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRoss 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 […]
Enterprise Mobility: Trends and Leading Practices
October 3, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKen 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 […]
Healthcare Information Security: Strategic Asset or Necessary Evil?
October 4, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDeb 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 […]
KLAS on PACS/RIS
October 10, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJeremy 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 […]
EHR Trends and Usage: MRI Survey Results
October 12, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTJeff 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 […]
Adoption to Optimization to Mandate: The Allina journey
October 12, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKim 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 […]
AMIA Special 10×10 Offering for SI Members
October 13, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CDTWilliam 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 […]
Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS): An Overview (part 1)
October 17, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CDTIan 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 […]
Centura Health: Addressing connectivity for private practice physicians’ disparate EMR systems; why portal access is not sufficient
October 18, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMichael 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 […]
Meeting Clinician Point-of-Care Information Needs with Infobutton Tools
October 19, 2006, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTGuilherme 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 […]
Enterprise Clinical Imaging Management Strategies
October 24, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTLou 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 […]
Medication Reconciliation at Advocate Healthcare
October 26, 2006, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CDTJoel 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, […]
Medication Reconciliation at UMassMemorial
October 31, 2006, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CSTEric 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. […]
Implementing a Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS), part 2
November 7, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTIan 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 […]
THR’s Care Gate Clinical Portal: Case Study
November 9, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTLes 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 […]
Never Events: Never Paid at HealthPartners
November 13, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTBabette 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. […]
Disease Management Results at Partners Healthcare
November 15, 2006, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm CSTTimothy 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 […]
KLAS on Interoperability
December 6, 2006, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTKent 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 […]