Medical Disaster Preparedness and Recovery in the 2007 Minnesota Bridge Collapse
January 15, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTBioelectronics Manager Phillip Gill, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minneapolis, explains how the most difficult thing during a crisis is “communication and transportation.” HCMC is the regional medical disaster center […]
Security, Audit and Regulatory Compliance IT Issues of Today: Open Forum Discussion
January 16, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTAshini Surati, Program Manager, Quality and Risk, CHRISTUS Health, and Pat Moylan, Senior Systems Analyst, Compliance, Parkview Health, lead an open discussion of issues plaguing healthcare IT leaders, including remote […]
Consumer Driven Healthcare: Best Practices and IT Implications
January 22, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTRick Skinner, Director, Stuart Friedman, Director, and other subject matter experts from Navigant Consulting, Inc. describe the shift in the provision of US healthcare from a wholesale to a retail […]
Northwestern Memorial Annual QI Report: Sustained Commitment to Providing the Best Patient Experience
January 24, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJulie Creamer, SVP Quality and Planning, and Bob Costello, Director Process Improvement, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, provide an overview of quality improvement efforts in FY 2007. NMH’s quality strategy calls […]
Open Forum: Measuring Benefits from Clinical System Implementation
January 28, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTSusan Heichert, Vice President, Health Information and Systems, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, and Patricia Johnston, FHIMSS, Vice President, Information Services, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX. Susan and Patricia continue […]
The New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX)
January 29, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTGilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Chairman of the NYCLIX Board, and Director of Quality Informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital provides a status report of the last three years of planning and implementation, […]
Ambulatory Practice Management and EMR Digest, 1 to more than 100 doctors
January 31, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJared Peterson, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. The Ambulatory EMR Digest covers all practice sizes from single doctor practices to >100 doctors for both practice management and EMR software.
Norton Healthcare Case Study
February 5, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJoe DeVenuto, CIO, and Steven Hester, MD, CMO
FCG Research Report: Next Generation Safety Net
February 7, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTErica Drazen and Jane Metzger, FCG, describe what organizations are doing, or will need to start doing, to provide IT support for the next level of patient safety. The discussion […]
Management Dashboards: Content and Case Studies
February 12, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJean Chenoweth, Sr. VP, Performance Improvement and 100 Top Hospitals Programs, Thomson Healthcare, provides a new understanding of how management impact can be gained by comparing and analyzing performance using […]
The Business Case for Healthcare IT
February 14, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTTom Foley, Partner, Ayako Utsumi, Manager, Strategy & Operations, and Brian Doty, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Leading providers continue to ask questions such as: Am I getting the value […]
The Clinician as a CIO: Challenges, Benefits and Implications
February 19, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJoanne Sunquist, RN, CIO, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, and John McInally, CIO, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto.
Vendor Clinical Market Share: Investing in Tools for Nurses and Doctors
February 21, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTKent Gale, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, discusses Clinical Information System investment and software performance for doctors and nurses in acute care hospitals. This session is an opportunity to understand the […]
Data Never Gets Obsolete: How to Develop a Data Vision
February 28, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJim Philbin, Senior Director of Medical Imaging, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Chris Balbi, Corporate Medical Imaging Program Director, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, David Dimond, Senior Vice President, Exogen, and […]
IT Cost Benchmarking: What Works and What Does Not
March 5, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTKent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, and Helen V. Thompson, CIO, Heartland Health, St. Joseph, MO, invite you to attend a discussion about benchmarking approaches, including both the value […]
Management Dashboards Support Performance and Quality Improvement at UPMC
March 6, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTTami Merryman, Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. UPMC is known for its stellar financial and medical outcomes. Ms. Merryman describes how UPMC […]
Standards Update: Moving Toward Integrated Nomenclature and Structured Data
March 10, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJack Corley, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Quality Officer, Advanced Technology Institute, Charleston SC, and Deputy Program Manager for the Health Information Technology Standards Program (HITSP) funded by the […]
Mercy Health Partners Gives Doctors Secure Mobile Access to Clinical Patient Data
March 11, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMike Hibbard, Vice President Informatics for Mercy Health Partners, Cincinnati, and Tom Gocke, Solution Executive at Thomson Healthcare, Denver, share the approach used by Mercy Health Partners to give physicians […]
Eliminating Digital Imaging Optimization Barriers
March 20, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRandy Wilder, Director of Imaging, Ardent Health Services, Nashville, Jay Backstrom, Vice President and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen, Chicago. As digital imaging systems have gained momentum over the last […]
Labor and Delivery Systems: Functional Strengths, Weaknesses and Depth of Integration
March 27, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTSteve Van Wagenen, KLAS Research Director, Orem, UT, reports on the 2008 KLAS Labor and Delivery study. One hundred and forty participating organizations and individual hospitals address such questions as: […]
Improving Transparency and Reporting Through the EMR at Cedars Sinai
April 1, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, and Medical Director, Information Systems – Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, describes the benefits […]
Stark Law Relaxations: The Business Case for a Community Physician Technology Donation Strategy
April 3, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMichael Busch, Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer from Butler Health System, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Kenneth Kleinberg, Vice President and Hospital Strategist from Allscripts, discuss the opportunities now available as […]
EDW Reporting Facilitates Ongoing EHR System Improvements at Northwestern
April 7, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDavid Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This presentation illustrates selected design approaches and benefits from the new enterprise […]
Safe Harbor and Stark Law Update and Case Studies
April 10, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTIra M. Kalina, Partner, Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton. Mr. Kalina describes how the EMR/eRx Safe Harbor and Exception are currently being interpreted and applied, providing a regulatory, business and technology […]
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Digital Imaging: Indicators for Success
April 22, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJake Nunn, Director, Metro Region Imaging Services, Aurora Health Care, Jay Backstrom, Vice President, and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen Healthcare. To gain operational efficiencies in Digital Imaging (DI), departments […]
CPOE Outlook: 2006 vs. 2007
April 24, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAdam Gale, COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS reviews their 6th annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking personally with every live hospital in the country doing CPOE. […]
Predictive Knowledge Management
April 29, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, Corporate Manager, Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Partners HealthCare, and Vi Shaffer, Research VP, Gartner.
Leveraging the EMR for Clinical Data Warehouse Reporting
April 30, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH – Corporate Manager, Partners Health Care Information Systems, presents a case study on the reporting system that was developed to support pay for performance and […]
CITL: The Business Case for Telehealth Technologies for Physician to Physician Communication
May 6, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTEric Pan, MD, MS, Center for IT Leadership, Partners Healthcare. Adoption of telehealth technologies could save $4.28 billion annually, according to the Center for Information Technology Leadership, even if implemented […]
Advocate HealthCare Medication Reconciliation Case Study
May 7, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJoel S. Shoolin, DO, MBA, VP, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook, IL. Advocate started its EMR journey in medication reconciliation several years ago and now can share its successes and the […]
Kaiser makes PHRs Available to all Members
May 13, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJan Oldenburg, Practice Leader, Health Content, Internet Services Group, Kaiser Permanente. The Kaiser PHR, called My Health Manager, offers access to the member’s electronic health record, lab test results, and […]
University of Pennsylvania Clinical Business Intelligence Case Study
May 15, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTPaul E Pancoast, MD, MBA, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Brian Wells, Chief Technology Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn). Penn and Deloitte developed a Proof-of-Concept Clinical Business Intelligence dashboard […]
The Leapfrog CPOE Simulator: Evaluate your Readiness
May 19, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDavid C. Classen, M.D., M.S., Vice President, CSC (formerly First Consulting Group) and Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake […]
Remote Application Hosting
May 20, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMike Smith, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. A huge surge is occurring in outsourcing the hosting of applications. What is working and who delivers?
IT Enabling Patient Involvement in their Care
June 3, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTLinda Talley, Director of Nursing Systems, and Roberta Alessi, Executive Director, Operations and Compliance, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC. This leading Children’s Medical Center implemented a patient interactive system […]
CHW Case Study: Community MD Strategy and Roll Out
June 4, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTScott Whyte, VP, Information Technology, and Dan Ferguson, MD, MS, FACP, CPE, Vice President, Medical Operations, Catholic Healthcare West, San Francisco. CHW describes their approach to electronic results distribution to […]
Benchmarking Your Progress on the Journey to Operational and IT Excellence
June 5, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTErica Drazen, Ed D, VP, CSC, formerly First Consulting Group. CSC has recently completed a survey of healthcare organizations to assess industry progress towards national goals. Their “Evolution Framework” uses […]
Management Dashboards: The Memorial Hermann Daily Flash Report
June 10, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTEmily Handwerk, System Executive Information Systems, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, demonstrates a key operations management tool and describes its use, IT’s role in supporting the process, and ongoing governance […]
E-Discovery Rules of the Road
June 11, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRonald Bonig, VP and CIO, The George Washington University, and George Conklin, VP and CIO, CHRISTUS Health. With the recently updated regulations for E-Discovery, it is necessary for organizations to […]
Standardizing Vocabularies and Creating the Governance Structures to Manage and Maintain Them
June 17, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTChristopher Chute, MD, DrPH, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Standard terminology and vocabulary are now widely recognized as crucial elements for interoperability and within enterprise data consistency. […]
Sharp HealthCare Baldrige Award and IT Enablers
June 23, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBill Spooner, Chief Information Officer, and Nancy Pratt, SVP Clinical Effectiveness, Sharp HealthCare, San Diego. This session reviews how Sharp HealthCare answered the 2007 HealthCare Baldrige criteria across all seven […]
2nd Generation PACS: Are the Market Leaders Changing?
June 25, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBen Brown, Research Director, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Larger, acute care organizations are demanding more from their PACS system. What vendors are delivering? Imaging crosses traditional boundaries, creating new opportunities […]
Implementing Standard Terminologies to Share Data: SNOMED Case Studies
June 26, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTCyndie Lundberg, Clinical Informatics Educator, College of American Pathologists, SNOMED Terminology Solutions and Robert H. Dolin, MD, FACP, FACMI, Kaiser Permanente, Department of Internal Medicine, Physician Lead, KP HealthConnect Convergent […]
Texas Health Resources Clinical Decision Support Implementation
July 7, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTLuis Saldana, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support, and Ferdinand Velasco, MD, CMIO, Texas Health Resources. Lessons learned from the first year of implementing clinical decision support and […]
Clinical System Benefits-Driven Implementation: Lessons Learned from Early Adopters
July 10, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDoug Thompson, Principal, Strategy Expert, CSC, and Patricia Johnston, FHIMSS, Vice President Information Systems, Texas Health Resources, explain how to manage a clinical system implementation “to the benefits”, instead of […]
Business Intelligence and Data Analytics: Combining Clinical and Financial Data
July 25, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJeremy Bikman, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Where does the industry sit relative to concurrent access to clinical and financial data that is required to run today’s acute care organizations? Presentation […]
Clinical Decision Support at Robert Wood Johnson: A Case Study
July 28, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJohn Chuo, MD, MS, Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Director of Neonatal Informatics, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Bristol Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chuo […]
Advocate Clinical Decision Support Case Study
July 31, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJoel S. Shoolin, DO, MBA, VP, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook, IL. Chicagoland’s Advocate Healthcare has developed a number of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools to improve patient care. This session […]
Information Sharing within a Federated Data Model – Enabling Data Collaboration without Compromising Security
August 6, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJamie Welch, CIO of the Louisiana Rural Health Coalition (LRHC), presents how a decentralized data approach helped LRHC and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center overcome privacy concerns to […]
Clinical System Benefit Measurement Metrics: How to Select, Collect and Report
August 13, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDouglas Thompson, Director, Navigant Consulting, presents a detailed “technical” discussion laying out the principles of benefit metric selection, issues around data collection, principles of report design and use; and illustrating […]
Realizing Budgetable Benefits: RAD Voice Recognition
August 14, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRobert C. Weeks, Director, Information Services Division, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston. Prior to implementing digital voice recognition technology for Radiology transcription, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System was spending over $1.5 […]
Revenue Cycle Reformation: Will Software Solutions Keep Up?
August 26, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Have the new Revenue Cycle Management solutions come of age? Are 20-30 year old legacy AR/billing solutions being replaced? If so, who is […]
A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Developing an Integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse
September 9, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTNarayanan Kulasekar, Manager EDW/Business Intelligence, and Tina Esposito, MBA, RHIA, Director, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook, IL, describe the approach Advocate is taking in developing an […]
Hospitals Subsidizing Community Physician EHRs, Tax Implications for Both Parties
September 16, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTLinda Sauser Moroney and Jennifer R. Breuer, Partners, Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton. Two years have passed since CMS/OIG regulations were issued allowing hospitals to subsidize ambulatory electronic health record arrangements […]
Oncology Solutions: A Complex Area – Who is Hitting the Mark?
September 17, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJeremy Bikman, VP of Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. From community hospital to cancer center, what options do providers have? Do single source and/or integrated vendors like Cerner, Eclipsys, Siemens […]
Ultrasound Technology: Benefits and Impact at the Seton Family of Hospitals
September 22, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRobert Petty, Dell Healthcare Practice Executive of Seton Family of Hospitals, and Jeff Falwell, Dell Project Manager, discuss the selection process used to determine their choice of ultrasound technology. They […]
Cincinnati Children’s Clinical Research Data Warehouse (I2B2)
September 23, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKeith Marsolo, Director of Research Data Warehouse and Instructor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has implemented a research data warehouse using the i2b2 […]
Clinical Browser Delivers Value at Daughters of Charity Health System
October 1, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDick Hutsell, VP and CIO. The health system reestablished itself in 2002 with little capital to make up for many years of under-investing in clinical information technology. A clinical browser […]
Clinical System Benefit Requirements: A Practical Tool for Benefits-Driven System Implementation
October 2, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDoug Thompson, Director, Navigant Consulting, describes and gives practical examples of how to identify and use detailed technical and process change requirements focused on realization of specific operational benefits, as […]
Business Intelligence Strategy and Approach
October 7, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBruce Johnson, Managing Director of Data Architecture Strategy and Governance, Recombinant Data Corporation, describes post-EMR implementation analytical needs and factors to consider when analyzing the business drivers and technology options […]
Building Business Analytics from Healthcare IT Systems at Spectrum Health
October 9, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAnthony J. Senagore, MD, MS, MBA, VP Research and Education, Spectrum Health, and Professor of Surgery, Michigan State University/CHM, and Scott Bauman, Director, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Spectrum Health, describe Spectrum […]
Identity Theft Red Flag Rules
October 15, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRebecca L. Williams RN, JD, and Brent R. Eller, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the Nov. 1, 2008, compliance deadline for implementing identity […]
Closed-Loop Processes to Facilitate Transparency and Enhance Patient Safety
October 16, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDonna Willeumier, Administrator Safety and Regulatory Compliance, and Kate Kovich, Director Patient Safety and Regulatory Compliance, Advocate HealthCare, Oakbrook, IL, describe how Advocate uses technology to facilitate patient safety lessons […]
The Legal EHR: Definitions and Beyond
October 22, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBarry S. Herrin, FACHE, Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP. As we continue to implement our grandchildren’s technology within our grandparents’ legal system, questions and problems continue to arise in the context […]
Making Inroads with Speech Recognition
October 23, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBen Brown, Research Director, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. A growing number of healthcare provider organizations report dramatic workflow efficiency, faster report turnaround times and cost savings benefits by adopting speech […]
Maximizing Service Response and Nursing Efficiency through Family Involvement
October 28, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAliza Koenigsberg, Administrative Director, Children’s Service Line, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, Komansky Center for Children’s Health, and Joseph McTernan, Director of Operations at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of […]
Are Integrated ED Solutions Overtaking Best of Breed Products?
November 12, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJason Hess, Research Director, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. How deeply are physicians engaged in their ED system? Which solutions cover the ED from A to Z? What vendors/products are replacing […]
Impact of Patient Involvement in their Care
November 14, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTKathy Pereira-Ogan, RN, Director of Service Excellence and Patient Satisfaction, and Kristen Lindsey Project Leader for the Department of Information Services, Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE.
Using Technology to Improve the Patient Experience
November 19, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTBryan Croft, Vice President of Operations, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, discusses the innovative ways Methodist is leveraging interactive technology to improve the patient experience. He explains how The Methodist Hospital […]
A Review of the Piedmont Healthcare OIG Audit
November 20, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTNadia Fahim-Koster, MBA, CHPS, CISSP, Information Security Director, Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, and Cliff Baker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, describe the OIG Security Audit of Piedmont, lessons learned, and the related CMS Security Audits. […]
CPOE Simulator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
December 2, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTTim Zoph, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, and David C. Classen, MD, M.S., CMO, CSC. The session outlines the experience of Northwestern Memorial Hospital with the […]
Is Medication Administration Technology Creating a Win/Win at the Bedside?
December 18, 2008, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJason Hess, Research Director, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Are advances in smart pump technology and barcode medication administration generating the anticipated benefits? Providers expect to see improved nurse workflow and […]