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Bioelectronics 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 […]

Ashini 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 […]

Rick 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 […]

Julie 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 […]

Susan 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 […]

Gilad 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, […]

Jared 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.

Joe DeVenuto, CIO, and Steven Hester, MD, CMO

Jean 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 […]

Tom 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 […]

Joanne Sunquist, RN, CIO, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, and John McInally, CIO, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto.

Kent 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 […]

Jim 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 […]

Kent 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 […]

Tami 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 […]

Jack 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 […]

Mike 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 […]

Randy 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 […]

Steve 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: […]

Jerome 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 […]

Michael 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 […]

David 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 […]

Ira 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 […]

Jake 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 […]

Adam 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. […]

Jonathan 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 […]

Eric 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 […]

Joel 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 […]

Jan 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 […]

David 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 […]

Mike Smith, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. A huge surge is occurring in outsourcing the hosting of applications. What is working and who delivers?

Linda 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 […]

Scott 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 […]

Erica 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 […]

Emily 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 […]

Ronald 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 […]

Christopher 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. […]

Bill 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 […]

Ben 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 […]

Cyndie 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 […]

Doug 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 […]

Jeremy 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 […]

Jamie 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 […]

Douglas 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 […]

Robert 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 […]

Kent 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 […]

Narayanan 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 […]

Linda 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 […]

Jeremy 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 […]

Robert 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 […]

Keith 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 […]

Dick 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 […]

Doug 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 […]

Bruce 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 […]

Anthony 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 […]

Rebecca 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 […]

Donna 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 […]

Barry 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 […]

Ben 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 […]

Aliza 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 […]

Jason 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 […]

Kathy 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.

Bryan 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 […]

Nadia 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. […]

Tim 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 […]

Jason 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 […]