Clinical Guideline Recommendations you can Trust

Janice Kaczmarek Janice Kaczmarek, EPC Program Manager & Director, ECRI Guidelines Trust, ECRI Institute. When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) decided to stop funding the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC), ECRI Institute heard from numerous users of the site who were dismayed. ECRI had been the prime contractor for NGC for 20 years, […]

An EHR-Based Real-Time Analytics Program for Patient Safety Surveillance and Improvement

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah.  Dr. Classen reviews the use of artificial intelligence at the bedside to improve the safety of care for patients. He also discusses an article recently published in a special issue of Health Affairs in November 2018 that is totally devoted to patient […]

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery through EMR Integration

Stacey Johnston, MD Megan Argabright Stacey Johnston, MD, Associate CMIO for Hospitalist Informatics, and Megan Argabright, Clinical Informaticist, Baptist Health (Jacksonville FL).  Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is an evidence-based interdisciplinary care delivery model that focuses on quickly moving the evidence developed from surgical research to bedside patient care, making a more immediate positive impact […]

New Visualization Techniques for Medication Adherence at Advocate Aurora

Darcy Davis, PhD Darcy Davis, PhD, Data Scientist, Advocate Aurora Health.  Medication adherence is a multi-faceted problem with varying intensity of health consequences but ultimately a high societal cost. In this complex space, tools that aid clinician judgement are more actionable when paired with meaningful conversations about patient needs and barriers to adherence. Learn how […]

Making the Right Choice: How to Rate Healthcare Apps

Adam Landman, MD David Levine, MD David W. Bates, MD Adam Landman, MD, CIO, David Levine, MD, Associate Physician, and David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  There are several hundred thousand healthcare apps in the marketplace, but it can be very difficult to determine which ones […]

Elite Analytics Status at Rush

Bala Hota, MD, VP & Chief Analytics Officer, Rush University Medical Center.  Rush University System for Health achieved the 2018 HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity Stage 7, demonstrating an elite status in the use of healthcare data to improve operations.  This achievement was only possible through a strong data governance program and alignment with […]

Predicting Congestive Heart Failure Using AI Techniques

Sunil Mallya, Principal Deep Learning Scientist, Amazon Web Services, and Marc Overhage, MD, VP Population Health Intelligence Strategy, Cerner.  Predicting the onset of a serious condition could be life changing. Cerner and Amazon Web Services recently created a CNN-GRU based model, a variant of recurrent neural networks (RNN), to predict the onset of chronic disease […]

Helping Care Teams Thrive Within their EHR at Centura

Scott Raymond, MHA, INF, BSN, RN Bret Shillingstad, MD, FACS Scott Raymond, MHA, INF, BSN, RN, VP Information Technology, Centura Health, and Bret Shillingstad, MD, FACS, Executive Director & CMIO, EHR Optimization Services, Nuance.  To meet your care team needs it takes more than a single technology or services offering. Hear how Centura Health has […]

Tech Planning for New State of the Art Hospital at Stanford

Christian Lindmark, VP & Chief Technology Officer, Gary Fritz, VP & Chief of Applications, and Gautami (Tami) Shirhatti, Program Director, Stanford Health Care.  The new Stanford Hospital, opening in the fall of 2019, is a state-of-the art facility that will accommodate the latest advances in technology and treat rare and complex diseases. The Stanford team […]