Paul Kreder, Principal, and Carolyn Howard, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The cost of supplies and services are going to continue to increase; industry resources even predict cost increases due to reform. The "ask" of Supply Chain has not changed however - reduce costs while getting us what we need to treat patients and run […]
Rick Turner, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Trinity Health. Saint Alphonsus went live in 2010 with a big bang installation of nearly all modules with a great deal of success; initial CPOE adoption was 79% on day one, and nearly 90% CPOE saturation since.
Jeffrey Firlik, BSPharm, MSA, R.Ph., Pharmacist, Principal, CSC, and Vice-Chair of the Vermont Board of Pharmacy. Electronic Prescribing has been proven to reduce medication errors and improve medical office efficiency. It has strong government support, as evidenced by the CMS e-Rx initiative, as well as ARRA Meaningful Use (MU) requirements. Recently adopted state and Federal […]
Ray R. Bonnabeau, Attorney at Law, Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC. Experts predict PHI security/privacy breaches will increase with the growth in the number of eHealth records nationwide. The risk of such breaches only increases with the portability of one's work environment and reliance on third-party service providers. This discussion focuses on steps healthcare organizations can […]
Kirk Ising, Research Operations Imaging Director, KLAS, Orem, UT, examines recent developments in the PACS and RIS markets. Although PACS has been mostly a replacement market due to saturation and hospitals focusing on Stage 1 Meaningful Use, many providers are now looking at PACS and RIS solutions as part of their long-term strategy. Functionality, integration, […]
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Luis Saldana, MD, Associate CMIO, Texas Health Resources. Drs. Velasco and Saldano share their experience in developing an effective clinical decision support build in an enterprise EHR in the context of meaningful use, and their experience in leveraging the Leapfrog CPOE test as a tool to evaluate […]
James L. Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA), a HIMSS Davies Award winner. A major, national health goal is to reduce preventable readmissions to the hospital, addressing patient safety, public cost, patient satisfaction and healthcare quality. Coupled with financial penalties to hospitals for readmissions, the urgency of dealing with this issue […]
Anne McCune, Senior VP and Leader, Ingenix Strategy and Governance, and Michael Goran, MD, Senior VP, Ingenix Consulting. The long overdue draft of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ACO proposed rules were released on March 31, accompanied by a companion set of regulations from the FTC about antitrust implications of ACOs. Recognizing organizations […]
