Rick Hampton, Co-Chair, Wireless Technical Report for the IEC 80001-1 Medical Device/IT Network Risk Management Committee. Business drivers are pushing healthcare providers to connect their medical devices to the HIS network. Not only is there growing concern for the safety of patients and efficacy of the medical devices with integrated systems, new FDA regulations could […]
Jason Fortin, Director, and Erica Drazen, Managing Director, Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, CSC. While nothing is final, we do have initial recommendation for Stage 2 and hints about Stage 3. Jason and Erica discuss the current recommendations, reactions from the industry, and their take on what to expect in Stage 2.
Chris Vanuga, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, and Randy Gordon, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. One of the leading assumptions of health care reform is that providing better information to providers will enable both clinical outcome improvement and reduce costs. However, just purchasing and implementing clinical information systems does not necessarily result in improved […]
Eric Hartz, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center. The automation of oncologic care in the EMR has brought many challenges. Standardization of care following evidence based guidelines, improving workflow efficiency, and best uses of clinical decision support are a few of them. Learn how CancerCare of Maine has embarked on this journey with Cerner. See how […]
Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. With healthcare systems and government initiatives focusing more tightly on improved patient care at lower cost through increased technology utilization and complex data sharing, many providers wonder how real the dream of healthcare information exchange (HIE) truly is. For this discussion Mark examines recent KLAS findings from discussions […]
