Auditing RACS: Examining Provider Perceptions

Paul Pitcher, Director of Financial Systems, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. This presentation looks at recent KLAS research about RAC auditing buying decisions, including which systems providers have selected and why […]

Meaningful Use: Implications for Hospital IT Systems Integration

Mary Sedivec, Principal, and Al Byrd, Senior Architectural Specialist, CSC. How will hospital IT system integration efforts, departments and associated technologies be affected by new standards required for EHR Meaningful […]

Enterprise Governance for MU at Adventist Health System

Bruce A. Wacker, MT(ASCP), Director of Customer Service and HITECH, AHS Information Services, and Bonnie Kierstead, Clinical Design Strategist, Florida Hospital MIS. Managing Meaningful Use presents significant challenges in a […]

Using CDS to Measurably Improve Care, DVT

Amy Halverson, MD, Department of Surgery, Hiren Shah, MD, Division of Hospital Medicine, Jean Patel, MD, Pharmacy, and Jennifer Van Dyke, Process Improvement, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, discuss how they decreased […]

KLAS Reveals the Top-Performing HIT Vendors of 2010

Karen Ondo, VP, Research Integrity, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As a still-struggling economy and looming Meaningful Use requirements continue to cloud the future of the healthcare IT industry, picking the […]

Using the SI IT Benchmarking Database

Gordon Rohweder, Ricki Levitan, and Shelli Williamson, Scottsdale Institute, conduct a review of the 2010 SI IT Benchmarking project, including a brief overview and Q&A on the normalization process. During […]

ICD-10: Lessons Learned from the Field

Chris Armstrong, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, Vickie Monteith, RN, Director, Deloitte & Touche, and Chris Davis, Director Deloitte Consulting, provide insight into the implementation phase of the ICD-10 regulations based […]