SI Cerner Users Collaborative No. 24: Optimizing Clinical Performance through Business Intelligence

Scott Baumann, Director Enterprise Decision Support, Spectrum Health, provides an overview of how Spectrum Health populates data into its Enterprise Data Warehouse and leverages Business Intelligence tools and processes to drive performance. Specific examples will focus on how the integrated data environment has played a critical role in financial, clinical and research activities.

Application Management Services What, Why, and Who For?

Tim Smith, Principal, and Chris Davis, Director, Healthcare Technology Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Tim and Chris discuss trends and perspectives on the evolution of outsourced application services for healthcare providers, providing an informative look at the changing landscape of services for managing and hosting applications, and addressing questions such as: What are the types of […]

Are We There Yet? Getting to Meaningful CPOE Use

Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Despite governmental push to speed up adoption, the road to meaningful CPOE use for many providers may be long and slow. Jason explains findings from recent KLAS research representing approximately 95 percent of North American organizations live with a commercial CPOE product. Find out which […]

Implementing a Perioperative and Anesthesiology IS in Six Months or Less

Shermeen Vakharia, MD, HS/Clinical Professor, Director of Thoracic Vascular, and Compliance and Quality Improvement Officer, University of California Irvine, identifies the performance requirements of Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) and how UCI evaluated and differentiated various systems to match user and functional requirements. Additionally, Dr. Vakharia describes how to organize an implementation team and develop […]

Penn Medicine Data Warehouse: Now for the Really Hard Part

Brian P. Wells, FHIMSS, Chief Technology Officer, Information Services, Penn Medicine (formerly The University of Pennsylvania Health System). With more than 1.4 billion rows of clinical data in a standard format Operational Data Store, Penn Medicine has completed the pick and shovel work. We are now focused on standardizing data vocabularies, eliminating duplicate rows and […]

2011 Update of Best-Selling Guide for CDS Implementers

Jerry Osheroff, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters. This teleconference is for CDS implementers to provide input to the content, format, and optimal use of the next edition of "Improving Outcomes with CDS: An Implementer's Guide." This second edition will have many contributors and will be co-published in 2011 by HIMSS, Scottsdale Institute, AMDIS, […]

Quality Measurement 101 for HIT Professionals

Lou Diamond, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, Healthcare, Thomson Reuters. Learn the essentials you need to know to support successful Quality Initiatives. This session reviews the basic dimensions of quality, definitions and uses of evidence-based medicine, and the basics of clinical performance measures. Dr. Diamond also provides a summary of the ARRA HIT and […]

CPOE and Medication Safety: State of the Art and State of the Practice

Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC, and David Classen, MD, Senior Partner, Healthcare Group, CSC. The adoption of CPOE isn't pushed just to gain legible orders, but also because decision support can help alert physicians to, and help them avoid potential safety issues upfront as they are ordering. The Institute of Medicine, the National […]

Digital Health Community: Enabling the Coordination of Care

Mitchell Morris, MD, Principle, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting. Healthcare reform, Beacon funding, and changing industry dynamics are driving the need for greater coordination of care at the community level. Bundled payments, the medical home and disease management are some of the developing concepts that are driving the need for technology to link together […]

Smoothing Out the Bumps of HIE Adoption

Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Beyond vague meaningful use requirements and personal preferences, healthcare providers building HIEs (health information exchanges) have little to guide their efforts in terms of standards or past experience. There are a wide variety of technical approaches to and business models for HIE, as well as […]

SI Cerner Users Collaborative No. 25: Discharge Scenarios and Models of Information Management – Whose Job is it Anyway?

Michael Kramer, MD, CMIO, Trinity Health will lead a discussion including: (1) defining the tasks of discharge and information required, (2) mapping content to functionality, (3) discharge problem areas including orders and instructions and accommodating user favorites, (4) best practices for instructions and orders for DME, diagnostics and consults, transmission to other providers and facilities, […]

It Takes Two to Tango: Maximizing IT Vendor Relationships

Ed Marx, VP and CIO, and Stephen Hanson, Senior Executive VP, System Growth and Integration, Texas Health Resources, describe how THR established a framework for IT vendor management, creating value for all parties. They share the strategy behind the framework as well as the nuts and bolts that make it work.

A Path To Reducing Waste In The U.S. Healthcare System

Bob Kelley, Vice President, Healthcare Analytics, and Dr. Raymond Fabius, Chief Medical Officer, Thomson Reuters, discuss the possibility of reducing waste by $3.8 trillion in the next decade. They look at five strategies that have been successful in waste reduction, ranging from consumer activism and transparency to payment integrity. They also highlight intermediate and long-term […]

How is Your Organization Progressing Towards ICD-10 Readiness?

Christine Armstrong, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. This session provides an update to previous ICD-10 sessions, offering insight into the steps necessary to prepare for an ICD-10 transition. Understand how proactive providers are currently developing action plans and budgets, as well as planning education for their providers and HIM professionals. Gain insight into complexities encountered in […]

Regional Extension Centers: What your Organization Can Expect

Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS, Clinical Director, and Susan Severson, Project Director, REACH, the Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT, provide an overview of one regional extension center's approach to assisting small hospitals and clinics to adopt and become meaningful users of an electronic health record. This session provides an understanding of the types of […]