KLAS on Speech Recognition

Jeremy Bikman, VP, Strategic Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews front-end/ back-end speech recognition solutions in a market that has lots of activity. Jeremy answers questions like: What vendors are really performing and exceeding expectations? Where are the challenges with each vendor? What are the issues with accuracy? How high are clinician/staff adoption and satisfaction […]

Managing Access to Care at Ascension Health: Strategies, Partnerships, and IT Enablers

JoAnn Webster, Senior Director, Access Leadership, Ascension Health, St. Louis. A major strategic direction for Ascension Health is "Healthcare That Leaves No One Behind". The health system has developed the "5 Steps to 100% Access" and is implementing them in various communities through a program titled the Access Leadership Planning Program. Coalitions of competitor healthcare […]

CHRISTUS Health’s IT Management Dashboard

George Conklin, Senior VP and CIO, CHRISTUS Health, Dallas. CHRISTUS Health, a large Catholic health care delivery system, based in Dallas, TX, maintains a focus on performance and uses a variety of benchmark and performance tools to assess organizational performance on an ongoing basis. One tool, developed by the CHRISTUS Health Information Management (IM) department […]

Community Management of Asthma at Seton

Steve Conti, MBA, RRT, AE-C, Director of Disease Management, Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, TX, shares experiences using shared community health records to identify asthma patients at risk and to coordinate financial, medical, and school resources to improve health outcomes. The focus of this discussion is on the role of shared electronic health records to […]

KLAS on Nursing Adoption

Kent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Breaks out the results of KLAS' recently published Nursing report. Eighty-eight percent of acute organizations investing in nursing solutions report nursing adoption—but how much more than basic functions are they using? And what about the real tough stuff? Which vendors lead client adoption? What unique challenges do nurses […]

Hosting Community-based Physician EMRs: Five Years in the Making at Partners

Cindy Bero, Chief Information Officer, Partners Community Healthcare, Boston, describes the journey since the planning in 2002 to the current state, and lessons learned. She describes the movement from providing incentives for physicians to requiring EMR use, how to manage this evolution, how P4P contracts helped, and priorities for primary care vs. specialist doctors. With […]

2007 Fall Forum

“Transparency and Interoperability: Connecting to our Consumers”

Digital Hospital

Baldur Johnsen, HP, Palo Alto, CA, and Ben Wilson, Intel, Santa Clara, CA.

Data Governance Effectiveness

Nitin Mittal, Senior Manager, Healthcare Provider Technology Integration, Deloitte Consulting, provides insights and facilitates a discussion on healthcare provider data governance with a focus on data governance processes, organization, challenges and practical steps to effectiveness. He includes how providers are approaching data governance and what efforts they are undertaking to manage, administer and organize their […]

How Hospital CIOs Can Embrace Translational Informatics

Keith Strier, JD, Rosemary Ferdinand, PhD, and Mitch Morris, MD, Principals, Deloitte Consulting LLP. There is growing recognition that the field of medicine must absorb innovation more quickly. Accelerating the translational cycle - the path from discovery to dissemination - requires both organizational re-alignment and technical investments. This cycle involves moving knowledge from the bench […]

Business Intelligence

Linda McCann, Senior Principal and Provider Practice Leader, Health & Life Sciences, Hewlett-Packard Information Management. Linda shares her expertise on business intelligence for healthcare providers, and discusses key trends shaping the industry. Business intelligence solutions offer an opportunity to leverage information resources to improve operational efficiency, management visibility, and quality of care. She includes specific […]