Robert Olmedo, Director of Technology, Palm Beach County Community Health Alliance.

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

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 […]

Steven Barlow, Manager, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City.

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 […]

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 […]

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Texas Health Resources, presents a systematic approach to plan for and manage the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in a community hospital system with voluntary medical staff. He discusses assessing CPOE readiness, engaging physician leadership, and the technical considerations for building a physician-friendly CPOE system.

Dr. Paul Pancoast, Sr. Lead, Physician Consultant, Deloitte Consulting, Saint Louis, provides insights and facilitates a discussion on data governance with a focus specific standardization challenges for clinical IT: What approach have you taken to standardize diagnosis codes? What approach have you taken to standardize the problem list(s)? What efforts are underway to standardize terminologies/nomenclatures? […]

Gina Perez, Executive Director. DHIN is a public-private partnership providing organizational infrastructure to support a clinical information exchange across the State of Delaware. It is a collaboration of physicians, hospitals, commercial laboratories, community organizations and patients, designed to provide for the secure, fast and reliable exchange of health information among the many medical providers in […]

Dr. Don Holmquest, president and CEO, CalRHIO. The California Regional Health Information Organization is a collaborative effort to incrementally build the structure and capabilities necessary for a secure statewide health information exchange system that enables California's health care providers and patients to access vital medical information at the time and place it is needed. Dr. […]

Regina Berman, Executive Director, Performance Improvement, and Gerard Burns, MD, CMIO, Hackensack University Medical Center. We are just starting to learn how embracing Public Reporting may impact a healthcare system's "health"- as we move from proving process measure compliance, to true outcomes measures (mortality, morbidity, safety), to "value measurements" (LOS, CPC, Readmission Rate). Will good […]

Michele DeRoo, Account Manager, John McHan, Senior Project Manager, and Steve Sanzone, Identity Management Practice Manager, Laurus Technologies. Identity management, including user provisioning, single sign-on, compliancy, auditing, and role management has broad impact in your organization. Michele and John address the following issues: ROI, proving the project need, vendor selection criteria, ensuring project success, what […]

Christi Adams, RN, MSN, CCRN, Nurse Clinician, Surgical Trauma ICU, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, shares their quest to obliterate ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Utilizing the FADE (Focus, Analyze, Develop, Execute) process, the framework of the IHI VAP bundle, a culture change which integrates providers, and the development of an effective program which looks beyond […]

Susan Heichert, Vice President, Health Information and Systems, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, and Patricia Johnston, FHIMSS, Acting Vice President, Information Services, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX. Susan and Patricia will ask questions and facilitate discussions around challenges and lessons learned when measuring benefits from clinical systems implementations.

Bioelectronics Manager Phillip Gill, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minneapolis, explains how the most difficult thing during a crisis is "communication and transportation." HCMC is the regional medical disaster center and was put to the test in the aftermath of the August ’07 I-35 bridge collapse. When the cell system was deluged, they relied on […]