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 […]

Ashini Surati, Program Manager, Quality and Risk, CHRISTUS Health, and Pat Moylan, Senior Systems Analyst, Compliance, Parkview Health, lead an open discussion of issues plaguing healthcare IT leaders, including remote access and vendor access, audit logs, mobile device security, disaster recovery, email encryption, identity management, and E-Discovery. The discussion continues from the December 10, 2007, […]

Rick Skinner, Director, Stuart Friedman, Director, and other subject matter experts from Navigant Consulting, Inc. describe the shift in the provision of US healthcare from a wholesale to a retail model and the potential impact on healthcare organizations. They demonstrate how other industries have shifted focus from wholesale to retail and the ultimate changes to […]

Julie Creamer, SVP Quality and Planning, and Bob Costello, Director Process Improvement, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, provide an overview of quality improvement efforts in FY 2007. NMH's quality strategy calls for top-level performance, implementing evidence-based practices, employing leading process improvement techniques and developing groundbreaking systems of care that deliver positive patient outcomes. Key initiatives, such […]

Susan Heichert, Vice President, Health Information and Systems, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, and Patricia Johnston, FHIMSS, Vice President, Information Services, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX. Susan and Patricia continue the dialog which began on December 6, 2007, centering on challenges and lessons learned when measuring benefits from clinical systems implementations. Review the questions and […]

Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Chairman of the NYCLIX Board, and Director of Quality Informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital provides a status report of the last three years of planning and implementation, lessons learned, and plans for the next 24 months.

Jared Peterson, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. The Ambulatory EMR Digest covers all practice sizes from single doctor practices to >100 doctors for both practice management and EMR software.

Joe DeVenuto, CIO, and Steven Hester, MD, CMO