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
Erica Drazen and Jane Metzger, FCG, describe what organizations are doing, or will need to start doing, to provide IT support for the next level of patient safety. The discussion includes advanced clinical decision support in CPOE, surveillance, and infection control.
Jean Chenoweth, Sr. VP, Performance Improvement and 100 Top Hospitals Programs, Thomson Healthcare, provides a new understanding of how management impact can be gained by comparing and analyzing performance using a hospital-wide scorecard. She includes how national comparisons of long-term rates of improvement combined with comparison of current performance against national benchmarks, can provide illuminating […]
Tom Foley, Partner, Ayako Utsumi, Manager, Strategy & Operations, and Brian Doty, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Leading providers continue to ask questions such as: Am I getting the value from my current IT investments? How can I use technology to bring better service to my patients and employees? Where should I invest in technology […]
Joanne Sunquist, RN, CIO, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, and John McInally, CIO, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto.
Kent Gale, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, discusses Clinical Information System investment and software performance for doctors and nurses in acute care hospitals. This session is an opportunity to understand the dynamics behind the changes in Clinical Market Share (CMS) leadership the past 18 months and includes a comparative look at market share versus adoption rates […]
Jim Philbin, Senior Director of Medical Imaging, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Chris Balbi, Corporate Medical Imaging Program Director, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, David Dimond, Senior Vice President, Exogen, and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen. As leading providers plan for technology upgrades and updates, data consistency across information systems has become a top concern for […]
Kent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, and Helen V. Thompson, CIO, Heartland Health, St. Joseph, MO, invite you to attend a discussion about benchmarking approaches, including both the value that can be gained and the pitfalls that have been inherent in many benchmarking efforts. The SI benchmarking process, developed by Spectrum Health and maintained […]
Tami Merryman, Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. UPMC is known for its stellar financial and medical outcomes. Ms. Merryman describes how UPMC utilizes daily performance dashboards to drive its business and quality goals. The development, deployment and outcomes from dashboard implementation are covered in this session as […]
Jack Corley, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Quality Officer, Advanced Technology Institute, Charleston SC, and Deputy Program Manager for the Health Information Technology Standards Program (HITSP) funded by the Office of the National Coordinator specifies how to integrate diverse standards to meet key healthcare business needs. Jack provides a status report of key standards […]
Mike Hibbard, Vice President Informatics for Mercy Health Partners, Cincinnati, and Tom Gocke, Solution Executive at Thomson Healthcare, Denver, share the approach used by Mercy Health Partners to give physicians a secure way to access clinical patient data wherever they are - at the patient bedside, at home, or at the office. Mercy Health Partners […]
Randy Wilder, Director of Imaging, Ardent Health Services, Nashville, Jay Backstrom, Vice President and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen, Chicago. As digital imaging systems have gained momentum over the last decade, healthcare organizations continue to grapple with optimization and adoption of these systems at the department and the enterprise level. In this roundtable discussion, prominent […]
Steve Van Wagenen, KLAS Research Director, Orem, UT, reports on the 2008 KLAS Labor and Delivery study. One hundred and forty participating organizations and individual hospitals address such questions as: How well are L&D vendors meeting provider expectations? What are the surprising benefits and challenges of current L&D surveillance, charting and archiving systems? What is […]
