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 […]

Jerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, and Medical Director, Information Systems - Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, describes the benefits of the ambulatory EMR in the context of Pay for Performance in California.

Michael Busch, Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer from Butler Health System, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Kenneth Kleinberg, Vice President and Hospital Strategist from Allscripts, discuss the opportunities now available as a result of the Stark Law relaxations for hospitals to provide electronic health records and related technologies to community physicians. Mr. Busch shares the business […]

David Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This presentation illustrates selected design approaches and benefits from the new enterprise data warehouse at Northwestern. Specifically, a high level overview of the process of accepting clinical and administrative content is reviewed, followed by selected examples of […]

Ira M. Kalina, Partner, Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton. Mr. Kalina describes how the EMR/eRx Safe Harbor and Exception are currently being interpreted and applied, providing a regulatory, business and technology perspective gleaned from working with hospitals across the country. He discusses what is being subsidized, how much is being subsidized, and the hurdles to internal […]

Jake Nunn, Director, Metro Region Imaging Services, Aurora Health Care, Jay Backstrom, Vice President, and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen Healthcare. To gain operational efficiencies in Digital Imaging (DI), departments need to establish a set of KPIs that continuously measure process outcomes.  The core challenge then becomes WHAT to measure and HOW to drive change, […]

Adam Gale, COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS reviews their 6th annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking personally with every live hospital in the country doing CPOE. This report contains a detailed look at the real usage of CPOE in live inpatient and major ambulatory facilities. It also includes commentary by providers […]

Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH - Corporate Manager, Partners Health Care Information Systems, presents a case study on the reporting system that was developed to support pay for performance and other quality initiates at Partners. Specifically: How can EMR data be leveraged into a clinical data warehouse that supports reporting? What are the key issues […]