Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Questions for discussion include: What benefits metrics have been used to document qualitative or quantitative benefits derived from your organizations' Cerner Millennium implementations? Are benefits metrics reported on a regular basis or collected to produce […]

Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. During this meeting we review several public reporting websites, including WhyNotTheBest.org, and CalHospitalCompare.org, and share views on: deciphering the metrics for the public, the graphic nature of presentations, and the ability to compare. What should each of our organizations do to help the public understand […]

Curtis Cole, MD, CMIO, New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, discusses how Weill Cornell Medical Center has used structured vocabularies within the EMR as a way to simplify reporting and decision support. Specifically, he reviews the use of diagnostic interface terminology and a LOINC-based terminology server.

Paul Pitcher, Director, Financial/Services Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS recently conducted an assessment of hospitals greater than 200 beds which had most recently displaced a Patient Accounting solution for a newer Revenue Management solution. The findings of this research address what is being implemented, how projects are meeting scheduled production dates and whether organizations […]

Eric Leader, VP Technology Architecture, CareFx. How to get as much value as possible from existing systems? Give clinicians easy access to patient data from combined sources. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) gives you an intelligent way to incorporate systems, allowing them to interoperate by creating a common method for accessing disparate data sources. There's no […]

Steve Van Wagenen, Director, Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Is the use of technology for asset, patient and staff tracking as pervasive as one might expect from all the market talk of RFID and other Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) solutions? For those organizations that are using RTLS, how is it successfully deployed? What differentiates […]

Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. Participants are to select two measures from the Surgical Care Improvement Project Core Measure Set (JCAHO #’s INF 1a, 1b, 2a, 3a, and VTE 2) and the corresponding two measures from Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (CMS/HHS #’s 20, 21, 22, 23, and 45) and bring […]

Walter Zywiak, Principal Researcher, CSC. This presentation is based on research for a white paper published in the summer of 2008. The presentation briefly defines and characterizes the four generations that make up today's healthcare IT workforce: traditionalist, boomer, generation X, and generation Y; and then focuses on four challenges associated with managing this cross […]

Joel Vengco, Director of Ambulatory Practice System Strategies, Boston Medical Center describes Boston Medical Center's decision/strategy to build a community platform to enhance the referral process to the medical center, and support regional data sharing with providers.

Michael S. Habeck Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. While healthcare organizations focus on the portfolio of applications that IT supports, the IT infrastructure portfolio, along with its related management and governance, is critical to the successful delivery of business services, managing IT costs, and aligning with business strategies. Service delivery models for IT Infrastructure vary widely, […]

Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Questions for discussion include: Does your organization use Cerner for e-prescribing for inpatients, or have plans to do so? What are the biggest issues or any "best practices" you have implemented in your medication reconciliation […]

Barbara Ripollone, Partner, Health Delivery Supply Chain and Perioperative Practice Director, and Louise Kenney, Senior Consultant, Health Delivery Supply Chain and Perioperative Practice, Computer Science Corporation and Janie Bowman-Hayes, Informatics Nurse Specialists, AORN. Currently, there isn't a perioperative documentation system that provides adequate data that is easy to access for analysis effectively using the Perioperative […]