Jeffrey Firlik, BSPharm, MSA, R.Ph., Pharmacist, Principal, CSC, and Vice-Chair of the Vermont Board of Pharmacy. Electronic Prescribing has been proven to reduce medication errors and improve medical office efficiency. It has strong government support, as evidenced by the CMS e-Rx initiative, as well as ARRA Meaningful Use (MU) requirements. Recently adopted state and Federal […]
Ray R. Bonnabeau, Attorney at Law, Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC. Experts predict PHI security/privacy breaches will increase with the growth in the number of eHealth records nationwide. The risk of such breaches only increases with the portability of one's work environment and reliance on third-party service providers. This discussion focuses on steps healthcare organizations can […]
Kirk Ising, Research Operations Imaging Director, KLAS, Orem, UT, examines recent developments in the PACS and RIS markets. Although PACS has been mostly a replacement market due to saturation and hospitals focusing on Stage 1 Meaningful Use, many providers are now looking at PACS and RIS solutions as part of their long-term strategy. Functionality, integration, […]
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Luis Saldana, MD, Associate CMIO, Texas Health Resources. Drs. Velasco and Saldano share their experience in developing an effective clinical decision support build in an enterprise EHR in the context of meaningful use, and their experience in leveraging the Leapfrog CPOE test as a tool to evaluate […]
James L. Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA), a HIMSS Davies Award winner. A major, national health goal is to reduce preventable readmissions to the hospital, addressing patient safety, public cost, patient satisfaction and healthcare quality. Coupled with financial penalties to hospitals for readmissions, the urgency of dealing with this issue […]
Anne McCune, Senior VP and Leader, Ingenix Strategy and Governance, and Michael Goran, MD, Senior VP, Ingenix Consulting. The long overdue draft of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ACO proposed rules were released on March 31, accompanied by a companion set of regulations from the FTC about antitrust implications of ACOs. Recognizing organizations […]
Rick Hampton, Co-Chair, Wireless Technical Report for the IEC 80001-1 Medical Device/IT Network Risk Management Committee. Business drivers are pushing healthcare providers to connect their medical devices to the HIS network. Not only is there growing concern for the safety of patients and efficacy of the medical devices with integrated systems, new FDA regulations could […]
Jason Fortin, Director, and Erica Drazen, Managing Director, Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, CSC. While nothing is final, we do have initial recommendation for Stage 2 and hints about Stage 3. Jason and Erica discuss the current recommendations, reactions from the industry, and their take on what to expect in Stage 2.
Chris Vanuga, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, and Randy Gordon, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. One of the leading assumptions of health care reform is that providing better information to providers will enable both clinical outcome improvement and reduce costs. However, just purchasing and implementing clinical information systems does not necessarily result in improved […]
Eric Hartz, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center. The automation of oncologic care in the EMR has brought many challenges. Standardization of care following evidence based guidelines, improving workflow efficiency, and best uses of clinical decision support are a few of them. Learn how CancerCare of Maine has embarked on this journey with Cerner. See how […]
Mark Allphin, Research Director, KLAS, Orem, UT. With healthcare systems and government initiatives focusing more tightly on improved patient care at lower cost through increased technology utilization and complex data sharing, many providers wonder how real the dream of healthcare information exchange (HIE) truly is. For this discussion Mark examines recent KLAS findings from discussions […]
Laurie Wyatt, Partner and National Practice Leader, Revenue Cycle Solutions, CSC. Healthcare reform and ICD-10 will profoundly impact provider revenue and change reimbursement from a volume-based model to a performance-based model, which may ultimately result in reduced volumes and net revenues. Laurie discusses 10 "best practices" that providers can begin implementing now to achieve compliance, […]
Nitin Mittal, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. This discussion includes how the Provider community is looking at ways to integrate clinical, revenue cycle, operational and decision support data to derive meaningful insights on both the performance of various departments and physicians as well as prospectively identify opportunities for lowering costs and improving productivity.
Sarah Robertson, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, Clinical Information Systems Specialist, University of Alabama Medical Center, discusses UAB's use of Fetalink in the OB setting. She describes the processes of plan, build, and design changes for Cerner Ambulatory Project for OB/GYN patients when PowerChart Maternity content is currently in use for the inpatient OB/GYN patient. Included is […]
Lorin Bird, Research Manager in Operations, KLAS, Orem, UT. Providers have spent the last few years selecting and implementing Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). They find themselves with silos of reporting, with data found in Clinical Data Repositories (CDRs), ERPs, Patient Accounting systems, and other myriad applications. Healthcare regulations particularly, as well as new payment and […]
