Ken Ong, MD, MPH, CMIO, and Camela Morrissey, VP, Public Affairs and Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer, New York Hospital Queens. Seemingly against all odds, New York Hospital Queens was able to mount a bedside-based intervention program to change the course of our prospects for meeting Meaningful Use 2 measures for patient portal access. Â Low […]
Greg Hindahl, MD, FAAFP, VP & CMIO, BayCare Health System. With the growing use of mobile devices, Advocate Health Care and BayCare have both embraced the opportunity to introduce PowerChart Touch Inpatient. In tandem with PowerChart Touch they implemented the complimentary PowerChart desktop functionality: Workflow MPages, Dynamic Doc and the Physician Handoff Tool. Learn how […]
Jennifer Jackson, Director of Clinical Engineering and Device Integration, Cedars-Sinai Health System.Infusion pump integration, when implemented well, can support safe medication administration practices in the healthcare setting. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center put into effect the bi-directional interface between the IV pump and the EHR, improving clinical practice standardization and data integrity. This session reviews the implementation strategy and lessons […]
Andrew Kinnear, MBA, PMP, Director, Project Management Office, University Hospitals, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator). Â Andrew is responsible for both the Information Technology and the Performance Improvement Project Management Offices (PMOs). Â The IT PMO leads large-scale systems implementations through a number of programs with combined annual capital […]
Homer Chin, MD, OpenNotes Provider Champion, and Amy Fellows, Executive Director at We Can Do Better. The Northwest OpenNotes Consortium was convened by the non-profit, non-partisan civic engagement organization We Can Do Better in 2013. There are now more than 1 million patients in Oregon and Southwest Washington that have access to their chart notes […]
Fabian Fregoli, MD, VP Quality & Patient Safety/CMIO, East Market, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland/St. Joseph Mercy Health System, and Robert Jones, Information Services Director, Trinity Health. The Intelligent Care System highlights the integration of eight major technologies within a patient care environment. Â It greatly influences care delivery and ensures reduction of the basic challenges impacting […]
Mark Ford, Principal; Jeff Hersh, Specialist Leader; Kelly Patrick, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Healthcare providers are eager to use mobile devices and applications to efficiently deliver patient care. Â Mark, Jeff and Kelly discuss current mobility trends for healthcare providers, the security challenges they present, and the steps your organization can take to protect your […]
Nasim Afsar, MD, SFHM, Associate CMO and Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Hospitals. Two years ago, Dr. Afsar and her team embarked on a journey to understand readmissions from the patient perspective. This has led to a number of interesting findings about why patients return to the hospital. This presentation reviews these findings and discusses the […]
Stan Huff, CMIO, Intermountain Healthcare. Currently, each EMR vendor uses proprietary clinical data models and terminology to represent clinical data. Â This means that sharing data is difficult, sharing executable software across vendors is impossible, and each useful application must be created or re-created on each different platform. This in turn leads to unmet needs for […]
Michael Kramer, MD, MBA, SVP and Chief Quality (and Informatics) Officer, and JoAnn Riggins, DO, MBA, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Spectrum Health. Throughout the Meaningful Use journey, Spectrum Health has been challenged with significant growth in affiliate hospitals and a Medical Group of more than 800 members. The enterprise has developed integrated skills in […]
Diane Carco, President, Swingtide and a key matrixed executive within Ascension's The Resource Group, discusses IT contracting in healthcare. Maintaining control over technology acquisitions and vendor relationships has become a tremendous focus area for healthcare providers of all sizes. Â Failing to control the technology acquisition process means risking overspending and underserving the caregivers for whom […]
Jigar Kadakia, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer, Partners HealthCare. Â We are in a extremely challenging environment with various risks and threats that impact our way of business. Â As the threats continue, we must find ways to mitigate them while not impacting the user experience. Â Jigar discusses the key challenges and the solutions that Partners […]
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, Boyd Stewart, Research Director, and Erik Bermudez, Research Director, KLAS. Â As accountable care organizations, HIE, business intelligence and population health continue to drive the future of healthcare technology, Mark, Joe and Erik examine the top-performing software and services vendors of 2014 to help providers understand which HIT companies are rated […]
Chris Armstrong, Principal, and Tom Foley, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The ICD-10 delay has created many questions across organizations such as where they should be in the overall ICD-10 process, what they should prepare for post ICD-10 go-live, and which implementation strategies should be considered. Â This presentation discusses the various questions surrounding ICD-10, delving further […]
Deborah Dahl, VP, Patient Care Innovation, and Julie Reisetter, MS, RN, CNO, Banner Health. Â Banner Health has leveraged telehealth across 21 acute care hospitals with results that include industry leading ICU mortality and length of stay results for 430 ICU beds, 170 Med/Surg units, and a variety of specialty services in the Emergency Departments. Â Beginning […]
