Tom Abendroth, MD, Chief of Medical Informatics, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine. Is your user community seeking increased access to EMR data to support quality improvement projects and clinical research? Can you meet this growing demand? i2b2 can be a useful starting point for expanding end-user access to de-identified patient care […]
Dick Thompson, President & CEO, Quality Health Network and Board Chair of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC), and Robert Steffel, Executive Director. The growing SHIEC membership is comprised of C-Suite HIE executives from throughout the country. Â This HIE trade association provides its members with the ability to gain economies of scale without losing […]
Tess Settergren, MHA, MA, RN-BC, Director of Nursing Informatics, Cedars-Sinai Health System.Less than 3.5% of US hospitals have achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 status since 2006, and the bar is raised a bit more every year. Â Clinician adoption of 'paperless' charts, order entry, and documentation is insufficient to meet Stage 7: Clinical decision support, continuum […]
Bob Williams, MD, MIS, Director, and Mark Snyder, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Â Drs. Williams and Snyder discuss the rationale for and keys to success of population management programs. Â With the increase in prevalence of costly chronic conditions, and new payment models that transfer risk to provider organizations based on their performance, it is […]
Steven Schlossberg, MD/MBA, VP and CMO, and Mamie Stalvey, RN, Principal, Impact Advisors. An IT "Optimization Continuum" will continue to exist from simple break-fixes to large corporate initiatives. However, to improve optimization efforts, they need to be broken down to discrete high-value efforts that can be readily achieved, communicated and produce value for the organization. […]
Kevin Hintz, Process Owner Change Management, Ascension Information Services (AIS) IT Service Management Office (ITSMO). Â The ITSMO is leading the redesign of IT service delivery and maturation of IT service management processes through a number of project initiatives. The maturation of change management processes is one of the key areas of focus for the ITSMO, […]
Brian Jacobs, MD, VP, CMIO and CIO, Executive Director, Center for Pediatric Informatics & The Children's IQ Network, Children's National Medical Center. Â Communication failures and alarm fatigue have topped the ECRI Institute's health technology hazards list for three consecutive years. Antiquated technologies and limitations within existing processes can cause communication breakdowns, and the overabundance of […]
Mac McMillan, FHIMSS/CISM, Chairman & CEO, CynergisTek, Inc. Cybersecurity threats continue to plague the healthcare industry and new threats emerge daily. Is your organization prepared to identify and mitigate these risks? The first step toward minimizing the chances that your organization will experience an attack is providing education to foster awareness of potential threats. This […]
Scott Weingarten, MD, SVP, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center. Organizations are seeking clinical benefit and an ROI from their investment in an EHR. Â Cedars-Sinai "hard wired" Choosing Wisely and other clinical decision support into its EHR about 18 months ago. The impact has been numerous improvements in quality of care and an approximate […]
Scott W. Possley, PA-C, MPAS, Director of Quality & Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Â With the ever-increasing requirements for data submission to state and federal agencies, as well as voluntary registries and databases, NYP embarked on a successful and collaborative data automation project partnering with clinical and IT staff to automate manual data collection, starting with […]
Wes Rishel, Retired Health IT Nerd (founder and past chair of HL7, and six-year member of Health IT Standards Committee). Health IT standards are simultaneously the magic bullet and whipping boy of interoperability. Standards will never make interoperability easy although they can help make it possible. Wes discusses the underlying issues of trust, regulation, curation […]
Kimberly Walter, MBA, Sharp HealthCare, Sr. Systems Analyst, Molly Willman, MHA, Cerner Corporation, Innovation Strategist, Rachelle Sey, MSN, APRN, CNS, RNC-NIC, Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and Kathy Lasiter, RN/BSN, Clinical Informaticist, Women's/Infants Service Line, Sharp HealthCare. Â In an effort to standardize care for very low birth weight infants in the NICU, Sharp […]
Greg Hindahl, MD, FAAFP, VP & CMIO, BayCare Health System. Once an EMR is implemented and live for a while the optimization process begins. Â Optimization will hopefully make the EMR more efficient for your Physicians and other Clinicians and safer for your patients. Â Getting optimization done while your team is doing code upgrades and patches, […]
Heather Chung, RN, MSN, PHD, NE-BC - Director, Behavioral Health Transition of Care Program, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Shara Cohen, SVP of Client Experience, Emmi Solutions. Within the first three weeks of a care transition, 20% of patients experience an adverse event and, with increased pressure to improve quality and reduce readmissions, healthcare organizations need […]
Liz Boehm, Experience Innovation Network Director, Vocera. To drive differentiation, loyalty, and growth, leading healthcare organizations are investing in the patient experience. To drive those patient experience efforts, healthcare organizations are appointing senior leaders, Chief Experience Officers (CXOs), who are responsible for creating sustainable system transformation that delivers optimal care to patients and families while […]
