Partners Signature Initiatives

Dr. Thomas Lee, MD, Medical Director, Partners HealthCare Physician Network, Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA, will present Partners major objectives for funding the infrastructure that will increase overall system value. He […]

Six Sigma Revenue Cycle Results at CHRISTUS Health

Gary Prala, Team Leader at CHRISTUS Health, Dallas, TX, will describe their approach to “Service Sigma”: a common, portable approach that is sustainable by people and technology. He will review […]

Performance Metrics: Measuring IT Impact on Operations

Tom Wegert and Erica Drazen, Vice Presidents, First Consulting Group, review operational performance metrics and the use of these metrics in client organizations. We want to determine how many SI […]

Status of CPOE in Community Hospitals

Dr. David Classen, Vice President, FCG, Associate Professor at University of Utah, and advisor to the IOM, Leapfrog Group and JCAHO, reviews his research and his personal observations on the […]

Patient-Focused Smart Card Results

Dan Dietrich, MD, a family practice physician at Elmwood Family Care Clinic, Alegent Health, Omaha, NE; and Henry Zach, President, Health Data Card (HDC), discuss the results of a clinical […]

CPOE Utilization Rates: Developing a Common Definition

David W. Bates, MD, MSc, and Chief, General Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Medical Director, Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School […]

Supply Chain Savings; Premier Health Partners Case Study

The supply chain, which represents a third of a hospital's budget, presents enormous opportunities to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. In today's environment, evaluating ROI of implemented supply chain technologies […]

Allina on Transforming the Revenue Cycle: A Case Study

Tom Gavinski, Vice President, Allina Revenue Cycle, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, MN, presents their revenue cycle transformation work and the dramatic bottom line results achieved.

2004 Spring Conference

“Meeting the Future: The Role of IT and Process Improvement”

ICU Medication Reconciliation

Wayne Sparkes, Senior Project Administrator, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital, Baltimore, MD, describes Hopkins’ Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program. CUSP provides […]

SI Overview Teleconference

In a thirty to forty-five minute teleconference you'll find out how to utilize information available to your organization, how to ensure that you are informed of teleconference sessions that are […]