2005 Winter Conference
“Enabling Ambulatory Patient Centered Care”
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ROI: Integrating CPOE Across the Enterprise
Alberto Kywi, CIO, Cottage Health System, Santa Barbara, reviews application integration using single sign-on and context management technologies, including tactics for improving workflow and reducing computer interaction time to achieve successful adoption. He also shares the success metrics for both business and caregiver stakeholders, and explains reporting successes and challenges. A pre and post study […]
Part I – End to End Availability: Achieving Uptime and Managing Downtime
Mary Finlay, Deputy CIO, Partners HealthCare, Boston, Gayle Simkin, CIO, and Nancy Staggers, RN, PhD, CHW, San Francisco, Rich Pollack, interim CIO, Clarian Health, Indianapolis, and George Brenckle, CIO, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, conduct a 2 part panel discussion on the impact of clinical system downtime and successful management practices. Part I includes […]
Case Study: CPOE Implementation Lessons Learned for Community Hospitals
Jim Anzeveno, CIO, Faulkner Hospital, Boston, has brought the hospital through a complete transformation to CPOE. He describes the challenges, success factors and lessons learned. Jim also reviews the differences in implementation approach for a community hospital vs. an academic medical center, and emphasizes the importance of efforts geared to supporting non-employed physicians.
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Zynx Health, Los Angeles.
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare’s Enterprise EHR Implementation: a Case Study from this year’s Davies Award Winner
Tom Smith, CIO, ENH, describes their unique three year journey to a fully integrated inpatient and ambulatory EHR, and discusses success factors and lessons learned including the integration of non-employed physician practices.
Part II – End to End Availability: Achieving Uptime and Managing Downtime
Mary Finlay, Deputy CIO, Partners HealthCare, Boston, Gayle Simkin, CIO, and Nancy Staggers, RN, PhD, CHW, San Francisco, Rich Pollack, interim CIO, Clarian Health, Indianapolis, and George Brenckle, CIO, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, conduct a 2 part panel discussion on the impact of clinical system downtime and successful management practices. Part I includes […]
Bio-surveillance through Community Interoperability
Bill Dwyer, Senior Vice President and Jeff James, Engineering Project Manager, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO, present the results achieved using HealthSentry, an exciting regional pilot in disease detection and management. They will describe the rapid deployment and valuable results delivered to the public health and provider communities. A peer reviewed journal article shows the […]
Good Usability: Taking the Guesswork Out of Designing Patient Extranets
Kate Peterson & Rebecca Ormsby, Usability Specialists, MasterCard International, O'Fallon, MO, describe how in 2002, Express Scripts - - a large pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company -- turned to this usability services group to test how its Web-based member portal could be made easier to use. A year later, after incorporating recommended changes, the Consumer […]
e-Prescribing Case Study: Newton Wellesley Internists
Dr. Daniel Z. Sands, Chief Medical Officer, and Steve Davis, Director of Physician Recruitment and Retention, Zix Corporation, discuss the issues and benefits facing physicians and their office staff when starting e-prescribing initiatives. A case study from Newton-Wellesley Internists will be highlighted. This practice located in Newton, Mass. has seen the value of e-prescribing by […]
The Unintended Consequences of CPOE: Examples from leading healthcare institutions
Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR. Computer-based Provider Order Entry (CPOE) with real-time clinical decision support is being touted as one of the key components of a multi-pronged attack on many of the problems facing the modern healthcare system. While we are strong supporters of these relatively […]
Taconic IPA Leads the Development of a multi-vendor Community Health Information Exchange
John Blair, MD, CEO, Taconic IPA, Fishkill, NY, describes how this large physician practice worked with regional hospitals and labs to overcome competitive culture, data ownership, and physician adoption barriers and develop the HIE. The result is a vendor neutral portal in which medical records are truly interoperable and which all physicians can access complete […]
Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region Launches CarePages Connecting the Hospital, Patients, and their Families
Co-hosted with HIMSS - Tim Hearing, VP & Regional CIO, Lori Thielen, Regional Marketing Director, and Kristin King, Regional Web Master reviews a new approach to communication between the hospital, its patients, and their families and friends. The personal web pages can be used to post news and updates, exchange messages of support, post contact […]
Leapfrog Group Update: the 2005 Hospital Rewards Program
Paul Zurlo and Catherine Eikel, The Leapfrog Group, present this initiative to measure hospital performance along two dimensions - effectiveness and efficiency - and to reward hospitals that demonstrate excellence and / or show sustained improvement along both dimensions simultaneously. Health plans and Leapfrog members will implement the program as a means to fulfill their […]
Point of Care Medication Administration: Case Studies Demonstrate Approaches and Impact
Lauren Sabet and Fran Turisco, Emerging Practices Research Group, FCG. Improving patient safety and reducing medication errors are top priorities for hospitals today. One way hospitals have used technology to enabled improved quality and reduce errors is through bar coded medication administration (BCMA) at the point of care. This discussion will begin with a high […]