Can the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement Advance Your Quality Improvement Efforts?

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. More than 200 participants (including many SI members) are engaged in the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement, which is focused on helping many inter-dependent stakeholders accelerate the successful use of clinical decision support (CDS) to improve care delivery and outcomes. The Collaborative is supporting the ONC […]

Trends in Clinical Quality Measurement

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Texas Health Resources, and Maggie Lohnes, HIMSS. As progress toward healthcare reform continues, clinical quality measurement will grow in importance. This teleconference reviews the key roles of measure stewards, the National Quality Forum, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with other key stakeholders. Important trends in […]

Capturing and Reporting Pricing and Outcomes Data

Melinda Ashton, MD, FAAP, Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality Services, Hawai'i Pacific Health. High levels of quality improvement coupled with significant savings as Hawai'i Pacific Health, a Stage 6 facility on the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM scale, changed the way it provided care and started tracking gains, both clinical and financial. They have demonstrated an […]

Evolving View of MU: Lessons from the Field

Eric Finocchiaro, Director Deloitte Consulting and Ryan Haggerty, Senior Manager Deloitte & Touche LLC. Eric and Ryan provide an overall perspective on providers' journey towards Meaningful Use Stage 2. Based on their experiences and observations from various client engagements, they highlight the evolving view of Meaningful Use over the past 4+ years since the HITECH […]

Moving from Clinical Documentation to Clinical Insight

Alan Stein, MD, PhD, VP, Healthcare Technology at Autonomy, an HP company, describes the role of unstructured information in healthcare, and how new technologies enable meaningful analysis of clinical narratives and unstructured data. Through a variety of use-cases, Dr. Stein illustrates how clinical taxonomies such as SNOMED CT can be used for semantic search on […]

Using Analytics to Improve Physician Engagement

Kristen M. Farmer, MA, BSN, RN, Manager, Professional Practice, and James Schweigert, MD, Associate Medical Director Quality and Medical Director Emergency Medicine, Spectrum Health. More and more physicians need to be highly engaged in quality improvement, and practical solutions must be adopted to leverage change from a service line and individual level to affect outcomes […]

Role and Impact of CDS at Memorial Hermann

Thomas Nguyen, MS, Clinical Information Analyst - Clinical Decision Support, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. This presentation provides a detailed overview of what Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is, and the role and impact that CDS has within the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System.

Making sense of ICD-10; Now and in the Future

Lois Krotz, Strategic Operations Director, Erik Westerlind, Senior Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Join Lois, Erik and Graham in a discussion of recent KLAS research related to the current state of ICD-10, provider concerns and strategies, available tools as well as which consulting firms providers have engaged for additional […]

PMO Organizational Structure and Scope Within Large Health Systems

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Melissa Dill, Vice President, Shared System Services, Ascension Health, and Johnathan Nielsen, Senior Director, Programs & Projects Management Office, Dignity Health. John, Melissa and Johnathan share their approaches, considerations and lessons learned in structuring their Project Management Offices. This includes highlighting various PMO […]

Healthcare Provider Mobility Strategy: Key Considerations

Ken Jarvis, Manager, Healthcare Industry, and Bruce Michelson, Distinguished Technologist and CTO, U.S. Corporate Accounts, Hewlett Packard. Ken and Bruce reviews important trends driving healthcare provider mobility strategy and plans. The presentation covers key considerations related to governance, security, manageability, and clinician productivity. They also share lessons learned and critical success factors, such as user […]

St. Vincent Health: Readmissions Reduction Results

Alan D. Snell, MD, MMM, CMIO, St. Vincent Health Indiana, and Julia Smalley, MBA, RN, Innovation Accelerator Group, Ascension Health Alliance, St Louis. CMS and other payors are applying pressure on healthcare providers to reduce the number of 30-day readmissions for certain diagnoses. Learn how St. Vincent Health and its parent organization, Ascension, teamed together […]

ICD-10 Implementation Challenges and Solutions

Tom Foley, Principal, Chris Armstrong, Principal, and Vickie Monteith, RN, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Most healthcare organizations have started their ICD-10 implementation and remediation efforts ahead of the October 1, 2014, deadline, and some providers have already achieved significant progress in critical areas. This teleconference provides healthcare executives and leaders the opportunity to hear directly […]

EMR Usability: Beyond Counting Clicks

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, and Coray Tate, Vice President of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, Utah. Despite the fact that 3,500 hospitals have met meaningful use (MU) Stage 1, providers often say EMRs lack clinical usability. KLAS interviewed 128 providers (specifically targeting medical leadership) about their success in reaching a high level of usability with […]

Learning from Early Healthcare Cloud Adopters

Charles Wardrip, VP Information Systems, Kindred Healthcare, Steve Yeager, VP Information Technology, Healthways, Brian Cardinell, U.S. Health and Life Sciences Industry Strategist, and Hemant Pathak, Assistant General Council U.S. Public Sector, Microsoft. In today's budget-conscious climate, streamlining IT operations gives you more time to focus on improving the delivery of services to your clinicians. With […]