Co-Hosted with AMDIS: Pay for Performance: Leveraging IT

David Classen, MD, VP, FCG. This presentation is an update on the rapidly growing pay-for-performance movement, outlining the ever-expanding number of initiatives on both the inpatient and outpatient basis. Dr. […]

SI Presents a Collaborative Forum on Quality Improvement

Shelli Williamson, SI, and Janet Guptill, Principal, KM at Work, host a webinar to demonstrate a proposed collaborative website for SI members to support knowledge exchange in the area of […]

IT Benefits Measurement: a Benchmarking Tool

Doug Thompson, Director, FCG, Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D. Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Permanente Northwest, and Pat Wise, Director EHR Initiative, HIMSS, all representing the HIMSS Benefits Measurement Task […]

Zero Tolerance for Downtime – A Roadmap

Jerry Kevorkian, Divisional VP/Chief Technology Officer, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA. With the growing dependence on computer technology in the clinical environment, comes an ever-increasing demand for zero downtime from both […]

CPOE Rollout at Northwestern: the Embedded Coach

Stephanie Kitt, RN, Director of Quality, and Paula Elliott, Impact Project Director, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and Implementation Director, FCG.

SI Presents a Collaborative Forum on Quality Improvement

Shelli Williamson, SI, and Janet Guptill, Principal, KM at Work, host a webinar to demonstrate a proposed collaborative website for SI members to support knowledge exchange in the area of […]

Co-Hosted with AMDIS: The CMIO Role: 2005 and Beyond

Vi Shaffer, Research Director - Healthcare, Gartner, Inc., Washington, D.C. and William F. Bria, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the University […]

IT Benchmarking Pilot meeting

Derek Mazurek, Spectrum Health, reviews results from the current survey on IT Costs and Staffing among the 9 responding organizations. Derek and Troy Hottovy, Saint Luke’s Health System, describe the […]

California P4P Results Indicate IT-Quality Link

Dolores Yanagihara, Program Development Manager, Pay for Performance, Integrated Healthcare Association, Oakland, CA, presents the quality improvement results from the second full year of the program that provides common physician […]

Colorado Network: Quality Agenda Drives Interoperability

Dick Thompson, President, Quality Health Network, Colorado, describes how hospitals, labs, physician groups and Rocky Mountain Health Plans have come together to deploy an Electronic Medical Record for physicians, a […]

Automating Ambulatory Procedure Notes

Rebecca Craig, Administrator, Harmony Surgery Center, Poudre Valley Health System, Ft. Collins, CO. This multispecialty Ambulatory Surgery Center is part of a comprehensive medical campus that combines physician offices, a […]