Ted Daniel, MD, CMIO, and Alexa Hodgins, Director Quality Improvement, St. John Providence Health System, Ascension Health, and Linda Mazur, Manager, Nancy Earp, Team Lead and Brian Conway Senior Systems Analyst, from SJPHS IT Clinical Information Systems. The team has worked collaboratively with SJPHS Providers, Quality, and Clinical Transformation to develop Cerner rules and alerts […]
Doug Dietzman, Executive Director, Michigan Health Connect. With the Stage 2 Meaningful Use and evolving risk-based funding models continuing the push for widespread data exchange beyond current EMR system and enterprise boundaries, why is the reality of sustainable community HIE still so elusive? Michigan Health Connect shares its story and current status, as well as […]
Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, Scottsdale Institute, and former VP, Global Institute for Emerging Practices, CSC, leads a discussion about the purpose of the Collaborative, the starting point and the plans for future work. All SI members are welcome, but to be an active collaborator you need to be currently involved in interventions to reduce […]
Deborah Hunt, RN, Specialist Leader, and Saurabh Vyas, MD, Consultant, Deloitte Consulting. Resource constraints, regulatory climate and rapid innovations in technology are driving the evolution of telehealth from being a tool for remote healthcare delivery to being a complement to traditional care models helping organizations achieve operational efficiencies while increasing patient satisfaction. Emergent care can […]
Andrew W. Proctor, MS, Senior Director of Business Intelligence, Medical Operations Division, and Brian Harte, MD, Medical Director, Business Intelligence and President, Southpointe Hospital, Cleveland Clinic. In 2006, The Cleveland Clinic implemented its Enterprise Business Intelligence program. Initial success from the early dashboards provided the platform for using BI to introduce an Executive dashboard, Quarterly […]
Jane Metzger, Research Principal in Emerging Practices, CSC. Care coordination is clearly a core competency for accountable care. This talk reviews the likely processes based on the evidence so far from demonstration projects, collaboratives, and safety net institutions, as well as models for collaboration between primary care teams and external care management programs in three […]
Laura Kreofsky, PMP, CPHIMS, Principal, and Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. Jason and Laura review key MU Stage 2 timing elements, including the special 2014 EHR reporting periods and the time periods on which penalties are based on verses assessed in. EHR Certification requirements are also covered, including how to satisfy "possessing Certified EHR […]
Adem Arslani, MS, RN, Director Information Systems & Clinical Informatics, Advocate, discusses EMR adoption strategies employed at a large academic medical center and physician productivity results achieved after a two-year combined rollout of Speech and Physician documentation. Adem has recently transitioned to a Community Hospital, which is part of the same health system, and discusses […]
Mike Smith, Senior Vice President of Services Research, and Coray Tate, Senior Vice President of Software Research, KLAS, Orem, Utah. As accountable care organizations, HIE, and meaningful use requirements continue to drive the future of healthcare technology, Mike and Coray examine the top-performing vendors of 2012 to help providers understand which HIT companies are rated […]
Paul Keckley, PhD, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Dr. Keckley provides his insight into what's on the post-election horizon, as well as implications of the fiscal cliff to providers and healthcare organizations.
Mac McMillan, co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek, Inc., and current Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force. Mac provides an overview and analysis of the key issues that could impact the healthcare industry in 2013. Doing a chronological analysis of events from security breaches to new rules to enforcement actions to lessons […]
Michael Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors, LLC, and adjunct faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Terms like person-centered care, patient-centered care and medical consumerism are often used interchangeably. But the way individuals interact with the healthcare system is very different when they're a patient, a consumer or a clinical partner. For […]
Bobbie Carroll, and Sarah Giga, Children's Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota. Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota implemented a comprehensive bar code medication administration (BCMA) for all medications. Using BCMA for "pills, shots, drops, and IV medications" to validate 5-rights is not new. The innovation Bobbie and Sarah discuss is going to the next level […]
Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, CSC, and Karl West, Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Healthcare. Vulnerabilities with mobile devices, portable media, and medical devices give cybercriminals the opportunity to commit financial theft, identity theft or cause malicious damage to equipment. To protect patient information and ensure safety, organizations need to take decisive action. Jared and […]
Rosemary Kennedy, VP, Juliet Rubini, Senior Project Manager, and Beth Franklin, RN, MS, Senior Director, Health Information Technology, National Quality Forum. Rosemary, Juliet and Beth discuss the eMeasure Collaborative project, a public initiative bringing together stakeholders to advance knowledge and promote best practices surrounding development and implementation of electronic quality performance measures. The Quality Data […]
