CITL Reports on the Value of IT in Disease Management

Davis Bu, MD, MA and Eric Pan, MD., The Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners Healthcare, Boston. CITL is completing a study of the value of IT-enabled diabetes management (ITDM). […]

HL7 Implementation Guide for the CCR

Robert Dolin, M.D., Kaiser Permanente, HL7 Board Member and Co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee, and Liora Alschuler, HL7 Board Member; Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents TC; Co-Editor, CDA; […]

True Interoperability

Joann Kern, RN, VP Clinical Solutions and Chief Nursing Officer, HealthVision. Hot buzzword or something you can actually see and touch? New agreement on standards and new technologies are opening […]

Opening the Digital Hospital

Steve Pelton, Chief Information Officer, Central Region, Ministry Healthcare, Weston, WI, describes successes and lessons learned when opening an all digital hospital. He includes the initial digital vision and strategy, […]

THR’s Safety Action Learning tool (SALT)

Tony Keller, Director, Enterprise Data Management, and Faye Sheppard, Director of Risk Management, Texas Health Resources, review an internal application that automates error reporting and won both the CHIME Innovator […]

The Business Case for TeleHealth

Keith J. Kaplan, MD, Attending Pathologist at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago. The technology and the rationale for utilizing […]

Smart Card Implementation: Benefits and Lessons Learned

Chris Young, CIO, St. Thomas, Nashville reviews his pilot smart card implementation with a controlled population in Nashville, He covers drivers, projected benefits, lessons learned and opportunities for the future. […]

CPOE Outlook: 2005 vs. 2006

Adam Gale, COO, KLAS, Orem, UT. KLAS completed their 4th annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking with nearly every live hospital in the country doing CPOE. This […]

HIPAA Security: A Discussion of Issues and Solutions

Bob Gross, HIPAA Program Manager, University of Chicago Hospitals, and Suzi Birz, Principal, HiQAnalytics, conduct an open forum around key issues currently being addressed at the UCH. Even though the […]

The Connected Health Imperative

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Telemedicine, Khinlei Myint-U and Douglas McClure, Corporate Directors, Partners Healthcare, Boston. Dr. Kvedar explains the concept of “connected health” and why there is an […]

Improving ED Patient Flow at Provena Health

Learn how Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center, a 517-bed medical center, conducted a comprehensive process redesign to improve total patient throughput. In this teleconference, presenters Jeffrey Brickman, Chief Executive Officer, […]

Clinician and Physician Portals Update

Scott Holbrook, KLAS, Orem, UT. KLAS’ first-ever Clinical Portals Study looks at the web portals offered by HIS, CIS, Specialty and Healthcare Industry integrator vendors as solutions for giving physicians […]