Christine Cantarino, Senior Director of Operations and Digital Six Sigma, Wireless Systems Division, Motorola, presents examples of Six Sigma applications in non-manufacturing environments.

Tom Delbanco, MD, is a nationally recognized and published primary care internist who is exploring the use of the EMR to support ambulatory care. He is the Koplow-Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care at Harvard Medical School and is the founder of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel […]

Dr. Meera Kanhouwa, Medical Director Information Services, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA and Andy Davidson, Director, FCG present a case study detailing the tremendous hard and soft dollar value generated through the implementation of a clinical portal.  For almost 2 years, Swedish has used a clinical portal to aggregate data from 19 disparate applications across […]

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Chris McCarthy, VP Human Resources, St. Peter’s, Albany, New York, reviews the ROI on their implementation of a web based self staffing system and how they achieved the results.  Registrants will receive an “ROI Estimating Tool” in advance so that you can attend the call and address questions specific to your own organization’s estimated ROI […]

HOSTED JOINTLY WITH HIMSS - Jeff Blair, VP, The Medical Records Institute, provides his third annual review for SI Members of this significant research study.  The Survey reveals insights into motivations, applications being implemented, IT platforms, configurations for different environments, data capture methods, barriers, and mobile/Wireless applications and issues.   A review of the data, Jeff’s […]

O.J. Wolanyk, CIO, Memorial Health System, facilitates an open discussion on the issues involved in implementing enhanced privacy policies relating to caregiver’s use of EMR’s.

HOSTED JOINTLY WITH HIMSS - Dr. Derrick Nelson and Cathy Duffy, RN, BSN, Manager, Clinical Applications, review the mobile computing platform implemented at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX.  The solution provides mobile software that gives clinicians wireless access to the hospital's patient information system through a portfolio of clinical results and charge capture applications, […]

Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Director, Quality Informatics, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, describes the processes being implemented at NYPH to manage quality and efficiency-oriented alerts in their vendor-based CPOE application. Dr. Kuperman will describe the governance models and processes being used to create new alerts as well as to maintain existing alerts.

Mary Trimmer, Trinity Health, Novi, MI, Sharon Henry, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, Margaret Bearss, Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, and Sharon Young, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, present overviews of each organization’s approach to measuring the operational impact of IT and the integrated process redesign.  Drivers, measures, governance, roles, incentives, and results to date are reviewed.

Molly Coye, MD, MPH, CEO, HealthTech, and Ravi Nemana, HealthTech’s Senior Advisor for IT, represent the San Francisco based non-profit research and education organization that develops healthcare technology forecasts for advancing the use of new technologies to improve health.  HealthTech's objective, comprehensive research covers 30 categories of technology in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and information […]

Robert Majors, director of materials management at Bloomington Hospital and Healthcare System, speaks about the importance of adopting Web-based supply chain management solutions as part of an overall strategy to manage hospital costs.  Majors focuses on opportunities for materials managers to make strategic contributions to the financial health of the hospital by seizing control of […]

Kathleen A. Harder, Ph.D. and John R. Bloomfield, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, describe important elements that should be considered when developing and implementing a system-wide automated medical record (AMR) system. They are currently addressing these elements with SI member Allina Hospitals and Clinics, MN. Harder and Bloomfield discuss computer-user interface issues such as information display, […]