Building a Community Physician Platform

Joel Vengco, Director of Ambulatory Practice System Strategies, Boston Medical Center describes Boston Medical Center's decision/strategy to build a community platform to enhance the referral process to the medical center, and support regional data sharing with providers.

Managing Data Centers and IT Infrastructure During Challenging Economic Times

Michael S. Habeck Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. While healthcare organizations focus on the portfolio of applications that IT supports, the IT infrastructure portfolio, along with its related management and governance, is critical to the successful delivery of business services, managing IT costs, and aligning with business strategies. Service delivery models for IT Infrastructure vary widely, […]

Cerner Collaboration No. 11: eRx and Medication Reconciliation

Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Questions for discussion include: Does your organization use Cerner for e-prescribing for inpatients, or have plans to do so? What are the biggest issues or any "best practices" you have implemented in your medication reconciliation […]

AORN Syntegrity: Standardized Perioperative Framework

Barbara Ripollone, Partner, Health Delivery Supply Chain and Perioperative Practice Director, and Louise Kenney, Senior Consultant, Health Delivery Supply Chain and Perioperative Practice, Computer Science Corporation and Janie Bowman-Hayes, Informatics Nurse Specialists, AORN. Currently, there isn't a perioperative documentation system that provides adequate data that is easy to access for analysis effectively using the Perioperative […]

Measured Value from Personal Health Records: A Center for IT Leadership Research Report

Eric Pan, MD, MS, CITL Senior Scientist, Center for Information Technology Leadership, and Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Corporate Director, Clinical Informatics R&D, Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. This teleconference examines the value proposition for implementing personal health records (PHRs) throughout the US. CITL has quantified the cost-benefit of a variety […]

Optimizing IT to Manage Hospital Margin Improvement

Bruce Hallowell, CSC. Healthcare providers are currently enduring unprecedented levels of economic challenges, characterized by declining volumes, rising bad debts and uncompensated care, deteriorating investment portfolios, and delayed or cancelled capital projects. This session provides insights and techniques for developing and implementing a Margin Improvement Program, consisting of a balanced portfolio of improvement initiatives that […]

HIT Vendor Mergers and Acquisitions – Benefit or Bust for Providers?

Jeremy Bikman, Executive VP, Research and Strategy, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. The recent KLAS Merger & Acquisition study answers these basic questions: How has M&A activity in the HIT market impacted client satisfaction? Which vendors have successfully conducted M&A activity, and which have not (from the client's perspective)? Which strategy contributes to higher client satisfaction […]

Penn Medicine Data Warehouse: One Year Later

Brian Wells, Chief Technology Officer, Penn Medicine. One year has passed since the SI Penn Medicine presentation on the value of a proof of concept in the construction of a clinical data warehouse (see presentation and audio files dated May 15, 2008). This presentation focuses on the challenges, tools, methods and progress made on the […]

Cerner Collaboration No. 12: PowerPlans and Order Sets

Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators; please come prepared to discuss your experience or plans. Questions for discussion include: Is your organization using PowerPlans and/or order sets? Have you migrated (or plan to migrate) from order sets to PowerPlans? Is your […]

Moving Medication Safety to the Next Plateau

David Classen MD, Vice President, Dave Troiano, Senior Manager, and Julie Morrison, Principal, CSC, provide an overview of the current state of inpatient medication safety and a comprehensive process and technology approach to have a positive impact, including examples that one hospital has made and the outcome. They review the industry drivers for improvement of […]

Privacy Breaches: How Protected is Your Patient’s Sensitive Health and Personal Data?

Russ Rudish, Amry Junaideen and Rena Mears, Deloitte Consulting. Recently the press has reported numerous breaches of patient records and health care data. An increasing number of health care providers associated with these breaches are being held accountable at a cost of millions of dollars. How can you protect patient data more effectively? We discuss: […]

IT Governance Case Studies: Project Justification and Prioritization

Stephanie Kitt, RN, Director Quality & Clinical Informatics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Mike Koch, Manager, Project Management Office, and Randy O'Steen, RN, System Director, Strategy and Innovation, CHRISTUS Health, and Michael S. Warden, Senior V.P. Information Technology - CIO, Banner Health, share their respective approaches to project prioritization and justification, which was introduced by Stephanie Kitt […]

CPOE, What Solutions have Buy-in from Community Physicians?

Jason Hess, General Manager, Clinical Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. While the specifics behind the federal government's mandate for the "meaningful use" of electronic medical records (EMRs) is still very much a moving target, it seems clear that clinician adoption, and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in particular, is key. This presentation provides an in-depth […]

Wireless Technologies and HealthCare Service Providers

Blair Nicodemus, Deloitte Consulting. RF/Wireless technology can be leveraged across a wide range of telemetry, patient flow, clinician mobility, asset management and supply chain applications to improve patient care, increase clinician productivity, reduce operating costs and improve billing accuracy. This teleconference describes basic wireless concepts, wireless technologies available today, how they are being leveraged by […]