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 […]
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 […]
“IT Business Case, Value and Cost”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. The discussion will include: How is your organization partnering with Cerner to qualify for funding? What "gaps" in implementation need to be filled in order to qualify? How do you expect to use Cerner functionality […]
Carmin Hunter-Siegert, MBA, PMP, Principal, and Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician and Principal, CSC. As more organizations hurry to move clinical application implementation forward in an effort to meet the anticipated definition of 'meaningful use,' it becomes helpful to identify opportunities for acceleration of the implementation steps ... perhaps the most difficult is […]
