Options for Hosting Community IT Solutions
Keith MacDonald, Research Director, FCG Emerging Practices, details the options that IDNs, Hospitals, IPAs, MSOs and RHIOs have for offering and/or hosting EHRs and related IT solutions for a physician […]
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Quantitative Methods for Measuring Your ADE Reduction
Douglas McNair MD PhD, Sr. Vice President and Research Director, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, reviews proven methodologies that you can use now to evaluate your own ADE reduction relative to […]
A Comparison of Effectiveness in Reducing ADE’s: CPOE, Bar Coding, and Smart Pumps
Douglas Thompson, Senior Manager, FCG, reviews data from a recent research project on three technologies that have been proven to support the reduction of ADE’s, when and why they do […]
KLAS on Workflow
Karen Ondo, Executive Vice President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As legacy solutions are replaced there is considerable investment in sophisticated application portfolios with the expectation is that these solutions will […]
Systems Benefits Measurement: Update on the HIMSS/SI Pilot Data Collection
Douglas I. Thompson, FCG Director and Chair of HIMSS Task Force on CIS Benefits Measurement, reports on the data collected thus far in the pilot. Data has been entered by […]
Go Lives or Saved Lives? Aligning IT Incentive Comp with Clinical Outcomes
Jonathan Manis, CIO, and William F. Morgan, System Director of Support Services, Provena Health, Frankfort IL, describes the benefits and results from aligning IT incentives with organizational performance improvement. The […]
Dynamics of the Future for the CIO
Bert S. Reese, MBA, VP and CIO, Sentara Health Systems, Norfolk VA, describes what CEO’s demand of today’s CIO and what constitutes a high performing CIO and IT organization.  Conclusions […]
KLAS on Speech Recognition and Transcription Outsourcing
Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem UT Presentation and audio recording links available upon request. Contact the Scottsdale Institute at scottsdale@scottsdaleinstitute.org
Making IT a Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine
John W. Frein, MBA, PMP, Senior Process Engineer, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids MI, describes planning, organizing and executing IT process improvement using the tools and techniques of Lean Healthcare and […]
Using Knowledge Management Tools in Clinical Decision Support at Partners Healthcare
Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, Corporate Manager, Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, reviews the benefits of using KM tools in the CDS function. How KM tools […]
Connecting for Health’s Common Framework Model and IHE’s PIX/PDQ
John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, and Charles Parisot, CareGroup/Harvard Medical School, Boston. To match patient records interoperably in a distributed and complex healthcare system, the proposed Common Framework has mapped […]
Project Management Office: a University of Illinois Medical Center Case Study
Rose Ann Laureto, FCHIME, CIO, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, describes the benefits achieved and lessons learned from the implementation of a PMO to address comprehensive IT planning. This […]
Managed Care Perspectives on Hospital Quality and Cost
Steven S. Eisenberg, MD, Chief Science Officer, UnitedHealthcare, Edina, MN. Â Fueled by business coalitions and large employers, Managed Care Organizations have been tasked to provide physician and hospital quality and […]
Portal Metrics: Benchmarking Web Investments
Chris Lane, ITS Business Services, Catholic Healthcare West, leads a presentation and discussion comparing web investments relative to organizational size and complexity. Comparisons include web portal vendor, hardware, staffing and […]
KLAS on Clinical Market Share
Kent Gale, CEO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Healthcare executives question the adoption rate of electronic tools, depth of use, and cost to achieve a paperless environment. KLAS combines two different […]