Paul Conlon, VP for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Trinity Health, Novi, MI, provides an overview of the system wide approach to deploying best practices, emphasizing the clinical IT tools that support this process (I2S2). As the winner of the National Committee for Quality Health Care's 2004 Annual Award, I2S2 helped Trinity demonstrate outstanding performance […]
Pat Wise, Director EHR Initiative, HIMSS, and Doug Thompson, Senior Manager, FCG, present draft metrics and definitions for use in the upcoming IT Value Benchmarking project. SI members are encouraged to participate in this important call to provide feedback on overall content as well as individual metrics and their definitions so that the ultimate benchmarking […]
Hugh Gilmore, MD, VP & Chief Quality Officer, and Liza Weavind, MD, Medical Director, and Janine Mazabob, Clinical Operations Director, both of Memorial Hermann eICU Advantage initiative, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, TX, review the MHHS e-ICU implementation with an emphasis on change management issues and results related to this significant process redesign initiative. They […]
Barbara Rudolph, PhD, Director, Leaps and Measures, The Leapfrog Group, Washington DC, and Chuck Denham, MD, Advisor to the Leapfrog Group and Chairman, Texas Medical Institute of Technology, Austin, TX, present and discuss the results from hospital submissions to Leapfrog Group on the Fourth Leap: implementing NQF Safe Practices. The scoring process and any anticipated […]
Christine Cantarino, Senior Director of Operations and Digital Six Sigma, Wireless Systems Division, Motorola, presents examples of Six Sigma applications in non-manufacturing environments.
Learn how to make the most of your organization’s membership in SI by utilizing the information that's already available, ensuring that you are informed of sessions that are most relevant to you. Learn who should participate in what sessions and how to get them involved, and how you can have input into the development of […]
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 […]
Shelli Williamson, Executive Director, SI, and Janet Guptill, President, KM at Work, will describe a collaborative project to support your KM initiatives, specifically designed for healthcare provider organizations. The project is based on feedback from SI members and will be an optional program for those who choose to subscribe. In Phase I, the collaboration will […]
“Advanced Technologies: Advancing Care”
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 […]
Learn how to make the most of your organization’s membership in SI by utilizing available information, ensuring that you are informed of sessions that are most relevant to you. Learn who should participate in what sessions and how to get them involved, and how you can have input into the development of our programs.
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.
