Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. Public reporting - which metrics drive performance improvement? Which are most useful to patients/consumers? During this session Dr. Binderman reviews last call key themes and leads a discussion on "report or not to report - building a case for disclosure", including a review of common […]
Maritza Santamaria-Hoffman, R.N., J.D. Associate Litigation Attorney, Banner Health/Risk Management, and Matthew T. Clarke, Attorney, Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite. Ms. Santamaria and Mr. Clarke conduct a two part discussion of important e-discovery issues, including: (1) The obligations of the in-house legal department to take a proactive stance in creating and implementing an organization wide e-discovery […]
Anne-Marie J. Audet, M.D., MSc, SM, Vice President, Quality Improvement and Efficiency, the Commonwealth Fund, New York City and Ramanathan Raju, M.D., Executive Vice President, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Dr. Raju discusses how New York Health and Hospitals Corporation has used quality measures, benchmarking data to compare and trend performance over time […]
Avery Cloud, MBA, PhD, VP, CIO, New Hanover Health Network.
Jerry Osheroff, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters, and Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Advocate HealthCare, and Sirajuddin Anwar, MBBS, MS, Clinical Decision Support Lead, Memorial Hermann, introduce and describe the newest publication in the HIMSS CDS series, designed to be a valuable guide for implementers. Additionally, Drs. Shoolin and Anwar provide specific examples […]
Jason Hess, GM - Clinical Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. A very mature laboratory information systems (LIS) market presents CFOs and chief executives with a challenging dilemma: Maintain or deploy a feature-rich LIS to drive greater efficiency in the lab or go with an enterprise-wide solution that supports faster, easier integration with other clinical systems? […]
Keith W. Boone, Co-Chair, HL7 Structured Documents Work Group; Interoperability Architect, GE Healthcare; Co-Chair, IHE Patient Care Coordination Technical Committee, Member, ANSI/HITSP Consumer Empowerment, Care Delivery and Population Health Technical Committees. The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is a specification for the exchange of electronic clinical documents. It can contain coded data and narrative and is […]
Keith W. Boone, Co-Chair, HL7 Structured Documents Work Group; Interoperability Architect, GE Healthcare; Co-Chair, IHE Patient Care Coordination Technical Committee, Member, ANSI/HITSP Consumer Empowerment, Care Delivery and Population Health Technical Committees. The HL7 Continuity of Care Document is an implementation guide for sharing Continuity of Care Record (CCR) patient summary data using the HL7 CDA […]
Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. During this meeting we discuss Cerner client experiences with physician adoption of online documentation using PowerNotes ED, PowerNotes or PowerNotes2G. How much standardization of format and content has your organization achieved? What adoption level has […]
Mike Smith, General Manager, Financial/Services Research, KLAS Enterprises. KLAS presents findings from their 3rd in-depth report on IT outsourcing, which included personally interviewing hospital executives in North America that have outsourced a majority or their entire IT department. This report contains a detailed look at who is winning and losing IT Outsourcing business, what areas […]
Virginia Lorenzi, Manager, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital and Associate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University and HL7 Ambassador Speaker, provides a high level overview of Version 3 - HL7's modern standard for healthcare interoperability. She discusses the rationale for Version 3, the Version 3 products (messaging, documents, services), and where Version 3 is used. Included in […]
Paul Doegler, Managing Director Compliance, and Michael Sawyer, Privacy Officer, Pershing LLC, and Evelyn Briggs, IM Director Security and Compliance, CHRISTUS Health. Hackers today are much like pirates: looking for easy targets that quickly produce the most financial gain. Despite the promotion about simple identity theft countermeasures, this remains one of the top threats for […]
Jerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, Cedars-Sinai Health System, describes the strategy and implementation of clinical data sharing between the hospital clinical information system and the affiliated Cedars-Sinai Medical Group ambulatory electronic medical records (EMR). He describes the technology infrastructure used, and the results to-date, and the process used […]
Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Questions for discussion include: What benefits metrics have been used to document qualitative or quantitative benefits derived from your organizations' Cerner Millennium implementations? Are benefits metrics reported on a regular basis or collected to produce […]
John Chuo, MD, Neonatal Quality Informatics Officer, Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Ed Septimus, MD, FIDSA, Medical Director Infection Prevention, HCA Healthcare System. Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Community members have been discussing the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in CDS. A short survey was conducted to specifically understand the use […]
