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 […]

Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. During this meeting we review several public reporting websites, including WhyNotTheBest.org, and CalHospitalCompare.org, and share views on: deciphering the metrics for the public, the graphic nature of presentations, and the ability to compare. What should each of our organizations do to help the public understand […]

Curtis Cole, MD, CMIO, New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, discusses how Weill Cornell Medical Center has used structured vocabularies within the EMR as a way to simplify reporting and decision support. Specifically, he reviews the use of diagnostic interface terminology and a LOINC-based terminology server.

Paul Pitcher, Director, Financial/Services Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS recently conducted an assessment of hospitals greater than 200 beds which had most recently displaced a Patient Accounting solution for a newer Revenue Management solution. The findings of this research address what is being implemented, how projects are meeting scheduled production dates and whether organizations […]

Eric Leader, VP Technology Architecture, CareFx. How to get as much value as possible from existing systems? Give clinicians easy access to patient data from combined sources. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) gives you an intelligent way to incorporate systems, allowing them to interoperate by creating a common method for accessing disparate data sources. There's no […]