Dana Richardson, Vice President, Quality Initiatives, Wisconsin Hospital Association, reviews the WHA “Checkpoint” program. This voluntary reporting initiative provides consumers, employers, insurers and providers with valid, timely information on the quality and safety of care. CheckPoint provides reliable data on five error prevention goals and ten interventions that medical experts agree should be taken to […]
Dr. Bill McClatchey, Chief Medical Information Officer, Piedmont Health System, Atlanta, GA, facilitates a discussion to uncover various organizational approaches to using informatics and technologies to improve patient safety. Topics include the types of resources and skills needed, the reporting relationship/s of informatics professionals and the pros and cons of the alternatives, training and other […]
Jay McCutcheon, Robert J. Flanagan, CEO, MHIN, and Dr. Alan Snell, Family Practice physician and Director of Clinical and Community Informatics, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, IN, review the dramatic results from a collaboration among physicians that has resulted in a common medical record for regional patients.
In a thirty to forty-five minute teleconference you'll find out how to utilize information available to your organization, how to ensure that you are informed of teleconference sessions that are most relevant to you, learn who should participate in what sessions and how to get them involved, and how to have input into the development […]
David Bradshaw, CIO at Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, TX, presents the MHHS program that offers patients education and communication technologies that also interface with the hospital clinical information systems for point of care use by clinicians. Both care delivery services and for-fee patient options are available on the bedside devices.
Jackie Jensen, Director, Patient Flow Management, United Hospital, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, and Linda Hancock, Sutter Health, Sacramento, CA, each present their approach to improving Patient Flow through the use of technology that supports process redesign.
Dr. Arnold Milstein, Mercer Consulting and CMO for The Leapfrog Group, describes the future direction of P4P overall, and specifically the role of the Leapfrog Group’s proposed IT standards.
Dr. Derrick Nelson and Cathy Duffy, RN, BSN, Manager, Clinical Applications, review the mobile computing platform implemented at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX. The solution provides mobile software that gives clinicians wireless access to the hospital's MEDITECH patient information system through a portfolio of clinical results and charge capture applications, available on a PDA, […]
Bill Greskovich, Vice President for Operations and CIO, St. Agnes HealthCare, Baltimore, MD, provides an overview of the wireless tools that were implemented to improve nursing communication, reduce noise levels, streamline workflow, and enhance collaboration. Financial impact metrics are also covered.
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.
Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, CMO, HealthVision, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, MA and Jerome Osheroff, MD, FACP, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson MICROMEDEX; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, review their recently published CDS guidebook which provides a detailed approach for goal setting, inventorying, selecting interventions, validating the program, […]
Bill Reece, CEO HealthGate Data Corp. and Paul Keckley, Director, Vanderbilt University Center for Evidence Based Medicine, present the value of evidence-based clinical guidelines as a tool for both physicians and patients to improve the quality of care and reduce costs. They describe an Oklahoma network of 4,500 doctors and 120 hospitals and its program […]
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 […]
