Improving Patient Flow at Allina Healthcare and Sutter Health

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.

CHRISTUS Health Implements Wireless Clinician Tools

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, […]

Wireless Nursing Communication Improves Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction

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.

SI Overview Teleconference

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Clinical Decision Support Implementers Guide

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, […]

Evidence-based Medicine: A Tool for Physicians AND Patients to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs

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 […]

Trinity Health: Clinical Repository Helps Win NCQHC Award

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 […]

Measuring IT Impact on Operations

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 […]

e-ICU Implementation at Memorial Hermann: A Change Management Case Study

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 […]

The Fourth Leap: Early Returns, Scoring, and Future Direction

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 […]

Six Sigma Results at Motorola

Christine Cantarino, Senior Director of Operations and Digital Six Sigma, Wireless Systems Division, Motorola, presents examples of Six Sigma applications in non-manufacturing environments. 

SI Overview Teleconference

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 […]

Six Sigma Results at Motorola

Christine Cantarino, Senior Director of Operations and Digital Six Sigma, Wireless Systems Division, Motorola, presents examples of Six Sigma applications in non-manufacturing environments.

Patients and clinicians: joint owners of a fully transparent, electronic medical record

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 […]