Robert C. Weeks, Director, Information Services Division, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston. Prior to implementing digital voice recognition technology for Radiology transcription, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System was spending over $1.5 million per year on transcription services and final report turn around times (TAT) were averaging 25 to 26 hours. After going to voice recognition, report […]

Kent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Have the new Revenue Cycle Management solutions come of age? Are 20-30 year old legacy AR/billing solutions being replaced? If so, who is making the change and why? What influence does the clinical information system have in replacing a legacy financial information system? Presentation and audio recording links […]

Narayanan Kulasekar, Manager EDW/Business Intelligence, and Tina Esposito, MBA, RHIA, Director, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook, IL, describe the approach Advocate is taking in developing an integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). They cover the design, approach and the benefits provided by the EDW to users ranging from the executive team to […]

Linda Sauser Moroney and Jennifer R. Breuer, Partners, Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton. Two years have passed since CMS/OIG regulations were issued allowing hospitals to subsidize ambulatory electronic health record arrangements for community physicians on their medical staffs. Since that time, the IRS has provided informal guidance to assist hospitals in ensuring that such arrangements won't […]

Jeremy Bikman, VP of Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. From community hospital to cancer center, what options do providers have? Do single source and/or integrated vendors like Cerner, Eclipsys, Siemens and Epic, compete well with the niche players?

Robert Petty, Dell Healthcare Practice Executive of Seton Family of Hospitals, and Jeff Falwell, Dell Project Manager, discuss the selection process used to determine their choice of ultrasound technology. They also discuss the planned and realized benefits of using Ultrasound for RTLS and RTLS benefits in general. They conclude with a discussion of lessons learned […]

Keith Marsolo, Director of Research Data Warehouse and Instructor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has implemented a research data warehouse using the i2b2 framework (https://www.i2b2.org). By merging disparate sources of clinical and research data and providing a set of web-based mining and analysis tools, this project will foster […]

Dick Hutsell, VP and CIO. The health system reestablished itself in 2002 with little capital to make up for many years of under-investing in clinical information technology. A clinical browser was the first investment; providing clinician access to the legacy ancillary applications while allowing the health system to incrementally build a comprehensive clinical system strategy. […]

Doug Thompson, Director, Navigant Consulting, describes and gives practical examples of how to identify and use detailed technical and process change requirements focused on realization of specific operational benefits, as distinguished from a focus on process changes or technical implementation goals

Bruce Johnson, Managing Director of Data Architecture Strategy and Governance, Recombinant Data Corporation, describes post-EMR implementation analytical needs and factors to consider when analyzing the business drivers and technology options for the solutions most appropriate for your needs. Navigating a large solution landscape and innumerable technology vendors can be time intensive, costly, and may result […]

Anthony J. Senagore, MD, MS, MBA, VP Research and Education, Spectrum Health, and Professor of Surgery, Michigan State University/CHM, and Scott Bauman, Director, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Spectrum Health, describe Spectrum Health's approach to creating business analytics from core vendor applications systems data. Since most healthcare applications are not built to provide analysis of operations for […]

Rebecca L. Williams RN, JD, and Brent R. Eller, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the Nov. 1, 2008, compliance deadline for implementing identity theft prevention programs pursuant to the identity theft red flag rules ("Red Flag Rules"). This presentation covers the Red Flag Rules and the applicability of […]

Donna Willeumier, Administrator Safety and Regulatory Compliance, and Kate Kovich, Director Patient Safety and Regulatory Compliance, Advocate HealthCare, Oakbrook, IL, describe how Advocate uses technology to facilitate patient safety lessons learned sharing. Root cause, apparent cause and common cause analyses are performed and reported in standardized reports. The lessons learned from the cause analyses are […]

Barry S. Herrin, FACHE, Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP. As we continue to implement our grandchildren's technology within our grandparents' legal system, questions and problems continue to arise in the context of the electronic health record, and particularly in the definition of the "legal" electronic health record. This presentation discusses some of the practical problems and […]