FCG Research Report: Next Generation Safety Net

Erica Drazen and Jane Metzger, FCG, describe what organizations are doing, or will need to start doing, to provide IT support for the next level of patient safety. The discussion includes advanced clinical decision support in CPOE, surveillance, and infection control.

Management Dashboards: Content and Case Studies

Jean Chenoweth, Sr. VP, Performance Improvement and 100 Top Hospitals Programs, Thomson Healthcare, provides a new understanding of how management impact can be gained by comparing and analyzing performance using a hospital-wide scorecard. She includes how national comparisons of long-term rates of improvement combined with comparison of current performance against national benchmarks, can provide illuminating […]

The Business Case for Healthcare IT

Tom Foley, Partner, Ayako Utsumi, Manager, Strategy & Operations, and Brian Doty, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Leading providers continue to ask questions such as: Am I getting the value from my current IT investments? How can I use technology to bring better service to my patients and employees? Where should I invest in technology […]

Vendor Clinical Market Share: Investing in Tools for Nurses and Doctors

Kent Gale, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, discusses Clinical Information System investment and software performance for doctors and nurses in acute care hospitals. This session is an opportunity to understand the dynamics behind the changes in Clinical Market Share (CMS) leadership the past 18 months and includes a comparative look at market share versus adoption rates […]

Data Never Gets Obsolete: How to Develop a Data Vision

Jim Philbin, Senior Director of Medical Imaging, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Chris Balbi, Corporate Medical Imaging Program Director, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, David Dimond, Senior Vice President, Exogen, and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen. As leading providers plan for technology upgrades and updates, data consistency across information systems has become a top concern for […]

IT Cost Benchmarking: What Works and What Does Not

Kent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, and Helen V. Thompson, CIO, Heartland Health, St. Joseph, MO, invite you to attend a discussion about benchmarking approaches, including both the value that can be gained and the pitfalls that have been inherent in many benchmarking efforts. The SI benchmarking process, developed by Spectrum Health and maintained […]

Management Dashboards Support Performance and Quality Improvement at UPMC

Tami Merryman, Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. UPMC is known for its stellar financial and medical outcomes. Ms. Merryman describes how UPMC utilizes daily performance dashboards to drive its business and quality goals. The development, deployment and outcomes from dashboard implementation are covered in this session as […]

Standards Update: Moving Toward Integrated Nomenclature and Structured Data

Jack Corley, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Quality Officer, Advanced Technology Institute, Charleston SC, and Deputy Program Manager for the Health Information Technology Standards Program (HITSP) funded by the Office of the National Coordinator specifies how to integrate diverse standards to meet key healthcare business needs. Jack provides a status report of key standards […]

Mercy Health Partners Gives Doctors Secure Mobile Access to Clinical Patient Data

Mike Hibbard, Vice President Informatics for Mercy Health Partners, Cincinnati, and Tom Gocke, Solution Executive at Thomson Healthcare, Denver, share the approach used by Mercy Health Partners to give physicians a secure way to access clinical patient data wherever they are - at the patient bedside, at home, or at the office. Mercy Health Partners […]

Eliminating Digital Imaging Optimization Barriers

Randy Wilder, Director of Imaging, Ardent Health Services, Nashville, Jay Backstrom, Vice President and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen, Chicago. As digital imaging systems have gained momentum over the last decade, healthcare organizations continue to grapple with optimization and adoption of these systems at the department and the enterprise level. In this roundtable discussion, prominent […]

Labor and Delivery Systems: Functional Strengths, Weaknesses and Depth of Integration

Steve Van Wagenen, KLAS Research Director, Orem, UT, reports on the 2008 KLAS Labor and Delivery study. One hundred and forty participating organizations and individual hospitals address such questions as: How well are L&D vendors meeting provider expectations? What are the surprising benefits and challenges of current L&D surveillance, charting and archiving systems? What is […]

Improving Transparency and Reporting Through the EMR at Cedars Sinai

Jerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, and Medical Director, Information Systems - Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, describes the benefits of the ambulatory EMR in the context of Pay for Performance in California.

Stark Law Relaxations: The Business Case for a Community Physician Technology Donation Strategy

Michael Busch, Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer from Butler Health System, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Kenneth Kleinberg, Vice President and Hospital Strategist from Allscripts, discuss the opportunities now available as a result of the Stark Law relaxations for hospitals to provide electronic health records and related technologies to community physicians. Mr. Busch shares the business […]

EDW Reporting Facilitates Ongoing EHR System Improvements at Northwestern

David Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This presentation illustrates selected design approaches and benefits from the new enterprise data warehouse at Northwestern. Specifically, a high level overview of the process of accepting clinical and administrative content is reviewed, followed by selected examples of […]