Joe Luria, MD, Patient Safety Officer, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, describes specific examples of how the hospital's computerized order entry system has been helpful in detecting and correcting adverse drug events. First, the system was reorganized to order a default stool softener when opiate medications are prescribed, leading to a decrease in opiate-related constipation. […]
David W. Bauer, Residency Program Director, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, shares eight years of experience at MHHS.
Michael Apfel, CIPP/CIPPG, Chief Privacy Officer, Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, MO, discusses the short- and long-term impact the NPI will have on healthcare and what covered entities should consider beyond the May 23, 2007 compliance date. Included in the discussion: Interoperability, the relational changes that drive policy and procedure development, the future for Atypical […]
Judy Van Norman, System Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, Ben Wilson, Intel Corporation, and Kevin Ford, Cerner Corporation, present the results from their collaborative study on the results and benefits of the Care Transformation initiative at Banner Health, Phoenix, AZ. Like many healthcare leaders, Phoenix-based Banner Health is convinced that comprehensive, IT-enabled care transformation is […]
Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH, Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center, and Janet Marchibroda, CEO, e-Health Initiative, Moderators. Panelists are Gerald Hinkley, Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, J. Marc Overhage MD, PhD, CEO, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and Robert Steffel, Executive Director, HealthBridge, Inc. A brief presentation of recent industry survey results is followed by a […]
Jennifer Guite, RN, MS, Project Manager and Clinical Analyst, Mary Lang, RN, MS, Director of Nursing Informatics, and Patrick McCartan, RN, MSN, BC, Nursing Informatics Team, Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE. Christiana Care, a two-hospital, 1,000-bed health system, redesigned its nursing admissions process to provide a centralized source of assessment information. An interdisciplinary team […]
Vicki Estrin, Program Manager, Regional Informatics, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, describes the operations of this RHIO and lessons learned in planning, implementation and the adoption phase. Metrics and dashboards are also included.
Jeremy Bikman, VP - Strategic Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews research on cardiovascular reporting systems. The presentation covers such areas as (1) impacts of moving to electronic documentation, (2) best practices and lessons learned, (3) quantifiable benefits, (4) areas of missing functionality, (5) interoperability issues and (6) general market trends. Available upon request. Contact […]
Adam Gale, EVP and COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS completed their fifth annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking with every live hospital in the country doing CPOE. This report contains a detailed look at the real usage of CPOE in live inpatient and major ambulatory facilities, along with commentary by providers […]
Archelle Georgiou, MD, EVP, Strategic Relations, UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis. Polls show that many Americans want to access their health data online. This session provides an overview of the current state of Personal Health Records based on research and planning at United Health Group. Topics include consumers' views and attitudes toward PHRs, desirable or highest-impact features […]
Pam Banchy, Director of Clinical Systems, Trish Enos, Manager, Performance Improvement, Peggy Kuhar, Nursing Director, Medical Surgical Services, Stephanie Peshek, Director, Pharmacy Services, and Irene McQueen, Senior Clinical Systems Analyst, SUMMA Health System, Akron. The Summa team presents their collaborative study on the compliance of medication reconciliation and implementation of an electronic solution utilizing CPOE, […]
Erica Drazen, Vice President, Emerging Practices, FCG. In 2006, FCG studied how five community hospitals approached physician incentives, workflow, metrics, physician training, and management of clinical decision support with CPOE. To make sure the hospital’s experience was relevant to the challenges of community settings, sites had to have CPOE in use in more than 80 […]
“Informatics and Technologies Transforming the Delivery of Care”
Karl J. West, Associate Vice President, Information Services, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City. In this interactive session, learn how Intermountain has developed their I.S. DR process and procedures to integrate with clinical and business operations to minimize downtime and enable recovery of systems. Review how Intermountain has structured I.S. DR Mock Table Tops to test […]
Robert Dolin, MD, Kaiser Permanente, and Liora Alschuler, Alschuler Associates, are HL7 Board Members, Co-chairs of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee, and Co-Editors, CDA. Dolin and Alschuler will discuss efforts to standardize electronic clinical documents and integrate these "eDocuments" into the electronic health record and public health reporting. Specifically, they discuss adaptation of the […]
