Secure Messaging and EHR Integration
David W. Bauer, Residency Program Director, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, shares eight years of experience at MHHS.
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National Provider Identifier: Current and Future State
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 […]
Banner Health Care Transformation: Measured Benefits
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 […]
RHIO Industry Update and Expert Panel
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 […]
Nursing Admissions Process Redesigned to Leverage EHR at Christiana Care
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 […]
The MidSouth e-Health Alliance: Overcoming Policy, Privacy and Security Barriers
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.
KLAS on Cardiovascular Reporting
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 […]
CPOE Outlook: 2005 vs. 2006
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 […]
Personal Health Records-Connecting Patients with Their Health Care
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 […]
SUMMA Health System Case Study: Medication Reconciliation Results
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, […]
Adoption of CPOE in Community Hospitals: Leading Practices
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 […]
2007 Spring Conference
“Informatics and Technologies Transforming the Delivery of Care”
Intermountain Healthcare: Documented and Tested Disaster Recovery Process and Procedures
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 […]
HL7 Update
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 […]
Subsidizing Physician EHRs: Open Discussion
Chris Podges, CIO, Munson Healthcare, Traverse City, MI. Chris facilitates an open discussion for SI members to share approaches, success factors and lessons learned in planning both subsidization and hosting. PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS NO PRESENTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CALL.