Cindy Bero, Chief Information Officer, Partners Community Healthcare, Boston, describes the journey since the planning in 2002 to the current state, and lessons learned. She describes the movement from providing incentives for physicians to requiring EMR use, how to manage this evolution, how P4P contracts helped, and priorities for primary care vs. specialist doctors. With […]
“Transparency and Interoperability: Connecting to our Consumers”
Pat Beal, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Outpatient Case Operations Manager, and Vanessa Hernandez, Yvettte Lopez, Kaylynn Schrandt, Chasity Shugart, Meredith Smith, and Erin Taylor, all Licensed Master Social Workers and Outpatient Case Managers, Seton Healthcare, Austin, TX.
Jim Witt, RN, MBA, System Vice President for Clinical Integration, Provena Health, and David Troiano, RPh, MSIA, Senior Manager, First Consulting Group.
Robert Olmedo, Director of Technology, Palm Beach County Community Health Alliance.
Baldur Johnsen, HP, Palo Alto, CA, and Ben Wilson, Intel, Santa Clara, CA.
Nitin Mittal, Senior Manager, Healthcare Provider Technology Integration, Deloitte Consulting, provides insights and facilitates a discussion on healthcare provider data governance with a focus on data governance processes, organization, challenges and practical steps to effectiveness. He includes how providers are approaching data governance and what efforts they are undertaking to manage, administer and organize their […]
Steven Barlow, Manager, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City.
Keith Strier, JD, Rosemary Ferdinand, PhD, and Mitch Morris, MD, Principals, Deloitte Consulting LLP. There is growing recognition that the field of medicine must absorb innovation more quickly. Accelerating the translational cycle - the path from discovery to dissemination - requires both organizational re-alignment and technical investments. This cycle involves moving knowledge from the bench […]
Linda McCann, Senior Principal and Provider Practice Leader, Health & Life Sciences, Hewlett-Packard Information Management. Linda shares her expertise on business intelligence for healthcare providers, and discusses key trends shaping the industry. Business intelligence solutions offer an opportunity to leverage information resources to improve operational efficiency, management visibility, and quality of care. She includes specific […]
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Texas Health Resources, presents a systematic approach to plan for and manage the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in a community hospital system with voluntary medical staff. He discusses assessing CPOE readiness, engaging physician leadership, and the technical considerations for building a physician-friendly CPOE system.
Dr. Paul Pancoast, Sr. Lead, Physician Consultant, Deloitte Consulting, Saint Louis, provides insights and facilitates a discussion on data governance with a focus specific standardization challenges for clinical IT: What approach have you taken to standardize diagnosis codes? What approach have you taken to standardize the problem list(s)? What efforts are underway to standardize terminologies/nomenclatures? […]
Gina Perez, Executive Director. DHIN is a public-private partnership providing organizational infrastructure to support a clinical information exchange across the State of Delaware. It is a collaboration of physicians, hospitals, commercial laboratories, community organizations and patients, designed to provide for the secure, fast and reliable exchange of health information among the many medical providers in […]
Dr. Don Holmquest, president and CEO, CalRHIO. The California Regional Health Information Organization is a collaborative effort to incrementally build the structure and capabilities necessary for a secure statewide health information exchange system that enables California's health care providers and patients to access vital medical information at the time and place it is needed. Dr. […]
Regina Berman, Executive Director, Performance Improvement, and Gerard Burns, MD, CMIO, Hackensack University Medical Center. We are just starting to learn how embracing Public Reporting may impact a healthcare system's "health"- as we move from proving process measure compliance, to true outcomes measures (mortality, morbidity, safety), to "value measurements" (LOS, CPC, Readmission Rate). Will good […]
