David Classen MD, Vice President, Dave Troiano, Senior Manager, and Julie Morrison, Principal, CSC, provide an overview of the current state of inpatient medication safety and a comprehensive process and technology approach to have a positive impact, including examples that one hospital has made and the outcome. They review the industry drivers for improvement of […]
Russ Rudish, Amry Junaideen and Rena Mears, Deloitte Consulting. Recently the press has reported numerous breaches of patient records and health care data. An increasing number of health care providers associated with these breaches are being held accountable at a cost of millions of dollars. How can you protect patient data more effectively? We discuss: […]
Stephanie Kitt, RN, Director Quality & Clinical Informatics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Mike Koch, Manager, Project Management Office, and Randy O'Steen, RN, System Director, Strategy and Innovation, CHRISTUS Health, and Michael S. Warden, Senior V.P. Information Technology - CIO, Banner Health, share their respective approaches to project prioritization and justification, which was introduced by Stephanie Kitt […]
Jason Hess, General Manager, Clinical Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. While the specifics behind the federal government's mandate for the "meaningful use" of electronic medical records (EMRs) is still very much a moving target, it seems clear that clinician adoption, and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in particular, is key. This presentation provides an in-depth […]
Blair Nicodemus, Deloitte Consulting. RF/Wireless technology can be leveraged across a wide range of telemetry, patient flow, clinician mobility, asset management and supply chain applications to improve patient care, increase clinician productivity, reduce operating costs and improve billing accuracy. This teleconference describes basic wireless concepts, wireless technologies available today, how they are being leveraged by […]
Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. The discussion will include: How is your organization partnering with Cerner to qualify for funding? What "gaps" in implementation need to be filled in order to qualify? How do you expect to use Cerner functionality […]
Carmin Hunter-Siegert, MBA, PMP, Principal, and Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician and Principal, CSC. As more organizations hurry to move clinical application implementation forward in an effort to meet the anticipated definition of 'meaningful use,' it becomes helpful to identify opportunities for acceleration of the implementation steps ... perhaps the most difficult is […]
David C. Classen, M.D., M.S., Senior Partner, CSC, and leader of CSC's clinical excellence and safety and quality initiatives, and Erica Drazen, SC.D., Managing Partner, CSC, and leader of the Emerging Practices Group, the applied research function of CSC Global Health. On June 16th the ONC Meaningful Use Work Group presented to the ONC Policy […]
Kent Gale, Chairman, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. In the wake of the HIT Policy Committee's initial recommendations for the definition of meaningful use, many hospitals are trying to understand whether their EMR solution can get them where they need to go. Drawing on the experiences of thousands of providers, Kent Gale tackles that question by […]
Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators; please come prepared to discuss your experience or plans. Questions for discussion include: Does your organization use PHRs in conjunction with Cerner or have plans to do so? Are you using, or have plans for […]
Dr. Bob Williams, Tom Foley, Deloitte Consulting, and Eric Finocchiaro, Deloitte Consulting Specialist Leader. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of February 2009 provides $36 Billion in incentive funding to accelerate the adoption and interoperability of electronic health records (EHR), as well as significant penalty provisions for non-achievement. The stimulus […]
Ben Brown, General Manager, Medical Imaging/Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. In this session, Ben takes a comprehensive look at the very fragmented market for cardiology IT, which continues to experience a significant amount of churn as providers seek a complete system that can efficiently distribute images, offer intuitive physician reporting tools and handle operational […]
Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Please come prepared to discuss your experience or plans. Questions for discussion include: Describe your workflow for medication reconciliation: How do physicians, nursing and pharmacy interact? What part do they each play? Does one person/function […]
Patrick Rossignol, Deloitte Consulting. How can hospitals take advantage of HITECH funding, the push for interoperable EHRs, and the emergence of technological solutions to create an effective referring physician network?
Anthony J. Montagnolo, M.S., Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, ECRI Institute, presents an overview of ECRI Institute's recently published emerging health technologies research paper.  This not-for-profit research institute studies and compares the efficacy of similar drugs and devices, and identifies key technologies to monitor. Attend to understand the benefits and shortcomings of expensive, […]
