Brian P. Wells, FHIMSS, Chief Technology Officer, Information Services, Penn Medicine (formerly The University of Pennsylvania Health System). With more than 1.4 billion rows of clinical data in a standard format Operational Data Store, Penn Medicine has completed the pick and shovel work. We are now focused on standardizing data vocabularies, eliminating duplicate rows and […]

Jerry Osheroff, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters. This teleconference is for CDS implementers to provide input to the content, format, and optimal use of the next edition of "Improving Outcomes with CDS: An Implementer's Guide." This second edition will have many contributors and will be co-published in 2011 by HIMSS, Scottsdale Institute, AMDIS, […]

Lou Diamond, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, Healthcare, Thomson Reuters. Learn the essentials you need to know to support successful Quality Initiatives. This session reviews the basic dimensions of quality, definitions and uses of evidence-based medicine, and the basics of clinical performance measures. Dr. Diamond also provides a summary of the ARRA HIT and […]

Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC, and David Classen, MD, Senior Partner, Healthcare Group, CSC. The adoption of CPOE isn't pushed just to gain legible orders, but also because decision support can help alert physicians to, and help them avoid potential safety issues upfront as they are ordering. The Institute of Medicine, the National […]

Mitchell Morris, MD, Principle, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting. Healthcare reform, Beacon funding, and changing industry dynamics are driving the need for greater coordination of care at the community level. Bundled payments, the medical home and disease management are some of the developing concepts that are driving the need for technology to link together […]

Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Beyond vague meaningful use requirements and personal preferences, healthcare providers building HIEs (health information exchanges) have little to guide their efforts in terms of standards or past experience. There are a wide variety of technical approaches to and business models for HIE, as well as […]

Michael Kramer, MD, CMIO, Trinity Health will lead a discussion including: (1) defining the tasks of discharge and information required, (2) mapping content to functionality, (3) discharge problem areas including orders and instructions and accommodating user favorites, (4) best practices for instructions and orders for DME, diagnostics and consults, transmission to other providers and facilities, […]

Ed Marx, VP and CIO, and Stephen Hanson, Senior Executive VP, System Growth and Integration, Texas Health Resources, describe how THR established a framework for IT vendor management, creating value for all parties. They share the strategy behind the framework as well as the nuts and bolts that make it work.

Bob Kelley, Vice President, Healthcare Analytics, and Dr. Raymond Fabius, Chief Medical Officer, Thomson Reuters, discuss the possibility of reducing waste by $3.8 trillion in the next decade. They look at five strategies that have been successful in waste reduction, ranging from consumer activism and transparency to payment integrity. They also highlight intermediate and long-term […]

Christine Armstrong, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. This session provides an update to previous ICD-10 sessions, offering insight into the steps necessary to prepare for an ICD-10 transition. Understand how proactive providers are currently developing action plans and budgets, as well as planning education for their providers and HIM professionals. Gain insight into complexities encountered in […]

Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS, Clinical Director, and Susan Severson, Project Director, REACH, the Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT, provide an overview of one regional extension center's approach to assisting small hospitals and clinics to adopt and become meaningful users of an electronic health record. This session provides an understanding of the types of […]

John Kahanek IV, CISSP, CGEIT, and Linda Ricca, RN, CLNC, CSC, discuss a paradigm shift to consider in defining an organization's information security framework, governance and reporting structure. This shift impacts security policies and procedures, and assigned authority and accountability for resolving risk. A high functioning Information Security Governance guides policy development, risk acceptance, and […]

Michael Larson, Manager, CIS Practice, and Todd Manion, Manager, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting. Many organizations have or are in the process of implementing electronic clinical documentation technology. While the design of clinical content is very important to capture appropriate assessment details, other aspects of clinical documentation are often left for later stages of an […]

Kent Gale, Founder and Chairman of the Board, KLAS, Orem, UT. Sharing recent candid feedback from providers about the financial impact of owning an acute care EMR, Kent discloses how close buyers end up compared to budget expectations, cost surprises, the effort vendors exhibit in helping their clients get their money's worth and the hidden […]