Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC. The devil is truly in the details when it comes to the quality reporting requirements of HITECH meaningful use. In order to gain some insight into one challenging aspect of the requirement - data capture - CSC has deconstructed both […]

Jeffrey Rose, MD, VP Clinical Excellence, Informatics, Ascension Health, Philip A. Smith, MD, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Loran D. Hauck, MD, Senior VP, Chief Medical Officer, Adventist Health System. With a shared goal of successfully implementing Cerner CPOE with evidence-based content, three health systems: Ascension Health, Adventist Health System and Catholic Healthcare West, […]

Paul Kreder, Principal, and Carolyn Howard, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The cost of supplies and services are going to continue to increase; industry resources even predict cost increases due to reform. The "ask" of Supply Chain has not changed however - reduce costs while getting us what we need to treat patients and run […]

Rick Turner, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Trinity Health. Saint Alphonsus went live in 2010 with a big bang installation of nearly all modules with a great deal of success; initial CPOE adoption was 79% on day one, and nearly 90% CPOE saturation since.

Jeffrey Firlik, BSPharm, MSA, R.Ph., Pharmacist, Principal, CSC, and Vice-Chair of the Vermont Board of Pharmacy. Electronic Prescribing has been proven to reduce medication errors and improve medical office efficiency. It has strong government support, as evidenced by the CMS e-Rx initiative, as well as ARRA Meaningful Use (MU) requirements. Recently adopted state and Federal […]

Ray R. Bonnabeau, Attorney at Law, Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC. Experts predict PHI security/privacy breaches will increase with the growth in the number of eHealth records nationwide. The risk of such breaches only increases with the portability of one's work environment and reliance on third-party service providers. This discussion focuses on steps healthcare organizations can […]

Kirk Ising, Research Operations Imaging Director, KLAS, Orem, UT, examines recent developments in the PACS and RIS markets. Although PACS has been mostly a replacement market due to saturation and hospitals focusing on Stage 1 Meaningful Use, many providers are now looking at PACS and RIS solutions as part of their long-term strategy. Functionality, integration, […]

James L. Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP (SETMA), a HIMSS Davies Award winner. A major, national health goal is to reduce preventable readmissions to the hospital, addressing patient safety, public cost, patient satisfaction and healthcare quality. Coupled with financial penalties to hospitals for readmissions, the urgency of dealing with this issue […]

Anne McCune, Senior VP and Leader, Ingenix Strategy and Governance, and Michael Goran, MD, Senior VP, Ingenix Consulting. The long overdue draft of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ACO proposed rules were released on March 31, accompanied by a companion set of regulations from the FTC about antitrust implications of ACOs. Recognizing organizations […]

Rick Hampton, Co-Chair, Wireless Technical Report for the IEC 80001-1 Medical Device/IT Network Risk Management Committee. Business drivers are pushing healthcare providers to connect their medical devices to the HIS network. Not only is there growing concern for the safety of patients and efficacy of the medical devices with integrated systems, new FDA regulations could […]

Jason Fortin, Director, and Erica Drazen, Managing Director, Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices, CSC. While nothing is final, we do have initial recommendation for Stage 2 and hints about Stage 3. Jason and Erica discuss the current recommendations, reactions from the industry, and their take on what to expect in Stage 2.

Chris Vanuga, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, and Randy Gordon, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. One of the leading assumptions of health care reform is that providing better information to providers will enable both clinical outcome improvement and reduce costs. However, just purchasing and implementing clinical information systems does not necessarily result in improved […]