The IT Business Case: Promises and Pitfalls
Bruce Bowers, Director, First Consulting Group, Long Beach, CA, offers perspectives on the current state of the IT Business Case for clinical systems. Topics will include Business Case modeling and […]
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IT and Nursing Collaboration: Critical to Sustaining High Quality Nursing Practice
Cindy Spurr, MBA, RN,C, FHIMSS, Corporate Director, Clinical Systems Management, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA, describes how the PHS Chief Nurse Council (CNC) works with Information Systems leadership to outline […]
Lean Manufacturing: Applications in Healthcare
Janice M. Whitehouse, Director, Community Healthcare Initiatives, General Motors, provides an overview of this methodology, its use and results within GM, and the GM supported initiative to bring Lean Manufacturing […]
The Road to the Future – IT Strategy in 2004 and Beyond
Pete Smith, VP, First Consulting Group, reviews today's approach to IT strategy and planning, the key drivers for a new approach, pros and cons as compared to traditional IT planning, […]
SI Overview Teleconference
In a thirty to forty-five minute teleconference you'll find out how to utilize information available to your organization, how to ensure that you are informed of teleconference sessions that are […]
Tools for Monitoring Progress Toward IOM Recommended Nursing Practices
Carol Ann Cavouras and ChrysMarie Suby, Principals, Labor Management Institute, offer a follow up to their March 1 presentation: "IOM Implications for Nursing". They discuss how to assess your operational […]
SI Overview Teleconference
Learn how to make the most of your organization's membership in SI by utilizing the information that's already available, ensuring that you are informed of sessions that are most relevant […]
Supply Chain: Cost Savings and Operational Efficiencies at Advocate
Jon Bruss, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Advocate Health Care, Oak Brook, IL. Faced with many of the common challenges of a large, growth-oriented healthcare system, Advocate undertook a major […]
From Staff Scheduling Software Project to Workforce Utilization Business Reform
Tracey McCosker, CFO and General Manager of CARE Network Division, and Keith Drinkwater, Project Manager of Staffing Service Project, both from Hunter Health, Australia, and Roxanne Harms, Cumulus Corporate Coaching, […]
Managing Clinical Content – Where are we headed?
Scott Weingarten, MD, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, CEO, Zynx Health, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA, reviews the state of the clinical content […]
Desktop Replacement: an Approach to Reducing Cost, Improving Access to Data, and Enabling Clinician Mobility
Chris Fries, Solutions Business Management and Planning, Hewlett Packard, outlines an alternative desktop architecture that lowers desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) while raising levels of security, service quality/reliability, and […]
SI Overview Teleconference
Learn how to make the most of your organization’s membership in SI by utilizing the information that's already available, ensuring that you are informed of sessions that are most relevant […]
SI Overview Teleconference
In a thirty to forty-five minute teleconference you'll find out how to utilize information available to your organization, how to ensure that you are informed of teleconference sessions that are […]
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Implements CPOE in Massachusetts Hospitals
Mitch Adams, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Boston, MA, describes a unique program in which providers, payers and employers are working together to re-engineer reimbursement mechanisms so that […]
What Every Healthcare Executive Should Know About Supply Chain Management
Dan Sougstad, Healthcare Product Manager, Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN