Data Governance Effectiveness

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 […]

CalRHIO Status Update

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 […]

Hackensack PI Case Study: Leveraging IT for P4P Accountability

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 […]

The How Tos of Identity Management

Michele DeRoo, Account Manager, John McHan, Senior Project Manager, and Steve Sanzone, Identity Management Practice Manager, Laurus Technologies. Identity management, including user provisioning, single sign-on, compliancy, auditing, and role management […]

Improving Pulmonary Outcomes at Virginia Commonwealth University

Christi Adams, RN, MSN, CCRN, Nurse Clinician, Surgical Trauma ICU, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, shares their quest to obliterate ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Utilizing the FADE (Focus, Analyze, Develop, […]

Open Forum: Measuring Benefits from Clinical System Implementation

Susan Heichert, Vice President, Health Information and Systems, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, and Patricia Johnston, FHIMSS, Acting Vice President, Information Services, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX. Susan and Patricia […]

Open Forum: Measuring Benefits from Clinical System Implementation

Susan Heichert, Vice President, Health Information and Systems, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, and Patricia Johnston, FHIMSS, Vice President, Information Services, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX. Susan and Patricia continue […]

The New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX)

Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Chairman of the NYCLIX Board, and Director of Quality Informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital provides a status report of the last three years of planning and implementation, […]