Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chair, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). CCHIT is an independent, HHS funded organization established to accelerate the adoption of HIT by creating a sustainable product certification program. The goal of increasing EHR use has reached a significant milestone – the availability of the first certified ambulatory EHR products. CCHIT […]

Neil A. Martin, MD, Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, describes UCLA’s solution for ubiquitous access to real-time patient data in a highly mobile environment. The solution includes 3G broadband wireless networks, advanced PDA’s and smartphones that access comprehensive reports, lab results, vital signs, monitoring waveforms and radiographic images.

Ed Marx, CIO, University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, describes the critical role of governance in developing and supporting business strategy.  Working governance principles and a framework which you can adopt or adapt are presented.  Highlights include critical success factors and sustaining principles as well as benefits to UHHS and the IT function

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, reviews research from the 2006 KLAS CPACS Report.  Included are issues impacting the CV Department and the greater IT enterprise. The discussion also covers such areas as 1) Impacts of going digital and electronic, 2) Struggles and Successes, 3) Best practices, 4) Benefits, 5) Missing functionality, […]

David C. Kibbe, MD MBA, Director, Center for Health information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians, Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Kibbe explains that, around the country the idea of the "cheap RHIO" is beginning to catch on, particularly among physicians and communities that don't need a high-cost, high complexity solution inherent in some centralized RHIO […]

Roberta E. Testor, MA, MSS, Director, IT Knowledge Systems, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, demonstrates how a data warehouse can support analysis of patient flow throughout the organization. She describes how IT and organizational leaders have teamed at Children’s to build an analytical framework that supports this critical organizational initiative.

Nancy Pratt, RN, MSN, Sr. VP, Clinical Effectiveness, and Bill Spooner, CIO, Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA, describe how they apply technology tools in real time at the point of care to measure, detect and avoid harm leading to failure to rescue.

Eric Pifer, MD, CMIO, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and David C. Classen, MD, MS, VP, FCG, Long Beach, CA, and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Utah.  Drs. Pifer and Classen review the University of Pennsylvania’s use of the Leapfrog evaluation tool to test its Computerized Physician Order Entry capabilities and demonstrate […]

Adam Gale, EVP and COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, describes the tremendous growth in the ambulatory EMR market, with hundreds of EMR vendors offering products to physician practices. He discusses continued growth in this sector with increased competition, vendor solutions that support a wide range of physician office practice sizes, and anticipated mergers and acquisitions.  […]

Bennett Davis, Hewlett Packard, reviews the issues involved with developing realistic storage architectures for the expanding requirements of medical image and record management. He explores the demands of long term file archival on limited IT budgets, and how to balance the demands for rapid access with constraints in IT spending. Davis outlines a multi-tier storage […]

Dave Garets, CEO, HIMSS Analytics, reviews data comparing SI member organizations to each other and to general industry utilizing their EMR Adoption Model. Data will be anonymous, but you will be informed about the identification number/s for your own organization. If you responded to the HIMSS Analytics Database survey in 2006, you are automatically enrolled […]

Mimi Hassett, MS, RN, FHIMSS, Director of Clinical Informatics, Berkshire Health Systems, Pittsfield, MA, describes how nursing can optimally lead and support the successful integration of information systems, including development, implementation and enhancing the user experience. The issues, impacts and influences on the definition of such roles are discussed, as are tools such as job […]

Walter Sujansky, Sujansky & Associates, LLC, San Carlos, CA oversees the development of this new standard.  He presents The EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards (ELINCS) project, which is developing the national standard for the delivery of real-time laboratory results from a lab’s information system to an electronic health record, including ambulatory systems.  Benefits include eliminating […]

Ross C. D'Emanuele, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN. This session explains the new anti-kickback and Stark regulations allowing the donation of certain electronic technology items and services to physicians. Mr. D’Emanuelle highlights opportunities and pitfalls in using the new regulations to connect EHR products with physician offices and others. He offers practical guidance […]