David Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This presentation illustrates selected design approaches and benefits from the new enterprise data warehouse at Northwestern. Specifically, a high level overview of the process of accepting clinical and administrative content is reviewed, followed by selected examples of […]

Ira M. Kalina, Partner, Drinker Biddle Gardner Carton. Mr. Kalina describes how the EMR/eRx Safe Harbor and Exception are currently being interpreted and applied, providing a regulatory, business and technology perspective gleaned from working with hospitals across the country. He discusses what is being subsidized, how much is being subsidized, and the hurdles to internal […]

Jake Nunn, Director, Metro Region Imaging Services, Aurora Health Care, Jay Backstrom, Vice President, and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen Healthcare. To gain operational efficiencies in Digital Imaging (DI), departments need to establish a set of KPIs that continuously measure process outcomes.  The core challenge then becomes WHAT to measure and HOW to drive change, […]

Adam Gale, COO, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS reviews their 6th annual report on major CPOE vendor/products, which included speaking personally with every live hospital in the country doing CPOE. This report contains a detailed look at the real usage of CPOE in live inpatient and major ambulatory facilities. It also includes commentary by providers […]

Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH - Corporate Manager, Partners Health Care Information Systems, presents a case study on the reporting system that was developed to support pay for performance and other quality initiates at Partners. Specifically: How can EMR data be leveraged into a clinical data warehouse that supports reporting? What are the key issues […]

Eric Pan, MD, MS, Center for IT Leadership, Partners Healthcare. Adoption of telehealth technologies could save $4.28 billion annually, according to the Center for Information Technology Leadership, even if implemented only in Emergency departments, Correctional facilities, Nursing homes and Physician offices

Joel S. Shoolin, DO, MBA, VP, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook, IL. Advocate started its EMR journey in medication reconciliation several years ago and now can share its successes and the challenges of full electronic medication reconciliation using Cerner Millennium 2007.

Jan Oldenburg, Practice Leader, Health Content, Internet Services Group, Kaiser Permanente. The Kaiser PHR, called My Health Manager, offers access to the member’s electronic health record, lab test results, and immunization records. Other functionalities include online appointment scheduling, prescription refill requests, information about eligibility and benefits, and secure messaging with clinicians.

David C. Classen, M.D., M.S., Vice President, CSC (formerly First Consulting Group) and Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, reviews the 2008 Leapfrog and National Quality Forum CPOE standards, including the compliance requirements, testing details, and lessons learned to date from the testing […]

Mike Smith, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. A huge surge is occurring in outsourcing the hosting of applications. What is working and who delivers?

Linda Talley, Director of Nursing Systems, and Roberta Alessi, Executive Director, Operations and Compliance, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC. This leading Children’s Medical Center implemented a patient interactive system as part of new facility design in November 2007. The system offers customer service and entertainment functionalities including a variety of information links to area […]

Scott Whyte, VP, Information Technology, and Dan Ferguson, MD, MS, FACP, CPE, Vice President, Medical Operations, Catholic Healthcare West, San Francisco. CHW describes their approach to electronic results distribution to physicians, and its impact. A participating community physician also describes how this technology has increased both practice productivity and patient safety.