Legacy Health System, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Nebraska Methodist Health System form an expert panel to share recommendations and lessons learned in process redesign for Medication Reconciliation. Melinda Muller, MD, FACP, Medical Director, Legacy Clinics, Portland OR, Kristine Gleason, RPh, Research Pharmacist Coordinator, Gary A. Noskin, MD, Asso. Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg […]

Robert H. Dolin, M.D., Kaiser Permanente, HL7 Board Member and Co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee presents the Kaiser rollout of SNOMED within their EHR. Dr. Dolin provides a brief overview of SNOMED CT, focusing on how it supports clinical interoperability, and describes how SNOMED CT is used as the basis for Kaiser […]

Keith MacDonald, Research Director, FCG Emerging Practices, details the options that IDNs, Hospitals, IPAs, MSOs and RHIOs have for offering and/or hosting EHRs and related IT solutions for a physician community.  Potential scenarios are reviewed, including the challenges and benefits of each.

Douglas McNair MD PhD, Sr. Vice President and Research Director, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, reviews proven methodologies that you can use now to evaluate your own ADE reduction relative to the application of clinical IT. Quality and Safety analysts, researchers, and biostatisticians will benefit from this discussion about methods for measuring rates and "safety-improvement intervention-related" […]

Douglas Thompson, Senior Manager, FCG, reviews data from a recent research project on three technologies that have been proven to support the reduction of ADE’s, when and why they do so, and the respective cost effectiveness of each.

Karen Ondo, Executive Vice President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. As legacy solutions are replaced there is considerable investment in sophisticated application portfolios with the expectation is that these solutions will provide the capability to route accurate data to the right person at the right time: improving the quality of processes and their outcomes. A review […]

Douglas I. Thompson, FCG Director and Chair of HIMSS Task Force on CIS Benefits Measurement, reports on the data collected thus far in the pilot. Data has been entered by 17 SI member organizations and contains both planned and achieved benefits. Doug provides conclusions from this early data, implications for the larger roll-out, and next […]

Jonathan Manis, CIO, and William F. Morgan, System Director of Support Services, Provena Health, Frankfort IL, describes the benefits and results from aligning IT incentives with organizational performance improvement. The presentation addresses clinical operations and information services stakeholder goals, IT budget considerations, and benefits realization.

Bert S. Reese, MBA, VP and CIO, Sentara Health Systems, Norfolk VA, describes what CEO’s demand of today’s CIO and what constitutes a high performing CIO and IT organization.  Conclusions and predictions are based on vertical market research.

Jeremy Bikman, Director, Medical Equipment, KLAS Enterprises, Orem UT Presentation and audio recording links available upon request. Contact the Scottsdale Institute at scottsdale@scottsdaleinstitute.org

John W. Frein, MBA, PMP, Senior Process Engineer, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids MI, describes planning, organizing and executing IT process improvement using the tools and techniques of Lean Healthcare and the Toyota Production System. John will share his experiences in assisting teams over the past 11 years with improving operational performance and strengthening customer relationships […]

John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, and Charles Parisot, CareGroup/Harvard Medical School, Boston. To match patient records interoperably in a distributed and complex healthcare system, the proposed Common Framework has mapped a record locator service for distributed patient records to the IHE Patient Identifier Cross Reference (PIX) and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) integration profiles.  Dr. Halamka […]