Matthew Bates, Senior Vice President, Products and Solutions, Healthcare, Thomson Reuters. The Meaningful Use Stage 1 requirements include 10 separate criteria that require some form of electronic exchange of health information between providers, public health, healthcare payers and patients. This session covers the MU criteria related to HIE technology and a framework for how to […]
Grant Wood, Senior IT Strategist at Intermountain Healthcare's Clinical Genetics Institute, and Samuel (Sandy) Aronson, Executive Director of IT for the Partner's Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine. In the Fall of 2009, Intermountain Healthcare's Clinical Genetics Institute and the Partner's Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine announced a technological breakthrough that may help lead to the […]
Erica Drazen, Managing Director for Emerging Practices, and Jordan Battani, Principal Researcher, Health Plans, CSC. While the most obvious impact of health reform is that 32 million more people will have coverage and create a surge in demand for care, there are other, less discussed provisions that health delivery organizations need to prepare for now. […]
Mike Wilson, Senior Director Clinical Systems, Compuware. What does your hospital need to ensure that you are achieving meaningful use? Mike brings the series to a close with a look at tool functionality and best practices for determining how hospital IT delivers true quality service to the clinicians and all end users.
Scott Baumann, Director Enterprise Decision Support, Spectrum Health, provides an overview of how Spectrum Health populates data into its Enterprise Data Warehouse and leverages Business Intelligence tools and processes to drive performance. Specific examples will focus on how the integrated data environment has played a critical role in financial, clinical and research activities.
Tim Smith, Principal, and Chris Davis, Director, Healthcare Technology Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Tim and Chris discuss trends and perspectives on the evolution of outsourced application services for healthcare providers, providing an informative look at the changing landscape of services for managing and hosting applications, and addressing questions such as: What are the types of […]
Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Despite governmental push to speed up adoption, the road to meaningful CPOE use for many providers may be long and slow. Jason explains findings from recent KLAS research representing approximately 95 percent of North American organizations live with a commercial CPOE product. Find out which […]
Shermeen Vakharia, MD, HS/Clinical Professor, Director of Thoracic Vascular, and Compliance and Quality Improvement Officer, University of California Irvine, identifies the performance requirements of Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) and how UCI evaluated and differentiated various systems to match user and functional requirements. Additionally, Dr. Vakharia describes how to organize an implementation team and develop […]
Brian P. Wells, FHIMSS, Chief Technology Officer, Information Services, Penn Medicine (formerly The University of Pennsylvania Health System). With more than 1.4 billion rows of clinical data in a standard format Operational Data Store, Penn Medicine has completed the pick and shovel work. We are now focused on standardizing data vocabularies, eliminating duplicate rows and […]
Jerry Osheroff, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters. This teleconference is for CDS implementers to provide input to the content, format, and optimal use of the next edition of "Improving Outcomes with CDS: An Implementer's Guide." This second edition will have many contributors and will be co-published in 2011 by HIMSS, Scottsdale Institute, AMDIS, […]
Lou Diamond, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, Healthcare, Thomson Reuters. Learn the essentials you need to know to support successful Quality Initiatives. This session reviews the basic dimensions of quality, definitions and uses of evidence-based medicine, and the basics of clinical performance measures. Dr. Diamond also provides a summary of the ARRA HIT and […]
Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC, and David Classen, MD, Senior Partner, Healthcare Group, CSC. The adoption of CPOE isn't pushed just to gain legible orders, but also because decision support can help alert physicians to, and help them avoid potential safety issues upfront as they are ordering. The Institute of Medicine, the National […]
Mitchell Morris, MD, Principle, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting. Healthcare reform, Beacon funding, and changing industry dynamics are driving the need for greater coordination of care at the community level. Bundled payments, the medical home and disease management are some of the developing concepts that are driving the need for technology to link together […]
Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Beyond vague meaningful use requirements and personal preferences, healthcare providers building HIEs (health information exchanges) have little to guide their efforts in terms of standards or past experience. There are a wide variety of technical approaches to and business models for HIE, as well as […]
Michael Kramer, MD, CMIO, Trinity Health will lead a discussion including: (1) defining the tasks of discharge and information required, (2) mapping content to functionality, (3) discharge problem areas including orders and instructions and accommodating user favorites, (4) best practices for instructions and orders for DME, diagnostics and consults, transmission to other providers and facilities, […]
