Jerry Kevorkian, Divisional VP/Chief Technology Officer, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA. With the growing dependence on computer technology in the clinical environment, comes an ever-increasing demand for zero downtime from both clinicians and administrators. IT Departments are being held more accountable for providing round-the-clock system availability. In this discussion, Jerry Kevorkian covers management strategies as well […]

Don Meehan, Project Manager, DSS Inc., reviews VistA development and use in the VA and other government agencies, the status of the current CMS VistA-Office EHR initiative, and VistA use outside of the US. Additionally, Don draws on his experience as a former VA CIO to discuss the realities of managing a large VistA installation […]

Dale Sanders, CIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Chicago, discusses how data warehousing and business intelligence has been used in other industries to transform the competitive landscape and achieve drastic reductions in the cycle time of process improvement; the growing number of DW/BI success stories in healthcare; and how healthcare CIO's can integrate EHR strategy with […]

Stephanie Kitt, RN, Director of Quality, and Paula Elliott, Impact Project Director, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and Implementation Director, FCG.

Shelli Williamson, SI, and Janet Guptill, Principal, KM at Work, host a webinar to demonstrate a proposed collaborative website for SI members to support knowledge exchange in the area of Quality Improvement. The concept of deeper and more specific collaboration on quality and performance arose out of the recent Knowledge Management collaboration among 10 SI […]

Vi Shaffer, Research Director - Healthcare, Gartner, Inc., Washington, D.C. and William F. Bria, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and President, AMDIS, present and discuss the results of a recent research study conducted for the Association of Medical Directors of […]

Derek Mazurek, Spectrum Health, reviews results from the current survey on IT Costs and Staffing among the 9 responding organizations. Derek and Troy Hottovy, Saint Luke’s Health System, describe the shortcomings of existing IT benchmarking surveys and the concept for a web-enabled tool that SI could host, allowing comparisons of cost, staffing and functions supported. […]

Dolores Yanagihara, Program Development Manager, Pay for Performance, Integrated Healthcare Association, Oakland, CA, presents the quality improvement results from the second full year of the program that provides common physician incentives across 7 major health plans. The data shows gains in each of the evidence-based measures used to assess the performance of over 35,000 physicians […]

Dick Thompson, President, Quality Health Network, Colorado, describes how hospitals, labs, physician groups and Rocky Mountain Health Plans have come together to deploy an Electronic Medical Record for physicians, a secure community-wide data repository, electronic lab ordering and prescribing, and the creation and maintenance of disease registries. The discussion will include environmental factors for success, […]

Rebecca Craig, Administrator, Harmony Surgery Center, Poudre Valley Health System, Ft. Collins, CO. This multispecialty Ambulatory Surgery Center is part of a comprehensive medical campus that combines physician offices, a cardiac cath lab, imaging services, urgent care, laboratory services, a breast diagnostic center and a cancer center. Rebecca speaks to the use of physician documentation […]

Davis Bu, MD, MA and Eric Pan, MD., The Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners Healthcare, Boston. CITL is completing a study of the value of IT-enabled diabetes management (ITDM). This study uses results from a comprehensive literature review, market research and input from a panel of experts to project the costs and benefits of […]

Robert Dolin, M.D., Kaiser Permanente, HL7 Board Member and Co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee, and Liora Alschuler, HL7 Board Member; Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents TC; Co-Editor, CDA; and Principal, Alschuler Associates, LLC. The presentation will provide an overview of CDA, which standardizes the representation of clinical documents. Included will be a discussion […]

Joann Kern, RN, VP Clinical Solutions and Chief Nursing Officer, HealthVision. Hot buzzword or something you can actually see and touch? New agreement on standards and new technologies are opening doors to secure and relevant clinical information sharing. By allowing practice-based providers to share information previously accessible only on paper or within their own office-based […]

Steve Pelton, Chief Information Officer, Central Region, Ministry Healthcare, Weston, WI, describes successes and lessons learned when opening an all digital hospital. He includes the initial digital vision and strategy, systems and campus integration approach, cost avoidance stats, patient centeredness aspects, and the opportunities afforded Ministry Healthcare by the new all digital hospital. Mr. Pelton […]

Tony Keller, Director, Enterprise Data Management, and Faye Sheppard, Director of Risk Management, Texas Health Resources, review an internal application that automates error reporting and won both the CHIME Innovator of the Year and Most Wired Innovator of the Year awards. SALT has helped drive a culture shift from one of blame when submitting safety […]