Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Board Chair. NYCLIX, Inc., is a RHIO in New York City which has developed a legal, technical and privacy infrastructure to interconnect its members, which include 10 academic medical centers, two faculty practice organizations and the largest home health agency in the country. The last report to Scottsdale about NYCLIX was […]
Karl M. Kochendorfer, MD, FAAFP, Assistant Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri's School of Medicine, Director of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Adjunct faculty member of the MU Informatics Institute and the Department of Health Management and Informatics. Dr. Kochendorfer discusses the use […]
Julie Bryant and David Liebovitz, MD, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Adam Theall from Impact Advisors, review the evolution of clinical data exchange strategies and solutions, with a focus on contemporary and emerging technologies. The discussion covers the key drivers of clinical data exchange within and beyond a single enterprise, including available solution architectures and data […]
Kirk Ising, Senior Research Manager, and Emily Crane, Manager, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Emily and Kirk, from the Medical Equipment / Medical Imaging team at KLAS, illustrate the developing imaging trends, discuss new ultrasound and digital radiography technologies and share key performance findings from recent KLAS research in this presentation. In addition, they explain ways […]
Mathew Bates Senior Vice President, Products & Solutions, Healthcare, and Lou Diamond, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, Healthcare, Thomson Reuters. The Quality Reporting requirements under Meaningful Use are larger and more challenging than they first appear. In order to fulfill the MU Quality Reporting requirements for Stage 1, more than 100 discrete data elements […]
Dean Miller, Principal, Healthcare BI and DS Practice, Deloitte Consulting. Provider healthcare data grows exponentially each year, as do data reporting pressures. Can organizations survive without significant advancements in Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities and technology? BI is the intersection of business strategy, the data behind it, and the technology that delivers it, and includes aggregating, […]
George Conklin, VP and CIO, CHRISTUS Health, Mike Wilson, Senior IT Director, Clinical Information Systems and Kristen Allmacher, ITIL Subject Matter Expert, Compuware. In part three of this series we evaluate process such as ITIL and Six Sigma. This is not another session explaining what ITIL is; it is a live discussion aimed at helping […]
Scott Dresen, VP of Enterprise Technology Services, Spectrum Health, and Rob Faix, Principal, Impact Advisors, share experiences and lessons learned regarding how Spectrum’s workstation standardization deployment strategy was developed and organized into phases spanning three years. In 2006, Spectrum Health developed the workstation standardization plan. More recently Spectrum has been preparing to implement enabling technologies […]
David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA, Senior Advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians, and Chair, ASTM International E31Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics. While most of the public commentary on HITECH so far has been directed to the NPRM on meaningful use, the real news here relates to the deconstruction of EHRs that is described in the […]
Bob Dolin, MD, Chair, Health Level Seven and Principal, Semantically Yours, LLC. Over a billion clinical notes are created by physicians in the U.S. each year. With standards, the output can easily integrate with EMRs/HIEs and provide a glide path to interoperability. The Health Story Project is an industry collaboration working to accelerate the development […]
Grant M. Wood, Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, and HL7 Clinical Genomics Work Group. Physicians have been asking patients for family health history information for a long time. Clinicians use this information to stratify disease risk and to guide prevention efforts. In this era of personalized medicine, family health […]
"Healthcare Leaders Embrace Reform"
Carol Chouinard, Director, and Jeff Hersh, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. IT Service Management (ITSM) based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process framework continues to be increasingly adopted at healthcare provider organizations as they rationalize and standardize their IT operations. ITSM is the foundation that IT builds on to provide consistent levels of services […]
Scott Dresen, Vice President of Enterprise Services, and Heather Strickland, Strategist, Spectrum Health. In the last 2-plus years, Spectrum Health's Technology and Information Services (TIS) has been on a path of proactively responding to a growing diverse user base, an impending CPOE rollout, an Ambulatory EMR implementation, and preparing for the possible acquisition and integration […]
Mike Smith, General Manager, Financial/Services Research and Lorin Bird, Strategic Operations Manager, Financial and Services Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. Mike and Lorin share findings from recent KLAS research on business intelligence (BI) to answer questions such as who can provide an enterprise-wide BI solution? What benefits can be expected? Which solutions provide accurate, timely […]
