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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare’s Enterprise EHR Implementation: a Case Study from this year’s Davies Award Winner
Tom Smith, CIO, ENH, describes their unique three year journey to a fully integrated inpatient and ambulatory EHR, and discusses success factors and lessons learned including the integration of non-employed […]
Part II – End to End Availability: Achieving Uptime and Managing Downtime
Mary Finlay, Deputy CIO, Partners HealthCare, Boston, Gayle Simkin, CIO, and Nancy Staggers, RN, PhD, CHW, San Francisco, Rich Pollack, interim CIO, Clarian Health, Indianapolis, and George Brenckle, CIO, University […]
Bio-surveillance through Community Interoperability
Bill Dwyer, Senior Vice President and Jeff James, Engineering Project Manager, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO, present the results achieved using HealthSentry, an exciting regional pilot in disease detection and […]
Good Usability: Taking the Guesswork Out of Designing Patient Extranets
Kate Peterson & Rebecca Ormsby, Usability Specialists, MasterCard International, O'Fallon, MO, describe how in 2002, Express Scripts - - a large pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company -- turned to this […]
e-Prescribing Case Study: Newton Wellesley Internists
Dr. Daniel Z. Sands, Chief Medical Officer, and Steve Davis, Director of Physician Recruitment and Retention, Zix Corporation, discuss the issues and benefits facing physicians and their office staff when […]
The Unintended Consequences of CPOE: Examples from leading healthcare institutions
Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR. Computer-based Provider Order Entry (CPOE) with real-time clinical decision support is being touted as one of […]
Taconic IPA Leads the Development of a multi-vendor Community Health Information Exchange
John Blair, MD, CEO, Taconic IPA, Fishkill, NY, describes how this large physician practice worked with regional hospitals and labs to overcome competitive culture, data ownership, and physician adoption barriers […]
Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region Launches CarePages Connecting the Hospital, Patients, and their Families
Co-hosted with HIMSS - Tim Hearing, VP & Regional CIO, Lori Thielen, Regional Marketing Director, and Kristin King, Regional Web Master reviews a new approach to communication between the hospital, […]
Leapfrog Group Update: the 2005 Hospital Rewards Program
Paul Zurlo and Catherine Eikel, The Leapfrog Group, present this initiative to measure hospital performance along two dimensions - effectiveness and efficiency - and to reward hospitals that demonstrate excellence […]
Point of Care Medication Administration: Case Studies Demonstrate Approaches and Impact
Lauren Sabet and Fran Turisco, Emerging Practices Research Group, FCG. Improving patient safety and reducing medication errors are top priorities for hospitals today. One way hospitals have used technology to […]
2005 Spring Conference
“Measuring Value from IT Investments”
Co-hosted with HIMSS: Transforming Nursing Practice – Clinical Systems and the Nursing Unit of the Future
Jon Burns, Senior Executive for Information Technology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland. Partnerships between Clinical and IT professionals are critical in developing and implementing clinical applications that make a difference. Jon […]
Information Technology Supporting Infectious Disease
Tim Zoph, CIO, and Dr. Gary Noskin, Infectious Disease, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, Chicago, describe benefits and results from the implementation of IT applications to support infectious disease management.
Driving Down Costs By Cleaning Your Supply Chain Data: A Case Study on University Health Care System
Mike Brown, Director of Purchasing, University Health Care System, Augusta, Georgia, Dave Turner, e-Business Consultant, chair of product taxonomy committee for Coalition for Healthcare eStandards, and Joe Arruda, Vice President, […]