Edward A. Gardner, Director, IT Technology Services, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA. MD Portal enhances communications with referring physicians and greatly increases patient safety and satisfaction. After registration, physicians refer patients on-line and access LPCH clinical information for their patients including lab results, radiology results, transcriptions, census […]

Kevin Palattao, Vice President, Patient Care Systems, and Wendy Weeks, Project Manager, E-Care Initiatives, HealthPartners Medical Group Clinics, MN, discusses the results of e-Care pilots in two primary care clinics. This session provides insights into key questions that concern providers when talking about e-Care: "Is this going to more work for me?", "Aren't patients just […]

David Classen, MD, VP, FCG. This presentation is an update on the rapidly growing pay-for-performance movement, outlining the ever-expanding number of initiatives on both the inpatient and outpatient basis. Dr. Classen describes several leading P4P initiatives in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He includes the IT-related measures in these initiatives, current and future requirements, and […]

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 […]

Doug Thompson, Director, FCG, Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D. Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Permanente Northwest, and Pat Wise, Director EHR Initiative, HIMSS, all representing the HIMSS Benefits Measurement Task Force, invite SI members to review and test the new benchmarking tool which SI members helped design. Standard definitions for a wide variety of clinical […]

Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Staff Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cornell Weill Medical College, New York, and John Glaser, PhD, CIO, and Eric Pan, MD, CITL Senior Scientist, Partners Healthcare, Boston, discuss findings that suggest a "model" national health IT network would cost $156+ billion in initial capital investment and […]

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, […]