Jason Hess, General Manager, Clinical Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. With the advent of meaningful use requirements and the prospect of a Nationwide Health Information Network, interest in health information exchange (HIE) solutions is high. But while marketing by vendors would have provider organizations believe that there are plentiful examples of successful HIE organizations built […]
Mike Wilson, Senior IT Director, Clinical Information Systems, Compuware. Join Mike as he continues his series on IT Service Quality. He provides specific examples of how effective monitoring of clinical systems can help accurately measure hospital and physician compliance to the Meaningful Use guidelines. If you missed Part One, you can view the on-demand version […]
Fred Machouka discusses Bar Code Med Administration at Memorial Hermann, and describes the initiative to date, success factors, lessons learned and resulting impact.
Tom Foley, Principal, and Christine Armstrong, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Cost containment and efficiency are likely to remain on hospital systems' executive agendas long after the recession has passed. Fortunately, today's environment brings new opportunities to providers' battle against costs. One such opportunity is to adopt a shared services model for business support activities. Done […]
Carla Robelli, Vice President PMO, Jeff Poiner, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, and Karen Xie, PhD, Director, Enterprise Architecture and Program Management, Trinity Health. Trinity Health and the Scottsdale Institute want to determine interest in a potential collaboration on Enterprise Architecture. If your organization is interested in exploring this issue with peers, please register to attend […]
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 […]
