Bill Spooner, SVP & CIO, Sharp HealthCare, San Diego. This regional integrated delivery system is implementing a full EMR in its 270-physician, multi-site Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group. Bill discusses the extensive two-year evaluation and the decision which balanced potential physician adoption, care management, clinical integration, return on investment, and other issues. Bill explains the decision, […]
David Classen, MD, VP, FCG. This presentation is an update on the rapidly growing pay for performance movement in healthcare, outlining the ever expanding number of initiatives on both the inpatient and outpatient basis. Dr. Classen describes several of the leading pay for performance initiatives on both the inpatient and outpatient settings, including the IT […]
Co-Hosted with AMDIS: Erica Drazen, VP, FCG. A CIO's reporting relationship must allow him/her to take an aggressive role in the design and implementation of operational initiatives that improve organizational performance. However, a recent survey by CHIME and FCG shows that the link between the IT function and quality management appears to be lacking in […]
Robert Steffel, Executive Director, HealthBridge, Inc., Cincinnati, reviews the drivers and success factors that have enabled clinical information sharing in this market, and lessons learned during their several years of operation. HealthBridge was created in 1997 by the Greater Cincinnati healthcare community as a utility for connectivity and interoperability. Today HealthBridge is one of the […]
Thomas Gavinski, Vice President, Revenue Cycle Management, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis, and Mal Underwood, Vice President, Revenue Cycle, FCG, Long Beach, CA, describe the recent Minnesota state standards issued by the Attorney General and review successful approaches to meeting them. Various enabling technologies and resources are discussed, as well as information on the emerging […]
Jill Truitt, Project Excellian Program Director, Allina Hospitals and Clinics and Melanie Swenson, VP, FCG reviews various approaches, benefits, risks and results.
Co-Hosted with AMDIS: Edward Septimus, MD, Medical Director, Infectious Diseases and Occupational Health, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (MHHS), Houston, and Harvey Nix, Director, Payor Initiatives, MedMined, Birmingham, Alabama. MHHS implemented an information system for infection control and prevention in October 2004 at two acute-care hospitals as part of a BCBS Texas quality initiative. Dr. Septimus discusses […]
“Clinical IT Successes in Community Hospitals: What Works and What Doesn’t”
Co-Hosted with HIMSS: Dr. Robert Keet, President of Western Medical Associates, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, discusses ten years of experience in building a Regional Health Information Organization in Santa Cruz California. The community now has two independent hospitals and the majority of outpatient laboratory, radiology, and transcription providers linked electronically with over 300 private and […]
Co-Hosted with HIMSS: Dora Summers-Ewing, Ph.D, Managing Director, Leadership Development Solutions, & Doug Greenberg, Client Partner, Healthcare, Korn Ferry International, present the results of an ongoing study of successful practices, including similarities and differences among CIO’s, CEO’s and other executive team members. This includes a discussion on career values and motivations within healthcare.
Shelli Williamson, SI, and Suzi Birz, Principal, HiQAnalytics, invite you to join clinicians, clinical applications directors, and medical informatics leaders to discuss and consider a clinical collaborative among SI members designed to address the patient care and safety issues that are encountered when IT is implemented to support and automate clinical workflow. The goal of […]
Susan Van Ness, Director of Medical Imaging Solutions, Worldwide Public Sector, Health and Education, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA. Medical Archiving Solutions cost effectively provide long-term storage and rapid retrieval of patient studies across multiple sites - regardless of the study size. The HP approach, scaleable to petabytes, draws upon an open standards-based, grid architecture […]
Lynn Barrow, Corporate Director of Information Management, Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, OH., discusses (1) Managing clinician expectations - a question of timing, (2) The value proposition - assessing the drivers of IT adoption, (3) Establishing a clinician focus, (4) Ensuring optimal use of technology and (5) Driving widespread utilization.
Steve Stanic, CIO, and Mike Wendelken RNC,RRT, Clinical Nursing Systems Specialist, Memorial Health System, Savannah, GA, describe benefits, obstacles and results from the implementation of an integrated solution for bed management, patient transport and housekeeping activities within their healthcare facility.
William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, NHII Advisors, Arlington, VA, reviews a newly proposed business and operational model for RHIOs that is extremely cost effective to both build and maintain. Consisting of a central community repository for medical record information paid for and controlled by patients, it addresses three key problems RHIOs face: 1) providing […]
