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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bill Miller, CIO, and Dan Peterson, Director, ProHealth Care,  Waukesha, WI, review their new program, EHR Advantage, which connects PHC's hospitals, clinics and physicians with independent but affiliated physician practices using the GE Centricity EHR. This session reviews the financial and technical planning process that gained management approval of this strategic initiative in late 2003, […]

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 […]