Natural Language Processing: Survey Results and Discussion

John Chuo, MD, Neonatal Quality Informatics Officer, Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Ed Septimus, MD, FIDSA, Medical Director Infection Prevention, HCA Healthcare System. Clinical Decision Support […]

Revenue Cycle Solutions – Are They Hitting the Mark?

Paul Pitcher, Director, Financial/Services Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. KLAS recently conducted an assessment of hospitals greater than 200 beds which had most recently displaced a Patient Accounting solution for […]

The Power of Service-Oriented Architecture

Eric Leader, VP Technology Architecture, CareFx. How to get as much value as possible from existing systems? Give clinicians easy access to patient data from combined sources. Service Oriented Architecture […]

Making the Most Out of Technology for Medication Safety

Carole Cotter, Chief Information Officer, Chuck Mahoney, VP Pharmacy Services, and Christine Collins Director of Pharmacy, Lifespan, RI. Information technology improves medication safety both directly through safeguards that are inherent […]

RTLS/RFID a Hotbed of Activity: What’s Working

Steve Van Wagenen, Director, Clinical Research, KLAS, Orem, UT. Is the use of technology for asset, patient and staff tracking as pervasive as one might expect from all the market […]

Managing the Multigenerational Healthcare IT Workforce

Walter Zywiak, Principal Researcher, CSC. This presentation is based on research for a white paper published in the summer of 2008. The presentation briefly defines and characterizes the four generations […]

Quality Dashboard Collaborative Workgroup, Call No. 5

Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. Participants are to select two measures from the Surgical Care Improvement Project Core Measure Set (JCAHO #’s INF 1a, 1b, […]

Building a Community Physician Platform

Joel Vengco, Director of Ambulatory Practice System Strategies, Boston Medical Center describes Boston Medical Center's decision/strategy to build a community platform to enhance the referral process to the medical center, […]

Cerner Collaboration No. 11: eRx and Medication Reconciliation

Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Questions for discussion include: Does your organization use Cerner for […]

AORN Syntegrity: Standardized Perioperative Framework

Barbara Ripollone, Partner, Health Delivery Supply Chain and Perioperative Practice Director, and Louise Kenney, Senior Consultant, Health Delivery Supply Chain and Perioperative Practice, Computer Science Corporation and Janie Bowman-Hayes, Informatics […]