Jason Hess, Director of Research for Clinical Ancillaries, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT shares performance data from the recently published KLAS study on Smart Pumps. This study was the result of 100+ interviews KLAS conducted with BioMedical Directors, Pharmacy and Nursing Managers. These vendors were included in the report: B. Braun, Baxter, Cardinal Alaris, and Hospira. […]

Pravene Nath, MD, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Senior Director, Information Technology. NYU Medical Center, a leader in early adoption of CPOE, successfully converted its 25 year-old legacy hospital information system to a modern order entry and documentation suite. Three hospitals, 5000 users, and 700 patients were migrated over 24 hours during one of […]

Kent Gale, President KLAS Enterprises, LLC, and Tim Zoph, CIO Northwestern Memorial Hospital, present 2007 Software Quality results from a recent survey of 100 CIOs and 40 healthcare HIT industry vendors. This is an update and comparison to the 2005 survey. In this period of rapid adoption and transition to advanced electronic health records systems, […]

Patrick O'Hare, Senior VP and CIO, and Derek Mazurek, Project Manager, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, present the approach to IT Cost Comparison that has been adopted by SI. Attend to learn about this unique approach, how to participate, and how to create your peer comparisons. Your organization does not have to be a member […]

Farzad Mostashari, MD, Assistant City Health Commissioner. NYC will cover half of all the high-volume Medicaid providers in the city, those where over 30 percent of their patient encounters are Medicaid or the uninsured. Over the next two years, the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will distribute the software to about 1,500 providers, […]

Anne Bane, RN, MSN, Nursing Professional Development, and Thomas Cooley, Assistant Pharmacy Director, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, describe rounding and other processes they use to monitor, manage and improve applications, including e-MAR and bar coding, to achieve closed loop medication management.

Erica Drazen, ScD, VP, Emerging Practices, and Briggs Pille, VP, FCG, present an "Evolutionary Framework" for comparing your organization with other leading organizations relative to both operational and IT measures of Safety, Transparency, Patient-Centeredness, and Efficiency.  The presentation provides a brief set of metrics to chart your progress against emerging clinical care and quality practices, […]