Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Texas Health Resources, presents a systematic approach to plan for and manage the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in a community hospital system with voluntary medical staff. He discusses assessing CPOE readiness, engaging physician leadership, and the technical considerations for building a physician-friendly CPOE system.

Dr. Paul Pancoast, Sr. Lead, Physician Consultant, Deloitte Consulting, Saint Louis, provides insights and facilitates a discussion on data governance with a focus specific standardization challenges for clinical IT: What approach have you taken to standardize diagnosis codes? What approach have you taken to standardize the problem list(s)? What efforts are underway to standardize terminologies/nomenclatures? […]

Gina Perez, Executive Director. DHIN is a public-private partnership providing organizational infrastructure to support a clinical information exchange across the State of Delaware. It is a collaboration of physicians, hospitals, commercial laboratories, community organizations and patients, designed to provide for the secure, fast and reliable exchange of health information among the many medical providers in […]

Dr. Don Holmquest, president and CEO, CalRHIO. The California Regional Health Information Organization is a collaborative effort to incrementally build the structure and capabilities necessary for a secure statewide health information exchange system that enables California's health care providers and patients to access vital medical information at the time and place it is needed. Dr. […]

Regina Berman, Executive Director, Performance Improvement, and Gerard Burns, MD, CMIO, Hackensack University Medical Center. We are just starting to learn how embracing Public Reporting may impact a healthcare system's "health"- as we move from proving process measure compliance, to true outcomes measures (mortality, morbidity, safety), to "value measurements" (LOS, CPC, Readmission Rate). Will good […]

Michele DeRoo, Account Manager, John McHan, Senior Project Manager, and Steve Sanzone, Identity Management Practice Manager, Laurus Technologies. Identity management, including user provisioning, single sign-on, compliancy, auditing, and role management has broad impact in your organization. Michele and John address the following issues: ROI, proving the project need, vendor selection criteria, ensuring project success, what […]

Christi Adams, RN, MSN, CCRN, Nurse Clinician, Surgical Trauma ICU, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, shares their quest to obliterate ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Utilizing the FADE (Focus, Analyze, Develop, Execute) process, the framework of the IHI VAP bundle, a culture change which integrates providers, and the development of an effective program which looks beyond […]