Jim Philbin, Senior Director of Medical Imaging, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Chris Balbi, Corporate Medical Imaging Program Director, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, David Dimond, Senior Vice President, Exogen, and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen. As leading providers plan for technology upgrades and updates, data consistency across information systems has become a top concern for […]

Kent Gale, President, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, and Helen V. Thompson, CIO, Heartland Health, St. Joseph, MO, invite you to attend a discussion about benchmarking approaches, including both the value that can be gained and the pitfalls that have been inherent in many benchmarking efforts. The SI benchmarking process, developed by Spectrum Health and maintained […]

Tami Merryman, Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. UPMC is known for its stellar financial and medical outcomes. Ms. Merryman describes how UPMC utilizes daily performance dashboards to drive its business and quality goals. The development, deployment and outcomes from dashboard implementation are covered in this session as […]

Jack Corley, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Quality Officer, Advanced Technology Institute, Charleston SC, and Deputy Program Manager for the Health Information Technology Standards Program (HITSP) funded by the Office of the National Coordinator specifies how to integrate diverse standards to meet key healthcare business needs. Jack provides a status report of key standards […]

Mike Hibbard, Vice President Informatics for Mercy Health Partners, Cincinnati, and Tom Gocke, Solution Executive at Thomson Healthcare, Denver, share the approach used by Mercy Health Partners to give physicians a secure way to access clinical patient data wherever they are - at the patient bedside, at home, or at the office. Mercy Health Partners […]

Randy Wilder, Director of Imaging, Ardent Health Services, Nashville, Jay Backstrom, Vice President and Gary Nicolas, Vice President, Exogen, Chicago. As digital imaging systems have gained momentum over the last decade, healthcare organizations continue to grapple with optimization and adoption of these systems at the department and the enterprise level. In this roundtable discussion, prominent […]

Steve Van Wagenen, KLAS Research Director, Orem, UT, reports on the 2008 KLAS Labor and Delivery study. One hundred and forty participating organizations and individual hospitals address such questions as: How well are L&D vendors meeting provider expectations? What are the surprising benefits and challenges of current L&D surveillance, charting and archiving systems? What is […]

Jerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, and Medical Director, Information Systems - Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, describes the benefits of the ambulatory EMR in the context of Pay for Performance in California.

Michael Busch, Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer from Butler Health System, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Kenneth Kleinberg, Vice President and Hospital Strategist from Allscripts, discuss the opportunities now available as a result of the Stark Law relaxations for hospitals to provide electronic health records and related technologies to community physicians. Mr. Busch shares the business […]