Virginia Lorenzi, Manager, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital and Associate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University and HL7 Ambassador Speaker, provides a high level overview of Version 3 - HL7's modern standard for healthcare interoperability. She discusses the rationale for Version 3, the Version 3 products (messaging, documents, services), and where Version 3 is used. Included in […]

Paul Doegler, Managing Director Compliance, and Michael Sawyer, Privacy Officer, Pershing LLC, and Evelyn Briggs, IM Director Security and Compliance, CHRISTUS Health. Hackers today are much like pirates: looking for easy targets that quickly produce the most financial gain. Despite the promotion about simple identity theft countermeasures, this remains one of the top threats for […]

Jerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, Cedars-Sinai Health System, describes the strategy and implementation of clinical data sharing between the hospital clinical information system and the affiliated Cedars-Sinai Medical Group ambulatory electronic medical records (EMR). He describes the technology infrastructure used, and the results to-date, and the process used […]

Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. Questions for discussion include: What benefits metrics have been used to document qualitative or quantitative benefits derived from your organizations' Cerner Millennium implementations? Are benefits metrics reported on a regular basis or collected to produce […]

Judi Binderman, MD, MBA, MHSA, consulting physician principal, CSC, Moderator. During this meeting we review several public reporting websites, including WhyNotTheBest.org, and CalHospitalCompare.org, and share views on: deciphering the metrics for the public, the graphic nature of presentations, and the ability to compare. What should each of our organizations do to help the public understand […]

Curtis Cole, MD, CMIO, New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, discusses how Weill Cornell Medical Center has used structured vocabularies within the EMR as a way to simplify reporting and decision support. Specifically, he reviews the use of diagnostic interface terminology and a LOINC-based terminology server.

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 a newer Revenue Management solution. The findings of this research address what is being implemented, how projects are meeting scheduled production dates and whether organizations […]

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 (SOA) gives you an intelligent way to incorporate systems, allowing them to interoperate by creating a common method for accessing disparate data sources. There's no […]

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 talk of RFID and other Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) solutions? For those organizations that are using RTLS, how is it successfully deployed? What differentiates […]