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 […]

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 that make up today's healthcare IT workforce: traditionalist, boomer, generation X, and generation Y; and then focuses on four challenges associated with managing this cross […]

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, 2a, 3a, and VTE 2) and the corresponding two measures from Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (CMS/HHS #’s 20, 21, 22, 23, and 45) and bring […]

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, and support regional data sharing with providers.

Michael S. Habeck Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. While healthcare organizations focus on the portfolio of applications that IT supports, the IT infrastructure portfolio, along with its related management and governance, is critical to the successful delivery of business services, managing IT costs, and aligning with business strategies. Service delivery models for IT Infrastructure vary widely, […]

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 e-prescribing for inpatients, or have plans to do so? What are the biggest issues or any "best practices" you have implemented in your medication reconciliation […]

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 Nurse Specialists, AORN. Currently, there isn't a perioperative documentation system that provides adequate data that is easy to access for analysis effectively using the Perioperative […]