Len Bowes, MD, MS, Senior Medical Informaticist, Intermountain Healthcare, leads an open discussion for organizations to share how they plan to collect all of the data for the 15 ARRA Clinical Quality Measures on all Stroke, VTE, and ED patients in 2011, 2012, and 2013 since much of this data may reside in text form […]

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. Scottsdale Institute members and others have recently launched a collaboration to better leverage CDS in addressing recent imperatives for better healthcare outcomes. The collaborative work focuses on using a template (based on the 'CDS Five Rights') to document what information the organization is providing to whom […]

Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, CSC. While there has been a lot of discussion on the quality requirements for Meaningful Use and the rules for ACOs, there are several other programs (with significant financial implications) that have received less attention. This presentation covers all the CMS requirements for being accountable for quality - up […]

Lara Sibley, Director, CDW Healthcare, delivers the results of a nationwide, 200-office study on the full cost breakout of implementing an electronic health record (EHR) for a physician practice. The study found that, inclusive of equipment, software, services, training time and potential lost revenue, physician practices may face total EHR adoption costs of $120,000 per […]

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. Scottsdale Institute members and others have recently launched a collaboration to better leverage CDS in addressing recent imperatives for better healthcare outcomes. The collaborative work focuses on using a template (based on the 'CDS Five Rights') to document what information the organization is providing to whom, […]

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Manager, KLAS, Orem, UT. Monitoring CPOE adoption since 2002, KLAS has observed a steady, if not slow, rise in the number of hospitals using this key clinical best practice. With the passage of ARRA in 2009, what was an eventual goal became a mandatory requirement for nearly every hospital in America. […]

Mark Ford, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Robert Biskup, Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. Even with widespread coverage of the theft of personal information and intellectual data, many private companies and organizations still underestimate their vulnerability to fraud both from external parties and employees they work with every day. What actions can company […]