CDS

Nicholas Desai, MD, CMIO, Eileen McGrath, Director, Marketing and Communications / Change Management / Training, and Autumn Kirsch, IT Communications/Change Management Lead, Houston Methodist. Sustainable physician engagement requires more than just cutting-edge technology. To be successful, embed a robust change management strategy into your change. This session chronicles the development and deployment of an executive-sponsored IT change management program at Houston...

April Giard, DNP, APN, NEA-BC, VP & CNIO, Eastern Maine Healthcare System, and Angela R. Tiberio, MD, Physician Executive, Impact Advisors, LLC. If you've seen one Informatics Department you've seen one Informatics  Department! Several years ago, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS) committed to establishing a dedicated, fully-staffed and system-wide Clinical Informatics Department. As healthcare informatics/technology now enters an exciting new...

Bret Shillingstad, MD, Executive Director/CMIO - EHR Optimization Services, Rizwan Pasha, MD, CMIO - EHR Services, Nuance Healthcare, and Michael J. Healey, MD, CMIO - Outpatient Services, Brigham Health. As healthcare transitions to value-based care, it becomes even more critical to effectively harness the full functionality available in an EHR in ways that support enhanced clinical decision-making while alleviating physician burnout....

Mary Ann Turley, DO, CMIO, and Kristin Gillen, RN, DNP, CNML, CNIO, HonorHealth. The dyad relationship between the CMIO and CNIO at HonorHealth was specifically designed to help the organization achieve its strategic vision through Clinical Transformation. Dr. Mary Ann Turley, as CMIO and Kris Gillen, as CNIO are both operational by background and serve as content experts in clinical...

Denise Basow, MD, President and CEO of Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health. Over the last several decades, clinical decision support solutions have demonstrated success in helping improve quality of care in the American healthcare system. But the need to "broaden that impact" has led professionals to consider a more holistic approach to decision support that takes into account patient...

Michael Conroy, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Sutter Medical Group. Improved communication and collaboration with patients are necessary to improve health outcomes, lower cost, and enhance experience for health providers and the people they serve.  As an example, studies show that 80% of what is discussed or recommended in a clinical visit is not recalled by patients. Better access...

Kody Hansen, Research Manager of Clinical Decision Support, KLAS. Utilizing technology to support sepsis initiatives in the inpatient healthcare environment is not a new concept, but widespread adoption of these solutions is relatively nascent across the country. Kody outlines key findings on vendor sepsis technologies in use today, gleaned from interviews with over 150 healthcare organizations across the US....

Lorena Chicoye, MD, Corporate Medical Director Managed Care, Baptist Health, and Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS, CDIP, VP Clinical Services and Education, Nuance Communications, Inc.  While quality improvement programs are underway at healthcare organizations across the country, the CDI initiative at Baptist Health South Florida is notable for the measurable financial and clinical results achieved. Since 2011 when the program...

Scott Weingarten, MD, SVP, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System. Dr. Weingarten describes Cedars-Sinai's four-year journey to "hard wire" CDS into the EHR related to value-based payments in the inpatient and ambulatory settings, and to evaluate the resulting impact on quality and cost of care.  He also discusses the performance of commercial accountable care organizations during the time...

Paula Jacobs, VP Process Improvement & Innovation, and David Deas, Director, Innovation and Knowledge Analytics, Methodist Le Bonheur.  As the healthcare market continues to evolve, organizations get less value from the old "snapshot in time," paper-based reports we have used for years. See how Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has leveraged the data in their EMR to provide real-time, robust...