CDS

Maria Balderas, PhD, Health Informaticist, IBM Watson Health. The 21st Century Cures Act is changing the relationship between your health information technology investment and your reimbursement from government payers. Dr. Balderas describes the intersection of the Cures Act and Quality Payment Programs, as well as the role that Certified EHR Technology, virtual groups and third-party intermediaries may play to...

Nicholas Desai, MD, CMIO, Houston Methodist, Arthur Sorrell, MD, Principal and Physician Executive, and Christina Boling, Advisor, Impact Advisors.  Physician engagement and preparedness are among the strongest factors influencing the overall success or failure of an EHR implementation.  Houston Methodist strongly believes that to achieve physician efficiency, they must identify human-centric versus computer-centric workflows, and fundamentally design the tools,...

Paula Jacobs, VP Process Improvement & Innovation, and David Deas, Director, Innovation and Knowledge Analytics, Methodist Le Bonheur.  This session reviews the innovative quality measurement system used by a six-hospital healthcare system as a strategy to achieve top decile performance across all service lines. Performance Scorecard, an expanded Balanced Scorecard model, was developed in 2015 to ensure efficient, transparent,...

Dorian DiNardo, SVP Product Development, Health Catalyst. While healthcare has invested billions of dollars in digitizing information, many leadership teams haven't had the right decision-making tools to harness data, generate insight and effect clinical, financial and operational outcomes. Now, that has changed. Leading Wisely is a game changer for healthcare leaders. This web-based solution automatically transforms data, key measures...

Ali Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, Executive Director, Harvard Medical School Library of Evidence and Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Raja describes the HMS Library of Evidence, a collaborative between the HMS Countway Library of Medicine and representatives of other HMS hospitals and Harvard institutions. It was founded to create a provider-led, sustainable, public...

Nilesh Desai, B.S, RPh., MBA, Administrator, Pharmacy and Clinical Operations, Hackensack University Medical Center, and Mukesh Shah, RPh, MBA (HCM), Director of Pharmacy, Mt. Sinai Medical Center. Driving quality, patient-centered care has become a central aim for healthcare providers, and pharmacy is a critical part of this quest. This discussion covers insights and best practices related to how two...

Luis Saldaña, MD, MBA, FACEP, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Maxine Ketcham, MBA, RN-BC, CPHIMS, CPHQ, Analyst Clinical Decision Support, and Kanan Garg, MA, MPH, CPHIMS, SSBB, Analyst, Clinical Decision Support, Texas Health. Dr. Saldana, Maxine and Kanan share their journey with developing and growing a robust Clinical Decision Support program. They discuss their framework, which includes a 5 CDS Rights...

Tejal Gandhi, President and CEO, National Patient Safety Foundation. In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published their seminal report "To Err is Human," but more than fifteen years later, patient safety concerns remain a serious public health issue. In February 2015 the National Patient Safety Foundation convened an expert panel to assess the state of the patient safety field...

Adam Wright, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Clinical decision support (CDS) systems, when effectively designed and used, are powerful tools for improving the quality and safety of healthcare but can be complex to develop and maintain. Dr. Wright presents research, funded by the National Library of Medicine, on CDS malfunctions...

Wayne Bohenek, Vice President Clinical Support Services, and Susan Mashni, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Mercy Health.  Mercy Health has 23 acute care facilities and over 2000 ambulatory providers live on a single instance of Epic.  Standardization of both clinical content and medication formulary within the electronic healthcare record has resulted in over $50 million in cost savings and significant downstream...