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Luke Webster, MD, VP and Chief Medical Information Officer, CHRISTUS Health, and Pam Arlotto, President and CEO, Maestro Strategies.  This teleconference explores the evolving role of the CMIO.  Dr. Webster shares his personal story and role as a CMIO.  Initially focused on meaningful use and EHR adoption, he describes the pivot his team has made in the leadership of...

Alan Weiss, MD, Director of Medical Informatics, Memorial Hermann.  Memorial Hermann recently converted their medical group to Cerner ambulatory and migrated the data themselves from the legacy EHR.  While this aspect of the project was key to implementation, it was challenging, time consuming, error prone and revealed significant quality issues within the data.  Sharing the lessons learned should assist...

Michael Cohen, MD, University of Utah Health Care. This teleconference highlights findings from the recent IOM report on diagnostic errors.  The report, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, introduced a new definition of diagnostic error and outlined eight goals (recommendations) that are discussed.

Susan Wolver, MD, Associate Professor Internal Medicine, Deborah Burgett, RN, MSHA, Director of Office of Clinical Transformation, Colin Banas, MD, MSHA, CMIO and Associate Professor Internal Medicine, and Rich Pollack, CPHIMS, CIO, VCU Health. Dr. Wolver and team discuss the VCU Health journey to improving patient engagement through the use of a patient portal and their recent implementation of...

Joseph Kvedar, MD, Vice President, Partners HealthCare, Connected Health. The benefits of remote patient monitoring in better managing chronic disease, improving clinical outcomes and quality of care, increasing potential cost savings, and allocating resources are being achieved through a range of connected health devices and programs. Dr. Kvedar describes initiatives under way at Partners HealthCare, including a program to...

Craig Weinert, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Medical Director for Adult In-Patient Services, and Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Writing Studies, University of Minnesota.  Drs. Weinert and Breuch share findings of a pilot study involving surveys and interviews of patients and/or family...

Kathryn Kuttler, PhD, Director of Clinical, Quality and Research Medical Informatics, and Chad Hodge, MS, PhD candidate, Software Engineer, Intermountain Healthcare.  Electronic problem lists are an integral component of the EMR, and serve as the patient's current health issues repository. Coded problems can be used to drive downstream activities such as decision support, evidence-based medicine, billing, and research cohort...

John Pirolo, MD, SVP, CMIO, Ascension Health, and Gerry Lewis, VP IT Strategy and Business Development, Ascension Information Services.  This presentation describes the early development of the enterprise data lake approach across Ascension Health leveraging data driven enterprise analytics and its importance to new care models which support the quadruple aim (increasing quality outcomes, lowering cost of care, enhancing...

Chantal Worzala, PhD, Director of Policy, American Hospital Association, and Sarah Thomas, Director of Research, Center for Health Solutions (DCHS), and Casey Korba Health Policy Manager, DCHS, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  The demand for value is prompting healthcare organizations to find more efficient and effective ways to improve care, including making services more accessible through facilitating patient-provider connectivity "anytime and...

Jan Walker, RN, MBA, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and Co-Director, OpenNotes, and Melissa K. Anselmo, National Program Director, OpenNotes, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  OpenNotes, is now in over 40 health systems and reaches more than 5 million patients across the US.   Jan and Melissa discuss trends in implementing shared...