CDS

Arti N. Bhavsar, Pharm.D., Clinical Solutions Executive, Truven Health Analytics.  Reform is here; are you prepared to meet new clinical decision support and patient education requirements head on? Learn how to take a strategic approach today to achieve national quality initiatives for tomorrow. How to design your EHR to provide evidence-based clinical decision support for informed and consistent patient...

Bob Kelley, SVP, Center for Healthcare Analytics, and Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics.  As hospital systems pilot and implement at-risk contracts, a whole new analytical agenda needs to be developed.  Outcomes (both clinical and financial) need to measured and evaluated in a new light.  This session focuses on the creation of this analytical agenda.  An informatics...

Jane Metzger, Research Principal in Emerging Practices, CSC. Critical to success with coordinated care is a constantly updated set of patient information available both to clinicians in real time, but also as structured data so that analytics can assist with clinical decision support, patient tracking, and population management on a broad scale. Thanks in large part to the HITECH...

Larry Yuhasz, National Practice Leader, Truven Health Analytics, shares insights gleaned from 3,000 hospital clients about managing the transition from fee-for-service to risk-based reimbursement models and population health approaches. Hospital systems live in a hybrid world where FFS demands attention to volume and efficiency, while at-risk models push for value and effectiveness.  The approaches identified for finding the balance...

Thomas Nguyen, MS, Clinical Information Analyst - Clinical Decision Support, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. This presentation provides a detailed overview of what Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is, and the role and impact that CDS has within the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System.

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. More than 200 participants (including many SI members) are engaged in the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement, which is focused on helping many inter-dependent stakeholders accelerate the successful use of clinical decision support (CDS) to improve care delivery and outcomes. The Collaborative is supporting the ONC CDS4MU project (developing tools...

Ted Daniel, MD, CMIO, and Alexa Hodgins, Director Quality Improvement, St. John Providence Health System, Ascension Health, and Linda Mazur, Manager, Nancy Earp, Team Lead and Brian Conway Senior Systems Analyst, from SJPHS IT Clinical Information Systems. The team has worked collaboratively with SJPHS Providers, Quality, and Clinical Transformation to develop Cerner rules and alerts to hardwire quality measures....

Ken Ong, MD, MPH, CMIO, New York Hospital Queens. Full electronic physician documentation can facilitate Meaningful Use and take a healthcare organization one step closer to full adoption of the electronic health record. It offers not only unique challenges, but unique opportunities to improve patient safety, provider communication, and clinical decision support.

Tina Moen, PharmD, Chief Clinical Officer, Clinicians, Thomson Reuters Healthcare. Surveillance and reporting of clinical data for Infection prevention (IP) and Adverse Drug Event (ADE) intervention can represent a significant and ongoing resource drain on clinical and IT staff. And, with Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria recommending that evidence-based Clinical Decision Support (CDS) be available to point-of-care clinicians once...

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Clinical decision support (CDS) has proved to be a powerful tool for improving the quality of patient care and reducing healthcare expenses, but currently has opposing evidence suggesting the occurrence of unintended consequences and potential new medical errors when not properly implemented or used. The...