CDS

Philip A. Smith, MD, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Matthew Lord, Pharm.D., PharmNet Application Manager, Adventist Health System and AHS Information Services. AHS worked with Cerner in 2011 to develop mCDS, a new offering for filtering and enhancing Multum alerts. Dr. Smith and Matthew discuss the mCDS journey and how it has transformed clinical decision support at...

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. This Collaborative has been formed to enhance the speed and success with which participating care delivery organizations deploy clinical decision support to address performance improvement imperatives. Nine care delivery organizations are documenting and sharing their target-focused CDS strategies as part of a 6-month pilot project (October '11 through March '12)...

Nitin Mittal, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. This discussion includes how the Provider community is looking at ways to integrate clinical, revenue cycle, operational and decision support data to derive meaningful insights on both the performance of various departments and physicians as well as prospectively identify opportunities for lowering costs and improving productivity.

Eric Hartz, MD, Eastern Maine Medical Center. The automation of oncologic care in the EMR has brought many challenges. Standardization of care following evidence based guidelines, improving workflow efficiency, and best uses of clinical decision support are a few of them. Learn how CancerCare of Maine has embarked on this journey with Cerner. See how providers order, pharmacists verify,...

Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Luis Saldana, MD, Associate CMIO, Texas Health Resources. Drs. Velasco and Saldano share their experience in developing an effective clinical decision support build in an enterprise EHR in the context of meaningful use, and their experience in leveraging the Leapfrog CPOE test as a tool to evaluate the safety profile of...

Robert Murphy, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Sirajuddin Anwar, M.B.B.S, M.S, CPHIMS, Clinical Informaticist for CDS, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Clinical decision support has consistently been shown in published literature to be an effective intervention to improve quality and patient safety. Creating a CDS program is becoming a key strategy for many organizations, especially as they pursue achieving...

Scott Baumann, Director Enterprise Decision Support, Spectrum Health, provides an overview of how Spectrum Health populates data into its Enterprise Data Warehouse and leverages Business Intelligence tools and processes to drive performance. Specific examples will focus on how the integrated data environment has played a critical role in financial, clinical and research activities.

Grant M. Wood, Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, and HL7 Clinical Genomics Work Group. Physicians have been asking patients for family health history information for a long time. Clinicians use this information to stratify disease risk and to guide prevention efforts. In this era of personalized medicine, family health history information could also...

Judy Van Norman, Senior Director, Care Transformation, Banner Health, and Dr. Joel Shoolin, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare, moderators. A detailed discussion of implementing and supporting Problem List and Diagnosis, including implementation best practices and challenges, training issues, governance and maintenance, use of standardized terminology, reconciling inpatient and outpatient and sharing with outpatient EMRs, integrating clinical decision support,...

David C. Classen, M.D., M.S., Senior Partner, CSC, and leader of CSC's clinical excellence and safety and quality initiatives, and Erica Drazen, SC.D., Managing Partner, CSC, and leader of the Emerging Practices Group, the applied research function of CSC Global Health. On June 16th the ONC Meaningful Use Work Group presented to the ONC Policy Committee an initial draft...