CDS

Carole Cotter, Chief Information Officer, Chuck Mahoney, VP Pharmacy Services, and Christine Collins Director of Pharmacy, Lifespan, RI. Information technology improves medication safety both directly through safeguards that are inherent to the system as well as indirectly by enabling the development of sophisticated tools and decision support systems that supplement the pharmacist’s clinical expertise. This program provides real examples...

John Chuo, MD, Neonatal Quality Informatics Officer, Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Ed Septimus, MD, FIDSA, Medical Director Infection Prevention, HCA Healthcare System. Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Community members have been discussing the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in CDS. A short survey was conducted to specifically understand the use of free...

Jerry Osheroff, MD, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Reuters, and Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Advocate HealthCare, and Sirajuddin Anwar, MBBS, MS, Clinical Decision Support Lead, Memorial Hermann, introduce and describe the newest publication in the HIMSS CDS series, designed to be a valuable guide for implementers. Additionally, Drs. Shoolin and Anwar provide specific examples of how Medication Management...

Joel S. Shoolin, DO, MBA, VP, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook, IL. Chicagoland's Advocate Healthcare has developed a number of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools to improve patient care. This session enumerates the current CDS rules and alerts and discusses plans for future deployments.

John Chuo, MD, MS, Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Director of Neonatal Informatics, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Bristol Myers Squibb Children's Hospital. Dr. Chuo specifically discusses the orderset lifecycle process at the Bristol Myers Squib Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson. The four-month process consisted of a two-track strategy that produced ordersets...

Luis Saldana, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support, and Ferdinand Velasco, MD, CMIO, Texas Health Resources. Lessons learned from the first year of implementing clinical decision support and CPOE in a community hospital setting. Our discussion focuses on order sets, clinical alerts and drug interaction checking.

Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA, Corporate Manager, Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Partners HealthCare, and Vi Shaffer, Research VP, Gartner.

Erica Drazen and Jane Metzger, FCG, describe what organizations are doing, or will need to start doing, to provide IT support for the next level of patient safety. The discussion includes advanced clinical decision support in CPOE, surveillance, and infection control.

Erica Drazen, Vice President, Emerging Practices, FCG. In 2006, FCG studied how five community hospitals approached physician incentives, workflow, metrics, physician training, and management of clinical decision support with CPOE. To make sure the hospital’s experience was relevant to the challenges of community settings, sites had to have CPOE in use in more than 80 percent of the hospital...

Jennifer Guite, RN, MS, Project Manager and Clinical Analyst, Mary Lang, RN, MS, Director of Nursing Informatics, and Patrick McCartan, RN, MSN, BC, Nursing Informatics Team, Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE. Christiana Care, a two-hospital, 1,000-bed health system, redesigned its nursing admissions process to provide a centralized source of assessment information. An interdisciplinary team redesigned the assessment process...