Problem Lists Use Across Institutions: Implications for EHR Use and Design at Memorial Hermann

Alan Weiss, MD, Director of Medical Informatics, Memorial Hermann.  Problem lists (PL) are an essential clinical tool, but are often poorly maintained.  Dr. Weiss has investigated PL use at the Cleveland Clinic, Cedars-Sinai and at Memorial Hermann, and shares analyses and insights.  Due to a lack of consensus on problem lists use and territorial issues […]

Microsoft Analytics and Data Warehousing: A Users Perspective

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst.  Microsoft, in Health Catalysts' opinion, continues to innovate and lead in the analytics and data warehousing space through pragmatic innovation and enormous investments, creating a compelling suite of products for analytics and data warehousing which bridges the gap between the relational database of yesterday and the big data, Hadoop platform […]

Utilizing OpenNotes at University of Missouri

Thomas J. Selva, MD, CMIO, MU Health Care, Professor of Clinical Child Health, Associate Chair Clinical Quality and Medical Director - Department of Child Health.  MU Health Care, in partnership with Cerner Corporation via the Tiger Institute, has become a leader in portal development.   A key component of that development and our ongoing success has […]

Clinical Communications Strategy Improves Efficiency and Patient Satisfaction

Rhonda Collins, RN, MSN, CNO, Vocera Communications.  Rhonda shares best practices for developing an effective clinical communication strategy. You will learn why a clinical communication strategy can be a key part of improving clinical efficiency and patient satisfaction by putting nurses back at the patient's bedside. She'll also include examples of clinical communication improvements from […]

Implementation Potholes 2015: How to Smooth out the Ride

Mike Smith, Research Director of Professional Service, KLAS.  As nearly 1,300 U.S. hospitals consider a move, or are in the middle of moving to new core clinical and financial systems, Mike focuses on the common implementation potholes of specific vendors, best practices for success, and insights on the consultants who can help.

SI 2015 CIO Fall Summit

"The New World of the Health System CIO: Consumers, Consolidation and Crooks" CIOs from eight leading healthcare organizations convened in September 2015 for the annual Scottsdale Institute Fall CIO Summit. The resulting report, The New World of the Health System CIO: Consumers, Consolidation and Crooks, highlights many of the key challenges faced by today's healthcare CIOs […]

The Role of IT and Informatics in Transformation at Saint Vincent Health/Ascension

Randy Cox, MBA, SVP/CIO, St. Vincent Health Indiana.  In cooperation between the Office of the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Information Officer, St Vincent Health - a statewide Ascension ministry in Indiana - has been launching a collaboration of clinicians and clinical/technical IT staff known as the Office Of Clinical Transformation (OCT).  The OCT […]

Security Risk Management at THR: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Data

Ronald Mehring, Senior Director, Chief Information Security Officer, Texas Health Resources.  Effectively articulating complex cybersecurity risks, threats and security investment priorities can be a daunting task.  The key to success is becoming data driven within your Information security program and linking operational data with security risk management functions.  During this presentation Ron discusses his experience […]

Application Management Services: Lessons Learned and What is on the Horizon?

Chris Davis, Director, and Todd Blake, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  As health systems continue to face mounting margin pressures and MU payments coming to an end, executives are looking for effective models to manage their information technology costs. Having a need to innovate and expand technology services while effectively managing costs is a balancing act […]

Journey to Level 7 at Sutter Health

Albert Chan, MD, MS Vice President, Chief of Digital Patient Experience, Calvin Olson, MD, Regional Chief Medical Information Officer, Central Valley, and Stuart James, Chief Operating Officer, Sutter Health.  As the largest geographically contiguous, non-profit system in the United States, Sutter Health aims to deliver a consistent, high-value patient experience in the geographically and socioeconomically […]

OpenNotes: A View from 40 Health Systems and 5 Million Patients

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 […]

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center on Achieving HIMSS Level 7

Elliot Levine, MD, Medical Director of Informatics, Research, and Dept. of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Mohammed Samee, MD, RN, Director of Physician Informatics Council, Internal Medicine Program Director, Meg Capannari, Director Site Information System, and Communications, and Veronica Kiarie, BSN, RN, Manager Clinical Informatics, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (AIMMC).  With less than 3.5% of US hospitals having […]

Data-Enabled Strategic Resource Allocation in ACOs at Advocate

Rishi Sikka, MD, Senior Vice President, Clinical Transformation, and Tina Esposito, VP, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care.  As the industry continues to shift to a focus of accountability across the care continuum, it becomes imperative for organizations to reallocate human and capital resources, ensuring efficient and effective care for an entire patient […]

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Where does your Organization Stand on the Healthcare Information Security Adoption Model

Darwin Larrison, Corporate Information Security Officer, UnityPoint Health, and Rob Faix, Principal, Impact Advisors, introduce the Healthcare Information Security Adoption Model (HISAM).  HISAM facilitates meaningful security conversations between IT, Information Security, Executive Leadership, and Boards of Directors as security practices are improved over time.  The self-assessment tool consists of yes/no questions to determine which of […]