HITECH Final Rule: Interoperability and Reporting Requirements

Ross Martin, Senior Manager, and Mitchell Morris, MD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Dr. Morris and Ross discuss short- and long-term requirements for interoperability / Health Data Exchange, requirements for reporting (Health IT Measures and Clinical Quality Reporting), and their interpretation of the Road Map: sharing how health systems are preparing for these specific requirements.

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 26: CPOE

Dr. Joel Shoolin, DO, Vice President, Clinical Information, Advocate Healthcare. CPOE has been an ongoing process at Advocate Healthcare for the past 7 years. With both inpatient and outpatient order entry, Dr. Shoolin discusses how Advocate Healthcare accomplished its current state, and the change management needed to reach their goal.

Accountable Care Organizations

Tom Enders, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Health Care Sector, and Bob Reese, Global Health Solutions Group, CSC. Starting in 2010 Medicaid will initiate ACO demonstration pilots and beginning in 2012, ACO's can contract with CMS for Medicare patients on a shared-savings basis. ACO's planned under the Affordable Care Act, however, are a shared incentive […]

Getting Personal with PHRs

Kent Gale, Chairman and Founder, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. With patients taking a more active role in their health care, many providers are considering strategies which include a personal health record (PHR) as part of the mix of patient services. In this presentation Chris shares recent KLAS findings about perceptions of PHRs: Which vendors will […]

Michigan Health Connect (MHC): Health Systems Collaborate to Provide State-wide Information Exchange

Doug Dietzman, Executive Director of Michigan Health Connect (MHC), Patrick O'Hare, Senior VP and CIO, Spectrum Health, and Adam Theall, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors present a case study for how healthcare organizations can work together to advance health information exchange (HIE) within and across their communities. Five Michigan health systems: Lakeland Health System, Metro Health, […]

2010 Fall Forum

“Enabling Best Practice Care”

Improving the Bottom Line

Kent Giles, Regional VP, Conifer Health. With the trends in supply chain cost inflation, cost shifting from employers to employees, cuts in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, and ARRA requirements that add significant IT costs, hospitals must find additional ways in which to improve margins. A well designed Margin Improvement Program can help hospitals take a […]

Can Accountable Care Organizations Control Costs and Improve Quality?

Robert B. Williams, MD, MIS, Director, Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. As we await CMS communications about ACOs, there are ways in which organizations can prepare. Thinking ahead to how ACOs will need to be structured and governed, and what capabilities organizations will need, is a timely discussion. This presentation addresses current states of ACOs, […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 27: Problem List

Joe Boyce, MD, CMIO, Heartland Health, describes an approach to team management of the Problem List. Ideally, Problem List management should include efforts to optimize all that is known about the patient and focus on what can be done to improve care, including past medical histories, procedures and providers.

Are We Making a Difference? Measuring Impact of Clinical Decision Support at Memorial Hermann

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 […]

The Oncology IT Balancing Act: Integration vs. Functionality

Monique Rasband, Director of Oncology Research, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT, shares recent oncology system feedback and experiences from providers in this presentation. With insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the systems currently available, Monique explains how providers are using oncology technology to improve patient safety, streamline physician workflow and the effect of meaningful use […]

Convergence of IT and Medical Devices, and Impact on Patient Safety

James P. Keller, Jr., M.S., VP, Health Technology Evaluation and Safety, ECRI Institute. Medical devices and information technology are rapidly converging to the point where it will soon be difficult to tell the difference between a computer and a medical device. This convergence raises many new safety concerns and new opportunities to improve patient safety. […]

Information Security Issues and Trends

Mark Ford, principal and national leader for the healthcare provider sector within Deloitte & Touche LLP's Security and Privacy Practice, and Derek Han, senior manager and certified HITRUST practitioner, present a session on information security issues and trends within the healthcare provider space, including HIPAA/HITECH compliance, security risk analysis pertaining to meaningful use, and security […]

Auditing RACS: Examining Provider Perceptions

Paul Pitcher, Director of Financial Systems, KLAS Enterprises, Orem, UT. This presentation looks at recent KLAS research about RAC auditing buying decisions, including which systems providers have selected and why the system was selected. Paul also shares insight into who is being considered for future purchases, what providers are looking for, how they are approaching […]