Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes
Purpose:
The use of healthcare information and management systems, standards and interoperability are essential to patient safety. The HIMSS Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes Steering guides HIMSS efforts for this initiative. The Committee provides direction concerning all HIMSS projects, policies and other matters related to the application of health information technology toward improving the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of health and healthcare.
David Collins, MHA, CPHQ, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Director, Healthcare Information Systems
804-550-1619
dcollins@himss.org
Patricia Johnson, MAT
Manager, Healthcare Information Systems
312-915-9264
pjohnson@himss.org
Chair:
Louis H. Diamond, M.B.Ch.B., F.A.C.P., F.C.P. (S.A.)
Medical Director,
Thomson Reuters Healthcare
Rockville, MD
Louis H. Diamond
Committee Members
Patricia Becker MBA, FHIMSS
Vice President Technology Services, University HealthSystem Consortium
Teri Burnham, MSN
Director Acquisitions, Wolters Kluwer Health
Kathleen Catalano, RN, BSIE
Consultant
Pamela Graves, RN, FHIMSS
Analyst Childrens Hospital of MN
Pawan Goyal, MD, FHIMSS, CPHIMS
Functional Analyst VHA
Patricia Hale, MD, PhD
Deputy Director, Office of HIT and Transformation New York State Department of Health
Lawrence Kosinski, MD, MBA
CEO Elgin Gastroenterology
Kevin Marvin, MS, FHIMSS, RPH
Owner Kevin Marvin Consulting LLC
Davina Vaswani
Manager of the Nursing Central Staffing Office
Washington Hospital Center
Task Forces
Clinical Decision Support
E-Prescribing
Medical Devices Patient Safety Task Force
Work Groups
Stories of Success Work Group
Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes Ad Hoc Public Policy and Advocacy
National Quality Hub Work Group
Task Forces
Clinical Decision Support
Purpose:
Promote scalable, validated guidance for provider organizations on optimizing Clinical Decision Support (CDS) to drive measurable local performance improvement on targets of high local and national priority.
Chair Person:
Jerry Osheroff, MD
Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
Healthcare Thomson Reuters
E-Prescribing
Purpose:
Create pragmatic tools for to assist providers to take advantage of (national and state) incentives and to understand E-Prescribing issues that are rapidly changing in today's healthcare industry.
Chair Person:
Patricia (Pat) Hale, MD, Ph.D., FACP
Deputy Director, Office of HIT & Transformation
NY State Department of Health
Medical Devices Patient Safety Task Force
Chair Person:
Jennifer L. Jackson, MBA, CCE
Project Clinical Engineer
Biomedical Engineering Department
Brigham & Women's Hospital
and
Research Associate
Università di Roma 'Sapienza'
Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù
Roma, Italia
Work Groups
Stories of Success Work Group
Purpose:
Develop an HIT Roadmap for the industry, to support the goals of the NQF National Priorities Project and Joint Commission Safety Goals.
Lead:
Louis H. Diamond, M.B.Ch.B., F.A.C.P., F.C.P. (S.A.)
Medical Director,
Thomson Reuters Healthcare
Rockville, MD
Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes Ad Hoc Public Policy and Advocacy
Purpose:
Representing all Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes (PS&QO) stakeholders, this workgroup will support HIMSS in participating in public comment periods and other related activities focused around PS&QO content
Lead:
Robin Raiford, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Director, Governmental Initiatives
Eclipsys Corp.
National Quality Hub Work Group
Purpose:
Publish tools on best practices in leveraging HIT to capture and report pricing and clinical outcomes data. The National Quality Hub will construct an inventory of organizations creating, endorsing, and implementing quality measures.
Lead:
Davina Vaswani, MHA
Manager of the Nursing Central Staffing Office
Washington Hospital Center
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