- 2010 and Counting - The Arizona Health-e Connection Story
Arizona Health-e Connection's, newly appointed Executive Director, Brad Tritle, will share their story and how Arizona is moving toward a statewide e-health system and electronic health record for everyone in the state by 2010.
- A Community Hospitals Journey to Medication Safety and Automation
This presentation will highlight how Ohio Valley General Hospital dramatically improved the medication process by implementing bar-code scanning technology, smart IV infusion pump technology, and a decentralized medication dispensing system.
- A Framework for Developing and Implementing Point of Care System
The Management Engineering Special Interest Group and the Nursing Informatics Task Force partnered to explore tools that could be shared between disciplines. The team recognized that there is a need for practical tools that can be used in the field as well as examples of best practices. This session discusses point of care clinical documentation.
- A Multidisplinary IT Implementation of Medication Reconciliation Across an Enterprise
Hospital admissions and discharges are complex events, characterized by multiple handoffs among health care providers and numerous changes to the patients’ therapeutic plan. The intended medication regimen before, during, and after the hospital stay often becomes a point of confusion for patients and clinicians during care transition points across the hospital and outpatient settings. Recent research strongly suggests that such confusion is a major cause of medication errors and adverse drug events.
- A Mutual Relationship - Workflow Management Systems Meet Healthcare
This presentation describes the characteristics of electroinic health record (HER) workflow management systems (WfMSs): their conceptual basis, a glossary, and results of a productivity study of 20 practices that implemented workflow management systems
- Achieving Interoperability Through the Implementation of Standards
Interoperability has never been more important, or more complex. IHE is a proven process and a framework for standards adoption and implementation. Explore the range of options in leveraging IHE to enable interoperability within and among healthcare enterprises and communities.
- Adapting to the Changing Face of Self-Pay
With new challenges in benefit structures, the definition of self-pay is changing. This session will address the ramifications, identify a new class of uninsured and offer solutions through effective network utilization.
- Addressing Oregon's Healthcare Crisis - The Archimedes Movement
The Archimedes Movement provides a vehicle through which the growing concern over the U.S. health care system can be channeled into effective action – not only in creating the vision for a more equitable and sustainable system – but also in building the tension necessary for the realization of that vision. The movement serves as a catalyst to drive the national debate on this subject that we so desperately need.
- Beyond "Go-Live" - True HIT Value: Highlights from the HIMSS Davies Award
Paper is how it's always been done, but there has got to be a better way! Today, HIT provides a wealth of opportunity to improve patient care, and increase efficiencies that lead to substantial cost savings and revenue opportunities. Learn about the value proposition of EHRs from Davies award recipient Cincinnati Children's Hospital and multiple enterprise Davies award recipients that have been recognized since 1994.
- Building the EHR Total Cost of Ownership Model
Need to develop or validate your own cost model? This presentation steps through scope, fiscal, contractual and cultural considerations for building the total cost of ownership (TCO) for an EHR. While the actual costs used are for a small academic IDS, the structure is readily adaptable to standalone, large-scale, ambulatory and other providers. The presentation will offer various approaches and decisions that can materially impact cost for each element.
- Business Systems in an eHealth World
To maximize IT investments, providers must leverage electronic information and data exchange across clinical as well as business and administrative transactions and financial systems. This impacts all stakeholders - including payers, providers, and financial institutions. Learn how to optimize the intersection of business and clinical systems.
- Buying IT Systems with the Interoperability Built In
Tired of paying thousands of dollars in customization and integration fees for software applications that “should” work together? Come learn from the experts on how to get what you need from your software vendors and see real-life examples of how interoperable systems save lives, time, and money.
- Challenges in Establishing Clinical Databases for Quality Improvement and Audit
Clinical databases provide a vital evidence base for healthcare institutions quality improvement and clinical audit initiatives. However, issues including comparability, cross-disciple relevance, legal and ethical concerns and sustainability needs to be addressed before the full potential of clinical databases can be unleashed; leading to the transformation of healthcare.
- Change Management Case Study
We know change is inevitable. Learn some essential change management tools, how to use them and explore the opportunities that exist in effectively employing change management tools. How do we use it to our advantage in implementing healthcare IT?
- Data Mining - Navigating the Path of Data Access and Ownership
You know there's value to be drawn from the data you have collected, but where and how do you start mining it? Come get the "how-tos" from one of the industry’s top data-miners. Legal perspectives, tricks and tips, case study examples and the real methodology behind it all are the topics covered – everything you need to jump-start your mining process.
- Defining Relevance: Healthcare IT Trends and Glimmers
What is really happening in the market? This presentation evaluates the current status of the healthcare IT market relative to IT budgets and interoperability, and with key applications such as EMR, CPOE, PACS as well as enabling technologies such as bar coding. Defining relevance in the vast amount of healthcare data available, this thought-provoking session will challenge your thinking and practices as an examination of healthcare IT trends is presented.
- Development of a Nursing Record System Based on Situational Variables
The nursing record is a kind of decision making process. Although nurses have much clinical experience, it is still hard to utilize it in the field. This research applied the concept of situational variables in an Electronic Nursing Record system, allowing nurses to choose better nursing interventions and evaluations.
- Development of Team Competence for Practicing Hospital IT Projects
The System Requirements process is important for developing good performance IT systems. Our team of 21 Healthcare Information Technologists, JAMI certified who understand both the IT and medical fields, successfully achieved good system requirements for the new health information system in 2 months, helping to develop team project management competency.
- Digital Ward - Innovating for the Hospital of the Future
A continuous exploitation of IT innovations in healthcare. Digital ward, in accordance with many medical informatics experts, is the master plan for realizing the dream of the "Hospitals of the Future - providing medical excellence and genuine patient care."
- Education is the Key to Success
Healthcare managers use information technology in their departments every day. A basic education on HIYT is essential in order for clinical managers to participate in decisions that impact all clinical areas.
- eEnabled Medical Practice
Over the past three years, clinical computing has experienced its most rapid growth since the introduction of information technology into healthcare. The concepts of office based work flow, clinical decision support, health maintenance management and protocol management are becoming fundamental principles utilized in the operation of the medical office that has evolved into the information age. An adjunct to this online model of practice has been the rapid access to health information for clinicians and patients.
The intersection of the computerization of office practice, web based information management and e-health initiatives, portends the next great advance in the e-volution of the practice of medicine. Cleveland Clinic is deploying a series of e-health initiatives including direct access to information for patient, on-line consultative services and long-term care monitoring, all under a new clinical information technology based division known as e-Cleveland Clinic. This presentation will describe the transformation process to the information age at Cleveland Clinic and its implications for medical practice in the short and long term.
- Effective Health Screening and Personal Health Records System
A Case study on how Alexandra Hospital's health for Life Clinic has developed a health screening and personal health records system to achieve significant cost savings and greater customer satisfaction.
- Effectiveness of Portals in the Healthcare Organization / Portlet Architecture
This session will review how healthcare systems have evolved using portlet architecture. The efficacy of using portals will be emphasized: working in real time, ease of use and productivity gains.
- Empowered, Informed Patients: The Personal Health Record
Taking control of one's health information is the first step toward more empowered, informed patients. Explore issues and the impact and implications for IT of the patient-of-the-future.
- EMR Implementation in the Ambulatory Setting
Health systems, hospitals, and group practices face the steady pressure coming from the need to implement the electronic health record. Focus on lessons learned and the pitfalls to avoid from health system executives and practice physicians who have implemented electronic medical records in ambulatory settings.
- From Business Continuity to Continuous Availability
With firsthand knowledge of the need for disaster recovery, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston is using new technologies to transition from a business continuity focus to cost-effective continuous availability.
- HIMSS NI Research Results: Best Practices in Implementing Nursing/Interdisciplinary Documentation Systems
In 2007 the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Task Force and the HIMSS Management Engineering Work Group undertook an ambitious project – to uncover the nation’s best practice examples for the implementation of nursing/interdisciplinary documentation systems. With an amazing 100% participation from U.S. clinical information system vendors, each vendor submitted from one to three interviewee recommendations for their most advanced customers – culminating in total of 13 of the country’s most successful nursing documentation systems. The research goals, were to add to our NI knowledge base; to capture, report on, and establish best practices; obtain tools to share with the NI community and make available on the HIMSS NI Website; to enable informatics clinicians to cite this research as they defend and substantiate their project recommendations and budgets; and to position those organizations who are embarking on an implementation for success. Best practices for leadership models; clinical transformation; project management; use of superusers; rollout models; integration/interoperability; benchmarking; nursing languages; communication plans; and number and type of devices are provided.
- How to Introduce the EMR in your Office with Minimal Bother
How I learned to stop worrying and love the EMR.
- Impacting Your Revenue Stream Through IT Integration
There are significant integration processing efforts underway between providers, payers, and clearinghouses. Join this session to learn how to be proactive in directing the impact of these initiatives on your revenue streams, processes, and billing systems.
- Improving Medication Safety: The Automated Adverse Drug Event Surveillance System
It is not possible to quantify the full magnitude of medication safety challenge with certainty. This session provides an overview of how information systems can facilitate the detection of adverse drug events.
- Integrating HIT and Emergency Response
Are you ready for the Ambulance to show up? Join this session as we explore IT tools to connect emergency responders to a healthcare facility. Coming from the point of view of the hospital and ambulatory site, what are the best practices for harnessing the power of IT when it comes to emergency response?
- Integrating IT Mobile Devices into Nursing Workflow
Successful integration of new mobile IT devices into nursing workflows and processes can positively impact all stakeholders. Learn from the experts what works, what doesn’t work, what the future holds and answer the burning question – what's the best practice for integrating these devices successfully?
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- IT at the Core of Transformation
Hear from two key healthcare leaders about the role of IT in supplying future-based strategies and practical solutions to meet the challenges and opportunities in providing enhanced quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. These speakers will provide context to the challenges at both a high-level policy perspective, as well as the practical implementation perspective. They will focus on current and future strategies and techniques to improve quality and care management through better information flow and clinical decision support.
- Its in the Numbers - Using Data and Systems for Improved Practice Results
Pay for Performance is here and physicians are increasingly looking for ways to select and analyze their data to improve practice results, and Payors are actively engaged in providing financial incentives to help make this happen. Good clinical measures will prepare your practice for participation in those financial incentives and will give you new insight into ways to improve quality. Dr. Bangasser will delve into what you will need to do to prepare your practice for P4P, what this will mean for you, and how to select clinical areas for measurement.
- Medication Reconciliation - The Challenges and Strategies of the Effective Handoff
Medication Reconciliation is a complicated process with many hand-offs in our health-systems. The Joint Commission has made it one of its National Patient Safety Goals that requires a process to gather, review, and communicate a medication list through all transitions of care for a patient. This is often a challenge in a health-system whether or not it is done electronically, written, or verbally. This program will review some of the problems and solutions that healthcare providers are faced.
- New Clinical Uses for EMRs - Data Mining for Improved Quality
While improved documentation is one of the first benefits of using an electronic medical record (EMR), the long-term benefits lie in better management of patient care. Once the data is created in an EMR, there are many ways in which a physician and office staff can use that data for real-time reminders, pro-active follow-up care, practice population management and appropriately sharing clinical data outside the practice. This audio conference will give examples of the types of data needed from the EMR in order to pro-actively take care of your patients and participate in the many quality initiatives developing. Whether you’re the physician, nurse or office manager, join this audio conference to learn how to use the information in your EMR.
- Patients vs. Technology - Implementing Patient-Centered Initiatives
Emerging Technologies continue to enhance the patient experience and transform the patient experience and transform the healthcare industry. A health information administrator discusses how new technologies can be incorporated to improve patient care.
- Positive Patient Identification's Impact on EMR Initiatives
Every healthcare encounter and transaction is built upon the positive identification of the patient. Explore the interdependencies between positive patient identification (PPID) strategies and EMR initiatives. PPID applications can greatly improve patient safety, quality of care, and timely payment of services. Learn from real-world experience the most important issues to consider so that PPID can be sensibly integrated into an overall IT plan.
- Protecting Patient Privacy with Personal Accountability
Per HIPAA, healthcare organizations can protect patient privacy using access restrictions, which can block care delivery, or personal accountability. Learn how to effectively instill accountability without imperiling patient safety.
- Reports - A Critical Task for Implementation
Nurse informaticists are challenged to develop strategies to support successful implementation of clinical information systems. Incorporating reports into the implementation project plan is recommended as strategy to provide feedback to guide system changes and tactics to increase clinician acceptance. This session includes a description of a theory of user acceptance which guides areas of reporting including benefits, ease of use, social influence and adequacy of resources. Examples of reports from a computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) system are used to illustrate how data and reports can be used to monitor implementation progress towards achieving desired outcomes.
- RHIOs at the Crossroads - Are They Sustainable?
Is there a sustainable infrastructure for healthcare information exchange? Many are wondering. Join a practically-based session on navigating the business and financial aspects necessary to develop sustainable business models that engage all stakeholders.
- SEMHIE - Evolution of an HIE in a Complex Urban Market
SEMHIE's stakeholders include the Big 3 domestic auto manufacturers and other employers, financial institutions, medical societies, major physician groups, 3 health plans, all seven major health systems in the region (4 safety-net health systems, 2 national chains, 1 large academic health system), several small community health systems, union representation, consumer groups, health departments, community and healthcare associations, government agencies and a non-profit healthcare research institution that serves as incubator to the HIE.
- Stark II - Navigating Through Safe Harbors in the Enterprise Setting
Stark II, originally created to protect patients against being steered into a healthcare system based on financial reward to physicians, has become an impediment to adoption of Electronic Health Records designed to improve patients' healthcare. Realizing this predicament, the Federal Government has taken steps to promote a national system of electronic health records by modifying Stark II and widening the harbors for safety within the law.
- Strategies for Effective Adoption of Healthcare IT
Hear from the CIO's perspective about strategies for effective adoption of healthcare IT as he shares best practices used on the road to implementation.
- Strategies for Successful EHR Implementation
Many EHR implementations simply do not meet organizational goals and expectations. Explore the primary reasons why implementations stall or fail and strategies for turning a failed implementation into a success.
- Systematic Population CVD Screening - Results of 5,000 Patients Screened
The implementation of guidelines in primary care is often difficult. Healthwest has solved many issues using electronic implementation and measurement, of a CVD risk assessment guideline. Results from 5,000 assessments are presented; with particular emphasis on lessons learned and how and IT practice tool was converted into a population tool.
- The Explosive Growth of Medical Tourism and What it Means to the Healthcare Industry
Until the past few years, globalization has impacted virtually every industry – except healthcare. Not anymore. Highly-trained expat doctors and nurses are returning to their homeland to work in state-of-the-art hospitals…for a lot less money. The upshot? Countries like India can offer inexpensive, high quality medical procedures to North American and European patients…and they’re buying.
Join our distinguished keynote speakers from Harvard, Dr. John Helfrick and Dr. Robert Crone as they discuss “medical tourism” ….and a list of issues that can’t be ignored.
- The Framework for Successful HIE Efforts
A simplified 3-tier framework for implementers interested in operationalizing a health information exchange includes key basic practices, technological details and lessons learned.
- The Impact of HIT on the Role of Nurses and Interdisciplinary Communication
This audio conference will address preliminary survey results from over 400 nurses related to perceived communication challenges and the adequacy of existing applications for overcoming these challenges. We will report on our analysis of qualitative and quantitative survey data to gain insight into the ways in which HIT fundamentally changes communication and examine perceived barriers to adoption of existing applications. We will then put forth some recommendations regarding design requirements of HIT tools to support the role of nurses, facilitate interdisciplinary communication and to support capture and transfer of information in ways that promote efficient and safe patient care.
- The Journey of the Evolving Disaster Recovery Environment
After five years utilizing and outsourced Disaster Recovery service, the decision was made to bring it all in-house. Those second five years have passed and the evolution continues.
- The New SSA & Electronic Records Express
Social Security is using technology to transform the disability claims process. This means better service for applicants across the country and an opportunity for health systems to lower costs when responding to Social Security's requests for records.
- The Nicholas Davies Award Panel - The EHR
Davies Award-winning health systems will discuss their problems, solutions, and successes on the road to EHR adoption. This session is designed to inspire and challenge healthcare IT leaders and clinicians.
- The Role of HIT in Pay for Performance Programs
Greater investment in HIT today will likely be critical to participating in, and benefiting financially from, P4P programs in the future. As measure sets become more comprehensive and include more granular measures of clinical quality, it will no longer be feasible for healthcare organizations to derive the necessary data from administrative or claims files or manual abstraction of samples of medical records
- The Shenzhen Regional Health Information Network - A Progress Report
This presentation summarizes the Shenzhen Regional Health Information network. It will describe the current status and draw some conclusions about the value of and difficulties in implementing RHINs.
- Thinking Outside the Box - Tips and Tricks from the Michigan State CIO
What does true collaboration look like for technology and healthcare? How to harness the power of technology to improve quality and access to healthcare. This session will explore the critical opportunity for collaboration between and among key stakeholders: hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, labs and IT providers along with consumers, public health entities, employers and insurers.
- Top Ten Business Issues In IT Contracts
Learn the top ten business issues your need to know *before* you set the price, everything from cash flow considerations to hostage-taking is fair game in an IT contract. Identify business issues in IT agreements in order to understand and accommodate the needs of both parties. Develop negotiating strategies so that you can use contract provisions to enhance and protect your position in a mutually beneficial manner. Create meaningful compromise: Why squeezing the last nickel out of the other side is a bad idea.
- Top Ten Ways You Can Improve Quality at Your Institution
You're aware of the big problem that medical errors pose, but what can you do about it? We'll list 10 simple ways to improve quality at your institution.
- Understanding the Landscape of Healthcare IT Funding Sources
Funding healthcare information technology initiatives requires insight, creativity, and knowing where to look. One cannot solely depend upon the organization’s Board of Directors to fund projects that facilitate HIT adoption: capital resources are scarce and the competition is fierce. Learn how to increase your chances of obtaining funding by becoming aware of the types of funding available while learning how to position one’s organization to obtain funds.
- Using IT to Support Evidence-based Nursing Practice at the Point of Care
The demand for healthcare organizations to implement evidence-based nursing practice is widespread and carries pressing urgency. Technology enables evidence-based practice to be a reality by facilitating the delivery of identified evidence-based practices and by supporting analyses that reveal the evidence for practices that correlate with optimum health outcomes, efficiencies and cost. This presentation will pull it all together and describe a methodology for identification of evidence-based nursing content, the translation of this content into an electronic health record using automated knowledge management tools, and the concomitant evaluation of outcomes. Ms. Murphy will elaborate on the power of deploying the tools to nurses at the point of care, as well as the power of the clinical data that can be captured and analyzed to not only define variance to the outcomes but also to identify new nursing knowledge.
- What 33 States & Territories Can Teach Me about HIE Privacy and Security
Everyone engaged in an HIE effort understands the long-term win. But, the short-term challenges can be overpowering. Join this session for guidance on ensuring the safety & security of electronic HIE based upon AHRQ's recently published study – “National Assessment of Variations on Business Practices, Policies and State Law”. 33 US states & territories were examined for everything from privacy and security to organizational business practices to legal and ethical considerations.
- What Product Certification Means to the Healthcare Enterprise
As CCHIT rolls out its enterprise certification program, there are significant implications for healthcare providers. Explore the implications of a US-focused certification program relating to the implementation of EHR systems and how it could impact you.
- Wireless Patient Tracking - A Technology Blueprint
Tracking Infectious disease outbreaks within hospitals reduces nosocomial infections and consequently reduces patient stays and morbidity. In light of emerging infections, the at-risk population is extended to staff and visitors. Singapore General Hospital has experience in wireless tracking technologies, harnessing WiFi to locate patients, staff and visitors.
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