May 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Deloitte’s senior advisor for healthcare transformation and technology, Harry Greenspun, M.D. on the subject of mobile health (mHealth) and patient engagement. Dr. Greenspun talked about how these two issues interconnect, how mHealth must evolve to properly engage patients, and how payment reimbursements play into everything.
May 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast live from the HCI Executive Summit, Jeffrey Rose, M.D., vice president of clinical excellence, Informatics, Ascension Health, discusses how his 81-hospital integrated healthcare system, located in St. Louis, is moving forward with its CMS Pioneer ACO and other accountable care initiatives and what his organization has learned so far. This podcast was recorded after Dr. Rose's panel, "ACOs: Policy Strategic and IT Issues," a the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit being held May 6 through the 8 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando. He was joined on this panel by colleagues Daniel Garrett, leader, Health Information Technology Practice, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence at Park Nicollet Health System; and Jeff Petry, vice president strategic initiatives, Premier Health Alliance.
May 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, live from the HCI Executive Summit, Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital discusses how her organization is approaching data warehousing and the integration of clinical systems necessary for this initative. This podcast was recorded after Dr. Byrne's panel, "Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use," a the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit being held May 6 through the 8 at the World Center Marriott in Orlando. Bryne was joined on the panel by colleagues Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health; Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and CIO of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center; and Patricia Skarulis, vice president, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
April 25, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In this second part of a two-part podcast, George Reynolds, M.D., CIO and CMIO of Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., and first place winner of the 2011 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award, discusses the challenges of implementing dashboards, the uptake at the hospital, and how the use of dashboards has helped to change the culture at the hospital. This podcast gives a foretaste of the panel, “Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use” at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, which will be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando.
April 20, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence at Park Nicollet Health System, discusses how his integrated healthcare system, located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota is moving forward as a CMS Pioneer ACO and what his organization has learned so far about accountable care and its data and information facilitation. This podcast gives a preview of the panel, ACOs: Policy Strategic and IT Issues, that Van Norman will be headlining at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando.
April 18, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In this first part of a two-part podcast, George Reynolds, M.D., CIO and CMIO of Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., and first place winner of the 2011 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award, discusses the genesis of the idea of using dashboards to drive quality, and its enthusiastic uptake by clinicians, as well as financial and operational professionals. This podcast gives a foretaste of the panel, “Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use” at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit, which will be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando.
April 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In today’s Healthcare Informatics podcast, Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO of the Tampa, Fla.-based, Shriners Hospitals for Children, as well as Chairman and Co-Founder of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), joins us to talk about the evolution of the CMIO. Dr. Bria is one of the industry’s leading CMIOs and over his extensive career has seen the role evolve from a facilitator of clinical IS implementations to someone who has a hand in an organization’s change management and a seat at the executive table.
March 28, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, Rick Schooler, vice president and CIO at Orlando Health, also recipient of the 2011 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, discusses how leaders in the industry are using clinical data analytics for performance improvement. This podcast gives a flavor of the panel, "Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use," Rick will be headlining at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to be held May 6 through the 8 in Orlando. He will be joined on the panel by colleagues Dr. Bobbie Byrne, vice president of IT of Edward Hospital; Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and CIO of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center; and Patricia Skarulis, vice president, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
March 13, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Last month the Washington, D.C.-based National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) released the results of its 2012 NeHC Stakeholder Survey, which featured the biggest challenges to achieving widespread health information exchange. Sixty-one percent of respondents said funding and sustainability was the main obstacle, while 53 percent said interoperability standards were hindering HIE adoption.
March 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Mark Van Kooy, M.D., the director of informatics at Aspen Advisors. Van Kooy talks about alert fatigue, one of the pressing issues in clinical informatics when it comes to CPOE implementation.
February 23, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Assistant Editor Gabe Perna talks with Dr. Rasu Shrestha, M.D., vice president of Medical Information Technology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) live from the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas. Dr. Shrestha is also the medical director of Interoperability and Imaging informatics and the chief of the radiology informatics division at UPMC and has a wealth of knowledge on the issues facing providers when it comes to creating an enterprise wide image repository.
February 15, 2012 Mark Hagland
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In this podcast, HCI Editor-In-Chief Mark Hagland spoke with Jesse Singer of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which developed a program called the primary care information project. That initiative has already connected more than 2,900 primary care providers across New York City with that city’s department of health through EHR connectivity, facilitating a broad range of query based and automated public health measurements.
