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.
February 10, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The industry is eagerly awaiting the release of the proposed rule for Stage 2 meaningful use requirements this month. Unlike the three months of operational use of capabilities that had to be demonstrated for Stage 1, Stage 2 will require a full year of operation, so there’s no time like the present to get started moving forward. In this podcast, Erica Drazen, Sc.D., managing director in the Waltham, Mass.-based Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices at the Falls Church, Va.-based CSC gives three main recommendations for moving forward on Stage 2.
February 8, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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This podcast is one in a series of Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award podcasts, which are highlighting this year's Innovator Award winners. The HCI Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations -- hospitals, medical groups, health systems and others -- that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance. This year’s winners will be honored at the upcoming HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas.
February 1, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In this second in a series of Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award podcasts, Managing Editor John DeGaspari interviews Maureen Kahn, R.N., CEO of Blessing Hospital, a 420-bed facility in Quincey, Ill., which tied for third place in this year's Innovator Award program for its advanced clinical decision support system.
January 31, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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CIOs and HIM directors are laying the groundwork for the ICD-10 transition that will occur on Oct. 1, 2013. These two departments will be joining other organizational leadership to perform critical risk assessments of what systems will be affected and extensive ICD-10 training programs for clinicians and coders, all the while overcoming common challenges including budget, bandwidth, and human resources. As many have asserted, the technical issues of the ICD-10 transition are not that great; it's the training of clinicians and coders that will be the significant obstacle.
