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 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 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.
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.
January 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast HCI Associate Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo speaks with Brian Yeaman, M.D., CMIO of Norman Regional Health System and a board certified Family Medicine physician. Yeaman speaks about how he uses SMRTNet, a publicly-owned network of affiliated HIEs spanning the state of Oklahoma that was developed in 2005. SMRTNet is currently connected to more than 27 million records from 45 unique contributing facilities, covering more than 2.6 million lives and 7 million encounters. SMRTNet incorporates clinics, hospitals and lab data into one location, and the network was identified by the National eHealth Collaborative as one of twelve national HIE leaders. During the podcast, Yeaman speaks about why SMRTNet is not seeking out payer-involvement just yet.
November 1, 2011 Gabriel Perna
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This is the last in a series of podcasts devoted to highlighting our Innovator award winners from this year that were presented at the HIMSS Conference in Orlando in February. The Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations—hospitals, medical groups, and health systems—that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance.
October 18, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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This is the first in a series of podcasts devoted to highlighting our Innovator award winners from this year that were presented at the HIMSS Conference in Orlando in February. The Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations—hospitals, medical groups, and health systems—that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance.
August 9, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C.-based National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) released the report, "Secrets of HIE Success Revealed: Lessons
July 13, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Welcome to this Healthcare Informatics Podcast with Mark Allphin, senior research director at KLAS Research and HCI Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo. Beyond the big headline that the total number of live health information exchanges (HIEs) more than doubled in the past year, the recent study from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research showed what HIE vendors were becoming major players and what new vendors to look out for.
April 22, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast Tina Buop, CIO of Muir Medical Group in Walnut Creek, Calif., discusses the complex web of issues around the requirements under meaningful use regarding quality data reporting. This podcast will give you a flavor of the panel Tina will be headlining at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to be held May 11 through the 13 in San Francisco. She will be joined on the panel by her colleagues Dr. Sajjad Yacoob, CMIO, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Dr. David Liebovitz, CMIO, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Jane Metzger, Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices Group of CSC.
March 16, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The American Hospital Association (Chicago) and the College of American Pathologists (Northfield, Ill.), along with the cooperation of the St. Paul, Minn.-based Surescripts recently embarked on a two-year grant to electronically link hospital laboratories with public health agencies. The $5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began on Jan. 31, and will include a recruitment phase, a pilot phase, and then will finally connect the targeted 500 hospital laboratories, 100 of which will be critical access hospitals. Seth Foldy, M.D., M.P.H., director of the CDC Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office spoke withHCI Associate Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo about the goals and challenges of this project.
November 8, 2010 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) got its start about eight years ago with a number of mandates like improving safety in Rhode Island Intensive Care Units. RIQI later began an electronic health record (EHR) adoption program for providers. When regional extension centers were created last year, the RIQI became the REC for Rhode Island and is the statewide health information exchange, called currentcare. The RIQI is also the recipient of the Beacon Community grant and the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program Award. RIQI’s chief operating officer and chief information officer Gary Christensen spoke to Healthcare Informatics associate editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo about his REC’s innovative marketplace approach to helping providers choose an EHR vendor, and he also shed some light on how he’s dealing with his REC’s sustainability issues.
