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Driving Quality and Improved Care Outcomes-Preparing for “Meaningful Use”
Speakers:
Susan Nedza, MD, MBA, FACEP, Vice President, Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, American Medical Association
Michael Zia, MD, Chief Medical Officer and VP Quality, Decatur Memorial Hospital

This Webinar will discuss current industry efforts specific to healthcare quality as well as the impact of the proposed healthcare reform policy.

Also, Decatur Memorial Hospital will detail their journey towards a fully automated electronic health record (EHR). Hear how Decatur achieved a number of measurable and sustained performance improvements through the use of HIT and how this positions them for the stimulus incentives and prepares them for “meaningful use”.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the impact of healthcare reform on providers and healthcare organizations
  • Understand best practices and lessons learned with EHR deployment
  • Demonstrate how HIT initiatives can prepare organizations for stimulus incentives

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Improving Patient Safety: Reflections on the Past-Improvements for Tomorrow
Speakers:
Jonathan Morris MD, FACEP, MBA, Medical Informatics Officer, WellStar Health System
Diane Pinakiewicz, MBA, President, National Patient Safety Foundation

This Webinar will discuss the past 10 years on the patient safety forefront—from the inception of the 1999 IOM study To Err is Human to our current quest for improve care outcomes and the highest quality cost efficient care.

You will also hear how WellStar Health System is using Clinical IT in its high-volume emergency department (ED) to increase compliance with the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign.” This program produced tangible and continuing improvements in patient safety and quality, while reducing the costs associated with sepsis.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the progress made in safety and quality in the past ten years as well as lessons learned
  • Demonstrate how Clinical IT can drive high-quality cost efficient care
  • Discuss best practices and lessons learned regarding the deployment of Clinical IT and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign

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Information Technology and Nursing Excellence: The Catalyst to a Successful Magnet Journey
Speakers:
Carol Olson, RN, MSN, CNA, BC, Vice President Nursing Services, Good Samaritan Hospital
Trish O’Keefe, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, Morristown Hospital

Join leaders from Morristown Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital as they share proven success factors and best practices from their Magnet Journey- including utilizing information technology as a key foundation for nursing excellence. The top down and bottom up leadership support of nursing excellence throughout the Magnet Journey and the deployment of healthcare information technology initiatives are essential to success.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the role of IT in the Magnet Recognition Process
  • Understand how organizational Magnet strategies impact nursing informatics initiatives
  • Examine best practices and lessons learned related to the Magnet journey

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Enhancing Patient Safety and Care Efficiency with CPOE
Speakers:
Leah Binder, Chief Executive Office, The Leapfrog Group
Matt Sprunger, M.D., FACOG, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Dupont Hospital
Shari Schneider, RN, MS, Director Clinical Informatics, Lutheran Health Network

Hear from the Leapfrog Group regarding the current state of CPOE and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) deployment in the industry as well as key initiatives underway to determine best practice.

In addition, leaders from Dupont Hospital will discuss effective strategies to universally deploy Computerized Patient Order Entry. With strong executive and clinical ownership of their CPOE journey Dupont has realized significant safety and efficiency gains. Hear how this community organization drove transformational change.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the significant clinical, financial and operational improvements as a result of CPOE deployment
  • Demonstrate key success strategies and lessons learned with Dupont’s CPOE initiative
  • Discuss the sustainability of Dupont’s strategic plan and roll out strategy

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Clinical Quality Improvement: Documentation Compliance Driving Improved Care
Speakers:
Marlene McAllister RN, MSN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Center Hospital
Sherrill Rhodes RN, MSN, HACP, Director of Performance Improvement, Medical Center Hospital
Traci Burgkwist RCP, HACP, Associate, Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ)

Producing clinical documentation that meets regulatory compliance and finding the time to make process changes that will improve clinical care are a constant focus of healthcare organizations. It’s the Catch 22 of the health care quality world.

In this session leaders from Medical Center Hospital and the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality will discuss a clinical quality improvement initiative which not only drove documentation compliance but in the end improved clinical efficiency, reduced costs and ultimately improved patient care.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand how to leverage existing technology prospectively to improve documentation tasks
  • Discuss lessons learned and best practices around the development of new clinical documentation accountability tools
  • Demonstrate tangible value derived from process improvement initiatives
  • Discuss the importance of a cross discipline collaborative team to drive change

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Leveraging Enterprise Visibility to Maximize Reimbursement While Improving Care Quality
Speaker: Therese Hudson-Jinks, RN, MSN Chief Nursing Officer & VP of Patient Services, Tufts Medical Center, MA

In addition to tightening credit and increasing bad debt, in many markets the economic downturn is presenting health organizations with the challenge of lower patient volumes but higher-acuity patients. In this environment, it’s more important than ever to leverage existing investments and get paid for everything you do - without sacrificing patient safety or care quality. In this session, Therese Hudson-Jinks, RN, MSN, will describe how Tufts Medical Center is using an enterprise tracking board to help optimize patient flow, minimize risk and tightly manage length of stay.

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The Impact of the EHR on Risk Management: The Road to a Paperless Record
Speakers: Chris Snyder, DO, CMIO & Hospitalist, Peninsula Regional Medical Center and Turner Billingsley, MD, VP Medical Affairs, McKesson Corporation

Join your colleagues, Chris Snyder, DO, CMIO & Hospitalist, Peninsula Regional Medical Center and Turner Billingsley MD, VP Medical Affairs, McKesson to discuss the impact of the electronic health record (EHR) on Risk Management. This Webinar will discuss the use of healthcare information technology (HIT) such as, computerized provider order entry (CPOE), medication administration, clinical decision support and clinical documentation as powerful tools to mitigate risk, decrease variability of care and positively impact patient outcomes.

During this Webinar hear how Peninsula Regional Medical Center, deployed key strategies for ongoing process improvement and analysis of transparent information with their EHR to reduce risk and improve care. Hear about their lessons learned on their road to a paperless record.

  • Describe the potential impact of H.I.T./EHR on risk management
  • Discuss effective strategies to maximize the benefits of HIT
  • Verbalize lessons learned and potential areas of exposure/risk associated with HIT

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Personalized Medicine: Practical Applications, Future Implications
Speakers: Frederick Lee, MD, Product Manager, Personalized Medicine, McKesson Corporation and Surya Singh, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Clinical Development, Proventys

Join your colleagues and Dr. Frederick Lee, McKesson Corporation, for an overview of key concepts in personalized medicine—how they can directly improve clinical decision making and optimize patient management today and how they are likely to affect the way medicine is practiced in the future.

Personalized medicine aims to use individualized patient information from a variety of sources, including emerging fields such as genomics, to better predict and manage disease and response to therapies.

This Webinar will describe how rapid advances in research are being incorporated into everyday clinical practice through risk models that augment clinical decision support. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the next wave of discoveries and how they will likely impact medical practice and human health overall in the future.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe key concepts in personalized medicine and how they affect patient care decisions and clinical outcomes
  • Discuss current examples of predictive models that incorporate personalized patient information to enable better-informed clinical decisions and improved patient outcomes
  • Assess key considerations for effectively incorporating personalized medicine concepts into clinical workflow
  • Understand emerging trends in personalized medicine and how they are likely to affect clinical practice in the near future

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Using Healthcare Business Intelligence to Affect Patient Safety
Speakers: Nora Bos, Systems Administrator, Center for Clinical Excellence, University of Washington Medical Center and MaryBeth Navarra-Sirio, RN MBA, VP, Patient Safety Officer, McKesson Corporation

Join your colleagues, Nora Bos, University of Washington Medical Center and MaryBeth Navarra-Sirio, Patient Safety Officer, McKesson to discuss how transparency and business intelligence are key ingredients for an effective patient safety program. At the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, WA business intelligence is used to facilitate the monitoring and improvement of the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) core measures. By publishing results of on-time delivery of antibiotics for each practitioner (surgeon, anesthesiologist, CRNA and resident) on a weekly basis, providers compare their own performance with that of their peers resulting in a remarkable increase in on-time antibiotic delivery.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the use of business intelligence to affect patient safety with measurable results
  • Discuss examples of report automation for the SCIP Core Measure
  • Discuss how transparency in data reporting can increase performance

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The Journey to Achieving Widespread Physician Adoption and Beyond
Speakers: Dr. Michael Zia, Chief Medical Officer and VP Quality Management, Decatur Memorial Hospital and Dr. Harris Stutman, MD, Physician Consultant, Dearborn Advisors

Join us for a discussion on CPOE adoption and engagement. Hear how one community hospital achieved significant improvements in patient safety and care outcomes through a rapid deployment of CPOE. Decatur Memorial Hospital garnered 100% physician adoption with CPOE within nine months. As a result they achieved measurable performance improvements that in turn helped drive high satisfaction among physicians and have elevated the organization's ability to provide the highest quality, safest care possible in its community.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand the key strategic goals for successful CPOE deployment and physician adoption
  2. Describe key lessons learned from the CPOE journey
  3. Discuss the impact of CPOE on patient care and quality

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Patient-Centered Healthcare: In an All Digital Hospital
Speakers: Lamont Yoder RN, MSN, MBA, NEA-BC, FACHE, Chief Nursing Officer, Dublin Methodist Hospital and Cheryl L. Herbert, RN, MBA, FACHE, President, Dublin Methodist Hospital, OhioHealth

This session will discuss the strategy and deployment of a patient-centered all digital healthcare facility at Dublin Methodist Hospital, OhioHealth System. We'll explore the strategic role of executive leadership at Dublin Methodist Hospital in the transformation of care, specifically focusing on innovative safety initiatives and patient-centered care as well as the organizational impact that resulted in a new model of patient care delivery.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss impact of evidence-based design on transforming patient care
  2. Discuss impact of integrating technology on patient safety in an all digital, wireless and paperless environment
  3. Describe key successes and lessons learned to continue IT and patient care transformation

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Driving Physician Engagement through the Practical Use of Evidence Based Content and Decision Support
Speakers: Brian Patty MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, HealthEast Care System and Kris Berkery, MD, National Physician Executive, Zynx Health

Learn how evidence-based content and decision support are critical to forming a foundation for the cultural transformation required to gain physician acceptance and adoption of CPOE. You’ll hear how HealthEast successfully engaged physicians in their deployment of CPOE and how an effective content strategy is essential for driving success. By focusing on this strategy and process, HealthEast created physician buy-in, awareness and support of CPOE in advance of the implementation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss the key success factors for an effective content strategy
  2. Describe lessons learned with physician engagement
  3. Understand the impact of content on CPOE deployment methodology

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CPOE Momentum—Decreasing Variability of Care and Improving Outcomes
Speakers: Joel Berman, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Concord Hospital, William Bria III MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospitals for Children

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss the current status of CPOE deployment and adoption in the industry
  2. Learn how one hospital made a compelling case to its providers that their patients need CPOE
  3. Assess the leadership steps that are essential for CPOE success
  4. Recognize the strategic importance of achieving early clinical wins

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