Bringing the Digital Hospital to Life: Expert Advice and Real-world Lessons

Learn from the experiences of leaders in the field.

Listen to HealthLeaders Media's Webcast, Bringing the Digital Hospital to Life: Expert Advice and Real-world Lessons. This 90-minute interactive program will inform you on how to broaden your hospital’s use of clinical IT, and give you a real understanding of how your facility measures up against others in digital automation.

You will hear from leaders and innovators who have struck out on the journey to retire paper processes and records. An expert industry analyst will discuss how far along EMR adoption has come and where it is heading. You will also hear two real-world case studies from hospitals who are far along in the IT process, including a community hospital that has implemented CPOE and a specialty hospital which opened with the goal of being completely paper-free.

Find out what roadblocks to expect as you introduce more technology to your staff, and especially how to obtain much-needed buy-in from key physicians and nurses in your facility.

Purchase this Webcast to gain expert strategies and advice that will help you:

• Improve patient care through IT
• Obtain physician and nurse buy-in for IT implementation
• Create a paperless facility

Program agenda

1. Market overview of hospital EMR adoption
   1. Definitions
   2. Environments
   3. Adoption model: where do U.S. hospitals fall on the EMR continuum?
   4. Achieving the higher stages of EMR: what are the characteristics of the leaders?
   5. Industry trends: what are the key factors that determine a hospital’s adoption of clinical IT? How will the changing market increase the need for the EMR?
   6. Regulatory impact: what are the key standards and legal requirements coming down the pike that will affect the “digital hospital”?         
2. Case study: UPMC St. Margaret (CPOE implementation)
   1. Transitioning from paper-based order writing processes to electronic; what UPMC has in place now and what remains to be done
   2. Facility-wide implementation
   3. Challenges
      1. Physician buy-in
      2. Nurse buy-in
   4. Outcomes
      1. Error reduction
      2. Documentation improvements
   5. Installing EMR in office group practice   
   6. Two years later: what paper processes have been difficult to retire?
3. Case study: Oklahoma Heart Hospital (Hospital opened totally wireless/paperless)
   1. Challenges faced in the first six months
   2. Physician/nurse acceptance and buy-in
   3. Data-sharing with physician groups
      1. Using clinical IT to streamline
         

A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Who should attend?

CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs, CNOs, CMOs, and director-level healthcare leaders.

Featured speakers

Michael Davis, is executive vice president at HIMSS Analytics. Mr. Davis has 30 years of healthcare experience. Prior to joining HIMSS Analytics, he held the position of managing vice president of Gartner's Healthcare Research & Advisory Service. He has managed clinical departments in healthcare organizations and has held product management and director positions with Micromedex/Thomson, American Express Health Systems Group, First Data Corporation, and Motorola. Mr. Davis has published two books and more than 150 research articles on computerizing healthcare information. He has extensive experience with the design, development, implementation, and management of healthcare IT systems. He holds a master of science degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a Master of Business Administration degree from Pfeiffer University.

Joel N. Diamond, M.D., F.A.A.F.P, is a partner at Diamond, Fera and Associates family medicine in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Diamond implemented an inpatient electronic health record, including 100% adoption of Computerized Physician Order Entry, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. This was one of the first successful community hospital installations in the United States. He also serves as the electronic health record liaison to the UPMC Health Plan. Dr. Diamond is well known throughout the healthcare industry as an authority in the areas of EMR implementation and physician engagement, as well as strategic planning and patient safety improvement. In addition to being a partner in Diamond, Fera and Associates, he is president of Associates in Technology, a professional services firm that assists healthcare organizations with clinical information technology, specifically EMR.

John Harvey, MD is medical director and president of the Oklahoma Heart Hospital, a 78 bed heart specialty hospital. Dr. Harvey completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of Oklahoma, followed by a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He is a founding member of Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates, a 40-person cardiology group based in Oklahoma City. He was instrumental in the implementation of a paperless medical chart since the opening of the hospital in 2002.

System Requirements and Program Materials

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You will also receive presentation slides, and other materials that you can print and distribute to all of your peers at your location.