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2006 Healthcare Information Technology Conference - Workshops

"Evidence-based Medicine: From Research to Practice"

Friday, February 3, 2006 - 8:00am-4:00pm
Marriott Hotel, Rt 128 & 3A (One Mall Road), Burlington, MA

Workshops - 11:30 - 12:30

#1
"EHR Deployment from an Infrastructure Perspective"
Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are ready to start living up to their potential. But before that happens there are still a number of challenges to meet. This session will focus on EHR deployment from an infrastructure perspective, examining some of the challenges at the provider endpoint, presenting different EHR deployment models, and discussing the impacts on hospital IT infrastructure – both human and technological - that these models present.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: IT Managers, CTOs, CIOs, CSOs and other professionals within physician practices and hospitals interested in implementing EHR solutions

#2
"Connected Healthcare for Collaboration, Integration and Efficiency"
Clifford Goldsmith, M.D., Microsoft global healthcare industry Director, will present Microsoft’s vision for the future of information work in healthcare. This includes enabling caregivers to spend more time focused on medicine, helping healthcare executives with enterprise resource planning and business analysis, facilitating collaboration and communication with colleagues and delivering software that is a transparent enabler of the expression of ideas and insights.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This workshop is an exceptional seminar for business and technology leaders and contributors, including: Physicians, Chief Medical Officers and departmental contributors, Chief Operational Officers and operations team/staff and Chief Technology Officer and technology decision makers.

#3
"Evidence Based Medicine and a Successful Healthcare IT System"
Jim Fackler, MD, Cerner’s providing care director and physician executive, will present on Cerner’s approaches to evidence based medicine in the context of CPOE. This includes powerful event-driven, rules-based decision support that has been successfully employed by healthcare professionals. The evidence-based support has been proven to prevent medical errors, ensure patient safety, improve care quality, standardize routine practices, more effectively utilize resources, enhance interdepartmental communication, and manage risk. Cerner’s futuristic approaches to evidence based medicine will also be discussed.

Concurrent to his role at Cerner, Dr. Fackler continues to practice in the pediatric intensive care unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He also is an associate professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has been published in more than 50 academic publications. Much of Dr. Fackler’s research and interest lies in the introduction and maintenance of knowledge-based automation and electronic medical record systems.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Any physician, business, or technology leader interested in evidence based medicine. including: Physicians, CMOs, CNOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, CTOs, departmental leads, and technology decision makers

#4
"Breathe New Life into your Healthcare Enterprise with On-Demand Access from Citrix Systems"
The Citrix Access Platform enables healthcare providers to meet these challenging requirements with seamless, secure, on-demand access to administrative and clinical applications—for greater security, improved productivity and lower costs.

Citrix solutions for on-demand access in healthcare:

Lower the cost of IT, including greatly improving application scalability by effectively increasing the capacity of each application server
Enable physicians and other key providers to roam freely, switching from one device to another in the midst of an application session, resuming work where they left off, and maintaining the application display when the connection is lost
Ensure application availability and peak performance with advanced optimization and traffic management
Provide physicians with easy, secure remote access to information from anywhere
Increase application performance for remote individuals who are using SSL-based VPN connections
Increase clinician productivity with Web-based access that is appropriate to user roles
Lower help-desk costs, improve data security, and simplify the user experience with single sign-on
Provide security protection within the data center, including intrusion filtering, distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense and worm protection
Keep data secure, even as they travel over WAN VPN links to remote locations, while easing the processing burden on application servers

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: IT Managers, CTO, CIO, CSO

#5 Meditech logo
"Incorporating Evidence Based Medicine into Practice:
Innovative Approaches to Measuring and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Patient Care"
Safe, high quality, efficient care delivery - we talk about it everyday. We are all faced with internal and external pressures to improve, and prove, that what we have set out to do is making a difference. But at the end of the day the question remains how do we achieve it? By addressing the critical needs, and aligning your organizational processes, workflow, checks and balances to support them. We feel the catalyst is improved clinical decision making. More informed clinical decisions will not only increase effectiveness of the care we deliver and further promote patient safety, but also improve the healthcare organization's efficiencies and sustainability.

In this session, Gregory Dorn, MD, MPH, Zynx Health and Melissa Swanfeldt, Director Marketing, MEDITECH will present a road map to more informed clinical decision making. Using a step-wise approach, learn how to develop and incorporate evidence-based guidelines, order sets and rules, and alerts into everyday use of electronic medical record and computerized physician order entry systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on:

Defining a rigorous evidence-based approach
Strategies for optimizing and prioritizing the selection of rules and order sets for implementation
Achieving consensus with physicians and clinicians on guidelines, rules and order sets
Measuring the impact and results of evidence-based medicine at the electronic point of care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Clinicians involved with developing clinical knowledge related to CPOE or EMR implementation

For further information on any of our conferences and events, please contact Jerilyn Heinold, Director of Education, via e-mail. If you would like information on exhibiting opportunities for this or other events, please contact Arleen Coletti, Director of Member & Exhibiting Services via e-mail or by phone (781)768-2512.