Episode #1: Dr. C. Martin Harris on the “Google-Cleveland Clinic Story”
In this 14-minute inaugural interview, C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA, FHIMSS, provides a description of the “Google-Cleveland Clinic Story,” a joint program that gives patients control over their...
View ArticleEpisode #2: Medical Documentation in Advance of CPOE
From the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Michael Blum, CMIO, and Dr. Russell Cucina, Associate Medical Director of IT, discuss UCSF’s employment of clinical documentation in advance of...
View ArticleEpisode #3: Using Business Intelligence to Support Better Patient Care
Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and pediatric intensivist at Children’s Hospital of Omaha, discusses the hospital’s visionary approach clinical decision support that uses business intelligence and clinical...
View ArticleEpisode #4: Automated Adverse Event Detection
Dr. David C. Stockwell, Medical Director of Patient Safety and Dr. Brian Jacobs, CMIO ;at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC discuss their innovative Automated Adverse Event Detection...
View ArticleEpisode #5: The Importance of the CIO/CMIO Relationship
Lac Van Tran, MD, CIO, and Julio C. Silva, MD, CMIO at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, discuss the benefits of a strong partnership between the CIO and CMIO of a medical facility. They share...
View ArticleEpisode #6: Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer
Ken Ong, MD, Director, Clinical Information Systems, North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System discusses pearls from several chapters in the HIMSS 2007 Book of the Year titled Medical Informatics:...
View ArticleEpisode #7: Electronic Prescribing - Ready, Set, Help!
Patricia L. Hale, MD, PhD, FACP, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and Deputy Director of the Office of Health Information Technology Transformation, New York State...
View ArticleEpisode #8: One-on-One with William Bria, MD, CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for...
Dr. Bria has been a leader in applied medical informatics for over 25 years. He was selected as one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in 2008. He currently serves as chairman...
View ArticleEpisode #10: Achieving EHR Excellence, Deriving Value: HIMSS Nicholas E....
This is the first in a series of Davies Award podcasts. David Collins, HIMSS Director, Healthcare Information Systems, is responsible for the oversight of the four Nicholas E. Davies Awards. In this...
View ArticleEpisode #11: An Overview of Public Health Informatics
Dr. Ray Aller, Senior Physician and Director of the Automated Disease Surveillance Section of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, provides an overview of Public Health Informatics....
View ArticleEpisode #12: An Overview of the GRADE System (Grades of Recommendation,...
Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc, is a physician and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Guyatt has been a leading exponent of...
View ArticleEpisode #13: The "Meaningful EHR": Insight from the HIMSS Davies Awards of...
Eric Hartz, MD, CMIO at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC), and Catherine Bruno, FACHE, Vice President and CIO at Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, join us for a discussion about implementing a...
View ArticleEpisode #14: Complexities of e-Prescribing: Physician and Pharmacist Viewpoints
Patricia Hale, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, Office of Health Information Technology Transformation New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY and Mr. Kevin Marvin, RPh, Principal, Kevin Marvin...
View ArticleEpisode #15: TIGER Initiative - Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform
Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Vice President, Informatics at HIMSS, discusses the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) initiative which aims to enable practicing nurses...
View ArticleEpisode #16: The Health Record Banking Model
Jack Varga, MD, physician informaticist and consultant to federal agencies, provides an overview of Health Record Banking. Emulating commercial banking and described as a central repository, the health...
View ArticleEpisode #17: EHR Usability - The What, Why and How of Applying Usability to...
Robert M. Schumacher, PhD, Managing Director at User Centric, Inc., a leading global user research firm, and Lyle Berkowitz, MD, Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems for Northwestern...
View ArticleEpisode #18: Going Mobile in a Hospital Setting
Michael Blum, MD, cardiologist, Professor of Medicine and CMIO at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, and Seth Bokser, MD, pediatric hospitalist, Assistant Clinical...
View ArticleEpisode #19: Auto-ID and Bar Coding - What's Now, What's New and What's Coming
Mr. Ned Simpson, HIMSS Life Fellow, past HIMSS Chairman and a Principal at CSC Consulting, shares his expertise in the field of Auto-ID and Bar Coding and discusses top-of-mind healthcare IT issues...
View ArticleEpisode #20: The HIE Ready Community - Part 1 of 2
Lynn Witherspoon, MD, System Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer for the Ochsner Health System, discusses the critical challenges faced by physicians in the aftermath of Hurricane...
View ArticleEpisode #21: The HIE Ready Community
Lynn Witherspoon, MD, System Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer for the Ochsner Health System, discusses the critical challenges faced by physicians in the aftermath of Hurricane...
View ArticleEpisode #22: Management Engineering and Process Improvement (ME-PI) Toolkit
Ms. Pauline Hogan, Performance Improvement Engineer with Franciscan Skemp-Mayo Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin and Chair of the ME-PI Tools and Topics Work Group provides an overview of the ME-PI...
View ArticleEpisode #23: Red Flags Rule - Purpose, Requirements and Compliance in Healthcare
Dr. Marlowe Schaeffer-Polk, attorney, physician and founder of Medlawguard, and Mr. John Steinbach, CPHIMS and co-founder of Medlawguard, a healthcare risk mitigation firm, bring their practical...
View ArticleEpisode #24: Training the Allied Health Professional
Dr. Barry Newman, an expert in the medical education of allied health professionals, shares his thoughts on how physicians can ease the transition to electronic health records. The Consortia for...
View ArticleEpisode #26: Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS)
Dr. William Bria, shares the history of AMDIS, benefits of membership and information on the 19th Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium, July 14-16th at the Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, CA. Dr....
View ArticleEpisode #28: CPOE and Hospital Mortality Rates
Dr. Christopher Longhurst, a board-certified hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine,...
View ArticleEpisode #29: National Priorities Partnership
Dr. Louis H. Diamond, Vice President and Medical Director at Thomson Reuters Healthcare and President, Performance Excellence Associates provides an overview of the National Priorities Partnership...
View ArticleEpisode #30: ICD-10
Dr. Glen Mitchell, Chief Medical Officer at Sisters of Mercy Health System in St. Louis, discusses the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. The United States has put off this migration a few times before,...
View ArticleEpisode #31: Quality 101
Dr. Louis H. Diamond, Vice President and Medical Director at Thomson Reuters Healthcare and President, Performance Excellence Associates discusses Quality 101 including the basic framework and building...
View ArticleEpisode #32: Electronic Health Record Implementation
Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Principal Medical Officer at Vangent provides her expertise on implementing electronic health records (EHRs). Listen to this podcast to learn essential components of a successful...
View ArticleEpisode #33: Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) in a Community Based Setting
Dr. Todd Rowland, Executive Director at HealthLINC HIE, provides an overview of how HIE can help community based physicians. Dr. Rowland addresses the importance of office managers in HIE adoption and...
View ArticleEpisode #34: Impact of ARRA Incentives and EHR Adoption
Dr. Larry Ozeran, Physician Informaticist, highlights the impacts of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentives on electronic health record (EHR) adoption. Dr. Ozeran discusses factors to...
View ArticleEpisode #35: Learning from HIT Failures
Dr. Larry Ozeran, Physician Informaticist, addresses several different types of health care information technology (HIT) failures and points out the most common ones. Dr. Ozeran also provides several...
View ArticleEpisode #36: A Retrospective and Prospective Review: Physician Community and...
Dr. Howard Landa, Chief Medical Information Officer at Alameda County Medical Center; Pediatric Urologist and Director of Medical Informatics for Hawaii Permanente; and incoming chair of the...
View ArticleEpisode #37: CPOE and Risk Stratification
Dr. C. William Hanson III, Chief Medical Information Officer and Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses real-time risk scoring approaches using electronic data and...
View ArticleEpisode #38: Physician Documentation - the Move from Paper to Electronic
Dr. Paul Manicone, Associate Chief in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children's National Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University Medical...
View ArticleEpisode #39: Clinical Informatics Certification
Dr. Charles Safran, Chief of Clinical Informatics at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses...
View ArticleEpisode #40: ICD-10 Risk Mitigation
Dr. Joe Nichols, Principal for Health Data Consulting, explores the physician’s role in ICD-10 implementation and shares sage advice on what physicians need to know to be ready for a successful...
View ArticleEpisode #41: The Legal Implications of Mobile Medical Applications
Dr. Marlowe Schaeffer-Polk, attorney, physician and founder of Medlawguard, and Mr. John Steinbach, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Medlawguard, a healthcare risk mitigation firm, discuss the...
View ArticleEpisode #42: Leveraging Healthcare Intelligence to Improve Outcomes
Dr. Daniel Rosenthal, an Internist and Director of Healthcare Intelligence at Inova Health System and Clinical Instructor at George Washington University, shares his perspective on healthcare...
View ArticleEpisode #43: Stories of Success
Dr. Louis H. Diamond, President, Quality in Health Care (QHC) Advisory Group, provides an overview of the HIMSS Stories of Success project. Through a case study format, this project recognizes...
View ArticleEpisode #44: HIMSS Davies Award Program: Writing a Winning Application
Since 1994, the HIMSS Davies Awards of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement in the implementation and value from health information technology, specifically EHRs. In this episode, Dr. Eric...
View ArticleEpisode #45: Driving HIE Adoption with Independent Practice Physicians
Dr. C. Christopher Pittman shares his experiences with physician-led healthcare information exchange (HIE) in Florida and strategies to drive HIE adoption. This interview was conducted by Dr. Douglas...
View ArticleEpisode #46: The Nuts and Bolts of Achieving HIPAA Security Rule Compliance...
Dr. Salvatore Volpe, a solo physician practitioner, and Lee Kim, BS, JD, Director, Privacy and Security, with HIMSS, discuss risk assessments, which will not only help your organization achieve...
View ArticleEpisode #47: Health Information Technology to Transform Care in Multicultural...
Dr. Garth Graham, MD, MPH, President of the Aetna Foundation addresses the digital divide and how health IT can make a difference in underserved populations. Dr. Graham was one of the keynote speakers...
View ArticleQ&A Podcast: HIPAA’s Patient Access Requirement
(Produced by the AMA and HIMSS). Listen to Dr. Salvatore Volpe, a physician in solo practice, and Adam Greene, an attorney in Washington DC and former regulator at the US Department of Health and...
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