5 More Tech Trends

Posted on March 22, 2012 by afernando

Earlier this week I wrote about the top 10 tech trends. Here are the last five.

6.)  Year of the Chief Information Security Officer:  have a higher profile this year; role has changed

7.)  Private Health Information Exchange (HIE) on the Upswing:  organizations are considering building thier own HIE rather than connecting to a public HIE

8.)  Imaging Informatics and the Enterprise:  enterprise wide solution for imaging needs to be addressed

9.)  The Bring Your Own Device Revolution:  mobile healthcare devices is the future of healthcare informatics.  Mobile devices are compact and convenient

10.)  The Game Changer:  emerging genetic medicine and electronic health records; the next generation of electronic health records (EHR) will require facilities to access genomic data about patients, access to a curated nationwide or international database that assigns genomic-clinical implications  and dynamic clinical decision support tools

 So there you have it the top 10 tech trends of 2012.  There is still a lot of work that needs to be done in order for these top tech trends to materialize.

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10 Tech Trends

Posted on March 19, 2012 by afernando

Here are the top 10 technology trends that healthcare informaticists are embracing.

Top 10 Tech Trends:

1.) Performance imperatives

2.) Population Health Management and Re-admissions

3.) Turing Healthcare’s Business Model Inside Out

4.) Bridging the Care Transition Gap

5.) Second-Generation Clinical Decision Support

6.) Year of the CISO

7.) Private Health Information Exchange on the Upswing

8.) Imaging Informatics and the Enterprise

9.) The Bring Your Own Device Revolution

10.) The Game Changer

I will go in detail about the first 5 tech trends and continue with the last 5 later on in the week.

1.) Performance imperatives: healthcare leaders recognize the need for formal performance improvement methodologies such as Lean Management, Six proscar propecia finalop Sigma, Toyota production system (TPS); adopting business processes from other industries

2.) Population Health Management and Re-admissions: preventing re-admissions and utilizing population health management analytics to focus on issue; utilizing population health management strategies to avoid readmissions

3.) Turning Healthcare’s Business Model Inside Out: pharmacy canada IT maturity model for accountable

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First phase includes 12 foundational elements that includes establishing ambulatory electronic health records, health information exchange, disease registry, physician engagement, patient engagement, and quality improvement

Second phase: creating performance risk and bundled payment models for end to end acute care episodes (i.e. surgeries) and for ambulatory episodes (i.e. chronic diseases)

Third phase involves accepting utilization risks for a population of patients by employing preventive medicine

4.) Bridging the Care Transition Gap: care transitions problem during the discharge process, medication reconciliation, information flow, and patient and caregiver interaction; information technology can streamline discharge process in an organized and efficient way.

5.) Second Generation Clinical Decision Support – implementing an effective clinical decision support system and embedding clinical decision support into clinical systems to improve patient care

 

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10 Reasons to Attend Northwestern University

Posted on March 15, 2012 by afernando

Are you looking to advancing your career? Consider propecia results getting an medical informatics degree at Northwestern University. This school caters to busy working professionals. Below are 10 reasons to attend Northwestern University. 10 Reasons

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267 Days Til Go-Live

Posted on March 12, 2012 by afernando

The clock is ticking. Another workflow session week has passed. This was our 5th week of workflow sessions and one more week to go. As end users see the system more often, questions are raised and end users concerns are valid. This was a busy week as other specialty disciplines are being exposed to the application.

I can see in my colleagues eyes that they are stressed and overwhelmed. Who wouldn’t be stressed? Deadlines are looming and it’s only going to get worse as go-live draws near. So far my colleagues and I are in good spirits and still smiling.

After designing and building the system, the next phase of system analysis begins: testing. Test scripts are written and placed in a testing software system where test scripts can be accessed by everyone. Testing the system will begin in May and continue until September. Testing is a crucial part of the systems life cycle to make sure everything works the way it is supposed to. Imagine if we went live with the computer system and the most important piece of the clinician’s workflow is unavailable. What would they do? Of course the natural thinking is to document

on paper and this is what we do not want them to do.

There are still so much work to be done and working long hours in order to meet deadlines. This job is not for the faint of heart. Implementations requires individuals to be flexible and have the passion and patience for making a computer system work.

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Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit 2012

Posted on March 8, 2012 by afernando

Healthcare informaticists – Join the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit 2012 on May 6-8, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. The conference will be held in the Marriott Orlando World Center Resort. The attendees will be:

  • Chief Information Officers
  • Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officers
  • Vice Presidents of Clinical Informatics
  • Chief Technology Officers
  • VP’s and Directors of Information Systems
  • Clinical Informaticists
  • Chief Executive Officers
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • Chief Medical Officers
  • Chief Nursing Officers
  • Chief Quality Officers
  • Chief Innovation Officers
  • Member of Boards of Directors

The following leaders will provide insightful information:

  • Russell Branzell, Vice President and CIO, Poudre Valley Health System
  • William Bria, MD, CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for Children; Chairman, AMDIS
  • Tina Buop, CIO, Muir Medical Group IPA
  • Bobbie Byrne, MD, Vice President of IT, Edward Hospital
  • Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
  • Brian D. Patty, MD, VP and CMIO, HealthEast Care System
  • George Reynolds, MD, MMM, VP, CMIO and CIO, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center
  • John R Schooler, FACHE, FCHIME,Vice President and CIO, Orlando Health
  • Patricia Skarulis, Vice President, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center
  • Ferdinand Velasco, MD, CMIO, Texas Health Resources

  Program topics include:

  • Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use
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  • ACOs: Policy Strategic and IT Issues
  • Leveraging CPOE Implementation to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety
  • The Journey Towards Evidence-Based Physician Ordering
  • Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management
  • The Evolution of the CIO – CMIO Relationship and the CMIO Role
  • Readmissions and the Medical Home: Re-Visioning Care Management
  • Health Information Exchange: Strategies and Sustainability
  • Data warehousing
  • IT issues – policy strategies
  • Patient safety

Featured Session: Monday, May 7, 2012

Leveraging CPOE: Implementation to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety

Speaker: Christopher A. Longhurst, MD

CMIO, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford University

IT Innovation Advocate Awards

Tuesday, May 18, 2012

Presentation of the Healthcare Informatics/AMDIS IT Innovation Advocate Award is one of the main highlights of the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summary

Full conference price through March 9, 2012: $795

Full conference price after March 9, 2012: $995

To register for this conference: go to this website.

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11th International Congress in Nursing Informatics

Posted on March 5, 2012 by afernando

Last Thursday, I posted information about the 11th International Congress in Nursing Informatics:  Advancing Global Health Through Informatics. This event draws nursing professionals in thirty countries  through submissions.  Some of these conference sessions will be translated into Spanish.

Every nurse,  regardless of specialty,  is involved in informatics and contributing in ways that impact patients and their care:  patient care improvement, enhancing professional practice, influencing policy, and conducting research.

Presenters and attendees for this conference is from around the world.  This year’s theme is “Advancing Global Health Through Informatics.”  This theme reflects the rich history of professional and collaborative opportunities to achieve improvements in patient care.

Every three years, the nursing informatics community convenes to inform, study, evaluate, innovate, and create a climate to obtain knowledge that will give nursing informatics novices and experts the opportunity to reach professional goals and impact health globally through informatics innovation.

This is a 5 day conference that features distinguished speakers, interactive panel discussions, comprehensive paper presentations, and networking opportunities.  The keynote speaker is will be Judith Shamian, PhD, Dsci, RN, LLD, FAAN.  Dr. Shamian is president and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses and President of the Canadian Nurses Association.  Dr. Shamian will discuss informatics as it relates to global health and the central role informatics can play in building communities and health policy.

Papers that will be covered in NI 2012:

  • Adoption and acceptamce
  • Care coordination
  • Data exchange standards
  • Documentation systems
  • mHealth
  • Patient safety
  • Social networking/Web 2.0
  • System implementation
  • Telehealth
  • Workflow processes

Nurse informaticists play a critical role in the implementation of various clinical applications (nursing documetation, computerized order entry and electronic medical records.  Nurse informaticists work as developers of communication and information technologies, educators, researchers, chief nursing officers, chief information officers, software engineers, implementation consultants, policy developers, and business owners.

To make a difference in the nursing informatics world, come to this conference, learn and network.

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Nursing Informatics Regional Reception and Networking Event

Posted on March 1, 2012 by afernando

Regional reception & Networking event

 

In conjunction with the Delaware Valley Nursing Computer Network WINI

 at Smokin’Betty’s

 116 S 11th St Philadelphia, PA 19107-4801

(http://smokinbettys.com/)

 

 March 16th  5:30 – 7:30pm

 

All Nurses interested in Informatics are Welcome at the Reception

 

ANIA-CARING members register here

Non-members register here (cost is $10) 

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Nursing Informatics Conference

Posted on March 1, 2012 by afernando

 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics

June 23-27, 2012

Hilton Montreal Bonaventure

Montreal, QC, Canada

Advancing Global Health Through Informatics

 

This conference is the official meeting of the IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics and is hosted by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Join this conference:

  • To generate and share information, knowledge, and research
  • Examine the impact of Health IT (HIT) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experience on nursing practice, education, management, research, health policy, global health, and patient-centered care
  • Update knowledge and skills related to trends, developments, and innovations in Health Information Technology (HIT), Information and Communication Technology(ICT), health and healthcareyGain insight into upcoming priorities and future directions for nurses and other members of the healthcare team in the expanding environment of Health Information Technology enabled practice 

 Some of the conference will be webcast in English and Spanish.  To register, go to this website:  www.ni2012.org

 

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278 Days Til Go-Live

Posted on February 27, 2012 by afernando

The project team finished another week of workflow sessions. We have been working very hard to get all of the workflow sessions ready. After the workflow sessions, focus groups are the next on the agenda for each department to take a close look at what we build for them, especially the clinical documentation.

My focus group is this week and I am only 65% ready to show my clients what I have built for them. My group had their workflow session last week and seemed pleased with what they saw. Granted, they have not had training yet and not yet touched the system, so I am sure they will have more to say in the future.

This week my colleagues and I are preparing for next week’s workflow session. After next week’s workflow session, we only have one more workflow session week.

It’s almost March and into the third month of the year. We really only have 9 months til the medical center turns on the new software system.

Pressure is rising as we get closer to go live and the deadline dates become real close. In one of my meeting today, the director gave us some milestone dates to shoot for. The dates that she would like us to get our test users ready is by April and then we start writing our test scripts. Yikes! We only have one month to do all of that.

We start testing the software in the spring and still have many things to build. The entire team has been working very hard and working long hours. The team’s spirit is still high and everyone is working together.

I had felt pressures of the deadline a few weeks ago but last week, I calmed down. I had to focus and relax and realized I can only do so much. Before I went to work, I attended yoga class to focus on my breathing and myself. When I am stressed my body tenses up and my muscles become knots and my thinking gets less focused. I need to think straight. I need to take care of myself and my job gets stressful. I don’t want to burn myself out. Believe me, implementing

an inpatient software is as stressful as working in the Intensive Care Unit.

I love the implementation phase of the system life cycle. I think its the most exciting phase of the system life cycle and I have had experience with all phases of the life cycle. Even though, my job is stressful, its also exciting and I never do the same thing twice.

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ANIA-CARING Nursing Informatics Conference

Posted on February 23, 2012 by afernando

This is one of the biggest conferences of the year for nurse informaticists.

ANIA-CARING CONFERENCE

             “Nursing Informatics:  Making a Big Splash”

          April 12 – 14, 2012

          Renaissance Orlando at Sea World

   Orlando, Florida

Conference brochure can be found here.  Contact hours will be provided.

If you would like to make a vacation out of your professional conference, see here for fun things to do in Orlando after the conference.

To register, please go to this link.  March 15 is the final day

for early bird registration.

To reserve a hotel room at the Renaissance Orlando hotel, please register here.


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