VIDEOS FROM HIMSS14

  • End The Chaos. Reduce The Noise. Improve Patient Safety.

    Amid complexity and chaos, a trauma nurse misses a vital piece of information and a major mistake is set in motion.

  • Meet The Vocera Smartbadge

    Make and receive calls hands-free. Read messages as easily as with a smartphone. The Vocera Smartbadge is small, lightweight, and purpose-built for patient care.

  • 1Call Connectivity

    Hospitals and healthcare organizations rely on different systems to provide functionality in different areas to different departments. When your disparate systems can't talk to each other, how do you get the right message to the right person on the right device at the right time?

  • Switching your EHR? These Experts Answer Your Most Pressing Questions

    Want a smooth transition when switching your EHR system? This webinar brings together a group of experts that answers some of the most common questions to help you ensure your EHR switch is seamless.

  • How To Achieve Success With EPCS: Brining IT And Clinical Leadership Together

    Electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) can improve prescribing workflows, help organizations meet Meaningful Use e-prescribing targets, increase patient safety and satisfaction, and combat prescription fraud, drug diversion, and “doctor shopping” for pills.

  • Improving Patient Safety And Physician Satisfaction With EPCS

    Attend this webinar, to hear Cambridge Health Alliance’s Arthur Ream III, Director of IT Applications and CISO, discuss the strategies CHA used to successfully integrate Imprivata Confirm ID with Epic, to meet DEA requirements for electronic prescribing of controlled substances while driving physician adoption.

  • EPCS: What You Need To Know To Meet DEA Requirements And Drive Provider Adoption

    EPCS can help deliver a number of significant benefits to providers and patients, but to enable EPCS, organizations must meet a number of DEA requirements. These requirements are designed to track and audit the connection between practitioners and the signatures they use for EPCS orders, and they include provider identity proofing, logical access control, two-factor authentication, and the various reporting requirements.

  • Switching To The Right SSO Solution: Palmetto Health Shares Lessons Learned

    In this on-demand webinar Palmetto Health shares lessons learned from their switch to an SSO solution.

  • Leveraging The Report On Improving Cybersecurity In The Health Care Industry

    Join David Tin, Founder & CTO of Imprivata and Authur Ream III, CISO and Director of IT Applications for Cambridge Health Alliance as they discuss the current state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry and how you can improve cybersecurity within your organization in this on-demand webinar.

  • The Better Way To Process Claims With X-Rays

    Do you process dental or medical claim forms? If so, then you know how complex and time-consuming the process can be to prepare each claim for scanning.

  • Your Evolving Digital Life

    With the continuous state of change in the global threat landscape, organizations face cyber-attacks and security breaches that are growing in frequency and sophistication every day. Discover trends in your evolving digital life and how to implement the right solutions to address your critical risks and protect your organization.

  • The Hands-Free Business Office: How Automation Improves Efficiency

    Manual workflow in the business office is pervasive and time consuming. View this on-demand webcast and learn how automating common and repetitive tasks has a dramatic effect on available resources, increases overall efficiencies, and improves the bottom line.

  • North Kansas City Hospital: Secrets To Business Office Success

    Hear Teri Hallberg, Application Analyst with North Kansas City Hospital share how Boston Workstation improved operational efficiency and saved 4.5 FTEs in the Business Office.

  • Valley Medical Center: Steps For Avoiding Migration Pitfalls

    Hear Pat McKinney, Senior Application Analyst with Valley Medical Center (VMC) share how this hospital came in under budget and on time during migration, while still being able to achieve an annual cost savings of $200K.

  • Integrating CPOE Orders: A Guide To Moving Mountains

    Hear Dewey Howell, president of Design Clinicals, reveal how he eliminated dangerous transcription errors by providing a true electronic order to the Pharmacy system. You’ll also discover how to reliably integrate to any healthcare application with Boston WorkStation.

  • Integrating Clinical Registrations

    Discover how you can create workflows for faster revenue returns. In this on-demand webcast, you’ll learn how one Boston WorkStation customer pulled registrations from NextGen into MEDITECH and the significant benefit results achieved.

  • Partnership Enhances Population Health Analytics

    Health Language partners with Caradigm to improve population health and analytics initiatives. Tina Moen, VP of Client Strategy at Health Language, discusses the best practices when you may be just getting started on your analytics journey. Mark Pilarski, VP and General Manager, and Corrine Stroum, Senior Program Manager from Caradigm, walk through their challenges they have overcome during their journey with Health Language at their side.

  • EMR Migration For Legacy Patient Data

    In this video, Fred Calatayud, CIO and COO of Women's Health describes the decision to use the Boston WorkStation migration platform for data migration to a new EMR. Fred details the migration process and key performance metrics achieved while illustrating how clinical staff gained access to historical patient data in the new EMR without needing to maintain patient data in the legacy EMR. Discover many of the impacts to the organization including sunsetting the old EMR to eliminate the substantial cost of running the legacy systems.

  • Migrating Legacy Systems To Epic

    In this video interview, Kent Henriksen a CIO from a large health system shares the impact of contracting with Boston Software Systems for our Active Data Quality (ADQ) service to move millions of key clinical records. Kent describes the health systems decision making process and strategy to partner with Boston Software Systems to migrate data from their legacy system to Epic. He explains how the hospital was able to set proper expectations with the clinical staff and the value of having the complete picture of the patient’s history in Epic at go-live while removing the risk of a manual migration by standardizing the process with Boston Software Systems.

  • ValleyCare On Today In America With Terry Bradshaw

    See ValleyCare On Today In America With Terry Bradshaw.

  • Building And Managing A Rock-Solid Security Plan

    Not only are security threats increasing in sophistication and frequency, they now have a whole host of targets: everything from traditional desktop PCs to smartphones and tablets to Web apps.

  • How Leaders Effectively Manage Communications In A Connected Hospital

    Hospital leaders face numerous challenges on a daily basis – from a rapidly evolving healthcare industry to new and cumbersome government mandates. Many of these challenges have a common symptom, namely ineffective communications between key stakeholders. By implementing a unified communications strategy you can create a connected hospital, which ultimately results in improved patient outcomes and ROI.

  • Solving Redundancy, Diversity Are Key To Any IT Disaster Plan

    In this video, Cooper explains how Sprint helps solve the problems of IT redundancy and IT diversity in healthcare. Cooper provides instance of when facilities thought they were safe but, when disaster struck, realized they weren’t.

  • The Machinery Needed To Communicate When Disasters Occur

    In this video, Cooper provides an overview of SatCOLT (Satellite Cell on Light Truck), a fully self-contained mobile communications solution capable of providing Sprint coverage where networks have been compromised or in remote areas where there is no coverage. He also provides background information on the Sprint Emergency Response Team.

  • Help Is A Phone Call Away When Disaster Strikes

    In this video, Cooper provides details on the technology Sprint provides when responding to a disaster. He also touches on the people behind the technology, as well as the steps taken from the time a phone call is place until Sprint’s team is on the scene.

  • The Need For IT Support During Crisis Events

    In this video, Cooper explains why Sprint felt the need to create an Emergency Response Team and why it is so unique to healthcare. Cooper recounts the evolution of the Emergency Response Team from one that simply provided just equipment to first responder agencies to one that brings an entire suite of solutions.

  • Looking Back At A Decade Of Disaster Assistance

    In this video, Jones looks back at her experiences working for Sprint during Hurricane Katrina. She also explains her role in working with health systems and hospitals and the difference between preparing for an expected and an unexpected event.

  • Communication Is The Foundation Of Response And Recovery

    Health IT Outcomes was at HIMSS15 in Chicago broadcasting live from the show floor and recording video with key exhibitors in order to provide you a glimpse into what many of healthcare's leading businesses and organizations were talking about. One of the people we were fortunate enough to speak with was Tanya Lin-Jones, National Manager, Emergency Response Team for Sprint.

  • What To Do When Disaster Strikes

    Health IT Outcomes was at HIMSS15 in Chicago broadcasting live from the show floor and recording video with key exhibitors in order to provide you a glimpse into what many of healthcare's leading businesses and organizations were talking about. One of the people we were fortunate enough to speak with was Tanya Lin-Jones, National Manager, Emergency Response Team for Sprint.

  • The Impact Of Web-Based Bed Board Technology On Patient And Work Flows

    Recently, Health IT Outcomes editor in chief Ken Congdon went out on the road to Geisinger Health System, an integrated health services organization widely recognized for innovative delivery of healthcare including the use of the electronic health record and the development of advanced care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator and ProvenCare, in Danville, PA. As one of the nation's largest rural health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

  • Bed Boarding Technology Helps Support Large Patient Population

    Recently, Health IT Outcomes editor in chief Ken Congdon went out on the road to Geisinger Health System, an integrated health services organization widely recognized for innovative delivery of healthcare including the use of the electronic health record and the development of advanced care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator and ProvenCare, in Danville, PA. As one of the nation's largest rural health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

  • The Marriage Of Flow And RTLS

    Recently, Health IT Outcomes editor in chief Ken Congdon went out on the road to Geisinger Health System, an integrated health services organization widely recognized for innovative delivery of healthcare including the use of the electronic health record and the development of advanced care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator and ProvenCare, in Danville, PA. As one of the nation's largest rural health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

  • The Impact Of RTLS At Geisinger Health System

    Recently, Health IT Outcomes editor in chief Ken Congdon went out on the road to Geisinger Health System, an integrated health services organization widely recognized for innovative delivery of healthcare including the use of the electronic health record and the development of advanced care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator and ProvenCare, in Danville, PA. As one of the nation's largest rural health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

  • What To Consider When Selecting An Asset Management Solution

    Recently, Health IT Outcomes editor in chief Ken Congdon went out on the road to Geisinger Health System, an integrated health services organization widely recognized for innovative delivery of healthcare including the use of the electronic health record and the development of advanced care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator and ProvenCare, in Danville, PA. As one of the nation's largest rural health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and northeast Pennsylvania.

  • Microsoft Licensing Optimization Services

    Microsoft Licensing Optimization (MLO) is a progression of licensing analyses designed to offer clarity and control over your Microsoft licensing investments. These analyses, backed by a wealth of resources and expert guidance, enable you to make sound licensing investments—and to keep those investments strong over time.

  • Dell – Combating Common IT Security Threats

    Listen and learn how Dell can help with identity management and access controls.

  • Building And Managing A Rock-Solid Security Plan

    Not only are security threats increasing in sophistication and frequency, they now have a whole host of targets: everything from traditional desktop PCs to smartphones and tablets to Web apps.

  • 6 Tips To Integrating Secure Texting With Your Existing Systems

    Joe Alfonsi, Director of Temple Access Center, shares the lessons he learned when integrating secure texting with third party systems, Amion and Spok, and how it propelled his organization to be more efficient and productive.

  • How Mobile Messaging Transforms The Workplace

    In this webinar you will learn key trends and tips, including proper escalation paths with secure text messaging, key behaviors of secure texting users, and facilitation of collaborative problem solving.

     

  • Top 4 Ways to Improve Patient Care And Collaboration

    A webinar featuring Dr. Katrina Miller, Clinical Information Systems Medical Director at Adventist Health West.

  • Advance Your Unified Communication Plan

    A webinar featuring Dr. Northington, CMO of Memorial Hospital of Gulfport.

  • Ascom Myco Purpose Built For The Nurse

    Ascom Myco uses intelligent information flows to exchange information and reduce alarm fatigue to bring information to the nurse. Ascom Myco allows more time for patient interaction via hospital information system to improve mobile health monitoring within hospitals.

  • Benefits Of A Direct Exchange To Your Organization

    Sheldon Wolf, the ND Health Information Technology director for the North Dakota Health Information Department, shared his thoughts on how a direct exchange functions, how one is incorporated into a healthcare facility, and the benefits of incorporating one. Wolf also defined scalable trust and the requirements for adopting them into an organization, as well as provided practical examples and best practices learned from the use of Direct in North Dakota.

  • CAPD Promotes Better Accuracy, Compliance & Efficiency In Capturing Clinical Data

    M*Modal's Dan Engel, senior solutions analyst, took to opportunity to talk about Fluency Direct - cloud-based, front-end speech recognition software that enables doctors to conversationally create and edit clinical data directly within an electronic health record.

  • Coding Services Market Challenged By ICD-10

    In this video, Matt Jenkins, SVP & GM of HIM Services for M*Modal, looked at the impact the ICD-10 delay has had on the healthcare industry in general, on the overall workflow in particular. Jenkins noted the challenges beyond ICD-10 include completing medical records accurately and efficiently, as well as what strategies M*Modal is advising its clients explore.

  • The Impact Of Direct Messaging On Meaningful Use And How It Can Replace Fax

    Inofile president and CTO Therasa Bell discussed how providers with any level of technology adoption should use a secure, direct messaging exchange, not just those with a certified EMR, as well as ways for getting fax out of an organization.

  • Practical Methodologies To Achieve Favorable EHR Implementation Results

    John Dickey, manager consulting services for Parallon, shared highlights from his AHIMA presentation "Leveraging EHR Implementation Hindsight." Dickey spoke about the hot-button HIM issues related to generating documentation in a completely electronic environment, how to grasp practical methodologies and tools specific to HIM used to achieve favorable EHR implementation results, and how to better understand the wide variety of subjects that must be categorized, prioritized, and immediately addressed or mitigated with involvement from HIM to realize the optimal state of the EHR.

  • MD Anderson Cancer Center Gains Freedom By Outsourcing Release Of Information

    Ikae Barnett, who serves as the liaison between HIM/Legal/Risk/Compliance at MD Anderson Cancer Center and focuses on regulatory compliance, privacy, and general process improvement attended AHIMA to speak on behalf of HealthPort. Barnett shared the benefits of the relationship, including how HealthPort has helped MD Anderson release information, freeing its staff for other tasks.

  • Achieve HIMSS Level 7 With Point Of Care Scanning

    In this video, EDCO Health Solutions' VP of regional sales Andrew Fehlman shared how EDCO is helping hospitals reach HIMSS level 7 point of care scanning and indexing software and related services. The same software is utilized in HIM for high volume scanning and enables HIM leaders to drive efficiency and improve quality in the pre- and post-discharge document scanning process.

  • Tools To Help Coders Bridge The Gap From ICD-9 To ICD-10

    Julius Blum, VP. portfolio architecture and integration for Streamline Health, was at AHIMA to talk about the changes the healthcare industry is going through transitioning from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Specifically, Blum offers advice on how to best manage the exponential growth of the number of codes that will come with ICD-10. Blum also touches on the new role coders will be asked to play.

  • Physicians Group Protects PHI While Experiencing Rapid Growth

    Alyssa Nole, manager of EMR operations for the Lehigh Valley Physician Group, attended AHIMA to explain how MRO helped manage LVPG's rapid growth, increasing in size to include more than 1,000 physicians at 160 practice locations. Due to this fast-paced growth, the numerous practices had variations in both PHI disclosure management processes and timelines for fulfilling patient information requests. After implementation of MRO's outsourced staff model, LVPG reduced the turnaround for ROI requests to a maximum of five days - with the team nearly always beating this timeframe - and realized cost savings through offloading ROI processes from the practices to a single on-site location. In addition, since January, MRO has begun staffing an additional 20 practices and will continue to do so until all of LVPG has transitioned to the staffed model.

     

  • Encoder Built With ICD-10 In Mind

    In this video, Torrey Barnhouse, president, TrustHCS & Mike Mulligan, managing director, TruCode shared the importance of encoding and the impact is has on a healthcare facility. Specifically, they share how the ICD-10 transition can be better managed by implementing this technology.

  • Data Governance And Best Practices To Building A Complete Legal Health Record

    Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, president, HIMentors and Karla Sartori, marketing director, ChartMaxx from Quest Diagnostics shared their conversation on the floor of AHIMA in this video. Grzybowski discussed how the lessons from her book, Strategies For Electronic Document And Health Record Managment, can be used to improve data governance and build legal health record while Sartori relayed how those concepts are being applied today.

  • Simplifying ICD-10 For Outpatient Coding

    In this video, Deborah Neville, director, revenue cycle, coding and compliance at Elsevier, looks at the similarities and differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM, reveals what ICD-10-CM chapters will be most challenging or have the most changes for outpatient coders, and offers activities, including educational planning, that should be considered for a successful transition.

  • Adding Documentation To Legal Medical Records With Mobile Devices Simplified

    Michael Macaluso, director of product management for McKesson Technology Solutions, spoke from the floor about how AHIMA customers helped shape McKesson's Mobile Media Capture. These customers let McKesson know they were having problems adding documentation into a legal medical record through cumbersome and unsecure processes. McKesson then built a product that helps to utilize the mobile devices hospital staff members are walking around with all the time.

  • Overcoming The Fragmentation Of Medical Records

    OnBase healthcare managers Tim Tegeder, and Dan Slates, Healtchare Manager had a conversation touching on best practices to overcome the fragmentation of medical records and other lessons learned from work done with thousands of clients helping serve the broad needs of the enterprise, from HIM to Human Resources.

  • Overcoming The Challenges Of Patient Privacy With A Multi-Pronged Approach

    In this video, Rob Rhodes, senior director, patient privacy solutions at Iatric Systems, looks at the current challenges healthcare organizations are facing with patient privacy, what Iatric Systems is doing to help solve these problems, and what can be done to reduce privacy breaches and increase productivity. Rhodes also looks at what he sees happening in this segment over the next year.

  • Clinical Documentation Integrity And Its Impact On Information Governance

    In the following video, Bonnie Cassidy, senior director of HIM innovation at Nuance Communications and recipient of the 2014 AHIMA Distinguished Member Triumph Award, discusses the runaway train of clinical documentation and how, when records are wrong, clinicians miss out on the whole picture of the patient, leading to imperfect diagnosis.

  • Accurate Clinical Documentation Ensures Appropriate Reimbursement, Drives Better Outcomes

    Debbie Schrubb, RHIA, HIM director for Kettering Health Network, was at AHIMA on behalf of 3M Health Information Systems to discuss the importance of accurate and complete clinical documentation to ensure appropriate reimbursement and accurate quality outcomes data - both significant concerns for healthcare organizations given the move towards value-based purchasing. Schrubb relayed how Kettering has launched an initiative to help physicians capture the full patient story in their documentation using automated tools and technology from 3M.

  • How Banner Health Standardized Transcription And Saved $1.7 Million

    Christine Steigerwald, senior director, HIMS operations at Banner Health discusses in this video how Banner has been able to reduce transcription expenses and improve efficiency by standardizing dictation and transcription technology and processes.