Description:
This full-service cardiology practice began its search to achieve its technology vision in 1989. It's first implementation was not a success. This "learning organization" overcame its obstacles, utilizing motivational strategies such as "Project CHEARTBURN", now defining EMR success with immediate access to patient information, improved workflow, and revenue enhancement.

Speaker Information:
Michael Spain, MD, MBA
President and CEO, Cardiology of Tulsa

Level:
Intermediate

Room:
345

Description:
The combination of scarce EMR options available for the behavioral health industry, onerous compliance documentation requirements, and the multi-tiered patient treatment plan far different from the med-surgical, CBH has customized their electronic system to meet its clinical and financial needs, with the ability to mine its data for research.

Speaker Information:
Dennis Morrison, PhD
CEO, Center for Behavioral Health
James Stewart, CPA
CFO, Center for Behavioral Health

Level:
Intermediate

Room:
345

Description:
Behavioral Health Integrated Provider System (BHIPS) in Austin, Texas, has a web-based electronic health record. This electronic system has successfully influenced state and federal reporting requirements, responded overnight to public health needs, and been implemented by peers across the country at minimal expense. New York State Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (NYS EPHTN) Data Exchange System in Albany, NY, has an electronic system that has successfully integrated hazards, exposures, and outcomes through its ability to collect and present air quality data from environmental monitoring systems with Department of Health clinical data.

Speaker Information:
Linh H. Le, MD,MPH
New York State Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, New York State Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (NYS EPHTN) Data
Dave Wanser, PhD
Deputy Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services, Behavioral Health Integrated Provider System (BHIPS)

Level:
Intermediate

Room:
345

Description:
Architectually unsafe from the weight of its paper medical records, this eight internal medicine physician practice utilized an industrial management firm to analyze its workflow, customizing its EMR to match the needs of its practice. Striving to utilize its EMR to drive clinical performance, PPG 775 is an example of a positive operational and financial investment in an EMR.

Speaker Information:
William McClatchey
Piedmont Physicians Group

Level:
Intermediate

Room:
345

Description:
Comprised of three-acute care hospitals in New York City, representing some of the most medically needy and underserved communities in the nation, a tireless labor of love has resulted in electronic patient information being available across the system to optimize patient care delivery.

Speaker Information:
Marricar Barrameda
CIO, Generations+/Northern Manhattan Health Network
Melissa Schori, MD
Medical Director, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center

Level:
Intermediate

Room:
345

Description:
Designed to use an EMR from the day it opened, this practice has been able to focus its energy on electronic efficiencies. The remarkable workflow leaves no pending information to be revisited in the patient's medical record at the end of the patient visit. This two-physician practice provides a model for the small practice to move to the decision point of adopting an EMR.

Speaker Information:
Daniel Griffin, MD
Alpenglow Medical, PLLC

Level:
Intermediate

Room:
345