Description:
One of the key issues facing clinical informaticists is how to reduce false or nuisance alarms. A "smart" clinical alarm system can positively impact care management decisions and provide a real-time tool to assess patient conditions. Learn how a well-designed alarm system can standardize alarms and impact patient care & quality.

Speaker Information:
Michael McNeal
President & CEO, Emergin Inc.


Brian McAlpine
Director of Marketing, Emergin Inc.


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 8381

Theater Location:: Clinical Informatics

Pavilion Product Session: 8381

Description:
Albert Einstein Medical Center discusses how its emergency department supported an enterprise-wide focus on patient flow improvement by implementing an automatic patient tracking system. The ED is currently integrating automatic tracking with electronic charting for a fully automated electronic medical record.

Speaker Information:
L. Albert VillarinMD, FACEP
Director, Medical Informatics Dept. Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 8273

Theater Location:: EHR/EMR

Pavilion Product Session: 8273

Description:
This session will discuss the benefits of combining patient data analysis with communication technology to improve patient outcome management. SmartReach 360 identifies care opportunities, contacts patients, aids in point-of-care decision making and offers documentation for use in pay-for-performance and other incentive-driven programs.

Speaker Information:
Drew Washichek
Enterprise Sales Executive, TeleVox Software


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 581

Theater Location:: General

Pavilion Product Session: 581

Description:
Saint Clares Health System CIO, Rich Temple discusses how to save untold hours by efficiently and accurately automating manual processes. He’ll show examples of how to maintain patient records, registration information, HR documentation and reimbursement forms, and how to automate the pre-registration process with data from a scheduling system.

Speaker Information:
Thom Blackwell
Product Manager, Boston Software Systems


Richard Temple
CIO, Saint Clare's Health System


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 8181

Theater Location:: Managing the Business of Healthcare

Pavilion Product Session: 8181

Description:
New Mobility Solutions enable enhanced collaboration among healthcare professionals. This session provides real examples of how physicians and pharmacists use mobile technologies to improve productivity and overall patient care while maintaining regulatory compliance and patient privacy.

Speaker Information:
Isabelle Guis
Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions Group, Cisco


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 473

Theater Location:: New Solutions at HIMSS08

Pavilion Product Session: 473

Description:
Most organizations do not have an accurate count of the number of document output devices within their company. With the speaker's experience helping organizations to maximize their current print infrastructure, this presentation offers solutions to increase overall cost savings and gain user productivity and workflow efficiencies.

Speaker Information:
Bill McLaughlin
Director, Managed Print Solutions, Parts Now!


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 673

Theater Location:: New Solutions at HIMSS2008

Pavilion Product Session: 673

Description:
Analyzing the challenges faced by healthcare providers as they attempt to distribute images to Enterprise EMR Systems in LAN, WAN, and RHIO environments. Highlights innovative techniques currently deployed to alleviate bandwidth and other infrastructure centric issues evident within Citrix hosted EMR facilities.

Speaker Information:
Paul Markham
Vice President, Global Strategy & Marketing, TeraMedica, Inc.


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 8381

Theater Location:: Clinical Informatics

Pavilion Product Session: 8381

Description:
Open Source provides a new and exciting alternative for healthcare IT. There is a major shift in healthcare towards Open Source solutions encompassing operating systems, databases, integration tool sets and now application software. This presentation will review the history and future of Open Source and highlight advantages for healthcare.

Speaker Information:
Steve Art
Senior Vice President & CIO, Lutheran Medical Center


Michael Doyle
President and CEO, Medsphere Systems Corporation


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 8273

Theater Location:: EHR/EMR

Pavilion Product Session: 8273

Description:


Speaker Information:
RObert Lee
Vice President, Xmark


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 581

Theater Location:: General

Pavilion Product Session: 581

Description:
Growing pressure requires healthcare providers to accurately report community benefit to maintain not-for-profit status. Mercy Health Partners, implementing new patient access technology, automated their charity application process–enabling them to properly classify their baddebt vs charity care for greater accountability and community benefit.

Speaker Information:
Renee George
Regional Director, Patient Financial Serices, Mercy Health Partners of Southwest Ohio


Keith Hearle
CEO, Verité Healthcare Consulting


Exhibit Hall: Booth # 8181

Theater Location:: Managing the Business of Healthcare

Pavilion Product Session: 8181