Webinars

Browse our library of archived HIE webinars.

Hierarchy of Needs for Health Information Exchange

Is your organization trying to determine if it should create a private network, connect with the State HIE or just 'wait and see'? Are you questioning how to tie an HIE to your current business needs? Are you considering the formation of an ACO and seeking direction?

Similar to Abraham Maslow's proposed hierarchy of human psychological and physiological needs in the 'Theory of Human Motivation', we will discuss the basic requirements and a logical approach to building a successful and sustainable HIE.

As hospitals prepare for Meaningful Use and to be an ACO, a new HIE model is prevailing that provides hospitals autonomy and allows them to focus on their strategic operational, clinical and business objectives. While many hospitals are taking a 'wait and see' approach for state or regional HIE support, others are marching forward with their own private, hospital-centric HIE.By being first movers to engage their providers, these hospitals are strengthening the services and relationships with the providers that will be critical to meeting meaningful use and becoming a successful ACO.

Enjoy this brief, informational webinar recording that debates the need for private HIE's and details how hospitals have been successful constructing their own HIE, while building a platform to collaborate with State and Regional initiatives.

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HIE as a Framework for Collaboration: Hoag Hospital System’s Experience

Kieran Murphy, Director of HIE, Hoag Hospital Systems

In Orange County, California, Hoag Health System is setting an example for how best to optimize the community's health care experience through health information exchange (HIE). The pace at which Hoag has rolled out HIE and the response from physicians provides an important case study that other's can learn from. In the first nine months of the Hoag-sponsored community HIE program, more than 350 physician practices were connected to the HIE.

This session, led by Hoag's Director of HIE, Kieran Murphy, discusses the vision and strategy that has driven Hoag to view its HIE, not as a reaction to health reform, but a framework for connecting its communities to enable collaboration across the continuum of care.

The presentation will describe Hoag's progress using a three phased HIE approach, beginning with automating core healthcare transactions, moving on to bi-directional exchange and order entry and finally to the continuity of care document and PHRs, population health management and disease registry tools. Murphy will also discuss Hoag's success in working with its physician community, establishing the HIE's governance, and the hospital's approach to meaningful use.

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Disrupt Or Take A Seat: Here's The Future Of Health IT

Robert Connely, Senior Vice President, Medicity

The term "disruptive technology" makes some in the health care industry uneasy. But in the history of technological innovation, "disruption" has proven to be the key to success.

Join us for a free webinar about disruptive technology trends and how they will affect the health care industry now and for years to come. Robert Connely – technology futurist, patent-holder and inventor with more than 25 years' experience innovating in the health care market – will review:

• How significant progress is achieved through incremental technological improvements
• Why what people want is rarely good for them
• Which current technologies are likely to fail without a paradigm shift
• Where trends like HIE, PCMH, clinical integration, and ACO fit in the innovation roadmap and more...

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How To Create Successful eReferral Networks In A Multi-Vendor Community

Douglas Dietzman, Executive Director, Michigan Health Connect

Are you facing the challenge of deploying eReferrals across a multi-vendor community? Looking for ways to enable care collaboration and create secure care-team networks?

Learn how one organization used low-cost technology to do all this and more in Medicity's free webinar! In this session, Michigan Health Connect will describe the steps to its success and demonstrate how technology can help you:

• Eliminate the referral workflow bottlenecks
• Promote collaboration throughout the community
• Connect primary care providers with specialists
• Create secure eReferral networks

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Demystifying the Direct Project and NHIN Exchange

Ashish Shah, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect

In response to the confusion we’re hearing from the market about NHIN Exchange and the Direct Project (formerly NHIN Direct) and their role in the future of health information exchange, Medicity is offering a webinar to address the ins and outs of these important federal initiatives.

We’ll offer perspective on the benefits and limitations of NHIN Exchange and the Direct Project, as well as other related ONC projects. We’ll also provide straightforward answers to the questions we’re hearing, including:

• What is involved in using the Direct Project and NHIN Exchange?
• Is the open-source software offered by the government sufficient to meet meaningful use requirements?
• Do the Direct Project and NHIN Exchange make technology vendors obsolete?
• How can healthcare organizations use the Direct Project and NHIN Exchange to supplement or augment their HIE technology?

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Got ACO? What it really means and what your IT organization can do to prepare.

Gifford Boyce-Smith, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Medicity and
Greg Miller, Senior Vice President, Medicity

Are you ready to play a role in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) world? How can you prepare for ACO participation?

Find the answers to these and other questions during Medicity's free ACO webinar! Topic's include:

• What makes an organization suited for ACO
• How ACO affects hospitals' and physicians' day-to-day operations
• Benefits of ACOs
• IT requirements for managing an ACO

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Successful Private HIE Strategies

Featuring Doug Arent, Regional Vice President, Medicity

Learn about successful private HIE approaches, technology and real world experience to assist hospitals in the world of Meaningful Use and ACO's in this free HIE webinar!

A new hospital-centric HIE approach is evolving that mimics the true model of ATM networks. This alternative HIE approach is a community of private HIEs collaborating by sharing data according to a defined set of rules and standards. This allows a hospital to maintain its autonomy and align their HIE projects with the clinical, operational and business needs of the hospital, while providing a platform to participate in various regional HIE initiatives. Private, hospital centric HIE’s also assist hospitals more effectively attain meaningful use and prepare for the quality driven changes of ACO’s, PCMH and bundled reimbursements, than the traditional HIE approach.

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Get on the Grid! Solving real-world, practical challenges of Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Featuring Bill Sims, Vice President, Medicity

In the wake of ARRA legislation, the healthcare community is awash in the vision of health information exchange (HIE) – both HIE as the action of exchanging patient information and HIE as an entity such as a RHIO – as they seek to achieve “meaningful use.” However, the cost, complexity, and viability of health information exchange present a challenge that seems daunting to many constituents in the healthcare industry.

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On the Leading Edge of Meaningful Use: HIE in the State of Delaware

Featuring Gina Perez, Executive Director of the Deleware Health Information Network (DHIN) & President of Advances in Management, Inc. and
Edward Sobel, D.O., Family Practice Associates, Delaware

Are you skeptical of HIE successes? Learn how providers in Delaware are having Health Information exchange success with DHIN during this free HIE webinar!

Many hospitals and health systems are skeptical of the prospect of success of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Coordination of care is an imperative across geographies as reimbursement, competitive, clinical and business pressures continue to evolve, particularly in light of ARRA. As the only true state-wide Health Information Exchange in the United States, clinicians throughout Delaware have real-time access to patient-centric information across disparate care locations and information systems, helping to improve patient outcomes, clinical workflow and healthcare utilization. With DHIN, providers in Delaware save time, improve patient care, reduce costs and enhance privacy.

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Practical HIEs are best accomplished by following current business transactions

Featuring Doug Dietzman, Manager, Technology Information Systems
for Spectrum Health and Bill Sims, Vice President, Medicity

Increasingly, physician-hospital collaboration is no longer an indulgence, it has become a necessity. As providers continue to face increased pressure to provide cost-effective, high-quality care and changing reimbursement methodologies, there is increased pressure to become more efficient and contain overhead. Improving the ability to seamlessly access and exchange information is crucial for achieving the necessary breakthroughs in both cost and quality of care. When information exchange within a community is effectively implemented, it results in improved communications between physicians and hospitals and the development of shared leadership and collaboration.

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Health Information Exchange (HIE) within a MEDITECH environment delivers improved clinical and financial outcomes

Featuring Cindy Peterson, CIO, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital;
Craig Backs, MD, Chief Medical Officer, St. John’s Hospital and
Mark Hanna, Vice President, Medicity

As a transactional system, MEDITECH is a great solution for many hospitals. However, enabling the free exchange of clinical information across the healthcare continuum - from inpatient to ambulatory and community settings – within a MEDITECH environment can be a challenge. The challenge becomes more complex as many MEDITECH-centric organizations are seeking to enable physicians with the ability to access and exchange patient-centric clinical information.

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Enhancing clinical effectiveness and efficiency through patient-centered care collaboration

Featuring Dr. Dennis Niess, CMIO, Wheeling Hospital and
Greg Miller, Sr. Vice President, Medicity

In 2006, the Joint Commission reported that the majority of medical errors occur during the transitions of care due to the lack of effective communication amongst a patient's care team. They reported that a primary driver of ineffective communication is information that is lost or inaccessible during the care process. As the adoption of clinical systems in acute care and ambulatory environments has increased, the number of isolated information silos in healthcare has grown, resulting in patient information that is disseminated across the care continuum in isolated data stores - across hospitals, clinics, physician practices, reference laboratories, imaging centers and so on.

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