CPOE Success: Practical Steps For Getting Your Physicians Involved

Computerized physician/provider order entry has been lauded by many as a powerful tool to improve patient safety as well as the effectiveness of physicians using the system. It has also been criticized as not being able to live up to its potential, robbing physicians of time, and actually creating patient safety issues. Both proponents and antagonists agree the key to your CPOE strategy and success is getting support of the medical staff that will be using it. This recorded program gives you practical advice on how to secure and deliver appropriate physician participation for your CPOE.

Listen to nationally known experts Margret Amatayakul and Michael Cohen discuss how you can ensure your facility is using the best practices in securing healthcare information today and planning for the future.

Topics participants will cover include:

• What's the state of the art in CPOE?
  —Implementation vs Adoption rates
  —Where does it fit in your EHR migration path?
  —How is it being implemented?
  
  
  
• The importance of work flow
  —Why is work flow analysis critical to your success?
  —Work flow and process mapping issues relative to CPOE
  
  
  
• Clinical Rules and Alerts
  —How they will affect your physician satisfaction
  —Strategies to consider
  —Policy and procedure implications
  —Protecting yourself from overridden rules/alerts
  
  
  
• Practical tips on getting your physicians involved
  —When?
  —Roles
  —Champions and techno-docs
  —Do's and Don'ts

• HIM Director
• Chief Information Officer
• CTO / VP Information
• Director of Quality Improvement
• Director of Care Management
• Chief Medical Officer
• Chief Medical Informatics Officer/Medical Director of Information Systems
• Administrators/Practice Management Executives
• C-Level Executives
• Business Managers
• Project Managers
• Physicians considering involvement in CPOE projects

Margret Amataykul (RHIA, CHPS, CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS) is president of MargretA Consulting, LLC and co-founder and member of the board of examiners of Health IT Certification. Margret “A” provides health information management and systems consulting services to hospitals and clinics, newly forming regional health information organizations, and government agencies/contractors. She provides training programs, conducts research, and writes extensively to share lessons learned that will help achieve clinical transformation through adoption of health information technology. More information on Ms. Amatayakul at her website: Margret-A.com.

Michael R. Cohen (CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS, MM)is President of MRC Consulting Group and a Principal at Cardinal Consulting Inc. He specializes in helping health care organizations get more value out of their information technology (IT) investments. He has 30 years of experience in health care IT, working with leading consulting firms, as a hospital administrator and as a vendor. He has helped numerous large and small healthcare providers plan for, select and implement large scale and strategic information systems, with a recent emphasis on Electronic Health Record systems. Mr. Cohen also frequently conducts strategic and competitive analysis for information systems vendors and companies who are active in, or considering entering, the health care IT market. More information on Mr. Cohen and his company can be found at www.mrccg.com. and www.cardinalconsulting.org.

What Is Included?

The CD includes the audio of the presentation, the slides prepared by the speaker and a .pdf file of the slides for printing. Your computer does need an audio component to use this CD.