Post Electronic Health Record Implementation CD-ROM Training Program

Post Electronic Health Record Implementation examines what happens after the successful implementation of an electronic health record, focusing on interoperability, the patient, and the data. This session is aimed at not only those who have braved implementation but those who are about to, providing participants with a picture of where their journey must head next. Specifically, healthcare organizations will need to steer their planning in three major directions post-implementation:

• Interoperability: How you connect with other constituents, including physician to physician connectivity, physician to hospital, peripherals such as lab and pharmacy, and other entities.
• The Patient: Consumerism will be a growing driver. As more patients see the trend, patients will demand that their physicians have these systems implemented. This will feed future demand of patient portals and personal health records.
• The Data: You finally have access to the clinical data that you've never had... what do you do with it? Quality can be demonstrated, and clinical trials can be initiated on a more proactive basis. What you do with it is up to you.

About the Speakers

John Whitham

Mr. Whitham has 14 years of experience in the healthcare industry. His direct experience has been largely with the physician side of the market in various consultative and operational roles. His experience includes executive roles with large medical practices, and various consultative roles with large health systems, academic medical centers, and medical groups.

Mr. Whitham chairs the Clinical Integration Practice within the JHD Group. He specializes in the deployment of electronic medical record systems, business planning for eHealth initiatives, and affiliations and joint ventures between physicians as well as initiatives between physicians and hospitals to include expertise with the recent Stark Exceptions.

Prior to joining the JHD Group, Mr. Whitham was with the national healthcare practice at Cap, Gemini, Ernst & Young based in Chicago where he specialized in physician compensation plans, operational and workflow assessments, financial turnarounds, mergers & acquisitions, and electronic medical records. He has also served as CEO and COO of large single and multi specialty medical practices.

Tina Pierce

Ms. Pierce has more than 18 years of experience in healthcare and physician practice management including: Practice Management and EMR implementations; OIG Governance/Compliance; financial operations management; and operations improvement. With EMR implementations she has performed the analysis for operational process improvement flow; software template design and development; and project direction from software vendor selection through post go-live support. Her Practice management experience includes practice acquisition; physician governance and compensation modeling; creating and coordinating physician committees such as BOD, Peer Review. Managed care, QA; and directing business and financial operations for complex physician matrix organizations with 30 lines of business. As a clinician, she has designed Quality Improvement programs, implemented patient screening protocols, and developed on-line documentation tools to improve staff efficiency.

Prior to joining the JHD Group, Ms. Pierce served as a consultant to healthcare and physician organizations, as the Executive Director for U S Oncology's Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers, as the Clinical Nutrition manager for Rose Medical Center and as the Clinical Manager of Nutritional Services for ST. Mary-Corwin Regional Medical Center.

Richard Birrer, MD

Dr. Birrer has more than 25 years of experience as a clinicain and physician executive working in academic and community-based medicine. His professional focus on reengineering clinical care delivery; restructuring medical staff; building clinical service lines; developing physician organizations including IPAs, PSOs and Faculty practice plans; and physician management including the use of productivity and clinical standards. Additionally, he has developed community-based clinical practices facilities, programs to reduce length of stay and multi0speciality physician groups.

Prior to joining JHD Group, Dr. Birrer served in leadership positions at several healthcare systems. A senior Fullbright Scholar, Dr. Birrer is board certified in family practice.

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.