Session Information
2009 Summer Meeting
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Healthcare Informatics: Quality Improvement through CPOE and the Electronic Health Record
Track: Informatics Series CE Sessions
Program Code: 105-L04
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
Location: Room 34, Level 2
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:   Click the plus sign to see more detailed information about each speaker.
 Brent Fox, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
PRESENTER(S):   Click the plus sign to see more detailed information about each speaker.
 Anne Bobb, BS Pharm, Clinical Informatics Pharmacist, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
 Katie Dejuras, BSN, MSN, Clinical Informatics Nurse, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
 Brent Fox, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
 David Liebovitz, MD, Medical Director for Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Description
Information technology is viewed as a tool to assist in the improvement of healthcare delivery. It allows for data presentation, collection, and analysis to support healthcare providers. Information technology can also support documentation necessary for regulatory requirements. This session will focus on Computerized Physcian Order Entry (CPOE) as a method to achieve quality improvement initiatives facing health systems today.Schedule

LEARNER OUTCOMES:
  • Define quality measures reportable to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission, other regulatory agencies and advocacy groups.
  • Describe the desirable quality improvement reports of CPOE information technology implemented as part of a QI effort.
  • Describe the role of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) as an enabling technology for quality improvement initiatives.
  • Describe the role of pharmacy informatics staff in institutional quality improvement (QI)initiatives utilizing CPOE.
  • Explain successful and unsuccessful strategies to implement information systems to support (QI) efforts.


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(Code: 105L04N/105L04A)
Attendee:Free
  
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