Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins that Can Derail Your Interoperability Strategy

This webinar was originally transmitted on October 20, 2009. A recorded version is available for viewing upon completion of the form at the bottom of this page.

OVERVIEW:

1. GREED – All I want is stimulus dollars. 
2. SLOTH – Let’s just do the bare minimum to satisfy the requirements.
3. PRIDE – We are happy with paper. We don’t make mistakes, so we don’t need to change.
4. ENVY – I only want one vendor just like other organizations.
5. WRATH – I am going to lose it if I have to do one more manual entry.
6. GLUTTONY – If we’re going to do this, we need the most expensive "tricked-out" system there is.
7. LUST – Can't I just buy what that attractive sales rep is selling? 

Don’t let your interoperability strategy be disrupted by counter-productive views.  Meaningful health information exchange doesn’t happen overnight. It is not cheap nor easy to achieve, and you can face many objections and pitfalls that can delay or derail your project.

For meaningful use to take place, the patient-centered electronic health record (EHR) has to not only be portable for accessibility, but semantically harmonized to allow for proper analysis, decision support and appropriate presentation.

In this webinar, Dr. William A. Fera, VP, Medical Technologies & Medical Director, Interoperability, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) discusses how to overcome the seven deadly sins that can derail your interoperability strategy while addressing the key requirements that will make your vision a reality. In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Build the foundation for a secure, integrated and patient-centered EHR
• Anticipate and overcome common objections and pitfalls that derail your EHR strategy
• Develop strategies to keep the project moving forward
• Adopt a solid strategy to avoid the seven deadly sins of interoperability and create a secure, patient-centered electronic health record that promotes efficiencies, quality and safety.

Speaker Biographies:

William A. Fera, MD
VP, Medical Technologies & Medical Director, Interoperability
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

Dr. Fera has provided over a decade of clinical and information technology leadership within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and has been instrumental in redefining the model of healthcare delivery through state-of-the-art information technologies to produce superb clinical outcomes.  He currently serves as the Vice President of Medical Technologies and Medical Director of Interoperability at UPMC where he leads the organization’s ambitious interoperability initiative creating semantically correct data exchange between disparate systems throughout the inpatient, outpatient and payer arenas.  Prior to this role, Dr. Fera spearheaded physician engagement and training for CPOE at UPMC St. Margaret and facilitated complete adoption of CPOE for the facility. 

An early adopter of ambulatory EMR in his private practice, Dr. Fera developed and participated in a series of lectures sponsored by the Pennsylvania Doctor's Office Quality - Information Technology (DOQ-IT) initiative sharing his eight physician practice’s methodology for implementing their EMR and their resulting quality and financial gains.  Dr. Fera has consulted and lectured nationally and internationally regarding implementation methodology and resulting benefits of inpatient and outpatient EMR systems.  He serves as a member of the UPMC Quality Patient Care Board, as well as the Quality Improvement Committee of the UPMC Health Plan.  Through these efforts, Dr. Fera gains a unique understanding of the challenges facing health care organizations from a system level and endeavors to find, promote and develop technologies to further the mission of patient care within UPMC, regionally, and nationally.

Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA
Vice President, Healthcare Industry Ambassador
Initiate Systems, Inc.

As Vice President and Healthcare Industry Ambassador of Initiate Systems, Lorraine Fernandes is responsible for customer relationships and leading Initiate’s healthcare outreach to industry organizations. Ms. Fernandes has more than 25 years experience in the healthcare industry, ten of which she served as Director of Medical Record/HIM departments at large hospitals. She was the recipient of the 1998 American Health Information Management Discovery Award.

Ms. Fernandes was 1996-97 President of the California Health Information Association (CHIA), and received their 2001 Distinguished Member award. She works with U.S. and international professional and industry leadership groups addressing patient and provider identification and data exchange. She speaks extensively on a state, national, and international conferences regarding the issues of person or provider identification and data linkage. Some of her most recent speaking engagements include: AHIMA 08, Seattle, "NHIN2: The Journey Toward a Nationwide Health Information Network", HISA 08, Melbourne Australia, "Successful Patient Identification and Interoperability on Both Sides of the 49th Parallel", and WoHIT 07, Vienna, Austria, "The Canadian Experience of Developing a Nationwide EHR: Patient Identification is the Foundation." 
 

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