Ambulatory Care-Physician's Office

Title:	Doctor’s Office Quality Information Technology – DOQ-IT
Date:	9/19/2003
Presenter:	Antonio Linares, MD, Lumetra (CA QIO)
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the DOQ-IT project, awarded to Lumetra by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Outlines specific project goals and outcomes including the development of a model for implementing technology in physician offices that can be utilized to facilitate the rapid adoption of technology. Includes citation of a number of studies and past research that outlined barriers and challenges of implementing new technology.
Keywords:	DOQ-IT, electronic health records, physician offices, information technology, CMS
Title:	Medical Informatics: Leading Research on the Implementation of the Systems of Electronic Health Records
Date:	9/20/2003
Presenter:	Homer Chin, MD, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the background and history of EHR implementation in the United States. Includes details about the safety, quality, and cost benefits of Electronic Health Records and a check-list of items that are helpful gauges for determining readiness for adoption and can serve as a potential road-map to improve the likelihood of success in the implementation of an EHR.
Keywords:	electronic health record, information technology, outpatient setting, medical informatics, physician’s office, cost benefit
Title:	Practical Implementation: Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Electronic Health Records
Date:	9/20/2003
Presenters:	Peter Basch, MD, MedStar Health, Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, GE, and Bob Jesse, MD, PhD, Veterans Administration
Description:	PowerPoint presentation and PDF describing the realities of provider and practitioner concerns regarding the huge expense for IT products that are likely to evolve tremendously in the coming years. Includes specific experiences in facilitating and/or implementing EHRs in various health systems.
Keywords:	electronic health records, hospital setting, information technology, future technology
Title:	Demonstration Projects Designed to Provide Rewards and Incentives for Providers
Date:	9/20/2003
Presenters:	Jonathan Conklin, MEDSTAT and Stuart Guterman, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the various approaches and actions taken by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Includes specific details on the Bridges to Excellence program.
Keywords:	CMS, Medicare beneficiaries, Medicare demonstrations, Bridges to Excellence program, information technology, physician office, outpatient, incentives
Title:	Perspectives in Medical Liability Reform: Measuring the Quality of Practitioner-Patient Communication
Date:	9/20/2003
Presenter:	Eric Holmboe, PhD, Yale University
Description:	PowerPoint presentation describing the role of high quality communication and malpractice, specifically in the context of the current malpractice crisis. Includes review of the patient-physician communication as a quality metric.
Keywords:	patient-physician communication, quality metrics, malpractice, doctor
Title:	Recruiting Physicians for Electronic Medical Record Implementation
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Description:	PowerPoint presentation that provides and overview of the Computerization of Medical Practices for the Enhancement of Therapeutic Effectiveness (COMPETE) project conducted at the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines at McMasters University. Provides an overview of common myths related to information technology adoption in physician offices, addresses the issues of cost, value and price, and provides lessons learned related to educating and engaging physicians for success.
Keywords:	electronic medical records, implementation, McMaster University, change management
Title:	My Long Road to EHR Adoption
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Peter Basch, MD, Medical Director, eHealth, MedStar Health
Description:	Powerpoint presentation highlighting the presenter’s professional decision to adopt electronic health record technology in order to improve the quality of his practice and increase efficiencies. Outlines the lessons learned thus far, such as the business case for HIT adoption, the limitations and challenges experienced to date, and his thoughts on possible solutions.
Keywords:	Electronic health records, EHR, HIT , quality improvement, P4P, physician’s office, interconnectivity, productivity, business case
Title:	Joe’s Story: A Solo Practice
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Joseph Heyman, MD, Trustee, American Medical Association
Description:	Powerpoint presentation describing the road taken by an individual physician in private practice to implement health information technology in a small office setting.
Keywords:	Health information technology, HIT, quality improvement, physician’s office, patient care
Title:	EHR Adoption: Challenges and Strategies for Moving Forward
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Patricia Lohman, CEO, Outlook Associates
Description:	Powerpoint presentation outlining the key steps that purchasers move through in the adoption of EMR technology, from initial preconceptions to systems evaluation, vendor research, purchasing, planning, and implementation. Includes list of websites that have vendor listings.
Keywords:	Electronic medical record, EMR , EHR, implementation approaches
Title:	Physician Office Workflow and Process Change
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	John Weir, Senior Project Ma nager, Informatics, Lumetra
Description:	Powerpoint presentation describing the fundamental steps in assessing efficiencies and effectiveness of workflow processes in a physician’s office setting.
Keywords:	Physician office, workflow process, flowchart, assessment
Title:	Developing a Roadmap to Certified Interoperability of Lab Results and Immunizations
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenter:	Alan E. Zuckerman, MD FAAP, Georgetown University Medical Center
Description:	Powerpoint presentation outlining the need for interoperability of health information technology systems, in particular those related to e-prescribing, lab results, and immunizations. Reviews the importance of interoperable IT systems for the physician’s office setting in improving patient care, and the role that physicians may play in driving forward the certification of critical systems.
Keywords:	Health information technology, IT, EHR, e-prescribing, improving patient care, physician’s office, interoperability, certification, lab results, immunizations

Title:	Purchasers and HIT Adoption: Physician Practice Connections
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenters:	Linda K. Shelton, Assistant Vice President, Product Development, NCQA
Description:	Powerpoint presentation describing NCQA’s Physician Practice Connections program, which provides incentives to practices that use systematic processes and information technology to improve patient care.
Keywords:	Health information technology, HIT, physician’s office, incentives
Title:	Aligning Incentives with Quality and Health Information Technology: Parallel Pathways for Quality Healthcare
Date:	5/25/2005
Presenters:	John Glaser, PhD, Vice President and CIO, Partners Healthcare; Francois de Brantes, Program Leader, Health Care Initiatives, General Electric Co.
Description:	Powerpoint presentation introducing the eHealth Initiative’s Parallel Pathways for Quality Healthcare framework, as part of a multi-stakeholder panel session during the 2 nd Annual Connecting Communities for Better Health Annual Learning Forum in 2005. Describes how the framework seeks to align incentives to adopt HIT with quality capabilities, physician HIT capabilities, and health information exchange capabilities.
Title:	DOQ-IT in Arkansas
Date:	5/26/2005
Presenter:	Nancy Archer, RN, HCQIP Director, Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care
Description:	Powerpoint presentation providing a broad overview of Arkansas ’ efforts to implement greater use of health information technology in the physician office setting. Includes a review of the operational phases each office/clinic moves through, detail on the readiness assessment phase, and a summary of the results to date at the state level.
Keywords:	Health information technology, physician office, DOQ-IT, EHR, readiness assessment
Title:	Implementation Pearls
Date:	5/26/2005
Presenter:	James R. Morrow, MD, North Fulton Family Medicine
Description:	Powerpoint presentation providing a user’s perspective on implementing a health information technology system in a physician’s office setting, including its rewards and challenges.
Keywords:	Health information technology, physician office, EMR, quality of care, outcomes, change management, methodologies
Keywords:	Health information technology, health information exchange, HIT, HIE, quality, incentives, physician practice