Dr. Paul Manicone, Associate Chief in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children's National Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University Medical Center, provides insightful tips on how to make the most of electronic physician notes and shares his research findings when comparing paper documentation to electronic documentation. This interview was conducted by Dr. Brian Jacobs, Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Pediatric Informatics at Children's National Medical Center.

Review Paul's Poster Session from HIMSS11.

Dr. C. William Hanson III, Chief Medical Information Officer and Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses real-time risk scoring approaches using electronic data and rules-based analytics versus alternative algorithms. This interview was conducted by Dr. Jack Varga, Physician Informaticist, Veterans Health Administration.

Dr. Howard Landa, Chief Medical Information Officer at Alameda County Medical Center; Pediatric Urologist and Director of Medical Informatics for Hawaii Permanente; and incoming chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Leadership Committee, discusses the future activities that the Physician Leadership Committee will focus on for the year, as well as a look at the evolution of medical informatics.

Listen to this podcast to hear a discussion of the challenges facing medical informaticists in the coming years and advice to those relatively new to medical informatics. This interview was conducted by Dr. Brian Jacobs, Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Pediatric Informatics at Children's National Medical Center and outgoing chair of the Physician Leadership Committee.

To learn more about the mentioned book, The CMIO Survival Guide.

Dr. Larry Ozeran, Physician Informaticist, addresses several different types of health care information technology (HIT) failures and points out the most common ones. Dr. Ozeran also provides several ways to minimize the risk of HIT failure. This interview was conducted by Dr. Geeta Nayar, Principal Medical Officer at Vangent.

To learn more about the book, H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned

Want to be part of the next book? You can share an example of HIT Failure to be included in the next volume of "H.I.T. or Miss", by contacting Dr. Ozeran [email protected]. All cases are presented anonymously and authors may choose to be credited (at the end of the book, not with the case) or not.

Dr. Larry Ozeran, Physician Informaticist, highlights the impacts of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentives on electronic health record (EHR) adoption. Dr. Ozeran discusses factors to think about before making the strategic decision to obtain an EHR, even if providers don’t qualify for incentives. He also gives his perspective on how ARRA incentives could be modified and what the vendor community can contribute to better support adoption. Dr. Ozeran provided more detailed comments on the challenges in the ARRA incentives in his response to the ONC Health IT Strategic Plan for 2011-2015, here: www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/from-the-onc-desk/hit-strat-plan/. The document is quite lengthy and Dr. Ozeran posted three responses. Once on the page, search for "Ozeran" (Ctrl-F in most browsers) and view the May 4, 2011 comment. This interview was conducted by Dr. Geeta Nayar, Principal Medical Officer at Vangent.

Dr. Todd Rowland, Executive Director at HealthLINC HIE, provides an overview of how HIE can help community based physicians. Dr. Rowland addresses the importance of office managers in HIE adoption and tactics to increase adoption of EMR and HIE technologies by rural healthcare providers. Listen to this podcast to learn ways to use data standards to enhance revenue cycles and how to obtain optimal use of federal dollars to obtain meaningful use of EMR and HIE technologies. Dr. Rowland also provides his insight on ingredients to ensure that technology helps providers improve direct patient care and investments that should be made by the private and public sector to ensure that this more widespread. This interview was conducted by Dr. Jack Varga, Physician Informaticist, Veterans Health Administration.

Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Principal Medical Officer at Vangent provides her expertise on implementing electronic health records (EHRs). Listen to this podcast to learn essential components of a successful implementation and the future of healthcare technology 2012 and beyond. This interview was conducted by Jack Varga, MD, MHSA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Physician Informaticist, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC.

To learn more visit: http://www.vangent.com/WP-EHR.php

Dr. Louis H. Diamond, Vice President and Medical Director at Thomson Reuters Healthcare and President, Performance Excellence Associates discusses Quality 101 including the basic framework and building blocks of quality measurement. Dr. Diamond speaks to the National Quality Measurement Enterprise and the evolution, development and adoption of measures for public reporting. Dr. Diamond helps you understand how meaningful use under ARRA intersects with quality measurement and improvement. The interview was conducted by Pam Brewer, Coordinator, Healthcare Information Systems, HIMSS.

To learn more visit http://www.himss.org/storiesofsuccess.

Dr. Glen Mitchell, Chief Medical Officer at Sisters of Mercy Health System in St. Louis, discusses the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. The United States has put off this migration a few times before, but this time it looks certain that we begin to use this improved system in 2013. The changes are far-reaching enough that it will take that long to successfully perform the planning and execution needed for success. Dr. Mitchell addresses the benefits of ICD-10 and steps that should be taken for efficient and effective implementation of this new disease and procedure coding process.  The interview was conducted by Dr. Kevin W. McEnery, Associate Division Head and Board Certified Diagnostic Radiologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX.

Dr. Louis H. Diamond, Vice President and Medical Director at Thomson Reuters Healthcare and President, Performance Excellence Associates provides an overview of the National Priorities Partnership (NPP). Convened by the National Quality Forum, the NPP has a vision for world-class, affordable health care and transformation of the US health care system. The NPP consists of twenty-eight organizations that are committed to improving health care and have collaboratively developed National Priority Goals targeted at proven ways to eliminate harm, waste, and disparities in care. Learn about the six priorities established by the NPP and why they are so important, as we move forward with ARRA and meaningful use of EHR’s. Understand what the “market drivers” are behind these goals and their impact on healthcare. The interview was conducted by Pam Brewer, Coordinator, Healthcare Information Systems, HIMSS.

To learn more visit http://www.nationalprioritiespartnership.org.