Lac Van Tran, MD, CIO, and Julio C. Silva, MD, CMIO at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, discuss the benefits of a strong partnership between the CIO and CMIO of a medical facility. They share how their collaboration has enabled more effective medical informatics education, technology implementation and integration in the clinical practice and the migration from a paper-based environment to an automated environment. The interview was conducted by William F. Bria, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospital for Children, and Chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community.

Dr. David C. Stockwell, Medical Director of Patient Safety and Dr. Brian Jacobs, CMIO ;at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC discuss their innovative Automated Adverse Event Detection Consortium and it use in early or near "real-time" capture, analysis and prevention of adverse patient events. The interview was conducted by Dr. William F. Bria, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospital for Children, and Chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community.

Dr. George Reynolds, CMIO and pediatric intensivist at Children’s Hospital of Omaha, discusses the hospital’s visionary approach clinical decision support that uses business intelligence and clinical analytics to support better patient care. The interview was conducted by Dr. William F. Bria, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospital for Children, and Chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community.

From the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Michael Blum, CMIO, and Dr. Russell Cucina, Associate Medical Director of IT, discuss UCSF’s employment of clinical documentation in advance of computerized practitioner order entry (CPOE). Dr. Blum and Cucina describe the initial requirements, success criteria, challenges and lessons learned of establishing clinical documentation prior to CPOE. The interview is conducted by Dr. William F. Bria, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospital for Children, and Chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community.

In this 14-minute inaugural interview, C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA, FHIMSS, provides a description of the “Google-Cleveland Clinic Story,” a joint program that gives patients control over their electronic health records. This new service, according to Dr. Harris, “provides the opportunity of relieving them (patients) of being their own medical librarians.” Dr. Harris, Chief Information Officer and Chairman, IT Division of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, describes how the program works, and the myriad benefits to both patients and healthcare providers.