Welcome To The EHR Starting Line ... You Can Get There From Here!

Description:
Learn how we leverage our dashboard for real-time financial and clinical decision making, communicate process redesign, facilitate community involvement and secure commitment for physician engagement.

Speaker Information:
  • Bertram S. Reese, senior vice president (VP) and CIO at Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Va.; and
  • David Levin, MD, CMIO and VP of medical informatics at Sentara.

Objectives:
  • Learn about how leadership has communicated EHR implementation as the start of the journey.
  • Understand how value - achieved from real-time dashboard monitored metrics - is achieved using the right tools, the right measurements and the right resources.
  • Hear about successful strategies for partnering with physicians to achieve engagement and adoption.
  • Look at how the EHR has been valuable in informing the community beyond the four walls of the health system.

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