Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMCome and learn how an Atlanta practice successfully acquired and implemented an electronic health record program and how their success resulted in being selected as a 2006 HIMSS Davies Ambulatory Care Award winner.

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Learn how a strong foundation, set early on in the electronic health record implementation process at MultiCare's clinics, led to a commitment to patient safety and quality care in MultiCare's hospitals, which successfully reaped the benefits of seamless, connected care.

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Disease-based registries are effective tools, especially in conjunction with electronic medical records. The presenters will use actual registries to illustrate a multidisciplinary implementation approach. Challenges and opportunities posed by an EMR will be highlighted.

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM This presentation will review key considerations for computerized practitioner order entry and clinical documentation activation strategies, and share the results of a survey of 20 hospitals representing four major vendors.

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM This session will discusses the challenges and strategies that led a year-long project at a community teaching hospital to reach the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6.

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM President Obama has often referred to electronic health records as a solution to reduce medical errors. To achieve this goal, we propose the "Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care."

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMWhat if U.S. healthcare providers dramatically adopted EMRs in increasing numbers, worked hard to achieve meaningful use, but never benefited financially or in efficiency or quality? Meaningful use will be dependent on adequate EMR usability. Discover how usability relates to a number of meaningful use criteria. We offer a usability checklist to assist providers in shopping for a new EMR, or to use during implementation of an existing EMR, in order to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and usefulness.

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSenior Executive Synergy Session: How Improving EHR Stability, Satisfaction and Performance Saved My Job! The CIO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center reveals Project "S," the IT Service Management initiative that the organization employed to improve the EHR end-user experience.