Other Activities & Events
Check here regularly for news about Other Activities and Events of interest to members of the CHITA community:
Information Technology / Patient Safety Conferences
Over 150 people attended this 2006 conference jointly presented by CHITA and the Washington Patient Safety Coalition to learn about IT implementation challenges and prerequisites for organizational change; IT and patient safety in large, small, rural and urban inpatient and ambulatory settings; electronic error reporting systems; the federal government's role in promoting and implementing electronic health records, and more.
We are pleased to offer a selection of presentations and other materials from the Meeting for download. Recognizing space limitations and the size of some presentations, not all have been provided here, but all speakers have authorized their distribution to anyone inquiring. Please contact Staff if you need materials not offered below:
- KEYNOTE: June Update on HIIAB Project Activity and Direction
V. Marc Droppert, Chair, State of WA Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board - The Patient Perspective in IT/PS
Dr. Karen Ilika; Dr. John Kaschko and Regina Gallwas - The Use of Clinical IT Systems to Drive Quality Improvement
James Hereford, Executive Vice-President, Strategic Services and Quality, Group Health Cooperative - Successful EMR Implementation in a Rural Setting
Andrew Craigie, CEO, Garfield County Hospital - Hardwiring Best Practices to Drive Quality Improvements
Cherie Galusha and Kris Becker, Sacred Heart Medical Center - Where are they now? EMR/CIS one year later
John Dwight, CIO, Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center - PLENARY: The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 - What It Means for You
Dr. Bill Munier, Acting Director, Center for Quality Information and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
