Webinars and Seminars

These educational events are complimentary unless otherwise noted and are held via the Web or at various locations. Please visit this site periodically for information on additional events.

On-Demand Webinars

• Facility Level Coding for Critical Care
  Do you still have lingering questions about how to accurately code hospital critical care services in your ED, hospital clinic or Observation under CMS’ OPPS rules? If so, join Candace Shaeffer RN, MBA, RHIA, LYNX’s Chief Compliance Officer, for an overview of the facility critical care coding rules and to get all of your questions answered. 
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• ARRA, HITECH, Stimulus – Call It What You Want, Will You Be Ready?
  With October 1, 2010 just around the corner, you and your colleagues need to prepare now to receive the additional reimbursement available from the healthcare IT provisions of the economic stimulus bill.
      - How will this all work?
      - How does your hospital qualify?
      - What is “meaningful use” really all about?
  Picis has been involved in shaping ARRA/HITECH related regulations in Washington, D.C. and can provide information on how our solutions have been adapted to meet the evolving regulations. The webinar will answer these questions and provide insight into how our solutions can provide both meaningful use and meaningful results.
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• Best Practices to Help Improve Clinical and Financial Performance in the ED
  Key industry experts present the best practices to increase clinical and financial success in the emergency department (ED). This event reviews the seven key findings of the national benchmarking study conducted by Health Management Academy and sponsored by Picis entitled Profiling Success: Managing Emergency Services in the Largest Health Systems.
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• 7 Steps to Improve the Financial Health of Your ED
  Now more than ever, the emergency department is a key source of hospital revenue. This means that managing your emergency department like a business is critical. Come join Carol Hendrian, Picis clinical consultant and former ED director and Angela Gamber, RN, BSN, MBA, administrative director of the emergency and trauma center at Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Kansas, as they walk you through the 7 steps to improving the financial health of your ED.
  

  Angela Gamber, RN BSN MBA Stormont-Vail HealthCare Topeka, KS

  Carol Hendrian, RN clinical consultant and former ED director Picis

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• Solving business and clinical challenges with interoperability
  Learn how the Abington Memorial Hospital emergency department was able to sustain a 12% increase in volume – and reduce diversion time to 4 hours per year – with strategic interoperability.
  

  Nancy Hesse, RN, MSN, CEN director, emergency trauma center Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, Penn

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• LEANing Toward Perfection: Use of OR Manager in a Systematic LEAN Process
  Learn how University of Kentucky (UK) Healthcare adopted a new concept for process evaluation based on the “LEAN” philosophy whose goal is to do only those activities that have added value and eliminate all activities that do not. This session will examine a process aimed at decreasing the episodes of lost or misidentified surgical pathology specimens and highlight how technology supports the three critical management tasks of a successful LEAN transformation by reducing effort, time and mistakes."
  

  Edath Parks, RN clinical systems administrator University of Kentucky

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• Using Business Intelligence to Optimize the Business of the OR
  Get a primer on Business Intelligence (BI) and learn how it can be applied in the healthcare environment. Ralf Jeworowski, director of perioperative services at Queen of the Valley Medical Center will share examples of how Extelligence OR, a multi-dimensional reporting and analysis BI tool, is being applied to improve resource optimization.
  

  Ralf Jeworowski director of perioperative services Queen of the Valley Medical Center Napa, Calif.

  Lisa Loftis senior vice president Intelligent Solutions, Inc. Boulder, Colo.

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• Dispelling the Myth: Improving Individual Physician Efficiency and Department Efficiency with an EDIS
  Learn how Lawrence General Hospital was able to improve individual physician and departmental efficiency – and help reduce risk - in the emergency department by implementing the Picis ED PulseCheck information system. Improvements in door-to-provider time, door-to-bed, LWBS, and LOS will be discussed.
  Featured Presenter:
  Dr. Neil Meehan, MO,
  assistant director of emergency center
  Lawrence General Hospital
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• Using business intelligence to improve OR management
  Learn how business intelligence supports reporting and analysis, including OR block utilization and quality management.
  Pat Aysse, program manager, surgical services at Medical University of South Carolina is responsible for the implementation of the perioperative electronic medical record and OR scheduling system. In this informative session, she will discuss their use of Picis Extelligence to drive improvements in operational efficiency.
  Featured Presenter:
  Pat Aysse
  program manager, surgical services
  Medical University of South Carolina
  Charleston, S.C.
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• Raising the bar: Dramatically improving charging, coding and workflow in the ED
  Learn how the University of Colorado Hospital emergency addressed the challenges of revenue capture, clinical quality, workflow, charging compliance and coding efficiency in their ED with dramatic results.
  Featured Presenter:
  Lorna K. Prutzman, R.N., M.S.N.
  director of emergency/stroke services
  University of Colorado Hospital
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• Using dashboards to increase perioperative efficiency
  Learn how Queen of the Valley Medical Center is using Picis Perioperative Dashboard, offering business activity monitoring in a visual dashboard display to increase perioperative efficiency
  Featured Presenter:
  Ralf Jeworowski, R.N.
  director, perioperative services
  Queen of the Valley Medical Center
  Napa, Calif
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• Taking Control of your OR using Picis Perioperative Dashboard and SmarTrack
  Learn how Lahey Clinic Medical Center is using Picis Perioperative solutions to help increase perioperative efficiency.
  Featured Presenters:
  

  Janet Burke, R.N. director, perioperative services Lahey Clinic	Patrice Osgood, R.N., B.S.N., C.N.O.R. OR nurse manager Lahey Clinic
  Mary Chiulli, R.N., B.S.N. assistant nurse manager Lahey Clinic

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