Siemens is also
the Emerald Sponsor of the 3rd Annual AMIA Pre-conference
Nursing Informatics Symposium, “RHIOs and Nursing: Information
at the Center of Care,” which will take place on November 11,
2006. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about
RHIOs through an important panel discussion, “RHIOs and
Consumers,” which will take place at 10:15 a.m. on Nov. 11. The
discussion will explore the new opportunities and challenges
that health information exchange will present to nursing.
Siemens customer Kathryn Wilhoit, RN, MSN, CNAA, FACHE, VP and
CNE, Mountain States Health Alliance, will serve as one of the
panelists.
Other Siemens customers and executives will participate in
valuable workshop sessions on November 11. Highlights include:
- Primary Care Informatics
Working Group (PCI WG): Updates, Challenges, and Successes in
Primary Care Informatics by Andrew Steele, MD, MPH, MSc,
Denver Health – 7:00 p.m.
- Update on Technology
Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative by
D. J. Skiba, University of Colorado at Denver and Health
Sciences Center; and Brian Gugerty, DNS, MS, RN, Siemens
Medical Solutions – 7:00 p.m.
- Interdisciplinary Plans Of
Care – JCAHO Regulations, Clinical Informatics Exemplars and
Future Directions by Brian Gugerty, DNS, MS, RN, Siemens
Medical Solutions; John Poikonen, Partners Healthcare; Gail
Keenan, University of Illinois; J. Michael Kramer, Trinity
Health; and P. Park, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations – 7:00 p.m.
- Siemens customers and
executives will also be participating in scientific and poster
sessions, which will take place throughout the main
conference.
Highlights include:
- Grand Challenges in
Biomedical Informatics Research by Justin Starren, Biomedical
Informatics and Radiology, Columbia University; Milton Corn,
NLM Extramural Programs; Gilad Kuperman, Quality Informatics;
and Don Rucker, MD, MS, MBA, Siemens Medical Solutions –
November 12, 3:30 p.m.
- Pinnacle Health / Zynx
Health / Siemens Medical Solutions: A Study Of Integration Of
Evidence Based Nursing Content by Patricia S. Button, EdD, RN,
Zynx Health; Sheri Matter, MS, RN, BSN, and Cindy Brown, MS,
RN, Pinnacle Health; and Rosemary Kennedy, MBA, RN, Siemens
Medical Solutions – November 13, 10:30 a.m.
- CPOE / EHR-Driven Healthcare
Workflow Generation and Scheduling by Minmin Han, MS, and
Xiping Song, PhD, Siemens Corporate Research; Hui Coa, MD, MS,
Columbia University; Rosemary Kennedy, MBA, RN, Brian Gugerty,
DNS, MS, RN, and Jan DeHann, MS, Siemens Medical Solutions –
November 13, 10:00 a.m.
Design and Use of a Joint Order
Vocabulary Knowledge Representation Tier in a Multi-tier CPOE
Architecture by Don Rucker, MD, MS, MBA, Siemens Medical
Solutions; Gary Hardel, PhD, Andrew Steele, MD, MPH, MSc, and
Ivor Douglas, MD, Denver Health – November 14, 10:30 a.m.
Siemens is committed to furthering AMIA’s mission of
transforming the U.S. health system and making measurable
contributions to the improvement of the nation’s health through
continued development and implementation of healthcare IT. Most
recently, Rosemary Kennedy, RN, MBA, chief nursing informatics
officer, Siemens Medical Solutions, was elected Member-at-Large
to AMIA’s Nursing Informatics Work Group (NIWG). The NIWG
promotes the advancement of nursing informatics within the
larger multidisciplinary context of healthcare informatics by
working on many levels in the following areas: professional
practice, education, research, government, professional
organizations, and the healthcare IT industry.
“Rosemary is a perfect fit for AMIA’s NIWG work group. Each day,
she is advancing the professional practice of nursing by leading
by example and providing counsel and academic programs that
support the delivery of evidence-based care and enhanced patient
and caregiver satisfaction,” explained Janet Dillione,
president, Siemens Medical Solutions Healthcare IT Division.
“Rosemary is motivated by the opportunity to make a difference
not only to nurses on the front line, but also to the patients,
whom healthcare IT’s added safety and quality checks ultimately
serve. Siemens is pleased to highlight the important work we and
our customers are doing in the informatics arena at this year’s
conference.“
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is an
organization of leaders shaping the future of health information
technology in the United States and abroad. AMIA is dedicated to
the development and application of medical informatics in
support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care
administration. Complete information is available at:
www.amia.org. To learn about Siemens full participation in the
conference, please visit: www.usa.siemens.com/amia06.
Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) with
headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Erlangen, Germany, is
one of the largest suppliers to the healthcare industry in the
world. The company is known for bringing together innovative
medical technologies, healthcare information systems, management
consulting, and support services, to help customers achieve
tangible, sustainable, clinical and financial outcomes.
Employing approximately 33,000 people worldwide and operating in
more than 120 countries, Siemens Medical Solutions reported
sales of 7.6 billion EUR, orders of 8.6 billion EUR and group
profit of 976 million EUR for fiscal 2005. More information can
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