Agenda: 2008 Zynx Health Conference

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Quality BootCamp™ Workshop                                                         

12:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Registration

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception and Integration Pavilion

Thursday, May 29, 2008

7:00 am - 8:00 am

Breakfast

7:00 am - 1:30 pm

Registration

8:00 am - 9:00 am

"Welcome Address"
Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer
Zynx Health

9:00 am - 9:45 am

"Evidence-Based Medicine: How Providers, Patients, and Third Party Payers Can Form a Partnership"  

Sal Bognanni, MHSA
Director of Clinical Performance Improvement
Iowa Health System

9:45 am - 10:00 am Break
10:00 am - 10:45 am         

"Infusing Evidence at the Point of Care"

Traci McCoy, RN, ASN, BSHCM

Director, Evidence-Based Care
Alegent Health

10:45 am - 11:15 am

"Global Perspective"
Gregory Dorn, MD, MPH
Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer
Zynx Health

11:15 am - 12:00 pm

"Leveraging Zynx Content at the Point of Electronic Order Entry" 

Luis Saldana, MD, MBA, FACEP
Medical Director
Clinical Decision Support
Texas Health Resources

and

Ferdinand Velasco, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Texas Health Resources

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch and Integration Pavilion

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

"CPOE Implementation at Centra Health: Culture and Content Development" 

Chalmers M. Nunn, Jr. MD, MMM, FACPE
Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer
Centra Health

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

"Evidence-Based Order Set Design: The Trinity Health Standard Order Set Experience"

J. Michael Kramer, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer
Trinity Health

and

Denise Atherton, RN
Clinical Transformation Specialist
Trinity Health

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

ZynxOrder Intensive Sessions:
(vendor specific)

  • Cerner
  • Eclipsys
  • Epic
  • GE Healthcare
  • McKesson
  • MEDITECH
  • Siemens

Each session will feature a panel discussion which will identify best practices from clients who have made significant progress with building evidence-based order sets for integration into their organization's elected healthcare IT platform. There will also be an opportunity to network and share best practices with fellow clients.   

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

ZynxCare Intensive Session

The ZynxCare track of the Zynx Health conference includes two roundtable sessions. Experienced ZynxCare clients will share their success stories regarding implementation, plan of care customization, standardization of practice, and various uses of ZynxCare content in addition to traditional plans of care.

  • Implementation Roundtable Discussion:

    Rhonda Arnold, RN, BSN, MPNA Performance Improvement Specialist
    HealthEast

    Lori Clemenson, BS, RN, BC
    ZynxCare Plan Coordinator
    North Memorial

    Audrey Hirsch, RN, MSN, FNP
    Clinical Content Manager
    Bon Secours Health System

  • Models of Use Roundtable Discussion:

    Trish Bennett, RN, MSN, CCRN
    Clinical Nurse Specialist, CTICU/CCU
    PinnacleHealth

    Teresa McDonald, RN
    Clinical Informatics Director
    St. Thomas Health, Ascension Health System

    Carolyn Richardson, MBA, BSN, RN
    Clinical Transformation Specialist,
    Clinical Excellence
    Ascension Health System
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Evening Reception

Friday, May 30, 2008
7:00 am - 8:00 am Breakfast
7:00 am - 8:00 am

"Build an Order Set" Breakfast
David Rhew, MD
Vice President
Content Development
Zynx Health

Step-by-step tutorial on how to build an order set, including helpful pointers and best practices. No pre-registration necessary.

7:00 am - 10:30 am

Registration

8:15 am - 9:15 am

Keynote Presentation:
"Strategic Benefit of Decision Support in the Evolving Healthcare Marketplace"

Thomas M. Priselac
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cedars-Sinai Health System

9:15 am - 10:00 am

"A Novel Approach to Order Set Storage, Acquisition, Completion and Printing"

David M. Hall, MD, FAAP

Physician Informatics Specialist
OSF Healthcare System

10:00 am - 10:45 am

"Innovation Through Evidence-Based Practice: CPOE as a Value-Producing Resource"

Richard Weinberg, MD

Chief Quality Officer
Stamford Health System

10:45 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

ZynxOrder Best Practices and
Product Update
ZynxCare Best Practices and
Product Update

12:00 pm Box Lunches/Departures

Note: Agenda current as of 5/6/08. All speakers, topics, and times subject to change.




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