Expert physician on “meaningful use” guidelines

Jun 16 2009

Jonathan Teich, MD, Elsevier Health Sciences: Will Technology Build a Better Healthcare System?

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ARRA and Physicians: How EHRs and Clinical Decision Support Will Improve Care

Jonathan Teich, M.D., is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of scientific, technical and medical information. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified attending physician in emergency medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston.

Dr. Teich has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, books, and articles on health information technology (HIT) including Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support (CDS): An Implementer's Guide, published by the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in 2005. He currently co-chairs the panel behind the Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support, while also serving on the HIMSS board. He is an active participant in the quality and CDS workgroups of the American Health Information Community (AHIC).

Media Experience - Print and Broadcast:

Dr. Teich is a frequent speaker at important healthcare conferences, including those sponsored by HIMSS, American Medical Informatics Association *AMIA), eHealth Initiative, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, Harvard University and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Teich's articles and commentary have appeared in publications as diverse as Health Management Technology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine and Health Data Management.

TOPICS - Trends and Issues:

Dr. Teich is qualified to address about the following trends and issues:

The Federal Stimulus Package:

• Stimulus Package Incentives: Are incentives and penalties adequate to overcome physician resistance to adopting and using EHRs and other forms of HIT?
• The optimum EHR: What's the difference between a traditional EHR and the stimulus-fund defined "qualified EHR?" What will physicians be able to do with this new type of EHR that they couldn't do before? What's the preferred role of EHR-integrated clinical decision support (CDS)?
• EHR Implementation: Where have organizations faltered on IT implementation, and how will the stimulus' plans for a HIT research center and regional HIT centers overcome these barriers?
• The ARRA is, indeed, meant to foster health IT adoption. But the incentive money will directly address the use of EMRs, not the purchase of the systems. Once a definition of meaningful use is provided do you purchase and EHR system or do you wait?
• The Future of Quality Healthcare: How will the overall quality of healthcare improve through the stimulus' funds provisions for IT certification and guidelines?
• Exchange of Health Information: How will the stimulus foster exchange of health information across diverse entities such as hospitals, physician offices, imaging centers and pharmacies?

To arrange an interview with Jonathan Teich, an expert source with Elsevier Clinical Decision Support, please contact:

Britt Rabinovici
KNB Communications
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