IT Insights
The IT Insights program serves the ongoing needs of chief information officers and their health systems in their pursuit of an electronic medical record (EMR) that not only works, but serves the ongoing safety, quality, and productivity objectives all health systems share. Technology advances with relentless predictability, and our clinicians will demand the systems that take advantage of the latest breakthroughs in information and biomedical technologies. Our contribution is to provide our members with innovative research and services to meet these challenges.
Sample of Recent Research
Breakthrough Capacity Management: IT’s Role in Optimizing Bed Utilization
Includes best demonstrated practices in using information technology to provide greater asset transparency, analyze performance variations, and streamline communications in pursuit of enhanced throughput performance.
- Optimizing Clinical Knowledge Sharing
- Managing Bed Supply and Demand
- Building Staff Accountability
- Streamlining Admissions Processes
In Pursuit of Clinical Transformation
Three-part series of best practices aimed at maximizing the value of current efforts to develop more effective clinical workflows and practices in optimizing EMR implementation efforts.
- Building the Infrastructure for Change
- Securing Organizational Commitment
- Enabling the Agile Clinical Workforce
Electronic Medication Reconciliation: Practices for Streamlining Information Transfer
Best demonstrated practices for applying IT solutions to the medication reconciliation challenge by improving the accuracy of the initial profile, standardizing the handoff process, and ultimately automating the transmission of medication information to the next provider.
- Developing an Initial Profile
- Supporting Medication Reconciliation at Transfer
- A Foundation for Future Care
Example of Tools and Resources for Members
On-Demand Insight reports
Customized, on-demand research specific to current member environment and strategic objectives.
On-Call Expert Support
IT Insights’ experts are available on-call to provide additional support in the hospital's implementation efforts.
Online IT Research Best Practice Compendium
Complete and cross-indexed set of all best practices that have been published.