Aventura Sponsors the 2012 CIO and Clinical Informatics Summit for the West Coast Soarian Users Group May 16
Summit Provokes Thought Leadership around Improved Quality Care in Hospitals
Aventura will gather with hospital executives on Wednesday, May 16 at the West Coast 
Soarian Users Group Meeting at the Hotel Monaco in Denver, CO. The summit provides an opportunity for healthcare IT leaders to visualize capitalizing on advancements and collaborate upon the common challenges of peers. Talks from healthcare leaders are designed to provoke debate and discussion about how to improve quality and safety in today’s rapidly changing tech-driven hospitals.
Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS, former board chair of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will discuss how rapid healthcare information technology implementations meet resistance because they fail to consider a critical element: mapping to the actual flow of work the technology supports in his talk Secret Sauce: Leveraging Workflow to Drive Adoption.
In a separate session with nurse informaticists, Dr. Chaiken will discuss how to avoid the danger technology can present to patients when it is implemented improperly in his session Using Intelligent Workflow to Enhance Quality and Safety.
Dr. Barry P. Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at DocsNetwork, Ltd. where he provides thought leadership and offers clients like Aventura his expertise in clinical transformation and quality improvement. He serves as a Healthcare Advisory Board member at Symphony Corporation, and as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. Chaiken has delivered more than 60 CME lectures, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. He writes a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare and is a frequent contributor to WTN Media’s online publications. Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. For Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), he served as a Board member (2006-2010), Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe (2006-2009), and Board Chair (2009-2010).
Data Solution Focuses on Specificity: Improving Clinical Workflow in For the Record
May 07, 2012
Aventura Board Member and CMO, Dr. Teo Dagi, Publishes Article on the Need for Context-Aware Software in Hospitals
Clinicians’ challenges have moved from the hassles of documenting on endless loose-leaf 
paper to navigating difficult hospital software systems. Time-crunched physicians are forced to nearly endlessly logon to their systems, up to 70-100 times per shift, disrupting quality time spent with patients. Context-aware software provides the accurate information clinicians need when and where they need it, thereby improving clinical workflow and efficiency.
Dr. Teo Dagi’s article in For the Record.
CEO Howard Diamond Shares Insight at HIMSS 2012
Mar 07, 2012
HIT Industry Guru Shares Insight on Context Aware Computing
Howard Diamond discusses location & context aware computing to bridge the gap between technology and integrating it with a medical environment, mobility solutions, and the idea that end-point devices will never be “one size fits all” for healthcare professionals.
ThinIdentity Changes Its Name to Aventura.
Oct 12, 2010
DENVER, Colo., OCT 12, 2010–Denver-based healthcare company ThinIdentity announced that they have changed the name of the company to reflect a major shift in their approach to the hospital market.
According to Aventura’s CEO, Howard Diamond, “We have brilliant technology but we were going to market with one hand tied behind our back because we were offering it as a hardware-specific solution. We are basically unlocking the software genius of our approach and making it work for hospitals regardless of what kind of hardware or EMR they have.”