In the keynote Re-engineering HCIT, Time for a Course Correction?, Dr. Dagi will discuss the barriers to patient care presented by current approaches to HCIT. Technological barriers including lengthy access times, data loss, and complicated work processes that arise when technology fails to match the clinician workflows.  Solutions Dr. Dagi will explore include:

• Eliminating the one-size-fits-all approach to HCIT solutions
• Designing and optimizing systems around clinician workflows and usability
• Re-engineering HCIT to facilitate patient care

“This group,” said Dr. Dagi, “is made up of highly experienced leaders in HCIT devoted to improving medicine. We need to make sure that advances in technology remain focused on clinical care. I am honored to be part of such a distinguished and thought-provoking forum.”

In his Strategic Roundtable Discussion: Using Healthcare IT to Improve the Clinical Experience, Aventura CEO Howard Diamond will encourage the audience to share their experiences using context-aware technology to deliver the right patient information at the right time to improve critical care decision. “Closing the gaps in the healthcare disparities between clinicians and the systems that don’t work for them is critical to making technology less of a reporting tool and more of a tool providing decision support,” said Diamond.

The Digital Healthcare Conference will be held at the Fluno Center in Madison and will showcase thought leadership ideas from senior-level attendees from end-user organizations. To schedule a one-on-one briefing with Aventura executives, please contact Catherine Loop at catherine.loop@aventurahq.com.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.  Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

The June 6th event will be held at the Oxford Hotel in Denver from 7:00-9:00am, with breakfast served between 7:00-7:30am. Sign up for the event here.

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).

In his talk Secret Sauce: Leveraging Workflow to Drive Adoption, Dr. Chaiken 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 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.

“Technology can bring rapid improvements to healthcare, when implemented thoughtfully,” said Dr. Barry P. Chaiken. “When implemented quickly, healthcare technology can dramatically impede the natural workflow of clinicians. By bringing clinicians and IT professionals together, we can collaborate to bring about real technology-based change, rather than just adapting to mandates.”

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).

The 2012 CIO and Clinical Informatics Summit for the West Coast Soarian Users Group, sponsored in part by Aventura, provides an opportunity for healthcare IT leaders to visualize capitalizing on advancements and collaborate upon the common challenges of peers.

About Aventura:
Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at http://www.aventurahq.com.

“We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to discuss our healthcare solution with Citrix experts and other IT leaders from across the globe,” said German.  “Synergy has been a wonderful opportunity to showcase our rules-based clinical workflow solution to folks who are also using Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.”

Because healthcare IT requires the clinician to work the way the technology is designed, rather than making the technology support the work flow of the clinician, their doctors and nurses are not benefitting from the great technology already in place. Valuable patient time is monopolized struggling with computers and searching for printed documents, thereby frustrating IT, patients and physicians. Aventura’s workflow solution grants desktop access to critical information clinicians need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes from anywhere in the hospital using context- and location-aware technology.

Aventura participated in the Citrix Synergy Solutions Expo May 9 and 10 with more than 60 leading IT companies and demonstrated the rules-based clinical workflow solution at booth #507.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.  Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

“As a nation, we’re spending a large bucket of funds on healthcare IT, and seeing limited results in improved care,” said Brian Stern, Senior Vice President at Aventura. “New technology mandates have driven 44% of healthcare facilities to increase their IT budgets in the past three years. The challenge is that new clinical computing systems, which don’t support the clinician workflow, are becoming tools to document care activity rather than tools to enhance care. The only way to change the way doctors and nurses interact with healthcare tools—and therefore drive better care results—is to match the way they work with patients.”

Some of the points in Stern’s presentation include:

• 44% of healthcare IT budgets have increased over the past three years[1]
• 39% of that increase will go to implementing EMR systems, followed by 27% of spend on capital equipment[2]
• $2.6T was the healthcare spend in 2010 compared to $256B in 1980[3]

Computer sharing and long logon processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. As a leader in using context- and location-aware computing in healthcare, Aventura presents patient information intelligently to the clinician based on location and credentials. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives clinicians desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

Click here to see Brian Stern’s presentation.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.  Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

Dr. Teo Dagi’s article in For the Record.

New technology mandates require doctors and nurses to access computer information dozens of times a day. Computer sharing and long logon processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. As a leader in using context- and location-aware computing in healthcare, Aventura uses rules-based computing to present patient information intelligently to the clinician based on location and credentials. Aventura uses the same technology to locate and re-assign the closest online printer as the default, saving the clinician from having to locate a printed document. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives clinicians desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

“We are excited to expand our Citrix XenApp virtualization support to now include Citrix XenDesktop,” said Karyn German, Vice President Product Management at Aventura. “By leveraging the Citrix virtualization solutions with our own context- and location-aware technology, we can improve the way virtualization supports the roaming desktop. We give clinicians near-instant access to patient-relevant data and reduce the risk of medical errors. We also boost clinician satisfaction as frustration about hard-to-access data drops.”

Hospital IT professionals can experience the Aventura rules-based clinical workflow solution in booth #507 at the Citrix Synergy 2012 Conference or they can schedule a personal demonstration by contacting Greta Oberschmidt at greta(dot)oberschmidt(at)aventurahq(dot)com.

About Aventura: 
Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at http://www.aventurahq.com.